After the intergalactic council, decided that humans were developed enough, to be interacted with they let themselves be known, and offered humanity technology and humanity agreed, and as a way of understanding eachother, select humans will be sent to a space planet, to attend the intergalactic school, as to better understand more on the aliens, and for the aliens to better understand them, now lincoln and many of the people he knows must be earth's first, space faring school students.
Its 2017, scientists from the USA have noticed that an object foreign to anything they have ever seen is hurtling towards earth. It is estimated that earth has 2 and a half year to prepare themselves. So the USA gathers four fourteen year old kids from five different countries and sends them into outer space. The mission, to find a planet that can be the new birth place for humanity.