"—This is the way the world ends.

This is the way the world ends.

This is the way the world ends.

Not with a bang but a whimper."

—from T.S. Eliot's The Hallow Men

In 2454, the world had come to an end. Pollution had pushed Earth to its limit. War, famine, and disease aside, it could not rid itself of the plague of humankind. And so it was that the Earth turned sour, poisoning itself from the outside in.

With the atmosphere and resources deteriorating at an alarming rate, humans looked to the sky for hope. Every continent had its own solution to make it to the stars, but America was perhaps the most ingenious. In as little as ten years, America built twelve ships to the new salvation of Eden Major, a picturesque planet in a far-off galaxy. As the day for the Great Migration drew closer, a decision was made to avoid an inevitable future.