Introduction

So here it is. Earth got used up. It wasn’t one thing, but a whole raft of things; the ice melted, religious wars, to many nukes got used, the collapse of the ocean food – chains, take your pick of disasters they all happened. We can still look at it, its still there. The astronomers say that those who stayed behind are still nuking each other. It’s only been 200 years since the exodus – maybe they’ll get tired of fighting some day, but not yet.

When the wars started lots of people fled to the colonies and the outposts. Seems we invented fusion powered pulse engines just in time. Lots of people got out of earth as it all came crashing down. 5 million. 10. 50. We don’t rightfully know. Still just a drop in the bucket.

Lots of nations had official plans. The North American Colonial Union sent their people to Mars. United Galactic Spaceways and El Israel gathered the survivors of the General Exchange in the Middle East and loaded them into the L4 Hilton.

But what really saved our asses was the Skip Drive. Imagine all these refugees in space, with no where to go. Some cultures like the Turks and Chinese started to cobble together Generation ships out of their national space stations. But then we got lucky again. A scientist on Mars created the Skip Drive. Making light years take weeks instead of centuries.

The mostly completed Generation ships were retrofitted into Skip Ships while they watched Earth burn. And then they disappeared.

The Chinese headed to Alpha Centari, the Turks Barnard’s Star, the Australians Procyron. And so on. Europeans, Brazilians, Chinese, Japanese, African Unionists, Indians - cultural seeds scattered to the six winds.

Now we're in the now. Humanity has pushed out to about 25 light years from Sol system. The Martian terraforming project is complete, and the NorthAm’s are getting started on Venus, Europa and Enceladus. Planets populated by people, some main line, some genejacked to be more compatible with their new homes. And some who have stayed out in the beyond having decided planets are retroburn.

It also turns out that we aren’t alone out here. Turns out there are habitable planets everywhere. And any place with liquid water has life of some sort. We found a moon colony of a species that suffered the same fate as Earth just barely scraping by. Found a species of pre-industrials. Found other places with wrong – handed DNA folding, making the life there the most toxic thing in the Universe for us. Leave those alone.

But everywhere we go, we start terraforming and populating and building.

Some say humanity’s numbers are back to where they were before Earth died. But now we're spread. And we're still humans – same old problems. NorthAm Colonial Union and Chinese sparring for control over territory and resources. Pirates operating off map and preying on traders. Mercenary companies and Security teams helping raw planets fight off pirates and natives and whatever else comes their way.

You’d think we’d learn.

Anyway. I’ve got a Trader. Shinzuku Class out of New Nippon, 10KT displacement. It isn’t pretty but it moves cargo nicely.

Here’s what I need by way of crew:

Pilot / Navigator.
Hacker
Machinist / Engineer / Robotics
Security
Doc.
A fixer or faceman.

Overlap is good because then you can catch some sleep in shifts. I’ll let you know once we’re ready to ship.

(OOC: we’ll be using d20 future / modern. Get yourself to 3rd level and we’ll specialize down the road. And no, I’m not sure when we’ll start this, but I figure if we get it up and ready it can be a one off now and then for those days when the Tuesday night game isn’t able to go).