Lore

Aberdeen Hurston

People · Human · History

Aberdeen Hurston (SEY 2821 - 2912) was an engineer who worked at Hurston Dynamics from 2841 until his retirement in 2877. While he was attending university, he began working remotely with the weapons team at Hurston Dynamics on their early forays into antimatter-based missiles.…

Stiletto

Spacecraft · Human · Military

The Stiletto was a medium interceptor sold by the now-defunct company Elio-Harman Aerospace in the early 26th century. It was one of the last spacecraft designs commissioned by the United Nations of Earth (UNE) and was used specifically to intercept enemy bombers. The Stiletto…

Nexus III

Planets · Human

Nexus III is a naturally habitable terrestrial planet in the Nexus system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Once the central hub of the Hathor Group, former owners of exclusive mining rights to Nexus, the planet was inhabited by squatters and outlaws when the company abandoned the…

Human Overpopulation Era

History · Human

In the 21st and 22nd centuries (SEY 2038 - 2157), population levels on Earth (Sol III) began to rise beyond sustainable capacity. Pollution, dwindling resources, and famine affected all nations of the world, leading to overcrowding in the few unspoiled places left on the planet.…

Fizzz

Food and Beverages · Human

Fizzz is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by the Bevic Group, a Human company that manufactures a wide variety of branded food and beverages. It debuted in 2777, after a team at the Bevic Group made a research breakthrough in adapting the flavor of the soursop fruit into…

Sabre

Spacecraft · Human

The Sabre is a space superiority fighter sold by Aegis Dynamics. Aegis developed the Sabre in response to a United Empire of Earth Navy (UEEN) request for a fighter capable of out-matching the Vanduul Stinger heavy fighter. Aegis pursued development as part of a company-wide…

X1 Velocity

Ground Transportation · Spacecraft · Human

The X1 Velocity is a variant of the X1 ultralight spacecraft developed by Origin Jumpworks and two-time Aron Award-winning ship engineer Alberto Vara's design company, Infinity Custom. As the name implies, the Velocity focuses primarily on improved speed and handling over the…

Hurston Dynamics

Military · Weapons · Commerce · Human

Hurston Dynamics is a Human weapons manufacturer and materials processor based on Hurston (Stanton I). They are the largest producer of standard munitions warheads for military contracts in the United Empire of Earth (UEE), as well as the third-largest refiner of antimatter…

Starliner

Spacecraft · Human

A starliner is a type of commercial spacecraft used primarily for the transportation of passengers. A significant portion of total interstellar travel within the United Empire of Earth (UEE) is done aboard these vessels. The Genesis starliner, manufactured by Crusader Industries…

Port Tressler

Locations · Human

Port Tressler is a space station that serves as the main transfer hub to New Babbage on microTech (Stanton IV). Named after Aleena Tressler, a mentor of microTech's founder Magnus Tobin, it is owned and operated by microTech, and houses multiple shops and services focused on…

Standard Recovery Vehicle (SRV)

Spacecraft · Human

The SRV (Standard Recovery Vehicle) is a tug spacecraft designed by Argo Astronautics. Like Argo's MPUV, the SRV was designed as a dockyard support spacecraft capable of manually towing freight and cargo and conducting search-and-rescue missions. The SRV's tractor system can tow…

B3

Food and Beverages · Human

B3 is a strong brandy distilled in the Rhetor system from blue bilva, a fruit indigenous to Reisse Rhetor III). In 2733, a group of students at the University of Mentor on Mentor (Rhetor IV) used a bushel of blue bilva as the basis for an experimental homemade spirit. The…

Mars (Sol IV)

Planets

Mars (Sol IV) is the fourth planet from the sun of the Sol system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Populous and prosperous, it was the first planet Humans successfully terraformed after a disastrous initial attempt and provided a much needed outlet for their population during a…

Magda (Stanton 1c)

Moons · Human

Magda is the third-closest moon to Hurston (Stanton I). Although its temperature falls into ranges friendly to life, its nitrogen-methane atmosphere cannot be safely breathed. Enormous areas of blue-green dirt on Magda's surface are said to resemble oceans when the moon is…

Origin Jumpworks

Commerce

Origin Jumpworks is a personal luxury spacecraft manufacturer based on Terra (Terra III), United Empire of Earth (UEE). The move to Terra is recent; until SEY 2913, the company was located on Earth (Sol III), and had a policy only to use materials created in the Sol System to…

Aaron Halo (Stanton Belt Alpha)

Space

The Aaron Halo (Stanton belt alpha) is a dense asteroid belt in the Stanton system that falls between the orbits of Crusader (Stanton II) and ArcCorp (Stanton III). After Crusader Industries purchased Stanton II from the United Empire of Earth (UEE), it attempted to enact mining…

Gurzil Belt Alpha

Space

The Gurzil belt alpha is a protoplanetary disk that orbits the sun of the developing Gurzil system. Still in its infancy, it is a swirling mass of dust, asteroids, and planetessimals. During the Xi'an-Human Cold War (SEY 2530 - 2793), many spacecraft from both sides of the…

Cosmo Sloop

Spacecraft · Human

The Cosmo Sloop was a limited-run luxury leisure spacecraft manufactured by Casse Aerospace. Launched in 2604, it was the company's debut ship, personally designed by founder and lead engineer Leonard Casse. Its controls were set up with ease-of-use in mind, so that even…

Esperia

Commerce · Human

Esperia is a Human spacecraft manufacturer that adapts, reproduces, and sells existing spacecraft designs. The company was founded in 2873 by Jovi and Theo Ingstrom, brothers interested in preserving spacecraft-building history. Esperia's current lineup of spacecraft…

Ko'li (Ē'aluth III)

Planets · Xi'an

Ko'li (Ē'aluth III) is the third planet from the sun of the Ē'aluth system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). Soon after it was discovered, the Xi'an government elected to terraform Ko'li and use it as a nature preserve for all known plant and animal species in Xi'an space. It contains a…

Project Archangel

Government · Human

Project Archangel is the official designation for a United Empire of Earth (UEE)-funded program to create an artificial planet. Commonly known as Synthworld, the project was announced in 2872 during Corbyn Salehi's tenure as Imperator as a way to move beyond the inherently…

Mustang Alpha

Spacecraft · Human

The Mustang Alpha is a single-seat civilian spacecraft in the Mustang line of spacecraft developed and sold by Consolidated Outland. It was developed to the specifications of company founder and CEO Silas Koerner, who intended it to offer radical competition to Roberts Space…

Everline Structures Incorporated

Commerce · Human

Everline Structures Incorporated is a Humans manufacturer of Housing Exchange (HEX) stations, affordable housing with commercial spaces that are built into hollowed-out asteroids. Although the company offers an extended contract to perform maintenance on their products for ten…

Yethlūl s.yen'o (Yā'mon III)

Planets

Yethlūl s.yen'o (Yā'mon III) is the third planet from the sun of the Yā'mon system, Xi'an Empire. Along with the nearby planet Yethlūl y.ath'o (Yā'mon II), it is being jointly terraformed by the Human corporation ArcCorp and the Xi'an government. This long-term collaboration is…