It is the year 6521, in the standard Human Calendar, January 27th. Humanity, in its' loneliness, has sent out innumerable mother-ships to the Andromeda galaxy to colonize it, and to hopefully find life, like itself. Of course, the mighty vessels making up the vast 'fleet' broke down on the way here, if something can go wrong, it will go wrong, after all. The colonists in these craft, not united, have seeded a few worlds with themselves.

The 'Terrakin', as they shall be called in history, are grouped in the galactic west, specifically a star cluster noted for nebulae that should hinder any attempts at coming in with FTL, or out. Not impossible, of course, but it will protect the denizens from invasions for a while. Terrakin star charts, while damaged, will also note the rough estimates of where the other peoples 'landed'.

Obviously, the Terrakin can't communicate with each other just yet, but are nearing that point.

The Midorian Domain is deep in the New Midoria system. the Ordered Dominions lurk near the Sophia star, their Homeworld is Tenefuge. The Most Holy Empire of the Gentelli is stationed on Beacon, in the Austoria system. The 'Norgul' are on a deathworld known as Anyanwu, in the Horizon system. The Event Horizon Coalition is based on Crucible, in the Agromega system.

They all have minimal knowledge of eachothers' existence, but know they aren't alone. The systems are all equally scattered in the cluster, and ships coming from each system could go to any other system. Interestingly, each nation's best astronomers would notice something unusual in the Nebulae protecting them from the rest of the galaxy...

Something massive, nearly moon-sized is coming in anyway. Information would vary wildly: The most developed Nations would detect that it's definitely 'man' made, and seems to be highly advanced, in general. It [i]looks[/i] like a half hollowed out super asteroid, a rocky bowl lined with what appear to be engines, dragging a large amount of modules behind it. Especially at this range, however, no one could certainly take in any other details. The less developed Nations could see it, but would have no ideas other then that it looks to be vaguely round, and very fast.

It should come out of the nebula in two to three years, and then have access to any FTL systems on-board. Whatever the hell it truly is, the Terrakin should decide what to do about it... Find eachother and prepare for the worst together, simply hide and wait it out, or something else?