The Ark

The Ark is the original colony ship which made landfall, going into orbit around Vigrith, over 110 million years prior to the current era. The ship did not contain any live humans: Instead on arrival humans were grown, tended and raised by the ship's automated systems and educated up to a level where they could perform maintenance tasks and decision making.

At the time the Ark arrived, Vigrith was not in a habitable state, having no native life but sporting water, helium and oxygen. To prepare the planet for habitation, the Ark's new crew seeded the planet with the bacterial species to make a rudimentary ecosystem and terraform the planet. Over the following 110 million years, new crew were synthesized at regular intervals of a few hundred thousand years to check on the planet's progress and to introduce or cull various species. The subjective time of the involved crew did not exceed their lifespans aboard the ship. When the planet was ready for habitation, the first settlement was established at the north pole, which later developed into Asgarth.