Flying Under the Radar Since Forever

The Free Trader Alliance (FTA) is humanity’s proudest attempt at organized chaos. It's not a government, it’s not a corporation, and it’s definitely not a democracy. It’s a patchwork of haulers, scavengers, smugglers, and opportunists held together by caffeine, mutual suspicion, and a shared fear of paperwork.

FTA captains don’t salute. They don’t report to anyone. What they do is move things — fast, quietly, and with a firm belief that it’s only illegal if...

The Reptoids are extinct. At least, that’s what everyone keeps insisting — usually right before someone uncovers something they left behind.

They’re not remembered through stories or language. There are no clear transmissions, no known culture, no reliable depiction of what they even looked like. Just silence, and structures. Vast, inscrutable, over-engineered structures — deeply buried, quietly waiting, never fully dead.

You don’t find Reptoid tech. You disturb it. Accidentally. In the middle...

It always starts with good intentions and no adult supervision.

Gandrig: a lovely planet, terrible judgment. The Advanced Peace Institute — a well-funded Libertarian “peace-through-technology” collective — had a bold idea: create self-aware weapons to end war.

Because nothing says “conflict resolution” like a fleet of star-destroying bombs with existential curiosity.

And they succeeded.

Sort of.

They didn’t just build one bomb — they built many. Sleek, terrifying, intelligent constructs designed...