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Hell Fire Day Changed Everything"In the two and a half centuries intervening between the Hell-Firing of Freehold, along with most of the other major cities of Wohlen's World, at the onset of the Cephalic Civil War, and the surprising later arrival of the Confederation Cruiser Renewal... there developed in this isolated, but invigorating, environment a fascinating and rich culture of choral works among the survivors, based loosely on folk interpretations of works in the tradition of the Old Earth composer Bach. This was all, purportedly, set in motion during those earliest dark years by the circulation of compositions attributed to the wandering minstrel Begum, stories of whose existence are largely mythological..."So say the history books.This is not the myth, nor the approved academic version, but the true history of that first year after Hell-Fire Day on Wohlen's World, as experienced by the survivors in AE 455 by New Outreach dating methods.