Epilogue, by Flat Earth Games originally published by Objects in Space Website

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War was and is still talked about often, but the ties between all the major systems are now so great and the fatigue from combat so widespread that support for wars by the people is universally very low. The pirates, more direct and honest than their political counterparts, are now more varied and powerful than ever. They operate with impunity in most systems, but they're little better than the corrupt captains of ships which bear official national IFF beacons. With so much space out there, who's to say what really went on in one encounter with a known smuggler or another?Apollo has become a dog-eat-dog cluster, and another war never seems far away. Hope has faded. Earth Gate is dormant and with each passing year there are fewer people alive who even remember Earth and more people for whom the callousness of everyday life in Apollo is just life. Humans finally explored the galaxy. We came together - a unified crew of Earth's best. We were chipped away, one principle at a time, one justification at a time, and our new home is now more perilous than our old one ever was.

Welcome to the Apollo cluster. Eyes sharp.
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