Those were the days when boys were men 900 years ago. It was an age of sadness and hardship mixed with growing potential for the future. Many things had been lost in the wars that had plagued all mankind, but much more had been saved for those who knew where to look.
Far away on the other planets ancient empires still thrived. These were the descendants of all the great ones on the world whose achievements were still spoken of by Earth children everywhere. The boys and girls had been told by their parents that these legends had passed into nothingness long ago, shrouded eternally in the languishing stories of antiquity.
But those who traveled the skypaths knew better.
On the other spheres, the children of the ancient ones still flourished. Mars had been the first world to be inhabited. Ancient Hittites sailed there on the ether streams eager to hunt the wild mastodon herds. They were followed by the Romans who covered their planet and took it away from them. Likewise the Assyrians and the Babylonians conquered much of Venus. The Persians were still living on the moons of Jupiter, and the ancient Chinese dwelt on a satellite of Saturn. The Egyptians built great pyramids on Mercury, but only during the night-time. During the daytime they migrated around the globe.
All these nations still existed, and all of them hated each other.
Those were the days when boys were men.
Those were the days of pending doom.
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