Magic Sci Fi Setting

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Background
In 2053 the United States government, bowing to internal economic pressures, an ascendant Asian bloc and the growing power of the corporate lobbies began to privatise its assets. One of the first to go was the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, which, despite vast previous investments had been faltering as a government project and had lost public support in response to more terrestrial concerns. NASA was snapped up for a very generous price by the Callum-Portia Group, a shell corporation that had sprung up only a few months before, its stock was unremarkable and tightly controlled and after a few brief months of conspiracy theories and speculation in scientific circles, the buyout was forgotten and the idea of publicly funded space exploration pushed into the distant future, or projected to the space programs of other nations.

Life continued on planet earth much as it had, nation’s fortunes waxed and waned, the Asian century drew to a close, and eventually the Asian bloc itself began to, if not decline, then certainly to plateau. It came midway through the 22nd century, exactly one-hundred-and-one years, to the day, since the privatisation of NASA, the Callum-Portia Group announced and launched a manned shuttle with the mission of exploring the solar system. The captain of the vessel, one L.B. Tcholkov, a handsome, eloquent man, became the darling of the presses immediately. The vessel was known as Theseus I, it was launched on April 23rd, 2154, and it and its crew would travel farther than any other manmade artefact by an impossible amount.

Galactic Map
Class A Nexus Hubs: Class B Nexus Hubs: Class C Nexus Hubs: Class D Nexus Hubs:
 * Sol(24): Kalmar(1), Oya(4), Scholomance(13), Mao(14), Garneau(20) [V13]
 * Garneau(20): Oya(4), Trekunger(5), Sol(24), Prince Anthony(26) [V11]
 * Oya(4): 3, 8, Garneau(20), Sol(24) [V9]
 * Kalmar(1): Trekunger(5), Sol(24), 26, 27 [V9]
 * Mao(14): Astremond(10), 17, New Shangai(21), Sol(24) [V9]
 * Prince Anthony(26): Kalmar(1), Astremond(10), Garneau(20) [V8]
 * Trekunger(5): Kalmar(1), 18, Garneau(20) [V7]
 * Astremond(10): Mao(14), 17, Prince Anthony(26) [V7]
 * DOC(17): Rubble(6), Astremond(10), Mao(14) [V6]
 * Shamayim(7): Elysium(2), Avalon(12), Kakuriyo(22) [V5]
 * Avalon(12): Shamayim(7), Scholomance (13), Kakuriyo(22) [V4]
 * Elysium(2): Shamayim(7), Mictlan(9), Niribu(19) [V4]
 * Scholomance(13): Avalon(12), Sol(24) [V5]
 * AE(3): Oya(4), Niribu(19) [V4]
 * AE(8): Oya(4), 15 [V4]
 * Niribu(19): Elysium(2), 3 [V4]
 * New Shanghai(21): Mao(14), 16 [V4]
 * NU(27): Kalmar(1), 18 [V4]
 * Rubble(6): 15, 17 [V3]
 * Mictlan(9): Elysium(2), Svarga(11) [V3]
 * NU(18): Trekunger(5), 27 [V3]
 * Kakuriyo(22): Shamayim(7), Avalon(12) [V3]
 * Svarga(11): Mictlan(9), Qiangdu(23) [V2]
 * AE(15): Rubble(6), 8 [V2]
 * Zihao(16): New Shanghai(21), Weixiu(25) [V2]
 * Qiangdu(23): Svarga(11), Weixiu(25) [V2]
 * Weixiu(25): Zihao(16), Qiangdu(23) [V2]