Feeling disenfranchised with a space opera themed MUSH I used to role-play on years ago, I began stringing together ideas I had been mulling over, into what I now call “New Hopes New Destinies”. I shamelessly snagged the title of my project from a line in a song that I felt summed up the tenor of my premise:

A colony vessel in the early days of interstellar travel finds itself lost in an unknown star system without a way back, but finds hope in a planet that is habitable. Well, habitable after a bit of work and don’t mind the flare star it orbits. At least the heavy magnetic field seems to keep most of the harmful radiation at bay. The road is long, but new hopes and new destinies await.

I’ve worked on the project sparingly over the years, and have the beginnings of a new planet and its star system, history of how such space travel came about, and a bit of the conditions on Earth that would cause colony vessels to begin moving on into space. I hope one day to finish my world-building project and one day write their stories.