Manual - Pandora: First Contact - Proxy Studios

at Pandora on New Year’s Eve 2107 (by the ship’s atomicclocks). While special relativity means that only 24 years seemto have passed on board the ships, 33 years have passed onEarth and the shipboard passengers could have only seen thefirst 19 years of that.Within hours, the ships are disgorging their colonization podstowards the surface of Pandora…FACTIONSGlobalization, the colonization of extraterrestrial bodies in oursolar system, and the successful construction of an Alcubierredrive in the first half of the 21st century resulted in a swiftdecay of Earth’s old world order.To stay relevant and stem the massive costs required to copewith global pollution and extraterrestrial engineering, mostexisting countries united in federations or merged with powerfulmega-corporations from the private sector.The resulting factions greatly differ in their ideologies and beliefson how human society should advance into an unknown future.DIVINE ASCENSION“God has finally shown us the path to a newparadise, so do not fear my brothers andsisters – for I am destined to be the shepherdleading you to salvation.”– Lady Lilith Vermillion, The Path to Salvation***19