Eons ago the Orion's rule prevailed over our galaxy. Their benign rule and advanced technology helped them to administrate their will peaceful and without opposite. However their unviolent demeanour would be put to the test when they eventually came across a technology as advanced as their own whose origins would remain unknown. The Antaran Imperal ships swept through outerlying Orion territory quickly and ruthlessly leaving behind only scorched worlds.
The Orions fought back. Their attentions turned from advanced irrigation and warp field theories to weapons of mass destruction.. and eventually the genetic creation of a race that would fight their battles for them. A horrible war was waged that culminated in a last ditch Antaran assault against the Orion homeworld.
What happened during that assault? That was lost to the ages, along with the actual location of the Orion homeworld. The worlds on which the Orions ruled fell into anarchy and disarray as the natives had little or no clue how to operate the technologies left to them. Millennia passed and the Orion Civilization and the Antaran Civilization become nothing more than myth.
The galaxy is now a different place. Centuries of different Empires rising and falling has left it's toll on the Milkyway's landscape, and now in the aftermath of the most recent of conflicts; the Succession War, we follow a young starship Captain in the fleet of Terra, who will very shortly become very important to the survival of not just his own race, but all those who claim to be: CHILDREN OF ORION.