Our Hostile Rpg campaign has been on hold for a few weeks because of work scheduling issues. So I've been reading & doing campaign notes. And I've been focusing on the Oort cloud just outside of Neptune. The cloud is just a collection of mountain sized asteroids & space debris that's hardly been mapped even by the time of Hostile.
Who cares about the Oort Cloud?! Besides it's a local pheneoma and location to the solar system. The cloud hasn't even been explored and written off by the time of the Hostile timeline's Second Recession? However the fact that it has all of the material that makes up Jupiter within it makes the Cloud perfect for space mining & fuel production. The fact that you've got millions of object the size of mountains tumbling through space very challening to mapping. And this makes the Oort Cloud the perfect location to send corporate sponsored explorers. This also makes the cloud the perfect location for alien and space going lifeforms. 
The Oort Cloud is perfect ground for the Pioneer Station series of fuel stations are suited for the myriad of mining and fuel processsing station refineries. The Pioneer stations have the numerious configurations needed for the cloud; "The 600-ton Leyland-Okuda Pioneer is a general purpose industrial operations platform, a five-man space station designed to serve as an operations center, drone control, fuel store or supply dump."
The Pioneer stations have be setup in carefully A.I. computer calculated orbits so as not be smashed to little pieces by the mountain sized space debris of the cloud. Those roughnecks who serve to mine the Oort Cloud are some of the roughest and toughest miners to put on a space suit. The cloud is weird, awe inspiring, and very lonely. Because of the hazardous conditions at the Oort Cloud there is a 20,000 bonus for those who sign up. Because of the casul loss of life only a few get to spend it!
Space madness is among the most common insanities that infects Oort Cloud miners and no one knows why. The most common metals in the cloud are the huge deposits of nickel and the building blocks of comets. These materials are essential to the space industries back on Earth. Two giant refineries and smelters have been built within the Kuiper belt, for faster processing of materials.
There are always rumors of alien artifacts, lifeforms, etc. most of which turn out to be bunk. The standing 2 million reward for information is still safe along with claims of the giant bonuses put out by corporations.
The Oort Cloud is perfect ground for the Pioneer Station series of fuel stations are suited for the myriad of mining and fuel processsing station refineries. The Pioneer stations have the numerious configurations needed for the cloud; "The 600-ton Leyland-Okuda Pioneer is a general purpose industrial operations platform, a five-man space station designed to serve as an operations center, drone control, fuel store or supply dump."
The Pioneer stations have be setup in carefully A.I. computer calculated orbits so as not be smashed to little pieces by the mountain sized space debris of the cloud. Those roughnecks who serve to mine the Oort Cloud are some of the roughest and toughest miners to put on a space suit. The cloud is weird, awe inspiring, and very lonely. Because of the hazardous conditions at the Oort Cloud there is a 20,000 bonus for those who sign up. Because of the casul loss of life only a few get to spend it!
Space madness is among the most common insanities that infects Oort Cloud miners and no one knows why. The most common metals in the cloud are the huge deposits of nickel and the building blocks of comets. These materials are essential to the space industries back on Earth. Two giant refineries and smelters have been built within the Kuiper belt, for faster processing of materials.
There are always rumors of alien artifacts, lifeforms, etc. most of which turn out to be bunk. The standing 2 million reward for information is still safe along with claims of the giant bonuses put out by corporations.
There have been several corporate skirmishes among the Oort Cloud but sustained battles are absolute suicide because of collosions & debris chain accidents. There have also be UIO reports among the cloud. Unidentified Intersystem Objects have become quite common just before industrial accidents. The rumors among the miners are that the aliens are laughing at them. They also think that there might be a hidden colony among the rocks.
The Oort Cloud has provided the corporations a rich bounty of materials for manufacturing and space industries. The Oort Cloud is only beginning to be exploited by the corporations and there are several unique trademark and copyrights that have come about because of the close procimity to several comets that have been explored, cataloged, and mined by roughnecks.
Now the corporate gold rush is on for the hidden sections of the Oort cloud.
The Oort Cloud has provided the corporations a rich bounty of materials for manufacturing and space industries. The Oort Cloud is only beginning to be exploited by the corporations and there are several unique trademark and copyrights that have come about because of the close procimity to several comets that have been explored, cataloged, and mined by roughnecks.
Now the corporate gold rush is on for the hidden sections of the Oort cloud.
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