[center][b][u]A Sea of Stars[/u][/b][/center]

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The year is 2674, and humanity has spread itself across the stars, stretching themselves across light-years and onto hundreds of planets. Humanity flourishes in a golden age of technology, with uncounted trillions of men and women living their lives in the greatest era of human history. Robots serve humanity in ways never before thought possible, managing the hardest and least desirable tasks with impressive efficiency, freeing massive swathes of humanity to innovate, create, and pursue happiness in all its forms. Medical technology has progressed in leaps and bounds, with humans able to live for centuries, given favorable conditions. Culture develops at a staggering pace, with communication and exchange of ideas possible through revolutions in communications technology. A unified government controls Space, with its borders expanding slowly, year by year, waves of humanity radiating from Sol, and the tiny blue speck of humanity’s origins. The last century has been one of peace, and with that peace came a very welcome massive reduction in military size and spending.

This progress has not come without a price: a century and a half ago, self-improving, self-replicating machines waged terrible, incomprehensible war on their creators. The causes of the Uprising are still unknown, but Humanity bears the scars to this day, with the images of whole planets being destroyed etched into the collective consciousness still. Dozens of wars have been fought over ideology, race, creed, planetary independence, etc., and though Humanity has stayed united through all the tribulations, and have been blessed with peace for the last century, the political upheavals have drastically changed the government, for better and worse. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is the solitude of Humanity: throughout all the Age of Expansion, the human race has yearned to find companionship in the universe, and to this day has found none.

In these times of peace, the brand new 4th Fleet makes its way from the shipyards of Sol to the Corewards edge of Human space, on a mission to link up with territorial elements and help defend commerce from an increase in pirate activity. You will play as one of the officers of this fleet, be you a veteran or a fresh recruit, you will have a great deal of power and responsibility in your specific role to command the fleet and make a better galaxy for Humanity.