Odyssey Down

You board the great behemoth of a ship called the Odyssey. You stop for a moment, gazing in awe at the miracle of engineering before you. You are Ben Rodgers, one of a crew of nearly 200 colonists and specialists charged with establishing a new colony on a distant moon of Epsilon 32-alpha, a recently discovered inhabitable planet. Saying goodbye to the world you've called home your entire life isn't easy, but it is necessary. Resources on Earth are rapidly depleting, and if colonies cannot be established off-world, consequences may be dire. Your group will be the first, the guinea pigs, if you will, who will determine whether such a thing is possible, or whether the faction in favor of a Culling will gain favor.

You take a last look over the city behind you, the earth beneath you, and the blue sky above you. With a final breath of fresh air, you hurry to your cryo-pod, where the others area already waiting for you. Not long after, the final checks have been made, and the craft hurdles into the air at unimaginable speed. As you reach orbit, you and the other passengers take one last bittersweet look at your homeworld as it shrinks in the distance. Before you know it, the cryo-stasis begins to take effect, and you drift into a deep sleep...