Three hundred years later, the Commonwealth is a distant memory, and a dark age has fallen over the known worlds. The first battle of the Nietzschean Rebellion ends up with the Andromeda evacuating its crew and trying a slingshot around a black hole to escape, freezing ship and captain in time. And just after fighting the Magog to a standstill and making a peace treaty with them, one of the Commonwealth's member races rebels, the fractious Nietzscheans, genetically engineered humans obsessed with eugenics and following the chilly philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. First a race of cannibalistic savages known as the Magog invaded by the billions, wiping out entire Commonwealth worlds. Though their technology was vast and their captains were noble and compassionate, they ran into a mess of problems all at once. The story opens aboard the titular starship, the Andromeda Ascendant, a "warship of the line" for the Systems Commonwealth, a government founded by a race of Sufficiently Advanced Aliens called the Vedrans, which kept the peace among their worlds spanning three galaxies-emphasis on the past-tense. The show lasted from October 2000 to May 2005. It is perhaps more accurately described as Star Trek in reverse. Some view Space Opera Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda as an unbranded Star Trek series.
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