So I think we have a good bit of interest now, I'll start working on the OOC. For your characters, I recommend agreeing among yourselves on what crew roles (navigator, helmsman, armsman, etc) to take, so we can avoid a first-come first-served issue.

On the subject of settings, please be aware that you can have your character originate from basically any sort of fantastic setting that you can think of. Even if you come from a world that has not yet invented Void travel, perhaps you were abducted by some means and became something of a sole representative pf your race in that way. This goes along as well with any sort of stellar alliance that you may come up with. The two I presented for examples, the Arc Luminous and the Crux Tenebre, are fairly generic examples of your standard Star Trek esque Federation and an oppressive interstellar empire, respectively.