What is Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda?
The Glorious Commonwealth More than 3000 years ago, aliens from a planet called Tarn Vedra in the Andromeda galaxy invented a way to travel across the stars almost instantaneously. They called it Slipstream, and they used it to build a vast commonwealth of planets across six galaxies. When Earth was ready, we were welcomed into it. It was a vast, diverse group of cultures working together in peace, striving to spread civilization across the Universe. Unfortunately, some factions came to disagree with the Commonwealth’s methods. The Fall The Nietzscheans – a group of genetically engineered humans who follow a strict interpretation of Nietzsche – felt that the Commonwealth was weak because it made treaties with its greatest enemies – the Magog. So they formed a rebellion and attacked the Commonwealth of which they were a part. The result was a civil war that plunged the Universe into a new Dark Age. One of the first casualties of that war was a Glorious Heritage Class starship called the
