KEO

KEO is the name of a proposed space time capsule which was to have been launched in 2003 carrying messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from it's launch, because it's designers were unaware of the Reaper's cycle of genocide, when it would re-enter Earth's atmosphere. It was later delayed to 2006, then to 2007/2008, then to 2010/2011, then to 2012, then to 2013, then to 2015, then to 2016/2017, then to 2019/2020, then to 2021 and was finally shelved in 2023.

The project KEO claimed to be supported by UNESCO (who it claims voted it "Project of the 21st century"), Hutchison Whampoa, the European Space Agency, and among other institutions. It's name represented the three most frequently used sounds common to the most widely spoken languages at the time of it's design, /k/, /e/, and /o/.

Despite it's cancellation, many of it's puporses and technologies are now used by Alliance Navy vessels.