Space Setting...

[Jongluer]

Yea, can't think of a better name for this. So yea, it's bare bones, I'll fill in info as I feel the need. Probably just stuff on Earth Sphere, and other organizations.

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2010: First commercial space flight, going into space for a total time of 10 minutes. This renews public interest in space flight across the globe.

2011: International Aeronautic and Space Association is founded.

2016: IASA launches the first manned mission to Mars from the growing I.S.S.

Early 2017: The first manned mission to Mars makes landfall, and do routine exploration finally settling the age old question: can man live on Mars?
The answer comes as no shock to many outside of the scientific community when the answer is yes, it may one day be possible for Mars to be made comfortable for human life.

2018: The second international space station mission is launched. A survey team is sent to Mars to begin analyzing the basic question of where to begin with terra-formation.

2021: Following it's proposal in 2020, the Lagrange Point project is launched, it's mission: to create five space stations in which humans can live permanently.

2040: Lagrange One undergoes initial construction. It is finished within ten years time.

2051: Lagrange One receives its first residents. Colonial Landfall is made upon Mars with Alpha Dome, a scientific city dedicated to the terra-formation of Mars.

2055: Beta Dome is placed on Mars as a solely colonial effort. Lagrange Two is completed. The Earth Alliance begins, a modification to the U.N. Which allows the sharing of military power in relation to the various colonial efforts within the solar system. Colonization of the moon is first theorized.

2062: Luna City, a domed city completely enclosed within a crater undergoes initial construction phases. The Alpha Dome Project creates a small band of lichen like plants to grow in the area around their dome. Lagrange Five, the final station sees it's first residents.

2078: Widespread colonization of the Moon and Mars begins as Earth becomes overcrowded. The Alpha Dome Project continues to see results as more complex plant life begins to grow, and the first “river” is created upon Mars while artificial it is a major stepping stone.

2115: As Earth finds its overpopulation problem subsiding thanks to colonization of the solar system, and as more colonies become erected on the moons of other planets, talk of rebellion appears within the colonies as Earth begins to exploit the resources of its far away kin.

2126: The Red Ridge Massacre brings forth Civil War. Red Ridge is one of the first towns upon Mars not to be domed. A group of bandits, later deemed rebels by the Earth Alliance, hide away inside the town, unbeknown to its residents. A large number of Earth Alliance soldiers arrive to fight the rebels. At some point, a shot is fired, and the better equipped and numbered Earth Alliance open fire upon the town. Red Ridge is practically destroyed, with few survivors.

2126-2130: War rages across the solar system as the colonies unite against their common enemy. The Earth Alliance at first seems a superior foe, until the colonies rally. Once properly unified, with strong economic backing from Colony-Based corporations, the Colonies are able to push back the Earth Alliance to their planet. When the treaty is signed, Earth only holds its space stations as colonies, and the colonies disband their treaties.

2130: With the war over, the colonies disband their own alliances as Earth is defeated. The Moon becomes an autonomous entity being too close to Earth to truly side with any of the colonies. Mars too breaks away, being far too large to side with any of the deep space stations or smaller moons. With many of the colonized moons to far away to truly form some kind of alliance, they took break into autonomy. Law outside of the Earth Sphere becomes something of a joke.

2131: With the solar system now full of multiple autonomous groups, and with a lack of true military force holding the areas together the system beyond the Earth Sphere has become a lawless frontier filled with scofflaws, people trying to carve out a new law, and corporations looking to make a quick buck. The Earth Alliance has secured control of the Lagrange colonies and maintains control on them along with Earth using the vast military that was built up during the civil war. Now Earth Alliance is becoming a distant memory as Earth Sphere, a military headed government controls and watches all that occurs. This is a system where anything can happen, work is easy to find, but much harder to keep, especially if you live outside the law...


The year is 2131 AD and the solar system is recovering from a civil war that touched even the most distant colonies. Earth has not necessarily come out on top of the socio-economic ladder, but they are the most stable and secure which can count for something. Mars, the oldest of the colonies has formed the beginnings of a planet-wide republic but it has far too many problems with security issues when it comes to smugglers and pirates. While Mars is rich in scientific advancement, and corporate funding, they also find themselves rich in organized crime, and piracy. The moon now holds itself as a completely neutral, most of the major lunar cities have banded together to form the Lunar Coalition and they maintain as best of peace as they can. The moon is the only true gateway into and out of Earth Sphere, and many people take advantage to the large amount of hustle and bustle going on in its spaceports to do any manner of things. Beyond Mars, colonies are deep space space stations, mined out asteroid, domed structures on lifeless moons, or moons under going the Terra Formation process. It's a crazy world, and even in more civilized places like Mars and the Moon law only goes as far as the people who enforce it. People thrive on the lawlessness, and everyone's trying to carve out a new life by any means necessary.

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The Places

Earth: Earth has become an odd world. Half of it has become covered by cities so large they're not even considered such anymore, meanwhile the other half has become farmland for both the massive population and the massive oxygen need. The Mega-Cities are overcrowded and kept under a tight leash, continually patrolled by Earth Sphere Enforcers and the security officers of different corporations. The citizens of the mega-cities are the cubical slaves of massive corporations, and the drones of the massive factories. In the farmland there are rarely any sort of humans whatsoever, most stay in small collectives in the central locations of their crops (which can span for thousands of acres). The average person in the farmland is either some form of scientist relating to farming, or is the one who fixes the robots that malfunction.

