OOC:
There's a wiki with some history, but it's rather incompelte.
http://spacewarsrpg.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Wars,_The_RPG_WikiIt was all before the Regression tho. All you need to know is about Rakoua, Raks, Marik and a few others.
Anyways, I don't really understand the quest mentality. If you want to do the quests, just do them in a galaxy far far away then, unaffected by the war. It's far more fun to make a person to join a faction or create on and fight in an epic interstellar war.
IC (Raks):
I came back to the ship.
"Interesting."