Around the 200th year of the Breegan Golden Age, people started getting so rich they didn’t know what to do with themselves.

Normally, in a society, when everything is going good, people somehow find a way to cause problems.

Some people get soft. Other people become regretful.

Values change; some people embrace these changes, while others resist.

That's normal, but Breegan society was not normal. Rebellion was all but weeded out of the Breegan DNA. Literally. By Gorsch III, the "Golden Age Harbinger."

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So instead of causing trouble, which is what most well-off societies do when they get bored, the Breegans focused on their hobbies. And they went hard.

For example, the biologists and physicists colonized and terraformed, expanding Breegan society ever farther into their local solar system.

Linguist celebrities invented thousands of bizarre new ways to communicate, in an attempt to confound each other with puzzles.

The nerdiest and most gifted of these linguists was called Merlin. But Merlin the Linguist’s biography–his rise to interplanetary stardom, long celebrity status, and dramatic demise–is a tale for another day.

Another way that Breegans went to the extremes with their hobbies was in animal breeding. As I mentioned, the gher cap of today is not any ordinary fish.

In fact, today, it is a sentient, intelligent, independently space-faring species.