PLUTO & KUIPER BELT

Smell that? Well, you can’t. Space has no smell! While space has no smell to speak of - there is something else more valuable than that: RESOURCES. Do you know what place has resources? The Sol System! That’s right! In our case, Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. So - what does Pluto have? Good question, it has frozen nitrogen, methane, water, and carbon monoxide ices. Now, carbon monoxide has no real value, but nitrogen, methane, and water are really-really valuable. Who would want all of this stuff in the first place? Another good question - it is the Ustonian Mega-Corporations. More specifically, Petrochemical Incorporated, Standard Agricultural, and Union Chemical Industries. Those Mega-Corporations, known as First-Rate Corporations, are the most powerful and largest corporations within Uston. It is also important to note that these corporations are Agricultural and Chemical corporations (I do not think I need to really explain what that is, hopefully).

Given the very nature of cutthroat competition between First-Rate Mega-Corporations, things are bound to get heated. Claims on Pluto made by Petrochem, StaAg, and U.C.I, have already resulted in major-shadowy actions undertaken by all of these corpo(s). Hell, even the geographical surveying teams were escorted by subsidiary security firms. Wild stuff. Peace was eventually made (after weeks of shady deeds done) between the corpo(s) to avoid another bloody corporate war. Petrochem would get the northern regions and parts of the methane deposits. StaAg got most of the nitrogen deposits and southern regions while Union Chemical Industries has both sizable methane and nitrogen regions elsewhere on the planet. Quite a nice conclusion to it, no? 

Now that the issue of Plutonian claims is settled, Petrochem, StaAg, and U.C.I have started their first steps in strip-mining the whole planet for its resources. Greed is the name of the game here and you know that capitalism does not have much forgiveness for those who do not exploit the living hell out of everything. Geographical surveying teams are sent, mining rigs are set up, and cargo ships are sent in to get the good stuff outback to factories. Never-ending economic growth is the goal and everyone fully knows that nothing will stop these fucks from doing what they know best.

Elsewhere, the Kuiper Belt equally has its fun! Ustonian Electric, General Business Machines, Real Metal Industries, and Ustonian Defense Systems, are players of the game here. The demands of heavy industry are ever-growing and new defense contracts by the Federal government are pushing every-single major manufacturing First-Rate Megacorporations to literally rush in their mining fleets to get their hands on new sources of minerals. It’s like crack to them! They can’t get enough and will never get enough. KUIPER asteroids every which way, where, and how, are being scooped up by capital-sized industrial ships. So far, no one is stopping them! The only obstacle is the other damn mega-corporations. This surge of heavy mining within the Kuiper Belt is also very noticeable, but who the hell is gonna stop them? 

Remember the cautious mindset done in the planning phase done by the megacorporations? Well, maybe not. To refresh your thinking, the plan was to simply not go in and literally start to exploit the outer-Solar System to its limits. Well...no plan survives first contact. Now, the only places being mined to shit are Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, but these greedy shits also plan to mine Neptune for its gases (especially by Petrochem and U.C.I). Geographical research is already being done to get the right gas layers, conditions, and composition info. And like before, Petrochem, U.C.I, and StaAg, are fighting over the claims of Neptune. Another round of underground shadow warfare and negotiation is underway as always. Likewise, plans for the inner-asteroid belt are being drawn up and being argued by the different ManuCorps. Lovely stuff.