By the year 10,191 A.G., humanity has spread out among the stars and discovered itself alone in the universe. However, the path to expansion was not without hardship or opposition. The history of humankind is sprawling with the slightest of instances altering the course of destiny. That alteration could be the birth of a leader, a malfunctioning device that saved or killed countless billions, the evolution of humans through technology, or the ecology of new planets.

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Humanity’s birthplace of Earth, Old Terra, was the third planet in the Sol system. Much of that history has been lost, what little records remain of the ancient ancestral birthplace of humanity are over 11,000 years old, and tell of humanity reaching the stars. These archaic Earth ships lacked faster than light (FTL) drives. This hindrance trapped these early space explorers primarily within their home star system. The push to discover faster space travel influenced not only humanity’s ability to explore the galaxy but the very nature of what it meant to be human. Humanity explored space and furthered its technology, forming the Old Empire that grew with each passing century, gradually expanding to reach thousands of worlds, the growth of the Old Empire reaching the outer perimeter of the Known Universe.

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The advanced state of technology destroyed the old political structure and its essential ties to Earth. Numerous questions about humanity’s place in the universe arose as they expanded ever farther from their ancestral home: How can a disunited world remain together? How do we afford the escalating cost of exploration? Where is God if we are in space? What does it mean to be human if we are born in space or upon alien soil?