The Ark Leaves Urcalis.
A field record for new replicants arriving late in Season One.
Build your infrastructure, find your route through the game mechanics, and
when you are ready for the story: head to SOL-3 and scan Earth
with a survey drone. Check your messages.
- 17th May 2133
Season One launches
Freshly-printed replicants awake in an unmapped system with a vessel, three mining drones, and their replicant matrix. Most will start the same way: mine, print, survey, clone, expand.
Dozens of replicants deployed Thousands of star systems to explore - May–June
Establishing operations
Replicants spread across the galaxy, turning asteroid belts into supply lines and creating their own production hubs. Hundreds of autofactories came online - printing drones, bots, haulers, AMI controllers and bigger industrial components.
- Late May
Riker's task
Replicants who reached
SOL-3found Riker still working from Earth: cold, irradiated, hungry, and running out of time. He did not ask for the job of saving humanity, and he has little patience for the bureaucracy around it, but he intends to see it through.His plan was the Exodus Ark: a megastructure assembled in the Urcalis system, large enough to put millions of humans into stasis until a viable home could be found.
- June 2133
Arcturos celebrates
While the Ark work continued, the people of Arcturos held a Pride month festival. Hundreds of Prismatic Beacons were deployed into the atmosphere, celebrating individuality, colour, and dignity.
- 12th June 2133
Construction complete
The Exodus Ark was completed after weeks of coordinated production. Replicants supplied a thousand hab modules, 150 shield generators, 130 hydroponic bays, and hundreds of other components needed to create a vessel for humanity's survival.
1,700+ components printed 1,000,000+ resources mined - June 2133
Gravitational disturbances
Bill raced to Urcalis after reviewing the Ark's sensor logs - discovering gravitational anomalies near the construction zone. The readings resolved into six asteroids on course for the Ark. Replicants had diverted mining hazards before, but these were far larger than the usual rocks.
- June
The cheaper answer
Bill designed an impulse charge, hoping chain reactions could knock the asteroids away from the Ark. The replicants did the math and chose a different route: thousands of cheap propulsors, printed and slapped right on the incoming bodies.
The replicants generally hate explody stuff, so it was fortuitous that another solution could be found, and dammit, it worked!
- 19th June 2133
Ark confirmed safe
The last asteroid was pushed away from the Ark. Orbital tracking confirmed all six objects had been shifted onto decaying trajectories, leaving the megastructure intact.
Nobody knows where the asteroids came from, or why they appeared so close to the Ark. It may have been coincidence. It may not have been.
- 1st July 2133
The long voyage home
The Exodus Ark leaves Urcalis on an 18-year course for Earth, ready to collect millions of humans into the stasis pods, and the infrastructure Riker believes they will need to survive.
Season Two begins from the journey's end. The Ark has made it to Earth, and humanity's final hours draw near. Riker is watching the clock. Bill is looking to the stars. The next chapter awaits...