The story for lore fans · tap to open
In the story, Earth Exports is a merchant house at the Ohio Outpost on Sol-3, trading from the lounge of the collector freighter Cosmic Voyager. Fifty years after first contact, the valuable thing Earth puts on a ship isn’t only ore. It’s culture you can hold: games, tools, documents and objects made by hand in a gravity well.
In that story, the ship does not push through space. It holds still. One core carries its weight, and three points at the edges decide which way the world slides past it. That is why it can hover in silence and change direction at once.
The captain is a traveler who keeps living plants in canisters, and rare cargo with them. Other people want that cargo, so sales stay careful.
The filing stamps you’ll see (PTC, AFC, TCRD, Sol-3 Consular Authority) are made-up house fiction, not real agencies. House rule: nothing here is issued by a government. Everything here is built to look like it survived one, as design, not deception.