Note: The most popular long-distance transport in use in this era on Mars is the Solar Zeppelin, which is basically a cabin suspended from a balloon which gets its heat and rotary power from the sun. However, if you have the money for fuel, nothing beats a rocket powered Jumper when you need to get across…

Note: Biometric cuffs are standard in high security facilities at this time. They seem cumbersome, and as though there may be solutions which are more elegant, but their awkwardness is a part of the security they provide. Not only do they ensure that an authorized person is at the controls of any high-security console, but they also monitor the person’s physiology…

Note: Projectile and beam weaponry is tightly controlled throughout the Sol System, and even highly trained agents like Lila only carry a firearm if investigating a case in which it is known that someone involved is carrying a firearm. Doctor Bezos is using a custom weapon, hastily crafted in his lab from a high-powered laser microscope and a…

Note: Jansen plays Football for the Xanthe Dusters, a top rated team in the Martian Planetary League, which consists of a total of 24 teams – two from each major settlement. The colors he’s wearing on this day, however, are those of the Mars Rovers, a club in the Sol Football League, which competes in interplanetary matches, and which he aspires…

Note: The Sol Council Special Group (SCSG) is an organization of investigators and special operations soldiers who answer directly to the Sol Council. While technically not part of the military (they originally grew out of the police organization in the Sol capitol city of Luna Prime, and were intended to serve as a sort of cross-borders…

Note: The Quantum Beam Transmitter is a communications technology first theorised by Doctor Cosmo Firenczi in 2098. The Lunar research labs were experiencing significant inconveniences due to a communications lag with researchers Earthside. The QBT, if it worked, would allow faster-than-light data transmission, but it had significant drawbacks. The technology was far too expensive, the…