Getting high on Sci-Fi without a why

My apologies for my prolonged written abscense.

I got busy doing 2 things....
compiling a more complete catalogue of tunes from various projects,
AND writing a Sci-Fi novelette.  I think it may be the first of it's kind, as it's a Sci-Fi novelette in every technical respect (~12,500 words), but it has a very unique angle.   Apart from a brief prose historical background, the rest of it is written in more or less strict rhythmic verse.   iambic septameter mostly, with the occasional necessary aesthetic change in the flow spattered throughtout.

So to share it with y'all, I'm gonna post a chapter a week.  More or less. ; )
I think it'll be fun.   The first bit is all prose.  I thought it was necessary to set up a historical background first, before getting into the rhyme scheme.  The story takes place in 3483 C.E. so I had to explain roughly all what happened between then and now.  And so that's the intro......we're we'll begin.   And if you dig it, please share!

The Fibersphere, 3483 C.E.

[({Avoiding}/

{The Fate} : 'of'/the)"I"mmortal]

Prologue: 

The year is 3483 C.E.

A brief history of how we got here:

2120-2280 C.E.
Humanity suffers enormous los of numbers as a result of war, oceanic rise, resource exhaustion, a worldwide grass virus, climatic chage , and loss of farmland from salt-water flooding.  At the end of this period, humanity is reduced to a small fraction of it's prior population.

2280-2800 C.E.
Humanity and it's technology limp onward, but at a far slower pace, and facing repeated challenges.  There was constant resettling due to changing shorelines, and migrating sourcs of fresh water.  Greatly reduced population made mass production and consumption impossible.  Global trade was minimal.  All food was local.
The water began receding in the early 2700s.  More land became exposed, shorelines and access to fresh water changed often, and populations kept moving in large numbers.  There was great struggle during this period, especially for food.  Disease, drought, localized water shortages and global political instability plagued the population.
During this period, computer tech kept developing, mostly at the central governmental level.  Large-brained supercomputers were used, at first to creat Geo-Sims: enormous Programs that attempted to model climates, populations, disease and genetic biodiversity, far into the future, and help gauge the robustness of our species.  This planning was one arm of an organized attempt to manage our resources more wisely, and to build more accurate models for future climate change. and hopefully avoid a repeat of the apocalyptic loss of human life that took place at the end of the 22nd Century.
A.I. kept developing along with smarter governmental super-computers, and in 2910, quantum computers (QC) had a breaktrhough in performance and design.  Only then did human technology surpass that of the early 21st century.

2900-3100 C.E.
At the begininning of the 2900's the human population had stabilized and was slowly rebounding.  "Population-Engineering" and a centralized Resource-Allocation Program was strictly enforced.  A "Procreatio License" (PL) could be obtained only for those selected due to their genetic profile.  Thousands of genetic profiless were chosen to be part of the future biodiversity pool, to ensure the future generations would be as diverse as possible.  They would maximize survival odds, and ensure better disease protection for the population.
By the beginning of 3000 C.E. the ocean levels re-stabilized, and the grass and animal kingdom recovered.  The human population was undergoing slow and steady (though tightly controlled) growth and the central government was committed to strict resource managemen, eve fearful of a second  apocalypse.

To be continued...