Description
In the twilight years of the Second Great Expansion and toward the closing of the Third Age of Man, the entirety of Human Space lies precariously perched upon the brink. The First Great Expansion and Man's Second Age was heralded by the invention of the faster than light drive and travel. For over a thousand years, massive colony ships driven by their FTL drives soared out from Old Sol System and in every direction, carrying with them the seeds of mankind everywhere that they went, and populating well over a hundred new systems in the process. This era ended abruptly with the eventual discovery of the first hyperspace drive. Once again, the Human Race exploded outward in all directions, going faster and farther than it had ever deemed possible. And suddenly, the hundred plus systems that Humanity came to occupy swiftly grew in number up into the thousands. And for nearly three thousand years and the course of all of Man's ages, The Union had faithfully served as Man's system of governance, with the Fleet serving as its tried, true, and trusted military arm. Now, in what is swiftly becoming a new age of fracturing interplanetary governments and steadily growing interstellar corporations, new threats have begun to arise that are increasingly placing the entirety of Human Space in an ever-growing state of jeopardy. Not every threat is quite what it seems to be, however, and not all dangers are readily evident. And as long present governments begin to collapse and old institutions begin to crumble, a new breed of hero is required to protect the Race of Man and to continue securing the entirety of Human Space. Born from the ashes of the older systems and forged in the furnace of their collapse, the questions must be asked, will these new heroes be sufficient for the tasks at hand? And if so, will they be able to move quickly enough to secure the fate of all of Human Space while there is still time in which to do so?
The Last Man From Omega: Chapter 1
