Space travel

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Space travel has progressed over the centuries from lumbering chemical propellant-powered rockets to slow-and-steady interplanetary ships relying on compressed fuel. Travel is efficient but slow, with no faster-than-light travel or artificial gravity. It has allowed Humanity to set up small population centers on Mars, throughout the asteroid belt, at Jovian Europa, and in Saturn's orbit. There is also a widely scattered segment of the population dispersed through the Kuiper belt and into the Oört cloud.

Pioneers

Due to the slow nature of space travel, a culture has arisen of mutual aid based on the understanding that you are far from centralized aid such as the UN or other organizations. Even as areas such as the asteroid belt and outer planets become much more populated, some retain a Pioneer identity as a matter of cultural identity.

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