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[u][b]Humans[/b][/u] - In the year 3005, faster than light travel was discovered by Dr. Jack Schottky with the help of a newly found element: Oppenheimium. For the next several years, faster than light travel was only used by organizations like NASA and RFSA. Then, in the year 3112, NASA found an extremely large quantity of Oppenheimium, allowing the extremely rich to buy faster than light drives of their own and no longer restricting it to government use only. As more and more people traveled the galaxy with their new, beyond-lightning fast ships, even more of the rare metal was found, making the price lower significantly as quantity increased until buying a ship with faster than light capabilities became no more expensive than buying a new car. Colonization of other planets had already been started by governments when FTL drives were first invented, but now that the average family could buy their own ship, it wasn't long before Humanity spread throughout the stars, making it the most common species in all of the Milky Way.