The Lagrange Stations: The five massive Lagrange stations are large urban areas complete with suburbs. They house their own facilities for oxygen production as well as food. Most of the people on the stations have a much higher standard of living than people who live on Earth, they work jobs in expanding corporations and research labs, they attend universities and become the scholars of the Earth Sphere. Here Enforcers aren't the ever present forces they are planetside, they're more like patrol cops, they're just there to keep the peace. People in the Lagrange stations are generally happier than anyone else in the entire solar system, their lives are nice and secure.

The Moon: The Lunar Coalition has risen out of the civil war to bring law and order to the moon where once all there was were unassociated colonies watched over by the Earth Alliance. They've agreed to keep the peace and secure peaceful transport between themselves as well as act as the legal entrance into the Earth Sphere, and Colonial Space. The moon is a place that is caught up in the hustle and bustle of new life, goods and people constantly coming and going. The people who live on the moon are leeching off the prosperity of their neutrality, acting as the middle man in many situations between anyone. There are few companies actually situated on the moon, though some have created outposts, due to the fact that the moon was colonized as extra space and as a place for space related experiments. It's home to cutting edge space technology, mainly in the field of starships, though all manner of things relating to space start off here: life support systems, navigation computers, food synthesizers, etc. The Moon is home to all things space, and the Lunar Coalition wants to keep everything peaceful.

Mars: Once the Red Planet, the Alpha Dome Project created a budding ecosystem that is just now beginning to come into its own. Most major population centers are still centered around domes, though many domes have begun to expand outside of themselves. Outside of the domes, homesteads have begun to crop up, and sometimes whole towns spring up. Far away from the dome, there is a wild west feel, with the semi-barren landscape only adding to the feeling, as people seek out new lives and might makes right, with every person carrying some form of weapon. Within the domed cities life is like any other city, hustle and bustle, full of as many low lives as there are upstanding citizens. Outside, there's the rustic feel of the country, and a pioneer spirit. Mars has begun to erect a republic but with many far flung settlements rarely responding to messages from the big cities there is a real question of its power.

Deep Space Stations: In the void between planets, deep space stations were erected to perform research and serve as production platforms for corporations. These places have become the equivalent of small towns in a much larger world. They have contact with people who come and go sporadically, and they do what they're designed to but life on them is boring except for the occasional visitor.

The Asteroid Belt: The asteroid belt has become a place of rough and tumble sorts. Miners dig into the asteroids for ores of all sorts, and pirates find a haven within them from the few people that seek to persecute them. It's an odd place where one rock can hold a large town or a crew of pirates looking for their next victim. One can never be sure what to expect in the belt unless you know where you're going, which takes skill and good knowledge of the area.

The Moons: Throughout the solar system, around multiple planets, are moons that with a bit work have become new worlds that humans have settled. These places like Europa, Triton, and Ganymede have with extensive scientific work become capable of supporting human life. Much like Mars they support large domed cities with outlying towns and homesteads. The only major difference between them and Mars is the fact that Mars is a much older and more successful colony. The moons are younger, colonization being achieved after extensive research, travel, and implementation, and have less stability both socially and physically. They have come to support all number of peoples, and forms of thought even amongst different towns and cities. On some of the Moons its been known to find several different groups claiming to represent the moon as a whole.

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Technological Progress

Technology has grown in many ways over the past century.
The first true step into the new age was the mastering of cold fusion technology. With a powerful energy source now at humanity's hands the dreams of the Lagrange stations were realized, and now the notion of massive ships capable of terraforming a planet were no longer considered silly. The cold fusion generators of today are leagues beyond those of the early 21rst century, coming in all forms, from enough to power a simple car to enough to power massive interplanetary cruise liners. The cold fusion generator is the key to living and traveling in space.
Space travel is one of the largest differences between the world of today and yesteryear. Spaceships come in many forms, from small starfighters to stock freighters and capital ships. The average ship is powered by a cold fusion generator, and maintains large stocks of canistered air, furthermore they create artificial gravity with a central spinning structure strong enough to hold humans and most cargo within a space ship of corresponding size. With the supply of power from fusion generators, ships are able to travel at massive speeds making trips between the planets only lasting several weeks. The ship generally protects itself from the dangers of such speeds using deflector shields projected from a single point on the ship that has its own fusion generator.
To assist in travel throughout the system, humanity has developed sensor systems to do what their eyes cannot. Not only has there been a the development of a three dimensional sensor system allowing one to track the ships and other stellar bodies around them, but also specific scanning systems that allow a person to analyze the world around them. Many of these sensors have been turned into small hand held devices that also have access to certain databases throughout human civilization.
Medical science has also increased in leaps and bounds. Cheap and effective chemicals have been created to solve many common ailments that plagued humanity for centuries. Furthermore, medical sensors have been developed allowing quick and easy diagnosing of medical problems. With the addition of better medical equipment, dealing with injuries has become extremely easy and far less painful.
Finally, the robotics and cybernetics industry have increased. In the early days of colonization manpower was limited and people found that they often needed to be in several places at once. Thus, extra and effective sets of hands were needed, thus the modern humanoid robot was developed to be this extra set of hands. Robots were developed to be assistants to those in need, and have remained in that position for nearly a century. Robots can be found in many areas as secretaries, clerks, farm hands, stock boys, and even in some areas armed guards. There are some stories of “sentient” or extremely well programmed robots that can emulate sentience.
While nearly every other field has exploded with advancement, personal arms have remained largely the same. The basic idea of a gun has remained the same, and while companies such as Colt and S&W no longer exist many of their designs are still produced by newer companies. Armor has seen small advances in the form of lighter plating that can be more easily molded and allow for more flexibility.