Colonizing Postantera

The history behind our decision to colonize Postantera and even leave Earth in the first place is quite interesting. Earth had become overpopulated with both types of humans discussed in prior issues of WBM, Homo sapiens aeternum and Homo sapiens sapiens, the former being biologically immortal due to complications of chemical warfare in the 21st century, and the latter being confined to a few isolated islands first out of necessity and then out of force. The two different species did not entirely get along throughout their coexistence, mostly with aeternums committing unspeakable horrors towards those deemed the “lesser.”
With the United States of the World at the height of its solar-system wide power (it was rebranded as United Humanity following Humanity Day during the 51st century), many turned to the stars to expand the future of the human races.The Mass Exodus (ME) started in the height of the 52nd century. Many religious texts pointed to the eventual death of humanity if they did not leave their cradle of civilization of the solar system. Religious supporters pushed public support of the ME through fear mongering and the idea of galactic manifest destiny, until enough people bought into it and a starfleet started to be built for colonization of other stars. Several hundred ships were built, including the Exodus and Genesis classes of generation ships that would harbor up to a million people each.
Of the thousands of ships created, only two served the Homo sapiens sapiens, as they had dwindled in numbers due to hardships. One of those ships was the SFFS Provenance headed to Postantera, a planet in a red dwarf system on another arm of the Milky Way. Postantera was found capable of supporting life with a 99.9% certainty, so the aeternum government sent the Provenance there as a safe harbor for the Homo sapiens sapiens, away from aeternum settlements. The other ship reserved for Homo sapiens sapiens left in the other direction around the same time the Provenance left Earth, only to be never heard from again.
The SFFS Provenance’s journey to Postantera was a long and arduous one, with tensions onboard almost leading to mutinies at several times during the trip. The only thing stopping the ship from destroying itself were the 21 aeternum pilots that had sworn an oath to get to Postantera at all costs.
Having immortal leadership onboard saved millions of hours retraining captains and officers that would die anyways. This aeternums were promised to be the leaders of the new civilization on the planet, and many of them could not wait to leave their mark on galactic history. With the crash of the ship on the highest mountain range of the planet, the aeternums splintered and fought a massive civil war in the paradise they spent thousands of years waiting to arrive at. With aeternum blood spilled on the Postanti soil for the first time, nothing would be the same.