Timeframe and Scenario

We are in the 24th century. This places us somewhere between 2300 and 2399. Earth has become a space faring people and we have since discovered that we are not alone in the universe. We have established relations with several species and have been working together for many years.

We have discovered that the base structure of all alien life is hominoid. Though language is certainly different, our basic composition, chemistry and constituent makeup are the same.

This comes from a late 21st century discovery that all life in the universe evolved in a manner similar to the way it evolved on Earth.

The conditions required to make life as identical to our own have been discovered to be very common throughout the stars and that we all share the same basic requirements for life.

With a way to easily communicate established, Earth starts to venture out into the universe and colonise worlds far beyond what we once imagined possible. Our future was never to stay with Earth, but to go forth and prosper. Earth will always be our home, though to survive as a species, we needed to venture to other planets as Earth only has resources for so many!

Finding that we have similar backgrounds also suggests that we also share similar beliefs. Similar stories such as the bible have been found on every new world that we’ve ventured to, telling the story of "some people" or race who found faith in God and that God would one day deliver the faithful.

Religion took this principal and extended the version of creation to incorporate this, and have come up with the New Creation Theory. This theory supposedly describes why other hominids were discovered, and sums up everything pretty much within the same seven day creation cycle.

This allows religion to be shared by many different worlds and the numbers of people devoted to these "mass media" religions has grown into the trillions. Churches have once again become powerful entities just like they did on so many planets during the “dark ages”, and have built a mighty fleet of space craft to “assist” with their conversions.

As with any mass of people, there are always those who take things too literally. Religion is about finding that meaning for you. God states, “don’t just believe me, make it true for yourself” showing that you should take the words in the bible as a guide, and that you should make it true for your own situation and faith.