Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda is a science fiction television
series, a posthumous creation of Gene Roddenberry. It
stars Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt. The
series premiered in the fall of 2000 and as of December
2004 was in its fifth and final season. At the start of
the series four galaxies are mostly part of the Systems
Commonwealth, based from Tarn-Vedra and is quite a utopian
society. However, one of the Commonwealth's member species,
the Nietzscheans, became disillusioned with the peace
with the Magog, and try to overthrow the Commonwealth.
In the first battle, Dylan Hunt is forced to evacuate
his crew, but his ship, the Andromeda Ascendant, gets
caught on the edge of a black hole's event horizon. Over
300 years later, a salvage crew (on the Eureka Maru) rescues
him. The Systems Commonwealth has fallen, leading to a
dark age known as The Long Night. Hunt recruits the salvage
crew to join him in an attempt to restore the Systems
Commonwealth and "rekindle the light of civilization".
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