The galaxy is vast, and the opportunity is boundless. There are many factions to the Federation: the citizens living their everyday lives, the Federation officers who protect the citizens, the Bounty Hunters who play by their own rules, and the true frontiersmen and women: the Space Pirates.

This is a story of those who seek freedom on their own terms. Planets with their own rules of magic and treasure dot the galaxy and wait only for the people with the means to find them. Different cultures and civilizations lay naive among the worlds. Great fantasticcal beasts fly the methane skies and delve under ruby oceans.

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Terra 4 was humanity's fourth attempt at creating a perfect world and failing. When urban sprawl, pollution, and violent crime rose, the wealthy left for humanity's next attempt and left the peasants behind.

The abundance of metals, including lithium and gold ore, and deep caves filled with helium and hydrogen, set Terra 4 to be a technological haven. To a point, it still is, but only the Federation and the private contractors it keeps under wing enjoy the spoils of the once-beautiful planet. Now the Federation can pump the most elite space ships out in record time without regard for the impoverished people that breathe the polluted air and drink from the tainted wells.

Terra 4 is covered in sprawling ghettos with the occasional factory in the shadow of the rocket launch pad. People tend to live in the same complexes as they work or shop. Services like mail and package delivery are privatized by mega corporations who rarely care about customer satisfaction or rules.

Officially, the political theory is democracy, but the corporations own every politician. Voter turnout is usually somewhere between 0.012% and 0.200%. Unemployment is at about 40% with the remaining 20% working in the factories and Federation force. A blackmarket exists in each major residential complex where food is traded. Some people keep chickens and insect farms in their little apartments so they can barter with neighbors. 30% of the poorest people work in the mines, which are filled with corrosive acid from tainted ground water or liquified ore as well as highly flammable gases.

The Federation was established in AD 2700 through the combined forces and resources of the dying earth. Their primary objectives are:

• Protect citizens from crime
• Protect property
• Investigating crimes
• Enforce the law

Each planetary sector is ruled by a Council body, and each planet has a Governor of Federation Operations. They are funded through taxes.