Rachael was born in 2037, two years into the Thousand-Day Storm. By this time, her family had been living in the Seattle apocalypse shelter for almost a year. Rachael's parents both worked constructing tunnels between shelters, so it was up to the older children of other families to take care of her and her older sister Audrey those first couple years.
Eventually, Rachael and her sister started attending a makeshift school for children of the shelter, which was where she discovered her love of computers. When Rachael was seven, construction was completed on a tunnel and underground rail system connecting their shelter, to the other shelters in their area, and eventually, the shelters in San Francisco, and beyond. This was when news of the Digiverse AI first reached Rachael, and she became enthralled by it. An army of robots, led by one AI on the outside, slowly rebuilding the cities so that humanity could one day leave their underground prison. Unfortunately, Rachael's parents both died in a construction accident, leaving Audrey to be Rachael's sole parental figure. Biodome Beta finished construction in 2055, during Rachael's final year of school. Her and Audrey were both among the earliest students to attend Phillips University, the first college built after the Thousand Day Storm.
At college, Rachael met the man who she would eventually marry, Ian Astrov. They became close friends and soon started dating. In 2068, Harold Phillips announced that he would begin accepting volunteers to serve aboard his Starmigrator Vessels, The Nebula, and The Solution, which would ferry 20,000 people each across the galaxy in search of a new planet for humanity to call home. Rachael volunteered right away, much to Audrey's dismay, and she and Ian began the extremely lengthy training to become Space Colonists.
In 2073, the pair met the rest of their crew, Violet, Daniel and Lucas, and the five of them developed an extremely close bond. About halfway through their training, Rachael and Ian decided to get married. It was a small ceremony, held in 2075, among the attendees were Audrey, the rest of their crew, and a couple of other people.
In 2077, when Rachael was nearing her 40th birthday, they decided to have a child. The Nebula and Solution had a very strict rule, nobody under 5 was allowed on the ship unless they were born there for the safety of said child. Rachael and Ian arranged to have the baby a few months after the Nebula took off, but then disaster struck. A leak in one of the Nebula's engines caused her launch to be delayed by almost 9 months, and Zach Trapheus was born on Earth. Rachael and Ian fought as hard as they could to either leave the mission, or keep Zach, but their pleas fell on deaf ears. Rachael and Ian were forced to leave baby Zach behind in the care of Audrey Trapheus, and the Nebula took off in 2079.
Rachael and Ian were heartbroken, and their team synergy suffered for a few years as a result. A few years into their journey, a happy accident resulted in the birth of their second child, Makayla Trapheus, who managed to help her parents process their grief. The Nebula found nothing but lifeless rock and barren wasteland for almost 17 years, then, finally, they struck gold. Rachael's arrival on Terranova would mark the beginning of a new chapter, for both humanity, and the galaxy at large.
Before he was a Trapheus, Ian Astrov had made a name for himself even before he was born. His father had been an American medic in World War Three, and his mother had been a Russian soldier who had been wounded in battle and rescued by his father. The forbidden romance had been the subject of many jokes in the garrison.
Ian's parents both survived the Thousand Day Storm and fled into a shelter in Miami. Ian was born in 2038 and had as about a standard life as anyone could hope for in his situation. Ian discovered his love of geology by digging through the rock samples that the tunnel diggers brought back. He discovered his love of history from his father, who taught history to the children in the Miami shelter.
When the Biodome's started opening up, Ian and his family moved to Biodome India (Which is in America not India), but Ian soon left to attend Phillips university. Once there, he fell head over heels for Rachael Trapheus and immediately tried to impress her. Though initially confused and amused by his advances, two developed a close friendship and started dating before they graduated. In 2068, Harold Phillips announced that he would begin accepting volunteers to serve aboard his Starmigrator Vessels, The Nebula, and The Solution, which would ferry 20,000 people each across the galaxy in search of a new planet for humanity to call home. Ian signed up without hesitation, and he and Rachael began the extremely lengthy training to become Space Colonists.
