[@User] This may be true in modern terms, but when artificial gravity is considered, the differences would be negligible. This would be totally unknown to everyone because I haven't yet made the technology update to the OP, but the BASS station, the Willman Lab and every colony on every planet exists inside artificial constructs built on the planet, rather than on the surface itself. As complete terraforming has yet to be developed to the point where a habitable planet can be created from an inhospitable one, the best that humanity can do is build interconnected structures with simulated gravity and circulated oxygen. Each colony is equipped with a gravity simulator which acts or counteracts the natural gravity of the planet to various degrees so as to simulate Earth's gravity to the best of its ability. This is why planets with crushing gravity can not currently be colonized -- the machines can not counteract the effects of the planet enough to allow humans to live there. Ships, likewise, also have miniature versions of these gravity simulators, which allow the ship to maintain a gravity similar to that of Earth while in space.

[@DeepestApology] To be honest, until now I was content to just ignore special relativity entirely, because to include it would complicate things too much (i.e. having younger relatives end up being older, and such). If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd certainly like to hear them!

Oh, also, to those who are very patiently waiting on said technology update, I'm working on it as we speak and will be uploading it sometime today. The political section is also in the works, but I'll get that done after I get the tech section done.