Lore

Drop Kings

Illegal Activity · Organizations

The Drop Kings are a major criminal syndicate that is active in multiple systems across the United Empire of Earth (UEE). Founded in the SEY 2640s by a group of anti-Messer activists who fled their homes under threat of retaliation from the Messer government, their earliest…

XenoThreat

Human · Illegal Activity · Organizations

XenoThreat is a Human outlaw group based in the Pyro system that is known for a violently anti-alien and anti-corporate ideology. Law enforcement believes that the group is primarily formed by corrupt ex-members of the United Empire of Earth (UEE) military. Most of its criminal…

Claw Salamanders

Illegal Activity · Organizations · Human

The Claw Salamanders are an independent faction and outlaw group based in the Nyx system. Known for their custom-made armor suited for cold environments and helmets that conceal their faces and modulate their voices, they can generally be found living in deep freeze…

Headhunters

Organizations · Illegal Activity

The Headhunters are a major criminal organization based in the Pyro system that specializes in smuggling, theft, and protection. Originally from the Virgil system, the gang first rose to prominence as smugglers in the 2610s, when they established a fast shipping route from…

Fire Rats

Organizations · Illegal Activity

The Fire Rats are a criminal organization and religious cult based in the Pyro system. It originated in 2563, when a group of former Pyrotechnic Amalgamated workers found themselves abandoned on Bloom (Pyro III) after their employer declared bankruptcy. Forced to eke out a…

Rough & Ready

Organizations · Illegal Activity

Rough & Ready is a major criminal organization known for operating refueling stations throughout the Pyro system. Founded by former Headhunters enforcer Rook Garavis in SEY 2939, the gang's early focus was to pull back on active criminal activity and gain enough capital to do…

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…

Aberdeen (Stanton 1b)

Moons

Aberdeen, named for the designer of Hurston Dynamics' first antimatter warhead, Aberdeen Hurston, is the second moon of Hurston (Stanton I). It has a thick, hazy atmosphere composed of sulfurous gas that creates low-visibility conditions on the moon's surface, posing a danger to…

Arial (Stanton 1a)

Moons · Human

Arial is the first moon of Hurston (Stanton I), and is named for Arial Hurston, the creator of the Life/Labor-style contract utilized by Hurston Dynamics for their employees. It has a thin nitrogen-methane atmosphere and a rocky, dry landscape. Colonies of the invasive…

Ita (Stanton 1d)

Moons · Human

Ita is the outermost moon of Hurston (Stanton I). Its dusty terrain is dotted with tall rock formations and craters from old meteor impacts. Leadership of Hurston Dynamics chose to name the moon after Chief Warrant Officer Ita Hurston (2512 - 2542) of the United Planets of Earth…

Yela (Stanton 2c)

Moons · Human

YELA (STANTON 2C) Yela is the outermost natural satellite of Crusader (Stanton II), and is orbited by a ring of asteroids. A thin crust of water-ice on the moon's surface is said to represent the cool demeanor of Yela, the oldest sibling in the Human children's story A Gift for…

Cellin (Stanton 2a)

Moons · Human

Cellin is a volcanically active moon thronged with geysers that orbits Crusader (Stanton II), and is the planet's closest natural satellite. Its tenuous atmosphere contains trace amounts of oxygen, but not enough to support respiration. In spite of the toxic air, many residences…

Daymar (Stanton 2b)

Moons · Human

Daymar is Crusader's (Stanton II) second closest natural satellite, and was named after Daymar, one of the siblings in the Human tale A Gift for Baba. Due to the character's tendency to get lost, early explorers of the moon also named the canyon Daymar's Run after him for its…

Nine Tails

Organizations · Illegal Activity

Nine Tails is a criminal organization based in the Stanton system. First active in SEY 2938, the gang established itself by leading an attack on a prisoner transport vehicle that left 28 Terra (Terra III) police officers dead and liberated Albert "Sinkhole" Holden, leader of the…

Hurston (Stanton I)

Planets · Human

Hurston is a hot, arid planet that orbits closest to the sun in the Stanton system. Discovered in 2851, it was sold by the United Empire of Earth (UEE) government to the company Hurston Dynamics in 2865. Unrestricted industry and mining, especially of antimatter precursor, have…

microTech (Stanton IV)

Planets · Human

MICROTECH microTech (Stanton IV) is the fourth and farthest planet from the sun in the Stanton system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Located at the outer edge of the system's habitable zone, microTech is mostly ice, with some cold-to-temperate areas of tundra. It was purchased…

ArcCorp (Stanton III)

Planets

ArcCorp is the third planet from the sun of the Stanton system, and is one of four planets in the United Empire of Earth (UEE) owned by a corporation. When the megacorporation ArcCorp purchased the world in 2865, leadership chose to partition off the land and lease it to other…

Lyria (Stanton 3a)

Moons · Human

Lyria is a natural satellite of ArcCorp (Stanton III) that orbits more closely to the planet than its sister moon, Wala (Stanton 3b). Water ice geysers and cryo-volcanoes force water vapor into Lyria's oxygen and ammonia atmosphere when they erupt. Although the air is too thin…

NovaRiders

Organizations · Human · Illegal Activity

The NovaRiders were an outlaw group that entered notoriety in the early 2500s SEY when they became the first known people to steal a spacecraft mid-flight. During this time, ships were sold at such a high cost that they were primarily owned by the wealthy, and were commonly…

Euterpe (Stanton 4c)

Moons · Human

Euterpe is the third and smallest moon of microTech (Stanton IV), named for the ancient Earth (Sol III) muse of music. Largely covered by ice sheets and frozen oceans of water, the landscape of the moon is dotted with pillars of rock formations that researchers theorize are…

Clio (Stanton 4b)

Moons · Human

Clio is the second-closest moon to microTech (Stanton IV), and is a popular destination for tourists due to its liquid oceans and pink and teal sky. It was named for the ancient Earth (Sol III) muse of history in order to remind those on microTech that their work is built on the…

Wala (Stanton 3b)

Moons · Human

Wala is the second-closest moon of ArcCorp (Stanton III). Naturally-formed veins of blue-green crystal jutting from the moon's surface are visible from orbit. ArcCorp operates a number of surface mining facilities on Wala. Although the thin atmosphere and bitter cold make life…

Calliope (Stanton 4a)

Moons · Human

Calliope is a cold, windy moon of microTech (Stanton IV), named after the mythical muse of epic poetry and eloquence from ancient Earth (Sol III). Due to the high winds and extreme cold, weather suits worn by visitors to the planet are known to fail, particularly on the moon's…

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…