Moon
The Moon before the crises was seen as an untapped resource for the ongoing research into fusion reactors that had borne some fruit before the Advent of Higgs energy generation.
The Moon was seen as a viable source of helium-3 buried deep within the lunar soil; a rare Earth gas and seemingly limited resource that could be potentially salvaged and mine for the future of Earth between China, India and the US. This revitalized the space programs and there was an active attempt to settle the Moon with colonies and bases. However, these programs soon fell to the wayside after the arrival of the First Crisis. The crisis brought with it a profound transformation to the direction of the Earth, where the planet looked not to the stars but rityto the abyssal nature of the oceans.
Since then, the Moon hasn't been quite forgotten, but it has certainly not been a priority, at least not to the major powers, corporations, or nations. The big announcements to show off the progress and research that they had accumulated from the First Crisis came through the use of landing various devices and apparatus on the Moon. However, details are hazy on whether anyone actually successfully put people on the Moon for the long term, and there are lies and interesting questions of whether there are still people on the Moon
With the Fourth Crisis, the detonation of the Higgs bomb, the removal of most of the Earth's satellites, as well as just general calamity that started as a result of the massive climate change and paradoxically climate shuffling of the planet, there was little attention paid to the Moon, certainly not as the Centauri arrived. Today there is very little reasons to colonize the Moon. Helium-3 is not useful in the Higgs production. Sister technology or an alternative technology that the Centauri as well simply don't use the Helium-3.
The use of spaceships had become common, at least briefly, while Centauri's fleet was in orbit. During this time, visits to the Moon were documented but not a regular or formal thing; joyriding space shipowners, thrill seekers, and the curious who had the means would travel to the Moon. A large number of people had accumulated access to spaceships. Any number of them could have established a Moon base using it as a brief stopping point or even as a counterintelligence point to spy on the Centauri; however, such cases were rare.
Centauri dominated the air game as well as the space game until the 5th crisis was dealt with. With the Future invaders providing logistical support and GPS positioning, something that was inadvertently not advisable until it was too late before their invasion, they utilized space to target and destroy many of the strategic assets. This resulted in them also targeting the spaceship owners, which turned space once more inaccessible to humanity.
Moon's importance is now a staging ground; both India and VIC have promised to have people on the Moon within the next decade, and from there, they will be able to reach Mars in short order. As it grows in new importance, many look to the Moon not as a symbol of moving past the old world. It is the first hurdle in expanding beyond the tiny world we almost perished in.
United Nations is already in hot debate about what the nature of the Moon shall play in the geopolitical nature of the world who has rights to it who doesn't what do those rights mean and what does it mean for future developments of the planet is there hot button issues well within all organizations but most importantly those that have the resources to develop the space programs that are at their moment crucially in their infancy rapidly approaching a stable usage
The Moon was seen as a viable source of helium-3 buried deep within the lunar soil; a rare Earth gas and seemingly limited resource that could be potentially salvaged and mine for the future of Earth between China, India and the US. This revitalized the space programs and there was an active attempt to settle the Moon with colonies and bases. However, these programs soon fell to the wayside after the arrival of the First Crisis. The crisis brought with it a profound transformation to the direction of the Earth, where the planet looked not to the stars but rityto the abyssal nature of the oceans.
Since then, the Moon hasn't been quite forgotten, but it has certainly not been a priority, at least not to the major powers, corporations, or nations. The big announcements to show off the progress and research that they had accumulated from the First Crisis came through the use of landing various devices and apparatus on the Moon. However, details are hazy on whether anyone actually successfully put people on the Moon for the long term, and there are lies and interesting questions of whether there are still people on the Moon
With the Fourth Crisis, the detonation of the Higgs bomb, the removal of most of the Earth's satellites, as well as just general calamity that started as a result of the massive climate change and paradoxically climate shuffling of the planet, there was little attention paid to the Moon, certainly not as the Centauri arrived. Today there is very little reasons to colonize the Moon. Helium-3 is not useful in the Higgs production. Sister technology or an alternative technology that the Centauri as well simply don't use the Helium-3.
The use of spaceships had become common, at least briefly, while Centauri's fleet was in orbit. During this time, visits to the Moon were documented but not a regular or formal thing; joyriding space shipowners, thrill seekers, and the curious who had the means would travel to the Moon. A large number of people had accumulated access to spaceships. Any number of them could have established a Moon base using it as a brief stopping point or even as a counterintelligence point to spy on the Centauri; however, such cases were rare.
Centauri dominated the air game as well as the space game until the 5th crisis was dealt with. With the Future invaders providing logistical support and GPS positioning, something that was inadvertently not advisable until it was too late before their invasion, they utilized space to target and destroy many of the strategic assets. This resulted in them also targeting the spaceship owners, which turned space once more inaccessible to humanity.
Moon's importance is now a staging ground; both India and VIC have promised to have people on the Moon within the next decade, and from there, they will be able to reach Mars in short order. As it grows in new importance, many look to the Moon not as a symbol of moving past the old world. It is the first hurdle in expanding beyond the tiny world we almost perished in.
United Nations is already in hot debate about what the nature of the Moon shall play in the geopolitical nature of the world who has rights to it who doesn't what do those rights mean and what does it mean for future developments of the planet is there hot button issues well within all organizations but most importantly those that have the resources to develop the space programs that are at their moment crucially in their infancy rapidly approaching a stable usage
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