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“The STARHOPPER Account” is a setting outlining a distant future where technological advances overcome the limitations of traditional space travel, Human existence, and the Human condition of isolation at the prospect of encountering other intelligent denizens of the universe.

What follows is a recap of events and locations leading to what is considered “the state of things” as most recently written. This documentation is always changing.

EARTH
Earth serves as the primary focus of this setting. This is where the Human genome was first challenged, and the first Human Gravitational Mass Compression Drivers and Einstein-Rosen Bridge Stabilizers were developed and deployed via Human methodology, leading to outwards expansion into the stars.

Following a period of prolonged instability, Earth eventually unified itself in entirety under one organization: The United Earth Syndicate

INNER COLONIES
On top of managing Earth and its activities, the UES also oversees colonies established on planets residing on planets within the Sol system, and colonies that are within a certain number of light-years from Earth itself. These locations require little effort and expenditure to travel to and monitor, responses from UES fleets would take only days at most.

OUTER COLONIES
These are colonies unmanaged by the UES. With time after the development and widespread use of GMC and ERBS systems, further ventures into the stars were made by pioneering organizations. These organizations are almost entirely made up of incredibly wealthy mega-corporation fleets seeking to establish privatized colonies on resource rich planets, far from the strict business regulation and taxation of the UES.

Many Human Divergents have leaped onto the backs of these organizations to escape the conflict present in Earth and its inner circle of colonies, becoming a substantial portion of the workforce associated with these pioneering efforts.

Many dozens of these independent outer colonies are now established, forming a very extensive trade network, each feeding off each-other and developing a form of living entirely free of Earth and its political climate.

Most of these privatized colonies have their own colonial militia, funded by mega-corporation business and oftentimes trained by ex-UES military personnel. This protection is essential to guard against brigand occupation, raiding parties, lawless individuals carving out their own way of violent life in the vast ocean of stars beyond, or even the potential of "alien" invasion.

Travel to most of these colonies would take months at most to garner the antimatter needed to power ERBS systems for such a trip.

This ERBS maintenance would be mandatory for each and every ship traveling together to the fleet’s destination, making such expeditions extravagantly costly for the UES or any other large fleet seeking to wage war.

THE VOID BEYOND
Any further travel beyond the outer limits of what’s registered to a well known and shared universal starmap/coordinate system would be considered a venture to “The Void” IE uncharted space, where rumor and perilous stories originate from.

FIRST CONTACT
With the creation and deployment of ERBS systems and natural virility of Human exploration and growth, the first initial century that the UES was active became highly exciting for the world of science. Through the prolific exploration of many scouting operations employed by the UES as well as ventures in colonization on habitable planets formerly unreachable through conventional space travel, Humanity quickly and rather startlingly encountered many varieties of life, both sentient and non-sentient. Many of these encounters left first contact parties confused by alien culture and language, but optimistic of peaceful relations. One surprising thing became apparent however; Humanity had apparently leapfrogged technologically in a way only few other sentient races had, with the invention and application of FTL travel. Many of these sentient races were in fact on a relatively parallel level technologically with humanity, and the UES would even go so far as to propose alliance with these races after some time studying them in the hopes that a collective pool of shared technological knowledge would bond their relations inseparably with that of Humankind and focus all eyes towards cooperative growth. Most of these sentient races have expressed through their various means of communication a surprising amount of respect and admiration, viewing Human beings as indispensable as they were numerous and varied. Some of them however would express concerns and even resentment over just how prolific Humanity suddenly seemed to be, Human fleets pouring from the fabric of space through their wormholes, offering their help, an endless array of alien faces assaulting them in their home systems with no end in sight. This would ultimately cause some conflict with particularly reclusive or aggressive races, forcing the UES into deploying a database accessible with FTL communications to list all known and officially registered races encountered, with Officers of Foreign Encounters being assigned to remote posts to help facilitate the continual logging of new encounters, update existing entries based on changing relationships, and train new AI assisted frameworks with translation data regarding non-Human languages.

Chapters
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