There's a whole timeline of good places to play in. If you wanna play in the Scourge Invasion, that's gonna be some Aoocalyptic Horror Sci-Fi. Playing during the Gaian Solidarity emergence is going to be a lot more hopeful with magitech and magic powers and crystal ships. There will still be fighting against the Scourge on occasion, but they're a lot less scary with the Solidarity around.

I'm gonna be writing this out a bit more after I get back from work.