[color=ed145b][center]Candy & ELGainsborough[/center][/color]
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[color=00a99d][b][h1][center]LOCUS[/center][/h1][/b][/color]

[color=00a99d][h2][center]Earth 2.0[/center][/h2][/color]




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[color=82ca9d][h3][center]Introductory[/center][/h3][/color]


[color=82ca9d]Elysium is a space station located at the perimeter of Earth’s solar system, constructed to facilitate exploration of deep space, also serving as an extension to the space colony known as Elysium Prime.  On Earth date 2097 AD. Elysium’s galactic scanning array gathered readings of a planetary body. This planetary body was initially allocated as Kepler 452b, and described to be a large cousin to our own Planet Earth. After further scans of the planet confirms its status, it is renamed [b]Locus[/b], and a mission of exploration is set into motion. 

In the year 2098, a vessel by the name of STS Discovery, is launched from HMS Rhapsody (the representative city ship of Elysium and Elysium Prime). STS Discovery was the first of its kind, designed for subspace travel; needed for this specific mission. This new and not yet perfected subspace travel technology, however, had a couple of downsides. The first being that a small, specifically designed vessel was required, and also a ‘host’, which is where the Rhapsody came into play. The Rhapsody was fitted with what was referred to as a Hub. To put it simply, the hub was designed to open an aperture in subspace, one adequate to accommodate a vessel of specific dimensions, then catapult said vessel through the aperture, into subspace, and deposit it at the intended destination. The second downside to this technology was, basically, that any journey would be a one way trip.   

Despite noted downsides, the mission was turning out to be a success. STS Discovery was launched on schedule and a few hours later, since subspace transmission were a great deal easier than actual subspace travel, the Rhapsody received a transmission, stating the crew had arrived at the intended coordinates. Unfortunately, after that point, STS Discovery was never heard from again. To make matters worse, in the closing of Discovery’s first and final transmission, all readings Elysium had been receiving from Locus were severed from sensor analysis. It was like the planet just somehow…. Vanished.[/color]


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[color=82ca9d]11000 lightyears away, the crew of STS Discovery, after signalling Rhapsody of their successful arrival, traveled at impulse to what was believed to be the planets exact coordinates, only to find an unfamiliar spatial anomaly awaiting them instead.  Panicked by their findings, the crew try desperately to contact Rhapsody once again, but have no success. Within seconds the ships systems fail and STS Discovery is seized by unknown forces that subsequently deposits the vessel above Locus - at its true location in the farther reaches of the galaxy. Unable to regain control of ships systems, STS Discovery and her crew of 28, spiral toward the surface….[/color]