Seeking the Intrepid, the Bold, and the Fearless...

                                                                                                                                          seventy-five years ago, the Novum Sibi and her crew departed the Home-Worlds for a frontier planet where they would be free to build a new life and a new society. Their mission was to ground the massive ship and lay the groundwork for an infrastructure to be built by those in the following waves departing five years after. The departure of the second wave of three ships was delayed by civil war for nearly ten years. Now they have arrived to a mystery… and a warning.

     

     The eight-story, thirty acre vanguard flagship should by now be converted into a power-plant supporting the startup of industry, serving as a seat for a small community, and transmitting a navigation beacon for the incoming waves of new settlers. But there is no beacon and long range scans are encountering an interference of a sort that the best technicians cannot identify or circumvent. The trio of ships, the largest only half the size of the Novum Sibi, reach the end of a six-decade odyssey through space fifteen years after the arrival of the flagship. They have no choice but to make landfall and begin building with their own skills and equipment.

 

     To say that there was no sign of the Novum Sibi having been here is inaccurate. A single satellite was located in orbit over the world. Battered and barely maintaining its own power, it transmitted a single audio-only message and a set of coordinates before becoming just another inert piece of flotsam in the great Void.

 

“Welcome to the frontier, my fellow pioneers. A brave new world awaits you. Be bold, be vigilant, but proceed with care… For we are not alone.”

 

     They are directed to a site on the largest northern landmass, lush with hardy vegetation and fed by two notable rivers. overlooking a large body of water to the north, and sheltered on the south by a range of formidable mountains.