The year is 2137. Earth is no longer the home it once was. Destroyed by pollution and forever scarred by nuclear war. What is remembered as the Burn. The colonies on the moon and Mars have long been established with shipyards out at Jupiter floating in the orbit. Humanity was far from destroyed. A large initiative was put into searching the stars for another "Earth" to call home and start anew. Thus Project rebirth was begun. Massive resources were poured into the tech needed for this endeavor. Cryogen and propulsion technology skyrocketed to unseen levels and a ship was built. Other technology levels a noticeably advanced from modern day standards. Although tech like nanites is VERY expensive. Current engine tech allows the ship to travel to the edge of the system in about 2 years, but the secret is a shield like tech that displaces anything in front of the ship to the rear, effectively eliminating all friction..<br/><br/><strong>Now along one arm of the milky way <em>The Exodious</em> is on a mission. A mission that has never before been attempted. Out of system colonization. Powered by methane harvested from Uranus, hydrogen from Saturn, and outfitted with state of the art cryogenics, the ship was to travel for almost 20 years. 19 years have passed and the skeleton crew were beginning Operation Ice Man to thaw the colonists while in orbit around one of the destination planet's moon. Trouble has a way of striking at such critical times. While the crew was occupied, automated defenses awoke on the destination planet and struck the huge colony ship. This is where the story starts. Alarms blazing and lights flashing, all mixed in with the screams of the crew and the newly awakened. Be they injured or in shock, the difference isn't your first priority. You're naked and aboard a ship that wasn't made for combat. "Minimal ship functions remaini... ... ...Controlled crash initi... ... prepare for imp... iles may be... tive." Thats all the info you get as the speakers die into silence. Survival is first in your mind as it seems is also in the mind of a few others who have found clothing and suits. Life is going to be hell for a while, better get comfortable with the heat. The ship is about 2 minutes from impact into the surface. General chaos is abundant and structural integrity of the ship is questionable. Power is failing throughout the ship as power is routed to keep life support and the emergency power to the cryo tanks. As you sit waking in your tank, people run by naked and screaming. Just as you realize whats going on, the artificial gravity fluctuates and colonists begin floating out of their tanks. They fall as the gravity activates again and some cry out in pain as they land on the tanks wrong. You take a mental note to be careful.</strong><br/><br/><em> The cryo tanks (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090428141825/halo/images/thumb/f/ff/Cryo02.jpg/580px-Cryo02.jpg) are more or less vertical and arranged in a row like configuration (http://images.wikia.com/stargate/images/0/0e/Stasis_(1).png) with one across and about two feet apart. Limited to about 20 per hallway equals about 10 along each wall with a central computer at the end. This is what you will awaken into unless you are already awoken. A large atrium (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/The_Atrium.jpg) is set up to receive the awoken immediately. About three of these are placed along the ship, with multiple hallways on each of the 6 levels. From there it's all a guess about which area seems the safest to survive impact. Escape pods are not present as the necessity for them was low. If any pods were to be launched, they couldn't go far, and no other long range ships had been built yet. An attack wasn't foreseen either as the planet seemed desolate.</em><br/>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>Links:<br/>Interested in Joining? (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=101390.0)<br/>OOC and Char Sheet Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=101605.0)