100 years ago, a satellite detected an object under the sands of the Great Desert.
An expedition was sent.
An ancient starship, buried in the sand.
Deep inside the ruin was a single stone that would change the course of our history forever.
On the stone was etched a galactic map
and a single word more ancient than the clans themselves:
Hiigara.
Our home.
The clans were united and a massive colony ship was designed.
Construction would take 60 years.
It would demand new technologies, new industries and new sacrifices.
The greatest of these was made by the scientist Karan Sjet who had herself permanently integrated into the colony ship as its living core.
She is now Fleet Command.
The promise of the Guidestone united the entire population.
Every mind became focused on the true origin of our people …
… every effort on the construction of the ship that would seek it out among the stars.
It’s been ten years since Karan led us from our desert planet to Hiigara. Ten years of that journey, sweet and bittersweet. The pilots that flew for their people, our people, above the darkened skies of Kharak ablaze, though deep space of the Great Wastelands and Diamond Shoals, through the bloody Garden of Kadesh, through the emptiness of the Sea of Lost Souls and Karos Graveyard. To Chapel Perilous, and the final steps above the blue and green fertile planet that is our home.
Ten years, and it’s time to return to that journey, to relive the path across a galaxy traced by an exiled people on their way home.
Home, to Hiigara.
