[727] Prologue

Hello all! Here is the brief prologue for the novel I've been working on. While I think the plot I have in mind is solid and ultimately an interesting story to tell, I've struggled encapsulating the ultimate premise because it's... pretty convoluted.

This prologue was my solution, and hopefully an entertaining one. So the big questions I'm hoping to have answered here are:

1. Does the prologue do a good job of orienting you to the setting and not leaving egregious questions unanswered?

2. If yes, does the prologue accomplish this in a non-infodump way that eases the reader into the shitshow? If no, what left you confused?

Cheat sheet: >!The premise is people are beginning to wake up from stasis on a number of colony ships that made landfall on a distant artificial world. The wakeup is happening ten thousand years after the landing for unknown reasons, and they find that they've landed in a world occupied by humans with classical-era to medieval-era levels of technology and social development. Ultimately the colonists begin trying to recreate their own way of life and establish their own nations in a land already settled by less powerful people, and tell the story of all the conflict and moral dilemmas that entails. As a bonus, the colonists are split into two groups that are basically Red America and Blue America, and how I personally believe a "great divorce" type of scenario would play out.!<

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