What is the Sundala Starzone?

A Matryoshka Formation

Where is the Starzone located?

1.5 Kiloparsecs below the galactic elliptical, roughly below the Orion Spur in a gaseous tendril of of the Perseus Arm. While mostly enclosed in cold dark nebula a few of the systems were open to observation in a freak gravitational lensing event witnessed by Aadrika Sundala, a deep space astronomer stationed near Pluto. Using various techniques she and her team determined the cluster of systems held an unusual number of worlds displaying signs of habitable atmospheres and liquid water. Her discovery would sit off to the side as a curiosity for nearly half a century.

What happened to earth?

“Polluted and scoured for a start, it was still viable for some agriculture and of course dealing with billions of us. Then came the final war, nukes and kinetic bombardment, first burned to embers and then dropped into the deep freeze of an impact nuclear winter. They still managed to evacuate some, their stories preserved for the record. But our pale blue dot is more or less useless for at least the next several thousand years.”

- An unnamed survivor of the Solar System

What is the method of FTL?

The Light Gate

The Fold Drive