>Incidentally, just to make sure I've got everything right, someone let
>me know if this is all correct.
>
>The Fleet of Fog are an (alien?) race of ships that appeared in 2038
>and basically set human progress back a couple of thousand years by
>basically turning every human nation back into an island.
>Communication or transport between anywhere on Earth was stopped by
>them by force, until they abruptly got up and walked away as quickly
>as they came for no clear reason.
>

Pretty much. They showed up earlier than that (2012? Don't feel like searching Featured Documents right now), but the blockade didn't start until 2038.

>
>Vocaloids are all, as established in this story, currently knocking
>around as gynoids,

Well, we know two of them are at the date of the story; it's likely that the rest of the originals are gynoids as well, but it hasn't been established.

> Miku was the first, made sentient by
>growth and chance, this establishes anyone of them can do it,

In my opinion, that was established in the first Vocaloid story.

>basically they're not a 'conflict' cast as far as UF goes, and they're
>all still alive in the modern era.
>

As far as we know, and with technological upgrades.

Peter Eng
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"One advantage of the hard light projection system is I don't need to take showers."