Meanwhile, on Planet Zog

Due to something to do with the gravitational pull of an errant star, or black hole, or some other interstellar whatsit; the time on Planet Zog goes somewhat quicker than it does on Earth. In fact, rather a lot quicker.

In fact, for every Earth hour, something around a Zog year or two seems to transpire. Which is, really, of no real consequence to the people of Earth, who frankly have quite a lot of other things to be worried about. Not yet, anyway.

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

But for the denizens of Zog, the effects are quite profound. Because for every hour that chaos reigns on Earth, the opposite seems to be unfolding on Zog; namely, a shrift assembly of rational thought and industrious fervour at a breakneck pace.

Society seemed to break out like cosmic acne across Zog. Various institutions and industries were being built in fast forward, as this strange alien planet benefited from thousands of years of British technical know-how and hutzpah in small fraction of the time it took Britain to assemble it originally (which was hardly fair, really - but life isn’t).