Ariadna is made up of the
descendents of the first
human colonizing ship that
disappeared into a worm-hole
and was given up for lost.
Isolated on a remote and
hostile planet, the Ariadnes –
Cossacks, Americans, Scots
and Frenchmen – have
evolved into a hard and
technologically less advanced
race, which has just made
contact with the Human
Sphere and is trying to carve
out a niche for itself without
falling under the control of
the other powers.