"Earth. The cradle of humanity…
The year is 2265, and great photon energy harvesting operations on Earth’s motherstar, Sol, has pushed the star over the edge, causing a premature entrance of the final phase of a stars life, the supernova stage.
However, humanity had to survive, no matter the cost.
The great war for power that raged over earth came to a standstill, and for the first time in two thousand years all of humanity stood united in peace in aid of the preservation of their race. Even the great world superpowers, The Anadarian Federation, The Enodolian PMC and the great and mysterious Regaliaa’n machine tribes, ended their vies. Humanity was united in peace, to save itself.
The three great powers, using their vast amounts of resource devised an escape, a second chance for the human race… Built in the belly of an enormous makeshift shipyard, which was created by the three powers combinng their orbital war factories, the pinnacle of human ingenuity, took over 200 years to complete.
The Great Trinity of the Arkships was the result.
The Arkships were the haven of humanity, built to house the entire population of Earth and keep 3000 years of scientific and engineering advances safe.
And so humanity departed the world which they had fought over for untold centuries.
They drifting among the stars, rejoicing in their escape from certain death, and the new peace that had been a result of it, and they searched, they searched endlessly for a new world to colonise, a new world to rebuild their broken, but united civilization, but to no avail. Space was not kind.
Inevitably, arguments broke out between the Great Trinity, which then grew into fights, which in time matured into the old hatred the three powers had for each other.
However, the Great Trinity of the Arkships were not built with fighting in mind, merely survival, The Arkships were weaponless, so all the Trinity could do was go their own seperate paths in the galaxy, searching on their own for a new world to call their own.
Over many generations, all knowledge of the other Powers, even of their Arkships, was lost.
The Anadarians were the first to find a suitable world, and they quickly seized the moment, changing the beautiful and natural alien world into a sprawling human metopolis in a matter of years.
The Enodolians were the second to colonise a world, however, unlike the Anadarians, they began to build a great fleet of explorer ships by utilising the knowledge of Old Earth contained on their Arkship.
The Regaliaa’n never settled on a planet, instead they chose to construct vast machanical galactic cities, hundreds of thousands of miles long each. The Regaliaa’n then chose to build an all manner of different constructs, from the first hyperdrive engines to long distance terraformation pods.
The year is 16173. And the great explorer fleets of the Enodolian encountered the Anadarians for the first time in untold thousands of years. Bringing ancient memories of war back to the surface.
However, the Arkships were of more interest than old memories.
Knowing the inconceivable amount of knowledge that would be contained on each others Arkship, the two factions quickly built up huge war fleets in an effort to seize the power of the Arkships.
The battle quickly spread across huge stretches of space, with thousands of deaths every minute in a massive effort on both sides to crumble the others defence. It was not long before the Regaliaa’ns, too, were caught in the crossfire.
It was not long after that, that the Regaliaa’ns joined in.
Over time, the exact reason for war was becoming irrelevant, all the factions knew was that they had to win, at all costs. After more time, the importance of the Arkships was forgotten, and they were sent into the fray as command ships, to co-ordinate the vast battles raging throughout space. However, without the old knowledge contained on the Arkships, the technological might of the three powers began to fade, becoming more and more crude with each day.
The year is 21459. And the great husks that were once the harbingers of humanity, float lifelessely at the centre of the galaxy.
Vast swathes of space have been terraformed to suit the vast mining needs of the human war, consuming nigh on half of the galaxy, leaving only lifeless husks of planets remaining.
Few remember the memory of the great Arkships, and what knowledge they would grant to their finders. Weapons? Fuel? Peace? Maybe the location of Old Earth itself.
Who knows?
For now, the war still rages on,"
Obviously, cuts would need to be made in order for the game to be in any way interesting, you could always start the story from a few months before the Anadarians and the Enodolians re-descovered each other and started blasting the poopie out of each other, kind of a “prelude to war” starting point.
Also, this may require the Ark mto be scaled up a bit, a lot.
And finally, this being an old mod storyline, I do actually still have a couple of ship models that could be used, as they are poly friendly, just lacking textures.
But yeah, its up to you 
