====== The Salvation Fleet ======

The following is a rough timeline of events in the game, with particular focus on what was going on on the //Salvation// Fleet.

  * 205x-xx-xx: Most of the population own non-FTL-capable ships
  * 205x-xx-xx: Development of power armour begins
  * 206x-xx-xx: Tentative global peace
  * 206x-xx-xx: High density battery power
  * 206x-xx-xx: Black Box Jump Drive invented
  * 2069-xx-xx: Tau Leyti colony founded
  * 2070-xx-xx: Most hospitals have automated first aid
  * 2070-09-18: Event Zero: Apparitions begin occurring.
  * **2070-12-27: URSULA founded** (see [[eternity:ursula|here]] for the URSULA files)
  * **2071-12-12: Elentis 227a planet destroyed by a cataclysmic collision with another celestial body**
  * 2072-xx-xx: Apparition events are so widespread that they cannot be controlled by URSULA
  * 2072-11-10: URSULA abandoned due to catastrophic containment failure
  * 2073-xx-xx: Apparitions are recognised by the media
  * 2078-11-08: Tau Leyti colony infected and destroyed within one hour
  * 2080-xx-xx: Most spaceships have automated first aid
  * 2080-xx-xx: FTL Capable ships are luxury affordable by upper-middle class
  * **2081-10-23: //Salvation// Fleet leaves**
    * Commanded by Admiral Charmaine Lockhart, foremost of the UCCNZFJ Navy, this fleet was made up of the //UCSS Salvation//, the //UCSS Resurrection//, the //UCSS Triumphant//, the //UCSS Destiny//, the //UCSS Deliverance//, and several Bolygo hospital ships.
  * **2081-11-24: Bolygo hospital ships are separated from the //Salvation// Fleet for fears of apparition infection and obliterated by the //UCSS Triumphant//.  Records are expunged and Ghenadie Bolygo swears secrecy.**
  * 2081-12-15: Nuclear annihilation of humanity
  * **2082-01-01: //Salvation// Fleet arrives at Elentis 227a to find it destroyed.**
  * **2082-01-09: //Salvation// Fleet arrives at Vega 7 and begins colonising.  //UCSS Hope// deployed.**
  * **2082-01-15: UCCNZFJ Commander In Chief mutinied after disagreeing with colonisation efforts.  Jumps in escape pod //UCSS Persistence// and is stranded in Pandora 12.**
  * **2082-03-09: Colonisation efforts at Vega 7 are going well.  Discoveries of past alien civilisations are made.  //UCSS Faith// deployed.**
  * **2082-06-09: Population of //Salvation// Fleet is destroyed by the Vastness of Space in anger for not paying it any attention or heeding its attempts to communicate.  All hope is lost.  //UCSS Glory// deployed.**
  * 2082-06-08: First conference of the //Princess// Fleet
  * 2082-06-29: Second conference of the //Princess// Fleet
  * 2082-07-20: Third conference of the //Princess// Fleet
  * 2082-08-10: Fourth conference of the //Princess// Fleet
  * 2082-08-31: Countdown timer on the nuclear arsenal of the //UCSS Triumphant// scheduled to go off.
  * 2082-08-31: Fifth conference of the //Princess// Fleet
  * 2082-09-21: Sixth conference of the //Princess-Salvation// Fleet
  * 2082-10-12: Seventh conference of the //Princess-Salvation// Fleet
  * 2082-10-19: //Princess// jumps away
  * 2082-10-21: Colonisation begins.  Year 0 AE.

===== Vega 7 =====

What explorers found on Vega 7 was strong evidence of a past alien civilisation.  This society was long since extinct by the time the Salvation Fleet arrived at the planet, but when it was in its prime it worshipped the Black Hole (unknowingly, the Fear entity: Vastness of Space) as a god.  Vastness was quite happy with this, and encouraged the religion and the cult, converting people to its cause.  However, it got quite upset when Science (portrayed as Magic in the writings of the people) advanced considerably to begin to question how exactly the Black Hole was giving them such boons.  It got angry, and started having people disappear, until all that remained were soulless beings which it took all in one go as its own.

The aliens did have Biotechnological secrets hidden in their writings, but unfortunately the planet was destroyed one turn before players would have been able to access this information.

===== Video logs from Cpt. Avril-Dubois =====

These logs were released on probes for use of humanity by the Captain of the //UCSS Triumphant// -- filmed by Hanae, OURPGSoc alumnus over in the States!

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