#12 Back-story

[Steaker]

Some sort of introductory text should be presented to the user, perhaps after the splash screen and before the galaxy map appears, explaining the basic scenario
Something along the lines of
"
A terrible disaster wiped out planet earth (gradually and predictably....).
Colonisation task-forces were dispatched to continue humanity's story elsewhere in the galaxy
You find yourself woken from stasis as the commander of Task Force [name]
Establish a colony in this uncharted region of [a distant?] galaxy, and ensure that humanity continues to thrive with your guidance
See [link] for current development status/release notes
See [file etc] for instructions, key map, etc
"

[Astrometric]

This sounds awesome and quite immersive. Any work on a backstory whould have to wait for some of the game mechanics to mature a bit so that it doesn't have to be scrapped later on. Maybe around version 0.3.0 some backstory and game objetive can be given to the player. Right now it's more of a SimCity type sandbox game.