Shortly before the dawn of the Expansion Era, during a period of explosive growth within the spaceflight industries Tower Spoke, there was the Pre-Expansion War of Terms.
This cultural "war" was generally unseen—even by those waging it. It was a war for what terminology would reign as the common schema for terms of science and advancement going forward.
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