In 2073, the pair met the rest of their crew, Violet, Daniel and Lucas, and the five of them developed an extremely close bond. About halfway through their training, Rachael and Ian decided to get married. It was a small ceremony, held in 2075, among the attendees were Rachael's sister Audrey, Ian's parents, the rest of their crew, and some extended family and friends.
In 2077, the couple decided to have a child. The Nebula and Solution had a very strict rule, nobody under 5 was allowed on the ship unless they were born there for the safety of said child. Rachael and Ian arranged to have the baby a few months after the Nebula took off, but then disaster struck. A leak in one of the Nebula's nuclear-powered engines caused her launch to be delayed by almost 9 months, and Zach Trapheus was born on Earth. Rachael and Ian fought as hard as they could to either leave the mission, or keep Zach, but their pleas fell on deaf ears. Rachael and Ian were forced to leave baby Zach behind in the care of Audrey Trapheus, and the Nebula took off in 2079.
Rachael and Ian were heartbroken, and their team synergy suffered for a few years as a result. A few years into their journey, a happy accident resulted in the birth of their second child, Makayla Trapheus, who managed to help her parents process their grief. The Nebula found nothing but lifeless rock and barren wasteland for almost 17 years, then, finally, they struck gold. Here, Ian's love of history was put to the test, as he set himself the task of unravelling Terranova's complicated history.
Lucas was the only member of his expedition team to have any memory of the world beyond the Bunkers, Biodomes or the Nebula. He was five when the Thousand-Day Storm began, and by all accounts his family only survived through sheer dumb luck. They failed to get to their nearest shelter before it closed. So, out of desperation, they got digging equipment from an abandoned hardware store, went into the basement of the building next to the apocalypse shelter, and began to dig. For almost five days they dug through almost 100 feet of concrete, drinking rainwater and eating food they had scavenged from a convenience store. They managed to break through a wall and into the shelter less than a month before the Yellowstone Super volcano erupted, killing almost everyone in North American who hadn't yet entered a shelter, and marking the point of no return for The Thousand Day Storm.
The story of Lucas Jordan's family was the stuff of legend in their shelter for the years before the Biodome's opened. He attended his shelters school, which was where he met Violet Theron. The two became friends, briefly dated in their late teens, then decided to go back to being friends. Lucas moved into Biodome Sierra when it opened in 2057. Lucas spent the next 11 years doing odd jobs to make ends meet. His parents died in 2062, less than a month after his 32nd birthday. The Biodome's were harsher back then smaller, more cramped, less clean, not many people lived past 60. After his parents died, Lucas asked Harold Phillips when the captain of the Nebula would be elected, having seen the lengthy election process for the Solution's captain. Harold Phillips told him that the Nebula's captain had been chosen a long time ago, and he was sorry he hadn't told Lucas earlier.
Violet came to the funeral, it was the first time the two had seen each other in a while, and they rekindled their friendship over the next year, this time purely platonic. In 2068, they both heard about how Harold Phillips was recruiting people to join an expedition out into space on a Starmigrator called the Nebula. The pair went into training, and after a few years, were assigned to their crew with Rachael Trapheus, Ian Astrov, and Daniel Alans. The team bonded quickly, and before long, Lucas was attending Rachael and Ian's wedding.
A few months before the Nebula launched, Rachael shared the news with her team that she was pregnant and would give birth to a child aboard the Nebula. Lucas and the rest of the team celebrated, but it was very short lived. A month before the Nebula was set to launch, and 5 months into Rachael's pregnancy, the Nebula suffered a reactor leak, and the launch had to be delayed. Rachael gave birth on earth and was forced to leave the child in the care of her sister. Lucas and the rest of his team tried to console the grieving parents, but there wasn't much they could do as they left Earth's atmosphere.
Lucas led his team on expeditions to hundreds of lifeless rocks on the Nebula's trip through the galaxy. His leadership skills were enough to keep the team's morale up, and it improved even further with the birth of Makayla, Rachael and Ian's second child. Finally, after almost two decades, the Nebula set course for a planet called Terranova, and despite everything, Lucas couldn't help but hope, that this time, they would find what they were looking for.
