#PennedPossibilities 584 — What is your antagonist’s / villain’s legacy? What do they want to be remembered for and what might they actually be remembered for? CW: Deep background spoilers for the Reluctance series that should not make much difference to the stories.
By my calculation of the Reluctance Series timeline (subject to change), the singularity event that ended our civilization happened in 2540. Reluctant Moon will take place in what would be about 5900 and Reluctant Accomplice exactly 200 years later in 6100. Keeping in mind that the main series antagonist is immortal thanks to technology, her legacy is three-fold. By the latter date, there are still 240 million people alive. The Earth is still minimally habitable. And, thanks to interstellar travel (the means for which she discovered), they may yet find another habitable planet. Whether she is blamed for causing the Earth to die or for keeping humanity from going extinct will depend on the historian. If they give her bad press, they may die an early death.
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