..... A new dawn has sprang up all over Earth. Earth has finally recovered from the unification wars. Now, most of the governments have come together in New United Nations. It was a brillant move created by then super diplomat Thomas Serak, who later became its first President...
... Thomas Serak was looking over his status reports after spending almost a year creating the government. A lot had happened over the last year. Earth now had three ships, a Space Miner called the Free Enterprise, a new Colony ship, and The state of the art survey cruiser. Ironically, the chief scientist, Archer, had made some major breakthroughs when he designed the ship but has recently just passed away.
... The death of Dr. Archer was a major blow, but the "scientist" who assisted him was very jealous and deleted as much info on the new Survey Cruiser Uss Bonaventure as he could. The ass't "scientist is under charge of treason and could face the death penalty (and his name isn't used in polite society.)
... The Bonaventure is captained by Dr. Archers son Jonathan.