Encyclopaedia Galactica 15th Edition: New and Revised New Hope is the third and only inhabited planet of a class M system. The sentients are modified humans, descendants of settlers sent out from Earth-Sol on generation ships (q.v.) as part of a Colonisation Wave (q.v.). Records on Earth of communications received from the generation ship upon first arrival at New Hope indicate that the ship officers greatly disapproved of terraforming and proposed the radical adaptation of humans to the planet. If successful, the New Hopers will have spent the past century further refining a biological...