Outbound Flight

The Outbound Flight was a plan conceived of by the Antediluvians to escape from A.T.H.E.N.A. after the murder of the Antediluvian Judgment. They planned to flee from Earth in great starships to find a new home on some Earthlike planet somewhere else, citing the previous flight of the Andorians. The hastily-arranged plan was spearheaded by Aeon and was originally meant to carry just the Antediluvians safely, but after the plan was leaked, many other major and minor powers began building their own ships to escape from A.T.H.E.N.A.
It was the Phoenix who pushed to bring select humans along with them. The selection criteria was arcane at best, and each ship selected its own passengers. Thus people from all walks of life and representing almost all the major powers, many with human+ abilities, many without, wound up taking part in preparing for the Outbound Flight.
Aeon eventually relented and agreed that there was safety in numbers, and if they were to journey out to the stars in search of a new home, they would do so as a fleet. All their meddling and differences would be set aside while they worked together to survive. All the ships would have their controls slaved to Aeon's flagship, where he and the other immortal Antediluvians could weather the rigors of a long journey through space and direct the rest of the fleet.
The Outbound Flight launched in 4319. An unknown number of people left Earth and became Travelers. They were largely kept in suspended animation, preserving them as the Outbound Flight traveled at relativistic speeds out of the solar system in search of a new home.
It is impossible to measure how long the Outbound Flight took, or know precisely what happened. What is known is that their fleet found no apparent refuge in nearby star systems, so they eventually returned to Earth, assuming that A.T.H.E.N.A. may no longer have been a threat. Their ships had begun to suffer from decades or possibly even centuries of travel at relativistic speeds, and the fleet limped back towards Earth. While they left in search of a new home, their long flight at such high speeds actually took them backwards thousands of years into the past, and they began arriving at the dawn of the 20th Century (with the first recorded crash in the Tunguska Event). The uncertainties of this unintentional time travel would leave the Travelers crashing back to Earth unexpectedly over the next hundred years, forced to find a new home in what for them was the distant past.
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