In the year 3954 the globe descended into war and violence from growing stress and political corruption of the world's nations. The UN was disbanded and NATO followed shortly after. At the end of the war in 3994 the United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom and most of the countries surrounding those countries fell with those global superpowers leaving them as wastelands with the surviving nations of Canada, Japan, Australia, Egypt, Brazil and the smaller countries of europe and asia were all that remained. By the 4000's the world started to expand to earth's moon Luna the other planets and their moons in the Solar System and started the seed ship program and started Earth's march forward in the field of technology, medicine and exploration without the pressure of the old ruling powers of the world the slow it for profit. In 4101 the first seed ship was launched from the Luna shipyard in the Oceanus Procellarum to colonise Alpha Centauri with each new seed Ship being sent further than the last. In the words of the late Stephen Hawking "There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet", unfortunately there are far more that can befall those in the void between them.