I haven't had much time to work on it lately, and I'm stuck on a plot hole. Once I figure out the hole, I'll probably have a new gush of material.
Anyway, it's set in an interstellar society, in an ever changing network of solar systems. Even with FTL travel, relativity has made it so that any sort of overarching government doesn't work very well, but there is a corporation that has managed to hold onto the monopoly of travel and information and insert itself as a form of law enforcement for hire. Local governments call on them to get to deep space crime scenes quickly.
The Fatjacks themselves are not capable of interstellar travel, but can latch in train onto an engine that jumps from one star system to another. It's kind of a wormhole/hyperspace like technology, but I haven't decided whether it's true FTL or if going faster just makes it take even less time for the traveler while for everyone else perceives the travel time as light speed. Weird physics.
Most people communicate via radio or hyperspace mail tube. The corporation has a lock on a quantum entanglement network, accessed and controlled entirely by A.I. in order to attempt to avoid paradoxes.
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Anyway, it's set in an interstellar society, in an ever changing network of solar systems. Even with FTL travel, relativity has made it so that any sort of overarching government doesn't work very well, but there is a corporation that has managed to hold onto the monopoly of travel and information and insert itself as a form of law enforcement for hire. Local governments call on them to get to deep space crime scenes quickly.
The Fatjacks themselves are not capable of interstellar travel, but can latch in train onto an engine that jumps from one star system to another. It's kind of a wormhole/hyperspace like technology, but I haven't decided whether it's true FTL or if going faster just makes it take even less time for the traveler while for everyone else perceives the travel time as light speed. Weird physics.
Most people communicate via radio or hyperspace mail tube. The corporation has a lock on a quantum entanglement network, accessed and controlled entirely by A.I. in order to attempt to avoid paradoxes.