Anthony Lark was born to Jessica and Aijuan Lark in 2011. He grew up living a simple happy life in Chinatown San Francisco, until two events that completely shattered everything he thought he had known about the world. First was the Coronavirus Pandemic, which killed all four of his grandparents. The second event was World War Three, which killed both his parents, and his older brother. Alone, confused and afraid, Lark spent the last few years of his childhood in an orphanage, which he promptly left as soon as he could to pursue a carrier as an airplane pilot.
He spent a few years flying between America and China mainly, the home countries of his parents. He was staying in Hong Kong when the Thousand Day Storm hit and was among the first to retreat into its largest apocalypse shelter. During the lengthy process of trying to rebuild human civilization, Lark quickly rose through the ranks, eventually taking over the tunnel construction. Many people who worked under him described him as cynical, and almost callous at times. Lark was the type who was more than willing to throw away the lives of individual humans for the sake of the greater humanity.
Once the Biodomes started opening up in the 2050's, Lark travelled to various Biodomes across the planet for a few years, eventually meeting Harold Phillips. Lark complained to Harold about how he missed being able to fly, he missed the freedom of a plane. Harold Phillips responded by privately offering him a position on the Nebula, a Starmigrator he was building with the objective to find a new planet that humanity could thrive on. Lark accepted immediately and spent the next 18 years preparing to Captain the mighty vessel.
In 2069, a 58-year-old Lark met the woman who would be captaining the Nebula's sister ship, the Solution. Anthony's initial impression of Gloria Wren was that she was young naive woman with too many ideas above her station, and it seemed his dislike was mutual. Harold Phillips noticed that his two captains weren't getting along, so he decided to split them up and train them separately. Anthony Lark finished his training in 2074, and now all they had to do was wait and prepare for the Nebula's departure. During this time, Lark finally made time to meet many of the people who would be serving underneath him on the journey, including Lucas Jordan who had applied for the job after Lark had and was rejected the position.
Lark fully moved all his belongings onto the Nebula a month before she was scheduled to depart in 2078 and then had to buy tons of new items because a reactor leak in the Nebula's engines caused the launch to be delayed. The Nebula had to be checked thoroughly for radiation damage, and then the engines and reactors had to be repaired and reactivated. All in all, the delays were significant, which greatly annoyed Lark. Captain Wren managed to get in a snide comment against him before she took off in the Solution, which of course launched right on time.
Finally, after almost a year, the Nebula launched, and Captain Lark felt free once again. However, his feeling of freedom and excitement quickly wore off, as the entire crew of the Nebula were fully struck with a hard truth... space kinda sucks. Lark soon slipped back into his old cynical, depressed, self... angry with everyone. Angry with himself for agreeing to this wild Goose chase, angry with Harold Phillips for seeing something in him, and angry with all his underlings for failing to find a planet. However, when life was discovered on Terranova 17 years later, all of Lark's anger melted away, replaced by new emotions, excitement, stress, anxiety, and fear. Fear for the mission, fear for humanity, fear for his own life.
Garratough was a Terranovian born into a war torn and divided world. The Caldosh army fought against the Alties militia every single day, and her village was right on the border of the fighting. Garratough's home was a small farming village, which used to sell plants to traders, now they lived in constant fear of attack. One morning, Garratough got up early to get water from the river, and that decision spared her life. A Caldosh attack force was flying overhead, when they were attacked from below by Alties artillery. One fighter was struck and crashed down right where Garratough's home had been, killing her whole family instantly. Her house caught fire and burned down several other dwellings in their village, and the smoke ruined many of their crops. Garratough and the rest of her village were forced to leave their home, and hike to safer land. Eventually, they arrived at a Caldosh military base, where they were relocated to the Caldosh capital city.
Garratough was angry, and she wanted revenge on the Alties for what they had done, and she joined the Caldosh army. She fought in many battles over the next few years of the war, climbing through the ranks until she was promoted to lead an attack on an Alties city up in the mountains. She had only just arrived at her new military base when news broke all across Terranova, another Alien ship had appeared in the sky, not far from the Caldosh capital. It seemed history was repeating itself.
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