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We live in an amazing age of scientific discovery Engineers at Ad Astra have nearly perfected the VASIMR drive An engine that would make a 39 day trip to Mars possible Scientists have recently made a breakthrough in cryogenic research Keeping a person in suspended animation for decades may only be years away. The birth of Space Tourism is driving a new era of competition in the Aerospace Industry New Earth to Orbit shuttle designs are becoming safer and more efficient as time goes on New extrasolar bodies are literally being discovered as fast as we can build the instruments to detect them Some astronomers have gone so far to say that

2160: ISV Challenger: High Orbit above Pandora, Alpha Centauri System It has been six years since "Sully's Betrayal" as it had come to be known on Earth. Six years since one of humanity's own led the attack that crippled the RDAs ability to extract Unobtanium from Pandora. Since then, with the existing flight of ships only able to retrieve what little had been processed prior to the Betrayal, Earth and her few off-World colonies have slipped into another depression. Unobtanium was mankinds last, best hope to build a better future, and with no new shipments coming in, all projects that were dependent on the little grey rock had come to a halt