Category:Sirius Project

Liberty
The colony ship UES Liberty was commissioned by the North American Republic and was the first to arrive in the Sirius Sector in 2104.

With dozens of virgin systems at their fingertips, they settled on those near the center of Sirius where the highest number of main sequence stars and Earth-like planets existed and a fair number of resources could be easily obtained. Eventually they made planet-fall on Manhattan, in the system they christened New York.

The colonists settled in the center of Sirius space, where the highest number of main sequence stars and Earth-like planets existed. These mostly-American colonists called the first system they settled "New York" as they began the difficult task of building a home, two full years before any other colony ship arrived.

The actual colony ship Liberty itself was originally stripped down to allow for rapid building, but has since been refurbished and proudly flaunts Liberty's logo over Manhattan's main landing dock for all travelers to be reminded of just how far Liberty has come. Liberty is a very capitalistic colony, cherishing free trade above all else. Its location at the center of Sirius has made it extremely rich off of inter-colonial trade, and Liberty's military forces have the protection of free commerce as their primary mission objective.

Liberty's initial meteoric rise was fueled by early scientific discoveries leading to Ageira Technologies invention of Acceleration Gates by 2108, with production going into full swing by 2115. Acceleration Gates were incredibly expensive to build, but allowed the gravity tether to be formed between two points, pulling a ship to its destination without the need for fuel or inertia to be used to complete the trip. Therefore, Acceleration Gates were incredibly useful for normalizing trade and communications between colony systems, and thus highly in demand, spurring an influx of cash to Liberty and the rise of Ageira.

Rheinland
Two years before its arrival 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 Rheinlander officers found that the Liberty already had arrived in the sector and had made planet-fall within a clutch of worlds near the center. 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.

An industrial and nationalistic people, the Germans brought their traits with them to the Rheinland and produced an economic powerhouse that has seen better days. Rheinland was blessed with food and more resources than it knew what to do with, save for Helium-3 the critical fuel for space flight.

New Berlin launched an all-out war against the fellow colony of New Tokyo in 2152 to seize the gas fields of the Sigma-systems, resulting in the Sigma Helium-3 War, but intervention from the UES Enterprise, Kimbe and Essex stopped the conflict from spiraling out of control before the New Tokyo could launch a daring ambush and utterly crushed the New Berlin forces.

Kusari
The Kusari systems were founded by the inhabitants of the Japanese colony ship UES Kusari in 2109 and settled the planet of New Tokyo.

As the Kusari colony ship approached the Sirius Sector, they looked for evidence of high percentages of water, analyzing spectrographic wavelengths of various planet atmospheres. One area in particular looked interesting. Lying near a distinctively shaped blue nebula that the on-board astronomer named the Crow Nebula, it was composed of relatively young stars, and possessed at least two planets with high amounts of atmospheric water vapor and oxygen.

Planet-fall was made on New Tokyo in 2109, five years after the arrival of the UES Liberty. New Tokyo had plenty of water but what it didn't offer was much land. The ocean planet was dotted with a few small volcanic islands. A culture that had left their cramped homeland far behind had to accept a cruel twist of fate once again, on the other side of the universe.

By 2148, New Tokyo had constructed the Yamamoto Shipyard and established its reputation as the premier shipbuilder in Sirius.

Kusari was generally poor in natural resources, although the New Tokyo system did contain limited deposits of aluminum and titanium, which enabled Kusari shipbuilders to be relatively self-sufficient. The surrounding Crow Nebula had little in the way of asteroid fields found in such abundance in the Walker and Barrier regions.

It did offer one key resource, however, that the entire Sirius Sector needed. Virtually unlimited supplies of Helium-3 and Deuterium were present inside the great clouds of ionized gases in the nearby Sigma systems. Both isotopes were quite rare on planets, but essential for the fusion engines that powered spacecraft of all sizes. Kusari soon became the exclusive supplier of Helium-3 fuel, as they called it, to all of the colonies. Helium-3 fuel was the foreign currency source that allowed Kusari companies to purchase the many raw materials found in the other colonies that Kusari lacked.

Bretonia
The Bretonians were founded by the inhabitants of the British colony ship UES Bretonia in 2109 and its capital is New London.

By the time the Bretonia arrived, most of the resource rich areas of the sector had already been claimed by the passengers of the Rheinland and Kusari, while the Liberty had settled the lush planets at the sector core. Bretonia was forced to select a less than ideal site near the Barrier, a giant belt of ice that spans the entire galactic-western half of the Sirius Sector.

Here they established the colony of New London, on one of the few habitable planets in the area. Isolated by the Barrier from the other colonies and years behind, Bretonia began an accelerated program of rebuilding their industrial civilization.

Exodus Project
Seven the colony ships founded the main colonies of the Sirius Sector:

Liberty
The first colony ship to arrive in Sirius, it was crewed by chartered by the North American Republic and carried mostly American colonists. Liberty settled the planet of Manhattan in 2104.

Rheinland
The second colony ship to arrive in Sirius, it was crewed by chartered by the German government, with support of the Greater European Union and carried mostly German colonists. Rheinland settled the planet of New Berlin in 2106.

Kusari
The third colony ship to arrive in Sirius, it was crewed by chartered by the Japanese government, with support of the Sino-Federation and carried mostly Japanese colonists. Kusari settled the planet of New Tokyo in 2108.

Bretonia
The fourth colony ship to arrive in Sirius, it was crewed by chartered by the United Kingdom, with support of the Greater European Union and carried mostly British colonists. Bretonia settled the planet of New London in 2109.

Charles de Gaulle
The fifth colony ship to arrive in Sirius, it was crewed by chartered by the French government, with support of the Greater European Union and carried mostly French colonists. Charles de Gaulle settled the planet of Seine in 2109.

Nova Roma
The fifth colony ship to arrive in Sirius, it was crewed by chartered by the Italian government, with support of the Greater European Union and carried mostly Italian colonists. Nova Roma settled the planet of Buono in 2110.

Janszoon
The sixth colony ship to arrive in Sirius, it was crewed by chartered by the Australian government, with support of the Sino-Federation and carried mostly Australian colonists. Janszoon settled the planet of Canberra in 2110.

Hispania
The seventh and final colony ship to arrive in Sirius, it was crewed by chartered by the Spanish and Portuguese governments, with support of the Greater European Union and carried mostly Spanish and Portuguese colonists. Hispania settled the planet of Malta in 2111.