Locations

Earth

Earth is still the primary home of most humans. In the past centuries, nuclear war and then population collapse had caused most of the population to abandon the old cities and cluster in a handful of politically independent city states.

Locations

• Azure City, the richest and most powerful city-state, and also home to the largest space port

Mars

Mars is now home to a small, but growing population of the human race. Original attempts to settle it were foiled by nuclear war some centuries ago. A second attempt had resulted in a significant settlement, but war broke out several decades ago. As Earth grew weary of the war, they decided to wage all out nuclear war on the _Old_Colonies_, which destroyed the majority of the settlements and killed a great number of its inhabitants. Many chose to return to Earth after war. Some old colonists survived and continued to live there, but most growth now happens in the _New_Colonies_.

Locations

• _New_Colonies_, the new settlements on Mars, co-managed by the city-states of Earth
• _Old_Colonies_, the remnants of the Mars settlements before the war, mostly uninhabited