Emigrant Star

Emigrant Star is a single player strategic board-game-like computer game that embraces a turn-based science fiction theme.

Set in the distant future, Earth's solar system is scarred by war and tyranny. People yearn for a brighter future and choose to emigrate to far-flung star systems where they can cultivate a better life away from Earth.

However, interstellar travel takes millennia. To overcome this barrier, human emigrants digitize their minds and personal memories, while their DNA is stored for transport as data. Upon reaching new solar systems, automated systems on the colony ships initiate the terraforming process and begin preparing planets for habitation. As resources become available over time, people are re-cloned from their original data.

Re-cloned emigrants are equipped with a body and a ship but are also burdened with substantial debt. They are obligated to earn money to repay this debt. As a means of securing payment, their personal memories are held hostage. Consequently, they do not remember who they are or why they embarked on this journey to a new world until they have the means to reclaim their memories.