Space Age Premise

It is the cusp of the space age revolution. Faster than light speed travel has been discovered, making traveling and discovering distant planets incredibly simple. Space travel has become more and more common, and the universe has come to something of a 'wild west' state, where no form of government is prominent enough to enforce the entire galaxy. Planets are being discovered and inhabited every single day, and the expansion of humanity is finally coming to full bloom with humans racing off to find planets in search of metaphorical 'gold', natural resources with which to further technology. The price of natural resources has drastically dropped, and the variety of technology being created is incredibly diverse. One technology, however, has become universally used, and that is nano-technology.

While many engineers and scientists are still working on big things, like spaceships and terraforming, nanotechnology has become prominent in all societies. Despite the technological diversity of the many worlds humans inhabit, nanotechnology will forever be regarded as the 'king of kings' of technology. Arthur Smog was the first person to invent a nano-tech space-suit. Initially called the 'Smogsuit', it was the standard spacesuit and after seeing the success of the suit in marketing, many other companies started to mass produce cheap knockoffs, however, Arthur Smog's company is still around and producing the top of the line suits in terms of nanotechnology available.

A few years after the 'Smogsuit' was created, an elite programmer known only by his alias Falcon_Leader started releasing programs to the universal web that could change the behavior of the nano-bots and make them alter some of the functions of the Smogsuits. It could force the nanobots to instead of changing the air the user breathed to oxygen, it added chemical compounds that would make the wearers of the suit high, or minor tricks to make the suit seem heavier, make the suits produce too many nanobots and have you leave a sparkling trail wherever you went. Falcon_Leader was called a terrorist by many governments, but regarded as something of a trickster more commonly, and even praised as a god by others. Arthur Smog continued to upgrade his suit, adding lots of hack prevention functionalities to it, and even programming his nanobots to not accept any new programming, but Falcon_Leader had started a trend of hacking into nanobot technology which would live on long after he disappeared from the universal web forever. Waves of hackers started turning their attention to the nanobots, and soon Arthur Smog and other scientists had decided it wasn't worth it to fight them anymore, and that they should just start programming the machines to accept new programming as long as it didn't delete any of the essential programs needed for a wearer to survive on almost uninhabitable planets.

The Smogsuit soon became a monopoly company, releasing tons and tons of new programming chips called 'Modules' to the public. These Modules were licensed coding that you could buy to upgrade your Smogsuit to function better in certain ways. Each Smogsuit came with a certain amount of programming built into it, such as energy collection from converting the air to something breathable to the wearer, and self maintenance and replication of nanobots, but it also came with slots for inserting new Modules. At first, due to the limits of input a nanobot could take, only one Module could be accepted. These modules were simple at first, such as changing the color of your suit, assisted jumping (so you could jump higher), but militant groups took an interest in this and quickly created modules that would make the suits create more nanobots than it needed and use the excess as armor, or even programing the nanobots to change into weapons, such as guns, that would disintegrate as soon as you stopped holding onto them. When Arthur Smog died about 50 years later, his company lived on, hiring 'cream-of-the-crop' graduate engineers to continue designing new suits and pushing these nanobots to the limits. Soon only one module slot became two, and two slots became three, and the ability to take more and more complex modules became better, and the ability for nanobots to collect energy and create objects became more efficient.

Now it is the age of the Nanosuits and Modules. If you don't have the best, than it's hard to make it anywhere in this world. Shady black market deals to get a glimpse of the newest unreleased model of the Nanosuits are a necessity, and getting your hands on an unreleased one is even more important. Space piracy has hit its all time high, only rising, as there is not really any form of galactic government still, just many small allegiances between certain planets, and many companies are hiring mercenaries to protect their cargo as they ferry it from one planet to another, paying with custom made modules or other useful technologies to use or trade with others to get even more amazing modules or Nanosuits.