Preparation for this mission started in 2036, after the mysterious rock structure was discovered by the crew of the first manned mission to Mars.

With over a thousand qualified candidates, the crew was carefully selected by the newly-formed International Space Alliance (I.S.A.).

Before these fifty individuals entered the spacecraft that would take them on their nine-month journey to Mars, they worked together on Earth for many years preparing and working together to become one team, the Colony One Crew. The very first people to live on Mars.