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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justin D. Jacobson" data-source="post: 1690388" data-attributes="member: 18946">Johan's LoopThe culmination of Faster-than-light (FTL) travel came in a fashion far different than any had anticipated:In 2196, faced with a prematurely dying sun, the free nations of the world--having banded together to achieve a solution--ferried their citizens to the massive transport ships that had been constructed in orbit around the Earth.  These ships meant to breach the boundaries of our solar system and make way for a nearby system with a planet suitable for terra-forming and colonization.As the fleet reached virgin space, something quite unusual occured.  The Earth-based sub-light drives interacted with an existing, alien-created FTL network.  This alien technology, not fully understood, allows a properly equipped starship to achieve ever-increasing levels of acceleration along the path of the waypoints.  The effect is similar to the operation of a particle accelerator.However, although the Earth ships contained some hardware that activated the FTL system, they possessed none of the equipment to control it.  The transports were scattered to the four corners of the universe.One such ship was the Dawning Star.  Principally harboring the terra-forming equipment, the technicians to run it, and a military contingent, the passengers of the Dawning Star found themselves in a distant galaxy.  Fortunately, there was a planet within the galaxy that was a suitable candidate for colonization.  They dubbed the planet Eos.Some time shortly after the commencement of colonization, the humans made contact with an alien race.  Their name is difficult to pronounce in the human tongue; they took to calling them "elgies" (a bastardization of L.G.'s, which itself is an abbreviation of "little green men.").  The elgies, the humans came to find, are a technologically advanced, peaceful species.  In the years that followed, the humans learned much from them.It was also revealed that they were the ones who constructed the FTL network that brought the humans to this galaxy.  Unfortunately, they suffered similar misfortune, and their ability to utilize the network was compromised.Humans now refer to the string of FTL waypoints from Earth to Eos as Johan's loop, named after the original captain of the Dawning Star.Next Up:  The Weinstein Orbital P.S. - Small confession:  This entry is a brief summary of the introduction to my upcoming d20 Future, hard science, sci-fi setting: Dawning Star.  But I do enjoy the resource threads.</blockquote>

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