1 Prologue
The ship is dead. A generation ship, with the most advanced weaponry, integrated systems, and near perfect crew, floating in space, dead.
In the begining, when fusion was discovered, it lasted hundreds of years, granting us the ability to travel, to move, to expand the lives of billions. space became our home. Life on other planets and moons in our solar system was a dream never to come true. Technology grew, but never found a way to make anything go faster than the speed of light. A new source, and one easier to procure was developed, called a Heigus module. By using any subatomic particles, the module could fabricate a source of usable energy, and the payoff was near 100%.
No one expected that something from outside our system would crash to earth, the cradle of humanity, because of it.
2303 an unknown entity, nicknamed The Eirian crashed into the center of Los Angeles. This wasn't a green man, this creature was larger than the entire city center. Attempts to make contact where unsuccessful. History of earth ended there, when many generation ships from countries tracking the creature where launched out from earth. None where able to make contact after leaving the origin system. And none would try. Each ship was relentlessly pursued, and only 100 out of the more than a thousand launched ever made it to interstellar space.
2478, after more than a hundred years of constant battle against The Eirian, and over five hundred encounters, an age of peace is established. Encounters of Eirian are virtually non-existent. This age of peace had brought along internal conflict. People still train to fight, but a new power has come to light. Those who wish to not fight, believing that the encounters where all falsified. That deaths where because of something called The immortal Conglomerate. Everyone does what they are told, what job they have been given.
2861, most of the resistance against the commander has been eliminated over generations of drifting through space. Technology has advanced, everyone has a personal AI assistant linked to a shipwide database, and most repetitive jobs have been automated. The ship has forgotten that they are threatened in deep space, forgotten that they themselves are fragile, and one small Eirian could turn them all into space dust. The Eirian have been turned into stories, myths used by parents to tell their child to sleep.
2921, a contact blip. The crew rushes into action. Those who where trained, and those who where not differ in ability. Thankfully it is small, and easy to take care of. But there is one order that supprised the soldiers, to bring it back alive.
And that is where our story begins.
