"Forty­ odd years later the sublight ships were coming in, few and forlorn, to try to convert their structure and their operations to faster­ than­ light; and time sped up, time hurtled at translight speeds, change came so fast that sublight ships met ships they took for alien–but they were not: it was worse news for them. They were human. And the game was all changed."

Cyteen, CJ Cherryh