Shipboard Emergency Equipment

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 22 November, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Equipment, Starships, Technology, Transportation, VehiclesLeave a comment

Space travel in the Alliance and surrounding areas is a mature technology, about as safe as modern air travel. For most interstellar travelers, it’s almost identical to boarding an airliner or passenger train. You check your luggage, walk through a weapons scanner, get on board, and when you get where… Read More ►

Spacer Food

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 15 November, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Food, Starships, Technology, TradeLeave a comment

The Alliance has a large population of people who rarely if ever set foot on a planetary surface. There are even more who travel so extensively they spend large amounts of time in space. This includes merchant crew, asteroid miners, active-duty Patrol personnel, people who live on orbital or deep-space… Read More ►

Starship Cargo Operations

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 8 November, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Starships, Technology, Trade, Transportation, VehiclesLeave a comment

While most settled planets in the Alliance are self-sufficient, very few can produce everything they need, and offplanet luxuries are by definition from another planet. For obvious reasons, this leads to a lot of interplanetary and interstellar trade. In-system trade largely consists of basic commodities being transferred as needed. Typically,… Read More ►

Civilian Starship Operations

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 1 November, 202431 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Background, Economics, Starships, Trade, Void PiratesLeave a comment

The Patrol and system defense ships may get all the fame and flashy news coverage, but the real work is done by civilian concerns. Shipping is a civilian trade, without which interstellar commerce would grind to a halt. Resource extraction and survey work are dominated by civilian interests as well. … Read More ►

Political Organization of the Alliance

By Patrick MurphyPosted on 19 July, 202423 March, 2024Cat AllianceTags Alliance, Background, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Law, Starports, Starships, Technology, Thabbo, Transportation, Void PiratesLeave a comment

The Alliance of Independent Worlds is – shockingly – an alliance of largely independent solar systems. It exists mainly to facilitate trade and law enforcement that has a widespread effect. Among other things, they run the Patrol (in theory) to keep it neutral and dedicated to the Alliance as a… Read More ►