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Museum of Departures

The Museum of Departures preserves the history of human migration from Earth and the establishment of Terran Reach.

Spoilers for Before the Fire.

Visitors in a dim museum hall stand before a reproduction spacecraft cockpit on a lit platform, beneath a huge suspended image of a heavy, angular dark ship and its escorts above a planet.
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The Museum of Departures preserves the history of human migration from Earth and the establishment of Terran Reach. Its exhibits are not merely technical displays; they are part of how generations of colonists understand their families, their fears, and the decision to leave an established world behind.

The museum also houses a recreation of the Wayfarer cockpit and material relating to the first encounter with unidentified spacecraft. The recorded contact signals and the silhouettes of the unfamiliar vessels became an enduring part of local education and public consciousness. In the years before the opening battle, the museum served as a bridge between remembered migration and a new fear of the unknown.