OOC: I've got everything but the name down here is the setting. Warning may wall of text.
2356 AD
Humanity is sprawled across its Solar System and is governed by (Unnamed) Corporations fund colonisation projects and use the resources to further R and D of Cybernetics to ease space exploration. (Unamed) tries to curb the advances with sanctions but the corportations simply take to space, where laws mean nothing. Little is seen of the newly formed Conglomerant aside from the midnight hulls of their ships and their goods on the market. (Unnamed) Takes to space in a fleet of its own, to enforce law and government upon the far stretching human colonies where lawlessness has become the norm. The conglomerant sells to all and the (Unnammed) Attempts to stop the undermining of its authority and an armistice is agreed. The conglomerant will become a merchant fleet, a nation unto itself but must answer and operate under the boundaries set by the unnamed. The days of the fleets have begun.
2487 AD
A mysterious shuttle lands upon earth and a robed figure exits. It lays claim to earth and warns of the coming of its kind, who rightly own the galaxy. Technology doesn't work and humanity flees for its life from the Old. The (Unnamed) seeks to establish a new human government among the stars and leaves first, becoming the largest fleet as numerous ships are constructed to carry the fleeing humans. The Old however are not hostile and simply gave the humans the chance to settle in another area of space. The Conglomerant leaves after the unamed and plies field tests its new Phase Technology which ends in disaster as the numerous Hab ships and other members of the fleet appear within a Red Giant. The radiation nullifies their ability to breed and they become intesly focused on cybernetics to expand their lifetime, all the while conquering any far flung humans or alien species who were not profitable to trade with. This includes many primitive species. A large number of humans remain on earth however, believing the old to be the gods of all mythologies combined and they listen to the Old with religious intent. They became the last and smallest fleet, also the most mysterious that drifts the Void in crystalline ships that spread the word of the Old. Relations between the fleets are rare too find but they stay in communication
2800- onwards (Setting)
The fleets have been drifting for centuries and relations have become strained over distance. They fight for domination of the millions of colonies that they each have a claim to while the colonists themselves have to scrape by, caring little for the fleets. It is here your story is set. What do you care of these events? The fleets are distant while the troubles of home are close. There is word from origin 001 of movement by the Old and that occupies the minds of many but at the end of the day people just try to make as much Ooze as they can, to either by their way onto one of the fleets or crawl into a bottle for the rest of their life. Humanity is fractured, aliens are subjigated and might makes right in a galaxy that is cold and unforgiving so you have to colder and less forgiving.
knife-28 i was just thinking out loud but if the orks did that then you would have an orkish horde in both the present and future. Not good for the masses