@The Belt is approaching a turning point.
The @Free Belt Coalition (FBC) is gaining support, but internal divisions threaten to tear it apart. Competition from @Terra and @Mars is intensifying. Corporate security forces are expanding, labor unrest is spreading, and heavily armed independent crews are becoming increasingly common.
Major stations demand political recognition while remote communities struggle simply to survive. Every disrupted shipment and failed life-support system strengthens the belief that the Belt must control its own future.
At the same time, activity of @The Silence is increasing in regions far beyond reliable government oversight. Artifacts move through black markets, @Resonants disappear into hidden programs, and isolated crews encounter phenomena no one has prepared them to understand.
The inner planets built the Belt to supply their civilizations.
The @Belters have begun to ask why they should continue doing so.