It's again the anniversary of when the Earth circles their star. Even though they are far from Earth, and have never actually been there, they were born and raised on a different world, like the people of Earth, they celebrate with parties, lots of food, and lots of brightly colored drones making the equivalent of silent fireworks in the air. Don't want to scare friends with the bangs after all! -- Anon Guest
[AN: Most Terran colonies celebrate their own solar anniversary, mostly because it's easy to lose track of the Terran calendar]
Time makes worlds strange. Colonial worlds doubly so. The journey down deep time desynchronises the colonists from Earth's real time. Starting with the centuries to millennia of deep time that the colonial ships travel to get there. The best they can hope for to resynchronise is attempting to receive Earth's transmissions and co-odinate matching new years' days.
This doesn't always work. Signals can be either a very long time coming, or undetectable by the time the colonists regain the technology to receive them. Assuming, of course, that the colony was ever able to have that technology.
Brav'nu was not alone in a slide backwards from the Space Age to more elementary levels of technology.
Nevertheless, Humans love a party, and also love a good spectacle. They find weird joy in setting things on fire, blowing things up, or making pretty lights happen. Sparkles and glitter are always part of any Human celebration. You can't go wrong with tinsel and some variety of sweet pastry.
But when Humans share a world or a system with Havenworlders, they also love to include their neighbours. Because Humans are social creatures and sharing treats is part of their party mentality.
Humans love to pride themselves on their hospitality, so the sweet treats they share with Havenworlders are carefully calibrated. The spectacles, too, are also carefully calibrated. Light shows, yes, but not explosive lightshows.
Clever motors, programmed illumination, even lasers making animated light on a reserved surface.
Pretty things the Humans could show off with, making something everyone could enjoy. Replete with indulgence, singing, and the partiers' choice of inebriants. With a designated driver to see everyone safely home.
After all, Deathworlders have to make a big deal out of surviving a year together.
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