Humanity began to thrive amongst the stars, along with new and influential factions like the Church of Unitology.

In time an entire fleet of CEC planet crackers, run by hardened interstellar mining crews, was providing a steady supply of resources back to Earth. This ship, the USG Ishimura, was able to mine whole planets so effectively that the Resource Wars soon came to an end.

Bloody interstellar conflicts known as the Resource Wars had erupted over the remaining scraps, bringing the threat of extinction even closer.Įarth’s largest energy corporation, the Concordance Extraction Corporation (CEC), developed a new kind of starship: a “planet cracker” capable of ripping apart entire worlds, equipped with a shockpoint drive that made faster-than-light travel almost trivial.

By the early 2440s, Earth and its colonies were consuming resources faster than they could be mined. Bold pioneers and wealthy corporations began to rapidly expand into space, founding colonies on new worlds.īut space exploration did not provide a reprieve. In the 23rd century, humanity turned to the stars to escape environmental collapse, political unrest, and the deprivations of a resource-starved Earth.

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