Well it looks like we got ourselves a lil squad here if [@DeadDrop] is down, I'll see if I can work up a few documents for world-building and maybe an incident report or some documents that'll give some better insight towards the overall image. In the mean time if y'all have any ideas you'd like to see included I would implore you to share. 

I would also like to reiterate, as this is important to me, I am down to put in some groundwork to get things off the ground but I do not want to be the sole fulltime GM here. I am hoping the four of us can all cooperatively build the universe and the story that follows together with equal consideration for each other. I also don't wanna have a lot of work, so yea.

In the meantime here's what I've drafted as an initial character hook.

We are 4 petty officers that formulate a special tactics squad aboard one of the ark colony ships, designated SCAS Mother Theresa, a proud holdout of the Grand Imperial Duchy of Man, or GIDM. the GIDM was the dominant galactic force in the galaxy at the height of it's reign. It's borders stretched from edge to edge and probed beyond the rim into parts unknown. Such a vast size easily grew unwieldy and, as all things do, the GIDM eventually came to an end. With the death of the emperor as well as a mysterious enemy chewing on the outskirts of known space the GIDM fell into a civil war that shattered the empire in the the hundreds of fiefdoms it exists in today. generations have passed and the GIDM is all but lost, several ark ships remain drifting through space as self sustaining holdouts of imperial power but remain far too thinly spread to have any hope of truly reuniting and reforming any sort of authority.

All of these factors have left the known galaxy in a state similar to feudal Europe. 

House Balam rules over the Galaga system and 5 of it's neighboring stars. House Balam and the Mother Theresa have had a long standing mutually relationship of trade and military assistance and thus when the capital of their minor holding G6 "Taurus" comes under invasion from an unknown foe the GIDM are contacted for military aid. Our squad in particular will be dispatched on VIP retrieval to the capital city of Taurus which seems to be under the heaviest assault. In universe our enemy is mostly unknown, merely whispers exist amongst the highest echelon. We will be broaching horrors that have yet to be witnessed by the masses and although we shall potentially be high-powered killing machines our tactics and technology will not be prepared for the complete shift in paradigm that our new foes shall bring to the table.

For our characters, and all those others located in this universe to be, things are fixin to get a whole lot worse before there'll even be a thought of things gettin' better. Hope you guys are still interested in tagging along for the ride!