Alpha

The **Alpha** program was a space program begun by the IERA, named after the Alpha Centauri system which it was based around. It was the first program with the mission of settling in another star system. It's main aim was to explore, colonise, and terraform Alpha Centauri and turn it into a major base for future space programs.

## Alpha 1

The first craft in the program, it was launched on the 5th of October 2344 and arrived on the 7th of April 2345. It sent supplies and a team of colonisers to Proxima Centauri b with the aim being to build a temporary settlement to allow easier construction of the actual city. The temporary settlement was quickly constructed and the team, save a few researchers, returned to Earth to aid with the second mission.

## Alpha 2

After the IERA got word of the successful landing of Alpha 1, they quickly began construction of Alpha 2. Near the end of the project, the team from Alpha 1 returned and aided in the completion of the ship ahead of schedule, allowing it to be launched on the 19th of July 2345, 2 months earlier than the initial date of the 23rd of September. Alpha 2 was an ongoing mission between Earth and the settlement on Proxima Centauri b, with people and supplies being brought to and from the colony to prepare for the construction of the city.

## Alpha 3

During the period where Alpha 2 was ongoing, a new project in the program was begun. Alpha 3 was set to land on Proxima Centauri d with five Astronauts [WIP], two of which got out and quickly explored the planet before returning to the ship and then Earth. The mission was extremely brief and would only serve to catalogue the planet for Alpha 5, which would be launched from the new city in Proxima Centauri b and allow much easier access to Proxima Centauri d. Alpha 3 launched on the 2nd of December 2347 and returned to Earth on the 31st of July 2348.

## Alpha 4

Alpha 4 was launched on the 25th of January 2353 after hefty preparations by the Alpha 2, and later (after they returned in 2348), Alpha 3 teams. It was to be the final ship in the Proxima Centauri b part of the program until the planet was ready to be terraformed. It held all of the important supplies and manpower to begin a permanent colony fit with artificial air and gravity to match that of Earth. It went to and from the settlement a few times to send the entire cargo of supplies, and remained on Proxima Centauri b until the colony was complete and turned into a real city called Auger, named after Gus Auger of the Hathor Program.

## Alpha 5

After Auger was constructed and a ship-port was built, scientists and engineers began the construction of another ship for Proxima Centauri d. Alpha 5 was launched on the 5th of November 2364, a whole 11 years since the last ship in the program. It was equipped with a team of colonisers and supplies for the beginning of a temporary settlement, it was accompanied by Alpha 5-1, a smaller ship with a proper team of researchers and other astronauts who would survey Proxima Centauri d and prepare it for colonisation.

### Alpha 5-1

Alpha 5-1 was a smaller ship that would accompany Alpha 5 on the mission to Proxima Centauri d. Whilst Alpha 5 held the necessary supplies and manpower for an actual colony, the purpose of Alpha 5-1 was to bring researchers who would survey the planet for scientific purposes and to prepare it for colonisation.