The Drift

It is the year 2253, some two hundred years after the colonization engine took humans from earth and allowed them to establish their ideological enclaves across the stars. As humanity spread however, it became disatisfied.

The system named Untain was one source of that dissatisfaction. For a long time it hung there, a jewel just a little out of reach. A system without a jump zone, but one so close, so tantalizingly close to one that did. A mere quarter if a year for light. Surely not a distance uncrossable for human technology. A system with a blue world, oceans and life. Initial probe reports showed other signs worth investigation. Dubbed the drift, a vast cloud of objects circled the star just outside the orbit of the life bearing planet. Their orbit rises high and low above the plane of the elliptic, in defiance of normal orbital mechanics. While a few speculated them to be artificial, most believe them to be the debris of a planet or perhaps asteroids with some unusual qualities.

After many robotic probe flights, a live experdition has been formed, funded by a group of universities, Friedmanite space nomads, and national governments. There are rumours that several radical post human activists have also been involved in expedition planning.

You are member of that expedition. The journey has been almost a year even with the massive engines aboard the expeditionary craft the Ibn Battuta. You have awoken from cold sleep as the ship costs into the system, a mere few days away from the drift.

System

Pick a name and an occupation and a brief history. Your reason for coming on this expedition, and your skill set. While skilled, you are relatively normal people, not cinematic heroes. You maybe transgenic but you're not that much above human norms.

(note, this a horror game)