For those I left behind - the memoirs of Colonel Jason Myers

[Jansen]

In 802 AS the two sleeper ships appeared in the Omegas, soon being detected by the Zoners who were the only ones welcoming the newcomers. The houses close by had little trust in these strange outsiders and their story right after what is known to them as the nomad war. The people of Crayter were forced to scatter through the Sirius sector, trying to find jobs to survive within this unwelcoming sector. They were not welcome in most places, the only ones accepting them as equal humans were the guilds and groups living in the edges of the Sirius sector, especially the IMG, and the Zoners offered shelter to them, they also had been the ones calling them ‘Colonials’ a name the newcomers soon used for themselves.


Most of the Colonials were unable to adapt to the new circumstances, they were unable to let their traditions go, they were unable to fit into the societies of Sirius. The Colonial government signed a contract with Planetform, offering them their services as cheap escort and transport pilots in exchange for an inhabitable planet. Only 2 years later the Bretonian government released a number of laws preventing Colonials from working in Bretonia by popular demand. These laws made it impossible for the Colonials to fulfill their contract with Planetform, which then forced them to leave Bretonia in order to escape the judicial consequences of this breach of contract they could not even influence. The Colonial escape ended in a war, a war that lasted for many years at the cost of the lives of many brave soldiers on both sides. This war was only settled because, many years later, both sides agreed that the reason they so willingly wasted life over was not worth the bloodshed.


Most of the Colonials were forced to leave everything behind another time, this time they were venturing for the Tau Systems, were the IMG offered them shelter. Soon after their arrival the Tau 44 system was found and the Colonials took the chance to settle there, they had found a new home. They started to rebuild their nation yet another time, scrapping the sleeper ships in order to kick-start the young nations economy.

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