2500-2550

Within thity years of the completion of the first phase of the midway-port between Earth and Mars (Klaud-Juno), it narrowly escaped what appeared to be complete sabotage.  The Juno company, a leader in discoveries had sought out to launch a political attack on a triage of the Human-Earth agendas.  Members of the Human-Earth party were of the platform that sought to create a human definition.  The idea, in its simplest form, was to pay homage to the types of humans that were natural Earth offspring.  The conflict emerged when a separate think-tank called Legacy began to publicly question the intentions of various private firms.  Brian Phillips, the head of Juno, saw these publications as a threat to his discoveries program. 


Prior to 2525, Legacy did not hold a significant connection in its relationship to the Human-Earth platfrom.  It did however utilize their texts for political gain.  Claudia Sherm was called the "Princess of Energy hardware".  She'd become the head of a company called Spin Systems.  Spin Systems was a GHS (Gravitational Hospitable Support) entity.  Their roots began in providing small spin systems that created a false gravity.  These were Earth orbiters that existed solely for the very early space sports entertainment industry.  By 2500, they'd diversified their contracts so much that they'd become a political contender, the poster child for Legacy.      


It is easy now to look back upon these unfolding events as a kind of stage play, the obvious spin-offs of a drama; the "Manifest Destiny" to populate the Sun System.  What if High End had been led by strong-armers?  What if Moon City residents had organized and lobbied to become an adversarial force against High End?  Could this have led to aggression?  In light of a stewing intellectual holocaust, how would these conflicts play out.  Could there have been blood so early?  Could the population of the Sun System have been snuffed out in it's very origins.  It was a question left for the ages.  


The primary cause for Juno's attack against Human-Earthers was an alliance that became obvious between Spin Systems and Legacy.  Brian-Phillips viewed the alliance as a marketing ploy, a push to mandate Spin System's products or similar products to such a degree, it would limit Juno's ability to explore the Sun System via regulation.  Therefore, he intern launched the "Free Space" campaign.  The mission statement spoke to the effect of limiting legislation on private firms in space.  


In 2520 a arm of Legacy had begun to explore the asteroid belt.  Within a month, a rogue asteroid drifted so close to the Klaud-Juno, that the port was temporarily pulled, by sheer gravity, out of it's native Sun orbit.  There is no way to know if this was an attack by Sherm and Legacy or if in fact it was simply "bad luck"  For twenty years, Juno would be tied up in legislation against Legacy.  Brian-Phillip's son, Colt Phillips, would inherit the company in 2544.  In doing so, Colt was to inherit the missteps of his father.


The Free Space campaign, by attacking the Human-Earthers had become a loaded adversary of the majority in its genesis.  Colt would redirect the Free Space campaign with measures of a much more precise trajectory, directly at Legacy and Spin Systems.  


Much like the Human-Earthers, there existed a platform called Transparencies.  This school of thought was of 2200 educational roots.  It's fore fathers were founders of early academia, the founders of "Orientation Education" which was revolutionary in it's reform to the public school system.  As a result, it was considered to be a respectable agent for people of Earth. It was inherently good.  Colt would cultivate friendships within this platform and in essence align himself with a voice of good; for the people. Under the safe cover of this voice, Colt could continue his father's bidding of derailing Human-Earthersm allowing him to adjust his Free Space campaign directly at Legacy.  He was said to be, "addicted to crazy."