General knowledge

In Wanderer's 2053 humankind has succeeded in spreading it's outposts to all the inner planets of the solar system and even as far as Jupiter. The first spacestation to Saturnus will also arrive soon.

Spacetravel is like taking a aeroplane flight and several of the transcontinental flights do orbital jumps to shorten travelling time. The Earth has in its orbit tens of spacestations with hundreds of thousands people working and living there. Shuttles travel between the stations transporting people and goods, and there are also daily shuttleflights to the Moon.

One of the most profitable industries is the Far End Hut station owned by Space Front Ltd. This station is in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's function is to find and transport suitable astroids to the Earths orbit, where they are transformed into space stations.

Humans working in space tend to see themselves as the lucky part of humankind. Both on the stations around the Earth as well as on the Moon, the general belief is that Earth is a rathole where no-one wants to live. But on the stations that are farther away like The Far End Hut and Europa, Earth is viewed like a paradise like place where the air is fresh and the sky is blue. This is mainly because most of the people living there will never get to visit Earth.

The New frontiers under discussion are Mars as the most suitable colonization planet and Jupiters Moon Europa with it's huge water supplies.

The Moon has gotten an increasingly strong position in space, as international treaties have placed MoonPol as the judical group responcible of keeping space lawful. The Space Control is also placed on the Moon. This station acts as traffic control for the hundreds of ships and shuttles moving in space. Only one country, China, refuses to obey instructions from the station, so to avoid international conflicts, Space Control usually directs spaceships to stay far away from the Chinese vessels. The controlling satelite and radar utilities that Space Control has in its use can very accurately follow ships near the Moon and The Earth, But there has never been enough funding to develop a system that could accurately monitor traffic near other planets. So if a ship gets as far as the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter it's mostly on it's own and very hard to detect unless it wants to be detected.