
All this still left an estimated fifty thousand human-habitable planets within our spiral arm alone. Of these, less than 1 percent are habitable without extensive and prohibitively expensive artificial environments. Though virtually every star has planets, perhaps one in ten thousand is not immediately inimical to human existence. The pattern of this expansion was hardly organized, and often simply haphazard. A lack of any means of faster-than-light communications encouraged the fragmentation of the race as it spread away from a depleted and backward Earth. No government had been able to gain or keep control of the hundreds of human settled worlds.

It was a war that was marked by isolated battles, often fought by men who weeks earlier had been farmers or clerks.īy the time the war began, mankind had spread throughout much of its own arm of the galaxy. Its outcome was determined less by the decisions of Admiral MacDonald or the Gerin Supreme Triad than by uncounted minor decisions made on battlefields hundreds of light-years apart. Baxfield and to the Palliative Care Team.THE HISTORY of the Far Stars War, a war involving over a hundred systems and millions of participants, is the story of individuals. Donations can be made in Bills memory to the Wolfe Island Fire Department or Trinity Anglican Church. Funeral Friday, September 18th, 2020 at 11:00 am, at Christ Church, Wolfe Island, outdoor service. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him and his infectious smile. Sadly missed by the Brown, Pyke and Woodman families and much loved Uncle to many nieces and nephews.

Son to Kaye and Connie Fawcett of Wolfe Island, brother to Debbie Christie (Gord deceased), Leon (Kim), Danny (Maureen), Scott (Erin), Robyn Archer (Randy), Ellen Napier (Steve). Adored Papa to grandchildren Cooper, Benn, Laine, Gavin, Gemma, Greyson, Ethan, Sierra. Cherished husband of 38 years to Lisa Fawcett (Brown), loving father to sons Blaine Fawcett, Marty Mullins (Alicia) and daughter Brittany Fawcett (Ben Melo).

1959-2020 After a courageous battle with cancer, Bill passed away peacefully Septemwith his family by his side.
