Newosweik is a planet a couple light years away from ours. Even though the people who inhabit it don't agree on the exact location, some saying that it's near Alpha Centauri and others claiming that the constellations point towards somewhere in the Big Dipper, only one thing is certain: it's a freaking long distance away from Earth. Newosweik's population derives mainly from 21st century colonizers that were sucked in by some vortex or something and were forced to make a home somewhere else, far away from the Old Terra and all it's trouble. The thing they didn't realise is that, well, humans tend to bring it everywhere they go.