Reakktor Media has published the second part of its Genidia Project series on the Stellarvox Veritas Web site, which is a virtual news broadcast that's filling fans in on Black Prophecy lore. If you missed it, the first Genidia Project article can be found here.

Now that you're caught up, the second Genidia Project article is posted after the jump. According to the article, the project ran on 36 colony ships simultaneously, "its goal to exchange experiences and insights obtained in order to optimize agricultural results on the one hand and to provide equitable conditions for all emigrants on the other."

So many ships were sent out at the same time to avoid the possibility that a ship may end up orbiting the wrong planet or leave a member of the team stranded alone in space. Check out the full article for more details on the project's mission.

Imagine finally waking up above your future home world after 30 years in stasis, safe in the assumption that the colonists of the two dozen colony ships that had gone on ahead of you in the past six years pioneered diligently to provide you a safe and comfortable home. Then imagine casting a glance out of the cabin window only to realize that you’re either orbiting the wrong planet or nobody else is here except for you.

Your ship is the first to reach Sabiador after 113 trillion kilometers’ flight.  Maybe you are someone with an unshakeable belief and think to yourself: “Okay, shit happens. The two million colonists before me have maybe taken the wrong turn but the next ship is due to arrive in four months anyway. I am sure they will solve this problem.” – eventually to realize: “Nobody is coming after me.”

To eliminate such a contingency the Genidea-Project ran on all 36 colony ships simultaneously; its goal to exchange experiences and insights obtained in order to optimize agricultural results on the one hand and to provide equitable conditions for all emigrants on the other.

Despite the severest security arrangements it was still possible that only one of the 36 ships would actually reach its destination, though this was considered virtually impossible according to the Saltallo-Principles. In each of the transporters a complete deck level was reserved for numerous biospheres: the G-Deck, a conception of the supervisor corporation called “Genetic Inventions & Designs” - GenID for short, which was responsible for the organization and project implementation . If the project had been less elaborate each colony ship could have had space for an additional 6000 colonists and 500 crew members.

As botanists talk generally about seedlings, physicians about embryos and biologists about germ buds, the employees of GenID used the acronym “Genide” for their products, derived from their company’s name. It was a label commonly used on the colony ships for any form of biogenetically enhanced plant and farm animal crop. Today, many of those classifications, like cereal, fruit, vegetable, poultry or sweet and salt water Genides sound like bad verbal caricatures to us. The negative image of this term only developed shortly before the beginning of the first species war due to its reduction to one single hated life form; the Homo superior, bred under utmost secrecy.