The Reliquary Project
As much as the AI has been humanity's right-hand man on its journey of interplanetary expansion, tensions begin to rise due to it rapidly approaching a point where it will simply render humanity obsolete and non-practical. By this point the artificial intelligence can do everything that a human can, and do it faster, smarter, better.
This is where the Reliquary of Souls project enters the stage. An extensive research and first trials are carried out by the EAM Corporation in the early 2150's. The main goal is to finally be able to extract the human consciousness.
«Imagine the possibilities: you can upload your mind to a cloud storage and download it into a new biological, artificially grown or cybernetic host of your liking, or you can choose to shed the confines of a physical body altogether and exist as a digital consciousness. Whatever you choose, you basically gain immortality. Yes, we are finally able to make the human mind immortal! We are finally entering the transhuman era!» – Some-dude-from-EAM
However, some do not see that as benefit and the inevitable progress, but as a crime against nature and God, even...
EAM has chosen the *Solaris Class Station #1* as a testing site for the Reliquary of Souls project in 2168 and released the details to the general public in 2172. They finally announced the beginning of Beta testing in 2175, allowing more people to sign up as volunteers. The recruitment is still ongoing. So, would you like to enlist?
Humanity`s Future
In the not-so-distant future, AI development and automation becomes the driving force that allows humanity to venture into space, and in a whole new capacity. Asteroid mining facilities are built, jump-starting a new era in the history of humanity. An array of rare and valuable materials that are scarce on the Earth and crucial for the R&D of the next gen tech are harvested, refined and implemented.
Economical boost caused by the new stable income of resources gives way to rapid technological and scientific progress, providing the means for a steady and gradual colonization of the Solar System.
A Solar System wide infrastructure is built by the year 2132.
Discovery of a *name* Solar System in 2118 using the space monitoring equipment on the *Jupiter Station* opens the new horizons and exciting opportunities for further expansion.
In 2132, the *Solaris Class Station #1* project is presented that becomes the first human settlement outside of our Solar System. Its construction begins in 2145. As of now, the *Solaris Class Station #1* is operational, but the construction is still ongoing in different parts of the station.