Stellar Voyage - A Brief History
During the late 21st Century, the Global Warming issue had hit a breaking point for the citizens of Earth. Rising sea levels had flooded most of the Worlds cities causing 18 billion people to flee inland, creating monstrous issues of overcrowding, as well as the destruction of many necessary resources. Even though all the known oil wells had completely dried up by the year 2029, forcing the improved development of other energy technologies, it appeared too late for Earth. Solar and nuclear techs were heavily financed to continue providing power to the surviving members of the human race. This was perhaps the one positive to have come from the growing human population and stresses they were putting on the planet.
Even colonising Mars in 2083 and improving hydroponic farming techniques to be suitable on the red planet, didn't help Earth.
In 2119 the United Nations had realised it was all too late, our little blue planet had been pushed too far before humanity had acted. 18 years later, 6 massive Arks had been built, each with the capacity to transport 800,000 people off Earth and toward a distant star. These missions could take hundreds of years, even using the newly developed interstellar drives, therefore the members of each Ark would be placed in cryostasis. When the Arks computers scanned a suitable planet, they would automatically wake up the required members of the Ark who would continue scanning before deciding whether or not the Ark would dock on the new home planet, or continue on in its journey.
This scans could be quite lenient however, as each Ark had been equipped with Terraforming technology as well as some new advancements in planet seeding.
At some point during the mission's flight, something had occurred. No one could determine what exactly had happened but some precious data was lost, most notably where the Arks had ended up and where Earth was. With no way to communicate with the lost homeworld, the citizens of the new worlds had to make the best of a unique situation.
Most surprisingly, not only had data been lost, but an entire Ark had gone missing, without a trace. The leaders of the five remaining Arks realised there was nothing they could do and so begun to spread what was left of humanity as they knew it, among the new stars.
Currently, colonising eleven planets orbiting 5 suns within the new star system, humanity has very much spread itself. For just over 100 years humanity has lived, worked and died on planets in a distant star system, continuing to expand when possible and where credits can be made. This spread is ensuring the survival of the human race, because despite what may happen on one planet, such as the distant, lost, home world of Earth, there are now multiple planets in multiple star systems which have been colonised by humans and in some cases, by other species of their homeworld, Earth.
Even colonising Mars in 2083 and improving hydroponic farming techniques to be suitable on the red planet, didn't help Earth.
In 2119 the United Nations had realised it was all too late, our little blue planet had been pushed too far before humanity had acted. 18 years later, 6 massive Arks had been built, each with the capacity to transport 800,000 people off Earth and toward a distant star. These missions could take hundreds of years, even using the newly developed interstellar drives, therefore the members of each Ark would be placed in cryostasis. When the Arks computers scanned a suitable planet, they would automatically wake up the required members of the Ark who would continue scanning before deciding whether or not the Ark would dock on the new home planet, or continue on in its journey.
This scans could be quite lenient however, as each Ark had been equipped with Terraforming technology as well as some new advancements in planet seeding.
At some point during the mission's flight, something had occurred. No one could determine what exactly had happened but some precious data was lost, most notably where the Arks had ended up and where Earth was. With no way to communicate with the lost homeworld, the citizens of the new worlds had to make the best of a unique situation.
Most surprisingly, not only had data been lost, but an entire Ark had gone missing, without a trace. The leaders of the five remaining Arks realised there was nothing they could do and so begun to spread what was left of humanity as they knew it, among the new stars.
Currently, colonising eleven planets orbiting 5 suns within the new star system, humanity has very much spread itself. For just over 100 years humanity has lived, worked and died on planets in a distant star system, continuing to expand when possible and where credits can be made. This spread is ensuring the survival of the human race, because despite what may happen on one planet, such as the distant, lost, home world of Earth, there are now multiple planets in multiple star systems which have been colonised by humans and in some cases, by other species of their homeworld, Earth.