A Story in the Ruby Red Universe
This story will tie together the What and Why the people and organizations in Ruby Red are doing so many strange things. In general, each group have done what they think is best. Li Wu, The Baron and few others know the Earth's fate and have tried to put a course of action in-place. Steve is the missing link that will put religious mantras aside, replaced with solid social actions. Some might call Steve the 'Anti-Christ' but others will follow without derision. It will take a long time.
A colonization fleet headed for Spica IV meets with disaster. Only a few humans survive the catastrophe. One of the survivors is a Space Marine who takes charge of finding any other living people and begins to repopulate the human part of the fleet. They meet hostile humans and hostile aliens. This is how they keep going as permanent residents of space.
After a pandemic nearly exterminates humanity, conditions are right for women to form a radical feminist government. The few males who are suffered to live are imprisoned and used as sperm donors. But a few women dare to discover that they are by nature attracted to men. Alison rescues her lover Bill from his cell and they live as rebels. Other women join them.
A Personalia story Part of the Personalia universe
An infestation can be of many kinds. Tiny animals inside a spacecraft can be awkward, especially for an intelligent spaceship.
A Personalia story Part of the Personalia universe
An accountant thinks he is on to a good thing, helping himself to clients' money. He did not plan for the Personalia.