Each corporation plays a key role in the Federation’s survival and expansion, wielding immense power and influence on both economic and political fronts, all while engaging in covert activities to maintain and expand their influence.

The first true artificial intelligences become possible, as computers are able to model synaptic networks. Grav supported structures reach to the heavens. Jump-2 travel becomes possible, allowing easier travel beyond the one jump stellar mains.

The year is 2268.

The Terran Federation, or just the Federation, is an oppressive totalitarian regime.

The Earth of 2268, beyond the protective domes of its elite cities, is a planet transformed by war, climate change, and human negligence. The land that once teemed with life and ecosystems has been reduced to a hostile, almost alien landscape.

Surveyed space extends out from Earth in all directions forming a bubble of interstellar space approximately 40 parsecs (130.4 light years) in diameter. Beyond this limit are the billions of stars and planets that exist within the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy - untapped and undiscovered resources for the many generations to come. This 40 parsec sphere of human activity has not been uniformly settled