MALICKSPENCE'S PROFILE

Okay, so I've been racking my brain for a few days now and I think that I've finally come up with a basic ideas for my next. Still unsure about what maker I will use as well.. Always open for suggestions...

Basic idea:
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At the beginning of the 22nd Century, mankind's excessive draining of natural resources began to cause a series of catastrophic events(undecided) which annihilated almost all of civilisation. Those who remained set their sights to the sky, and "Hope's Dawn" and organisation devoted to the construction of "The Ark" a life sustaining space station.

The Ark was completed 20 years later. Humanity could now leave behind it's home world Earth which had become desolate and find a new world and start anew.
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I was thinking maybe the game could take place maybe a decade later, but then I thought that maybe a more significant amount of time would be better, considering that I'm wanting deep space travel to play a major part of the game's story...anyway. The game's focus will be the party traveling through space in search of a planet similar to Earth in size and atmosphere. Of course there are obstacles which get in their way and they have to find a way to overcome them etc etc but still unsure whether or not I want to include intelligent life.

Anyway any opinions or helpful ideas?