Argo

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The Argo was a supercarrier launched from Earth. Its crew would found the colony of Moria.

[edit] History

In the aftermath of Project Purification, a brilliant young scientist named Doran Routhe made plans to consolidate his power within the United Powers League by creating a colonization project to collect minerals and other resources from outside the solar system. It was very risky, but he had no problem with sending political prisoner lab rats to their potential deaths. Fifty six thousand prisoners were (secretly) prepared for transport, and of these, forty thousand were loaded into four sleeper-ships. The Argo was one such ship, following the Nagglfar alongside the Sarengo and Reagan on an intended one year journey to Gantris VI.

However, the guidance system failed, and the ships traveled through warp space for twenty-eight years, traveling 60,000 light years from Earth. Eventually the warp engines failed, and the ships emerged within the Koprulu Sector in a star system which contained a myriad of barren, if habitable, planets. This event would become known as the Long Sleep. The four supercarriers engaged their emergency protocols and plummeted towards the nearest habitable worlds.

The Argo landed on the world that would be named Moria. Once the ship landed, the cryogenic hibernation chambers were deactivated, the surviving passengers slowly awakening. However, all knowledge of their journey had been erased from their ship's navigation systems. As such, they began settling their new world.

[edit] Trivia

The Argo is likely named after the ship of the same name from Greek mythology-the vessel which bore Jason and the Argonauts from Iolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece.

[edit] References

Underwood, Peter, Bill Roper, Chris Metzen and Jeffrey Vaughn. StarCraft (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.