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The '''''New Hope''''' was a [[colony ship]] created by [[human]]s on [[Earth]] in the early [[22nd century]]. Its crew became the original [[colonist]]s of the [[planet]] [[Agora]], before the ship relocated to [[New Earth (Time of Your Life)|New Earth]].

== History ==

The ''New Hope'' was created, and launched, by [[human]]s on [[Earth]] in the early [[22nd century]], as part of the [[Century Program]]. The [[colony ship]]'s launch - described by humanity as the beginning of the [[Colonial Age]] - was broadcast by [[satellite camera]]s to 800,000,000 humans across Earth, and was witnessed by the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Grant Markham]] from within [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], 400,000 [[mile]]s above the surface of [[Mars]] . The ''New Hope'' then began a journey to the [[Centraxis system]], to a [[planet]] that the [[crew]] would colonise and name [[Agora]]. The majority of the ''New Hope''s [[Administrative Council]] [[vote]]d that the [[civilisation]] that they would establish on Agora would eschew the advanced [[technology]] developed on Earth, in favour of a significantly more primitive, [[Agriculture|agricultural]] [[society]].  

When the ''New Hope'' eventually landed on Agora, the crew sealed away, in the ship's chambers, all of the [[blueprint]]s and materials of the advanced technology that they had brought with them within the colony ship. The ''New Hope'' was then piloted by a splinter faction of the crew, who were against the idea of living in an agricultural civilisation, from Agora to a different planet; these splinter crew members eventually established a significantly more technologically-advanced civilisation on another planet, and named it [[New Earth (Time of Your Life)|New Earth]]. However, the decision by the [[colonist]]s of Agora to abandon the advanced technology that they had brought with them onboard the ''New Hope'' ultimately resulted in the colonists and their [[descendant]]s being unable to prevent the [[CyberNomad]]s from invading Agora in the [[2150s]], and subsequently enslaving the planet's inhabitants to maintain a [[Cyberman]] breeding [[colony]] during the [[Vogan War]] and its aftermath. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'')  

== Appearance ==

The ''New Hope'' featured a significant amount of [[gold]] and large add-on components on its external shell. Although these served no functional [[purpose]], [[Grant Markham]] observed that they made the [[colony ship]] appear [[Excitement|exciting]], complex and important, befitting the ship's role as the instigator of the [[Colonial Age]] of [[human]] [[space travel]].

The ''New Hope'' was lacking in the way of [[security protocol]]s, as the [[Sixth Doctor]] described these as "amount[ing] to little more than crossed [[finger]]s and a [[prayer]] that [the [[crew]]'s] [[death]]s [would not] have to be explained", and described the ''New Hope''s successful journey to [[Agora]] as the [[crew]] ''get[ting] [[luck]]y'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'')