The last of the Exodus ships named Prometheus stands as a monument to the Alliance and human history in the capital city of New Paris, acting as a museum and historical database for the core worlds. It is only appropriate then, that Bernadette serves as the jumping off point for a majority of those that seek to colonize and settle other worlds. Still, not all is shiny beneath the surface, as an underground slaver trade has been in existence for some time, supplying bodies for the mining and building that goes with settling and terraforming.