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Project DARKSHOT was the first successful attempt to send humans across interstellar space to colonize the potentially-habitable system of TRAPPIST-1.
The technology and ship designs developed for Project DARKSHOT eventually led to the New Worlds Solar Endeavor.
Project DARKSHOT was concieved as a fleet of three generation ships capable of supporting 3000 colonists each, including their offspring and successors, over the course of the 100 years' journey to TRAPPIST-1.
These were:
The GS-1 Gotaland
The GS-2 Oslo
The GS-3 Murmansk
In the 2280s, scientists on Earth received a transmission from the DARKSHOT colonists indicating that they had successfully arrived in TRAPPIST-1. After that initial transmission, a few more scant reports came along until transmissions tapered off around the turn of the century. While the DARKSHOT colonists' radio silence was theorized as due to the decommissioning of their comms arrays for use in colonizing the system, the colonists of the New Worlds Solar Endeavor reported, in a transmission received in 2463 (est. date of transmission 2423) that they arrived in TRAPPIST-1 to find the DARKSHOT colonists missing without a trace. This turn of events has worried many, and led to many a theory about their disappearance - some plausible, and some quite absurd. Nonetheless, the disappearance of the Gotaland, Oslo, Murmansk, and their inhabitants remains to this day a mystery.