Starbound: How Humanity Went From One Planet to a Thousand

 , also known as  Starbound , was a book written by a team of ninety-eight people over the course of four years. It described the history of Humanity in detail from the Stone Age to the founding of the UNSC's thousandth simultaneous colony in 2630.

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The book, at nearly 2,400 pages, is actually divided into six separate books sold under a single name. Each subbook contains a number of units each given their own span of time. Chapters within units detail simultaneous events during that era. For example, a unit on the seventeenth century may contain a chapter about east-Asian warfare while another describes European activity in the Americas.