Ad Astra

Enter the dystopian realistic future of the United Earth Federation. On its surface, the federation represents and shepherds all of humanity in a unified world government. In reality, the world is just as challenging and filled with strife as it is today. Earth is humanities home but overpopulation and a continuously warming climate push us to find a new world to settle while we try not to tear apart ourselves, our communities and civilization, and our home planet itself. Step into the shoes of an everyday UEF Space Force marine with big dreams for the future. You start out needing to fix a problematic shuttle even while you dream of how you're going to make a difference and fulfill your dreams! Maybe you'll apply to and enter the Deep Space Exploratory Corp and seek out new worlds. Maybe you'll find a team to make a difference right here on Earth! Or maybe you're just grateful for the friends and family you have, and you just want to focus on them and building your future right where you are. This stories beginnings are heavily focused on military life from the point-of-view of an average person in a futuristic Space Force. You start out as an enlisted maintenance technician, not a captain of some dazzling space ship with all the hard work already behind you! There's a lot of background to help make the military life experience realistic, but there's nothing stopping you from choosing a different path. You have a legacy to build, a galaxy to explore, and dreams to fulfill! Authors Notes: - We, as in humans in general, consistently make strides forth only to retreat towards those pits we fought so hard to climb out of. The world of Ad Astra is no different. Just because we get cool technology in the future, doesn't magically make us as a species better. We can go to the stars, and unfortunately we can take our hatred and bigotry with us.