"Eight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival."
and for the origins of the people in ships:
"The Houses: Each shipboard colony that left Earth carried some memory of its origins in its name. The Liberty carried Americans, The Bretonia flew from The United Kingdom and surrounding territory, The Kusari from Asia, and the Rheinland launched with Germanic cargo.
As each ship settled and colonies began to expand, they knew little about each other and their advancing development. Finally, little by little, the individual colonies found each other and began to set up trade routes to link their systems for commerce and solidarity. "
well i can't understand some ppl above, what make you to believe that all countries was able to go to space? i.m greek so i disagree with one of the first posts here about greece, we were a great nation at the ancient past but now we are just a europian country in comfusion, i don't believe we could make it to the 23 centry, most likely we and the turkey will kill each other before this time, as about africa, ffs ppl, they barely have some of the technological goodies that eu usa and etc countries have, do you really believe they could have tech to colonise the space?
one or another way why should every ship carry only one nation? most likely some ships carried ppl from smaller countries around them.
it is too bad that you are not from greece there is a greek fanatic guy who writes some books (books? ok maybe pieces of ****) and he is saying that the greeks are from serius anyway, that our ancestors come in earth with their space ship and bring the life there, thats why the ancient greece was that great (if that was truth wtf happened then? ) anyway maybe i will translate some off these stories so you can have fun as well
see ya
(i lost my saves can someone send me a profile or something with saves after the end of the story? cause some mods i use have problem with the story line)