A billionaire full of imagination, Elon Gales, has built four huge ships, called Dryads, and a thousand volunteers have embarked. leaving forever a Earth in full social and resources crisis, facing a very long interstellar journey to reach Arcadia, a planet distant five light years away.

A thousand years later, after enormous initial difficulties, colonization seems to have succeeded.

On Arcadia, wars are unknown and the economy is thriving. The Genetic-ID has made it possible to prevent dangerous inbreeding unions, resulting in a population of nearly sixty million with virtually no genetic anomalies.

Pilgrim, the planetary capital, is flourishing. A second continent of the five on the planet is in an advanced colonization phase and also its largest city, Mir, is expanding. Wellness begins to be widespread and society has successfully abandoned the collectivization phase to enjoy larger freedoms, also thanks to MUSA, the artificial intelligence the Dryads brought along, that helps the