Outside of the Attica Empire, a group known as Ev-Tek is developing in Interstellar rocket. They are a fringe group beleiving in evolution to it's max, so they hope to fly away to an uninhabited planet and 'evolve'.
After showing their proposal to the government, and being rejected, they decided to go to numerous corporations. Quite a few invested. The first rocket to build their shipyard would launch in a month, and their rocket would be complete in about a year.
Several years after construction began, the Aß Zuchtwahl launched from it's makeshift dock, to an unknown region of space. The dock disintegrated in the atmosphere, and the ship faded from Attican memory.