2700

In 2615 Xaero Inc developed the first Terra space vator system that was an actual global network.  It was essentially 125 elevators across the globe designed to deliver payloads to points beyond the atmosphere.  These required easy access to multiple Earth orbits.  By 2630, there was enough traffic in Earth's orbit to make up the mass of three moon cities.  One could now commute in and out of orbit as part of a daily work routine.  Going to space had become uneventful.

With the general public actively involved in near earth space, which included the moon, it now became the stuff of dreams to explore the outer solar system.  Government contracts and private ventures had a long history of trips to the asteroid belt and to the moons of the giant planets, but it was still territory unknown.

The Mars group was an organization that simply kept Mars maintained for any and all business to Mars.  In stark contrast to the Moon city, Lego (Mars Facility) was created as a by product and not a deliberate marketing campaign.  By 2650, although Lego could be classified as the first Mars city, it was not considered popular to the public.  It was too industrial, a place where over worked, under payed "long term space folk"rested in the comfort of decent gravity.

The CEO of Newton Inc, the largest H2O asteroid extraction company, had close personal ties with Xaero back on Earth.  It was within this aliance that Lithiya, the "real" Mars city was born.

By the 2670's, the port between Earth and Mars could no longer be listed as singular.  It was a strip of ports that stretched evenly around it's native Sun orbit.  There were 443 ports in what was called the Klaude-Juno orbit, named after the first giant port.  Without the KJ ports, the mining and movement of asteroid materials to the Earth in mass quantities was impossible.  The ports housed fleets of ships, rock cutters, landers, human beings, and millions of tons of pure asteroid rock and water.  It is important to note that after 220 of the ports were mass produced and set to motion, the rest of the KJ ports were fit with a spin rim.  It was a luxury proposed by Newton Inc.  The spin rims were GHS systems which matched Earth gravity precisely.

Back on Earth, within the political spectrum, recruitment firms were being blasted by an assortment of political strong armers within the Human-Earth platform.  The largest recruiter was Grace Inc.  They made money by hiring what were to be nick named space horses; people who survived remarkably well in zero gravity.  There was no job interview.  It was a lab test.