Editing Pirates of the Baltic Sea (section)

===Off World Colonies===

The easily available resources on Earth have been running low for decades, necessitating more recycling and forcing resource gathering in places considered too difficult before, such as deep in the crust or on the ocean floors. Other sources have been sought offworld. Moon has had corporate mining posts for over a century, and has had an entire settlement, Luna City, for decades. Mars, likewise, has been colonized for more than a century, Colonies further away, such as in Titan, the moon of Saturn, are more recent, but even those are decades old.

And then there are the wormholes. First discovered by the physicists of Tusk International, later Tusk Interplanetary, who studied several anomalies within the solar system, came to theorize that these anomalies were in fact wormholes, opening into other solar systems, and were proven correct. Few people know what is happening beyond the wormholes, other than that some systems have habitable planets, and that there are corporate-founded colonies in them. The impoverished governments could not afford to explore, and the colonies in other systems are completely under control of the corporations. Most have even moved their headquarters offworld, and most of the richest shareholders in good enough health to survive the trip have moved to the colonies, away from the polluted and resource starved Earth still suffering from the climate crash.

People have been living offworld for a few generations, and the effects have manifested. People who have grown up in the lower gravity of the colonies have grown up looking different than those born on Earth. The scientists believe that the differences will only continue to be more pronounced with future generations.