The Interstellar Travel was probably the last classical dream of humanity to be realised - after flight, artificial intelligence and clinical immortality. This ambitious project was formally undertaken by the ESP Center, but most of its technical aspects were managed by the Marsec Corporation, an autonomous company. ESP Center was adamant that the first berings in another solar system were to be humans, not AI, therefore Marsec decided to go back to the classical suspended animation techniques to preserve the bodies of the crew during their five year journey to Alpha Centauri and back. The project was a huge success, bringing images and scientific date of the star system, including a barely habitable planet with its own biosphere. This planet would later be known as Chiron.