The Year is 5,523.
The Third Colonial Expedition to the planet Rodinia has just arrived.
The government of the Second Colonial Expedition collapsed over seven hundred years earlier. In the intervening centuries the planet has gone feral.
The original inhabitants if the planet Rodinia left the planet roughly three thousand years before the first humans arrived.
The indigenous Rodinians had an advanced civilization based on a biological technology that was integrated with the planet. When humans first arrived, nature flourished but all the biotechnological systems had gone dormant.
The First Colonial Expedition to the planet lost
contact early in its development and was never heard from again.
During the Second Colonial period, a way to reactivate the alien systems was discovered. The biotechnology moved the human civilization forward at a much faster pace. In a relatively short amount of time, most of the planet had been colonized.
For reasons that are still unclear, a conflict broke out between several of the colonial regions. It quickly escalated into a worldwide conflict that lasted for many years, ending in the widespread use of weapons of mass destruction.
The charter of the Third Colonial Expedition is to try to ascertain what happened to first two expeditions and try to repair and rebuild a sustainable colony.
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