Stellaris review: Etch your stories across the stars in Paradox's latest grand strategy game

In the year 2206, humanity left Earth. At least, some humans did. A selection of our civilization's best and brightest piled into a great big colony ship bound for the stars--for the brightest star system in Earth's sky, Sirius. A mere 8.6 light years from Earth, it was essentially like visiting an estranged neighbor. And yet it was a momentous occasion for the self-styled United Federation of Planets, now a burgeoning empire of two worlds.