Welcome to Beyond the Sun: Settlers of Caerus. As the description stated, we will be taking up the role of colonists bound for a major, more specifically the largest human colony, Bastion City on the planet Caerus. While I expect the roleplay to start off rather slow, bear with me, something will happen, that I refuse to spoil, shortly after we arrive, that should give you your fill of action. I'll be accepting pretty much any character within reason for the setting, but keep in mind I might ask you to change a few details that are inconsistent with a nuance in the setting. Your character should be a human colonist, but if your interested in being something other than human check the rules.

A not so brief history
The year is 2267. Humankind has began to explore, and even to expand to the stars. Though faster than light travel in the form of the "spatial distortion drive" was discovered more than ninety years ago, and first used more than seventy years ago, Earth is still the only true home for the human race, still the place a parent would choose to raise their children if the option arose.
Even the discovery of alien microorganisms in the Tau Ceti system did not spur the colonization of the stars. The expense of interstellar voyages, which even today costs hundreds of billions of dollars for each mission, manned or not, makes interstellar trade an impossibility; no commodity is valued highly enough to justify the expense. The only reason colonization hasn't been abandoned entirely is the greatest plight of modern man: overpopulation.

The many cities of towns of Earth are home to over 16 billion humans, and even with strict population control laws in effect around the world, that number is constantly growing, making the prospect of a new frontier an attractive concept, were it not for the enormous costs, to establish a colony from scratch costs no less than 2 trillion dollars, a price that is not likely to drop any time soon. For this reason nations have gone so far as to dismiss any further colonization efforts a complete waste of resources.
After the initial novelty of visiting other star systems and living on exoplanets wore off, fewer and fewer people signed up as colonists, waiting lists encompassing entire towns soon gave way to hundreds of unfilled positions on every voyage. The final blow to extrastellar colonization came in March of 2224, when a courier, a small, unmanned ISV (interstellar vehicle) designed to ferry vital information, such as distress calls, over the vast distances that separate star systems, arrived from the distant planet Prometheus in the Hipacros System, simultaneously bearing monumental news, and fulfilling the worst nightmare of any colonist: Humankind was sharing the cosmos with a hostile and advanced alien civilization.

Though the anchai'rae, as we eventually learned they called themselves, were eventually pushed back after a drawn out conflict across a dozen worlds, they were not defeated. After suffering a single defeat on Caerus, the anchai seemed to lose interest in the war, and quickly withdrew. Though it has been more than 30 years since the anchai'rae have been sighted, authorities still list them as the greatest threat to colonial interests and security.

While the stigmata about alien life has softened ever so slightly with the discovery of another, far more amicable alien civilization in 2236, and more recently as of 2256, the deciphering of the kadari, as they call themselves, language, there is still a near universal distrust of aliens, a feeling that is, from the limited dialogue we have had with the kadari, mutual. The founding of a small kadari outpost near Liberty Point on Caerus has been the limit of diplomatic interactions between our two peoples, which is entirely understandable, given that the kadari concept of diplomacy seems to be radically different from ours. Many of the more pessimistic, and unfortunately qualified of our people, have come to the conclusion that the many and varied differences that separate us, and the mutual fears of each other will inevitability lead to war, and the extinction of their species, or our own.

In spite of the complaints of taxpayers, the threat of the anchai'rae, and the tension with the kadari, colonization continues. Less than a month ago, Genesis Space Development (GSD Corp), the company largely responsible for Canada's modern role as the leader in the space manufacturing and development sectors announced that it had been contracted by the United States of America in coalition with several European nations to transport a massive colony expansion to Bastion City on Caerus: 1,800 new colonists to compliment the 115,000 colonists already living there, a new, 150 person security security team, and 50 new specialists, individuals such as doctors and engineers who's training exceeds the capacity of the colony's education system, and must be therefore be brought in from Earth. Among those thousands is you. For your own reasons. you have chosen to leave behind friend and most likely family for the opportunity to live among the stars.



On the kadari
Kadari are a humanoid, though differently proportioned species that were discovered through radio broadcasts leaving their home system. While they are technologically more advanced than humans in most fields, the kadari never discovered faster than light travel. Until humans made first contact in 2233, a few years after the official end of the "First contact war" the kadari were confined to their home system. Ever since communications were established in 2256 then, the kadari have been trying to aquire the technology of the SDD, offering everything from the technology of their particle weapons to their religious teachings (for whatever reason, the kadari believe that their "teachings" have material value.). Diplomacy has been heavily limited, thanks in part to the vast distance separating Earth and the kadari home planet of Saraan, but largely due to the distances between our ideologies. So far, the extent of our interactions with the kadari has been the founding of a kadari outpost on Caerus.