I doubt you can imagine the sort of net it takes to support a planetary civilization.

They hoped to make their fortune, to ultimately go somewhere else and set up a planetary civilization.

Your manifest says you've spent a number of years at Namqem, long enough to appreciate a planetary civilization.

But Solace was much bigger, the product and sum of a planetary civilization.

Now the investment was paying off in raw energy, a million times more than the planetary civilization had been able to muster.

In practical military terms they had not yet given up very much; they still retained the capability of destroying the planetary civilization.

But by the standards of planetary civilizations we were travelling for a long, long time.

It took centuries for our people to draw together again and start building a planetary civilization.

The fate of the planetary civilization here is in grave danger.

The planetary civilization to which we all belong confronts us with global challenges.