Creation Myth

The best [colonization] proposals I see are the ones that have a good binding metaphor. The metaphor provides a good story that can help to pull an early Colony together and… can help a fledgling Colony through the possibly tough early years.
–Senator R. Buckley, Joint Colonization Committee, Terran Government, Early Colonial Era

The Starship Ymir was built and designed by the Star Colonization Corporation on behalf of the ReNorse Consortium. One of several early colonial groups, the ReNorse Consortium chartered a region of space they labeled Ginnungagap.

StarCol was well know for its solid engineering work, and many of its early colonization ships survived well after their original use. For those interested, many of StarCol’s ship designs and several of the original ships can be viewed at the Museum of Humanity’s StarCol Expanse.

Ymir has particular interest because it did not survive far beyond its initial voyage to Ginnungagap. The rights to its design were also bought on an exclusivity contract by ReNorse and so were held only in a secure sector of StarCol’s vaults that was apparently lost at some point in StarCol’s takeover by the Terran Transportation Corporation.

What little survives of the Ymir design has been construed from the mythology and historical texts of the colony from the Ginnungagap dating to before the first Ragnarok event. Due to the very nature of the records most historians are skeptical as to the validity of any claims that may be distilled from them. For more on this longstanding debate you could turn to the Library of Humanity’s extensive collection of articles on the Validity and Susceptibility to Tampering of Mind Vaults.

Ymir was apparently one of the more ...