🌌 Welcome to Aetheris, Pioneer… 🌌

Earth was dying. Overcrowded cities groaned under the strain of billions, its oceans rose and swallowed the coasts, and its soil, stripped of life, yielded nothing but dust. Humanity was on the brink of collapse. In the planet’s darkest hour, a mysterious organization emerged—SOLACE. With technology far beyond anything known, it offered hope where there was none.

SOLACE launched Project GAIA, a bold plan to save humanity. Vast colony ships, each tied to a unique AI, were dispatched to habitable planets across the stars. One of these missions was Project GAIA-09, led by the advanced AI known as OMNIA, bound for the resource-rich planet of Aetheris. But the journey didn’t go as planned.

The colony ship Hyperion crashed into Aetheris long ago, its remains scattered across the planet. You awaken in the ship’s cryo vaults, one of the few sections still intact. Around you, faint traces of power hum through the wreckage, but much of the Hyperion is lost—its cockpit, its systems, and OMNIA itself. No one knows where the AI is now. Perhaps it was destroyed in the crash… or perhaps it still lies dormant, hidden, waiting.

Since the crash, survivors and their descendants have built sprawling cities, factories, and industries, transforming Aetheris into a thriving but scarred world. The original mission to save Earth has been all but forgotten, buried beneath layers of progress and ambition. But the past refuses to be silenced. The wreckage of the Hyperion holds secrets yet to be uncovered. Strange artifacts, cryptic structures, and whispers of a larger story linger across the planet, waiting for those bold enough to seek them.

Pioneer, your journey begins now. Scattered across Aetheris are fragments of history—pieces of a puzzle that could reveal the truth behind Project GAIA-09, SOLACE, and humanity’s future. Will you uncover the mysteries hidden in the shadows, or will you lose yourself in the relentless march of industry?

The past is waiting, Pioneer. Wake up, and find it.