UES Rheinland

The colony ship UES Rheinland was commissioned by the Greater European Union member state of Germany and arrived in the Sirius Sector in 2106. The Captain Hans Esemhart of the German colony ship UES Rheinland was awakened from stasis to begin preparations for planet-fall. He and his officers spent weeks studying the long-range sensor logs in an effort to determine the best location for their new home.

The officers decided to give the Liberty colonists of Manhattan their space, as it were, and instead concentrated on an area close to the Walker Nebula and rich in natural resources, settling the planet of New Berlin in the Neu Deutschland-system.

Trivia

 * Rheinland is named after the historical Rhinelands, a loosely defined region embracing the land on either bank of the River Rhine in central Europe.