Kingdom of Alba
Background
The End was chaos; despite the leaps and bounds that global technology humans had made by 2062, there just simply wasn't enough ships available to save all of humanity, or even a significant portion of it. As national governments tried to stem the tide, privately-funded 'survival' companies began to work on their own plans to save as many people as they could. Each plan was similar, but different: build and board a space vessel bound for wild, untamed lands in the only frontier known left to us. Space. It was one such company, the Alban Corporation, that brings us this story. Led by Sir Douglas Fraser of Edinburgh, a great effort was made to assemble a small flotilla of ships and evacuate as many people as they possibly could. Unlike some of the more ruthless corporations, who saw nothing but profit even in the darkest hours humanity had yet seen, Sir Fraser was a more long-term thinker. He knew well that money wouldn't matter when the end truly came, and Earth was so overheated from its' own atmosphere that it couldn't support life at all.
The Alban Corporation, even with limited resources, took as many people as they could. Those that could afford a fee paid it; the larger the fee, the greater the grant of land they would receive at the end of their journey. These resources were used to expand the program further, building more ships to take more people. On 5 September 2062 CE, Launch Day, twenty ships with 50,000 colonists each departed from Earth to never see it again.
The journey wasn't easy, however. Ships got lost or damaged, or suffered catastrophic engineering failure. In the Migration's 65-year sublight journey, half of the colony ships were completely lost, and things looked grim. Until then-Captain William Fraser made a fantastic discovery.
It wasn't the first system that the refugees has found; there had been others much less suitable. Systems filled with barren rocks, that had poisonous atmospheres (if they had one at all), and systems with just a lonely star, and no other bodies. This new system, dubbed Cernunnos by the Captain and his senior officers, was promising. Archaic probes showed a 10-system planet, with a massive habitable third planet. This third planet, named Danu by the senior officers, showed signs of promise, despite it's mountainous shape. Verdant trees grew across them, save for snow-capped peaks, with a near-perfect mix of nitrogen and oxygen atmosphere to be perfect for human life. Orders were given, and the ten remaining colony ships landed on the surface.
The year now is 1100 PL (Post Landing. ) Following a vicious civil war, the royal house of Fraser still sits the throne in Sterling. The previous king, King Brian IV, was assassinated and his 22-year-old son Alexander II now faces the daunting task of leading the 350 million Albans to a prosperous future.
Author's Notes
This is going to be a slightly scuffed AAR. I've always loved reading them on the forums, but I've never commented or posted anything here before. This is my first AAR, and my first post. Unfortunately, I don't have enough posts do add images and I didn't want to spam post to meet the requirement. Also, I am
not good or experienced with Aurora. There's going to likely be a lot of bad takes, decision, and some very poorly optimized design.