Designed for the Project Hyperion design competition, Neo-Genesis Seed is a carefully considered framework for distilling humanity into a portable unit that can be sent to another star system. While arriving safely at the destination with a high degree of certainty is the goal, the hallmark of Neo-Genesis Seed is to do so while retaining and promoting the best of humanity, including the best of how humanity can expect to live while in space, completely separated from Earth. Most of the people who will occupy this vessel will live their entire lives onboard and they deserve a life of dignity and prosperity. Neo-Genesis Seed is not a vehicle, and the voyage is not a mission; it is a home, a cradle, an artifact that will facilitate the genesis of a new branch of humanity and will be referenced in this new civilization’s origin story. If this interstellar endeavor is worth doing, it’s most certainly worth doing well.

Please see our project lead’s, Elliott Ruzicka, website with more information!