Dilapidated ship threading through the nothingness of space for yet another decade after catastrophic rebellion.
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Context
Game is set in relatively near future where humanity is exploring the Solar system. There are no aliens, no hyperspace jumps it's like space ships we have today but better and economically more viable.
Of course, there were companies that jumped to the now available rare minerals deposits on asteroids. And this scenario is not all that far fetched - here's an article from last year about asteroid mining:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/space-mining-the-new-goldrush/
This triggers rapid expansion and, as it usually happens, some corners get cut, some laws get...sidestepped, some basic rights - ignored. You see, space travel is very, very expensive. Once you get your miner to the asteroid, you cannot just ship him/her to Earth when it pleases.And another thing - police cannot just ship their investigators to the Belt and back, right? ...This causes humanitarian crisis that, unattended, triggers rebellion and bloody clashes with corporation forces.
After some disastrous acts of terror, corporation forces withdraw but, of course, leave rebels behind on naked space rocks with damaged and slowly decaying infrastructure. Air, water, warmth - there is nothing free in space...
Twenty years later, start the events of "Space Wreck"