SOFT WAR: STRIKEBREAKER

Workers on the icy rim-world Karthos-23b have formed a union and are striking on the job. Their corporate overlords are refusing to negotiate, and have sent in scabs to starve them out.

But what happens when the scabs never arrive, and a revolutionary lands on the planet instead?

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Motifs, Setting and Elements:

• Cold war, but in space.
• Aliens as sentient predators.
• Hackers as magi.
• Labor struggle under techno-fascism.
• Hard-science future tech.
• Giant Robots / Mecha.
• Hive Cities.
• Mining Colonies.
• Spaceships.

Lore Dump:

Excerpt from History of the Corporate Wars (2nd ed. 3920), by Daniel W. Flanigan:

In 3213, the first-ever sublight space engine was created by the scientists Zegneff Udara and Bernard Schraeder. This engineering marvel of applied physics and heavy industry transformed humanity from a single-system species to an intergalactic one, and ushered in the age of spacefarring.

Four centuries passed while the dominant corporations of Earth expanded their portfolios to include desolate moons, gas giants, faraway rimworlds, and even stars.

As the scale of humanity exploded, we never could have predicted what we’d find next. In 3645, after thousands of corporate charting expeditions had left Earth, humanity’s Free Trade Alliance (FTA) finally made first contact with two alien species in the same year. FTA Commander Zhao Feng discovered the reptilian Zard Empire of the planet Zilla first, and then a few months later met the Zard’s bitter rivals: the monstrous warrior cult known as the Durok of planet Goffgarlica.

For the last 300 years, we’ve learned more and more about our new neighbors, as well as about ourselves. But with the recent end to the centuries-long Zard-Durok war, there seems to be a single question dominating the mind of every educated FTA citizen:

How long until we are forced to fight?