Sometime around the beginning of the Cold War, The United States government became concerned with the threat of nuclear annihilation. After the birth of the Doomsday Clock the government developed the Ann Arbor Project. The project's mission was to setup a space station or "ark" that would harbor a select few to help repopulate the world in the event of nuclear annihilation. In 1948 the project was scrapped due to a lack of funding and a lack of evidence that such an ambitious plan was possible. A year later in 1949 the AAP saw it's revival when a number of the scientists, engineers and other private funders formed the Trillium Corporation. With the help of NASA construction began along the course of multiple unmanned trips to the moon. Completed in the fall of '61, the project sprang into action during the Cuban Missile Crissis making it, not Salyut 1, the first space station. As time passed the government lost interest in their contingency plan. In 1991 the project was disavowed due to the Soviet dissolution. Without assistance from the US Government & NASA the "Ark" began to decay. Without a way to transport the inhabitants back to earth, it was then that the Trillium corporation decided to jettison portions of the space station & setup smaller more easily maintained installations. Food shortages, illnesses and equipment failures plagued the process. Not all of these installations survived...but these are the transmissions of the inhabitants of Installation A17, group delta, The Vanilla Varsity All-Stars.
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