Beta Colony is comprised of the descendants of Old Earth "preppers". Believing that there would be a desperate need for safety and seclusion at some point, quite a few people decided to build their own shelters. Some are older than others but many of these "preppers" went to great lengths in designing and creating extremely complex underground shelters. Likeminded individuals would team up and build shelters sometimes as far down as a kilometer that covered as much as a full square mile or more. Fully equipped with living quarters, communications, barracks/armories, engineering sections, entertainment quarters, dining quarters, etc. These shelters served their inhabitants well for many many years.

The philosophy of Beta Colony has always been, "Adapt, survive, repeat, until..." While traditional educational pursuits were not frowned upon, the basic of survival were the core curriculum both in and outside of the home. From the very first day of learning, the focus is on whatever job you've been deemed suitable to fill. Potential engineers apprenticed with established engineers while potential scavengers apprenticed with established scavengers. Doctors, chemists, farmers, cooks, etc.

Every once in a while the need would arise for a new job and the shelters inhabitants would adapt the goings-on of daily life to accommodate the change, usually a necessary but inconvenient scenario. All goals and hopes and dreams came in the form of waiting for the world to "wake back up".

This history and this philosophy has created the New world's best hunters, scavengers, and engineers.