The Fleabirds are a group of people indigenous to North America who have rejected the collectivism and sedentary lifestyle inherent in the Cosmic Era. Rather than living in the gleaming arcologies, steaming geofronts, or the great heaps of the urban rims and favelas. Rather, they live in caravans that travel the countryside of the continent.

the three pillars of robots

The plague of the Petroleum Era, the true bane of organized government

In the Cosmic Era, the proliferation of arcanotech, cyborgs, robots, parapsychic threats, black market weapons, new illegal drugs constantly hitting the market, all backed up by large organized criminal syndicates, the average police officer doesn't stand a chance.

The first Renaissance was kickstarted by the Crusades and trade, the second Renaissance was fueled by a looming global crisis and international cooperation

The PCC is the second largest religion in the Atlantic Federation.

Also known as automatics, dummies, skinnies, and mannikins.

Quite simply, the most sophisticated and pound for pound most dangerous vehicle in the skies of the Cosmic Era

Genimals are the stock and trade of BioCreches and one of the foundation technologies of the biosphere repair effort

Do me a favor, stay dead this time.

One of the side effects of the rampant cloning and genetic augmentation in the Cosmic Era is the slow emergence of genetic castes.

The walking siege engines of the Cosmic Era

The Rocky Mountain Republic owes in large it's existence to a single limited run of primitive mechs, the Assault/Bombard Mech model 1.

An Amazon nation in the Cosmic Era

The Trace On System, abbreviated as either TOS or TRON are a series of epidermal implants and nano-fiber filaments implanted to improve the reflexes, balance, and agility of the augment wearing them.

Also known as 'jeks, wo-pos and a variety of other derogatory terms

Guilt is a powerful force

Technology in the Cosmic Era can become corrupted and infested. When this happens to a mecha, the result in codenamed a Hekatonkheire.

An incarnation of Laserbeak, and condor/cyborgs for the Cosmic Era

When arcanotech fails, it fails spectacularly