The clock has struck one minute past midnight, and a world among the sea of stars begins to take shape.

Setting out amidst the first diaspora of Earth, a bevy of people from the Indian, Spanish, and Turkish cultures begins their trek through the void, backed by two corporations. One is focused on machinery and automation, and the other is a collective of workers seeking to terraform their new world to their designs.

And all five have arrived, though without some being lost to missjumps, around Ganeshaeshwaram, their new star, around which orbits Lakshmibasti, their new home.

Having begun to create their first city, Naya Ghar (नया घर), upon the terrestrial planet's surface, the settlers are suddenly thrown into disarray as the Demarcation Declaration cuts them off, and they are left to entirely fend for themselves.

Yet, under their First President, Ashia Gupta, the newly minted Authoritarian Democracy begins its first steps in its new autonomy, for good and ill...