(A/N) This chapter gives backstory into what's been happening to cause the Kerbals to do what they are. EDIT: I have done some updates cus of realism factors. Enjoy!
Kerbin isn't very large compared to our known planets. It'd be a little larger then our moon. The inhabitants of the planet, known as Kerbals, are not very skilled in space travel. However, they have great determination to try and improve their space program. After several years, the resources of the planet have started to run low. The population of the race is ever-growing and the population is getting to the point where Kerbin can no longer hold them. The Kerbal Space Center and world government realize this, and started work on a mass colonization program. They needed a new planet. A new home. Then they found it. 4 light-years away, they found a planet. That planet had conditions almost exactly the same as Kerbin, but with slightly more water and a little bigger. It would work. They named this new planet Anath. Which, when translated to English, means "Hope". After several decades of research, they finally built a fleet capable of going that distance with the entire Kerbal race. They named the flagship of the fleet the Echo. It used a new type of technology capable of warping the fabric of space-time around it, shortening the distance between two points in space. It required massive amounts of electrical charge to produce zero-point energy and exotic matter which they used to charge these "Space-time-drives". And thus began Project Echo...
(A/N) And there! Backstory! I shall upload chapter 1 later this week (hopefully).