Maelstrom

Physics and fate have conspired to confine humanity to the solar system. The Universe has remained persistently silent and there is no hope for faster-than-light travel. Fleeing a warming and overcrowded Earth, wealthy families have constructed extravagant floating arcologies high in the clouds of Venus and domed cities across the slowly greening valleys of Mars. The asteroid belt is an annulus of hopes and dreams, of partially-constructed mining colonies and divergent ideologies, in which the large metal asteroid Psyche is the cultural and financial center. And here, tension is brewing.