Privateer

There is no world here. There is only floating refuse and junk left over from The Calamity. There were worlds here once, according to old data files. Every species had a "home" and people stayed in one place because there was food and resources aplenty. Now, you don't stay too long in one place or someone might catch wind of how much Pep you have.   Is Pep food? No, food is a thing of the past. Technology provides us all the "food" needed to carry on. But that Tech needs its own kind of food, Pep. At least that's what most call it. Whatever it is, it's left over from The Calamity and it keeps things moving. It's a currency as much as it's a power source. Some say there's only so much Pep in the universe left over. Others think the Artifacts will just keep generating more and more forever. Most just steal Pep from others in a never ending cycle of violence. But it's hard to call it stealing when the act is so common across the galaxies. You just see an opportunity and you take it, or you die.   There are a few floating colonies that have amassed over the years, but most avoid colonies unless it's dire.   Artifacts. Ancient technology that generates Pep. Artifacts only respond to certain people. All ships are based around an Artifact generating the Pep needed for it's basic functions. Artifacts need Pep to make Pep. It's an economy of sorts.   The Calamity is an on going war. Carried out somewhere else in the universe. But it was here once, long ago.   Humans, Orcs, Elves are the primary species. Earth was just a planet that happened to conquered by xenophobic Humans. Other planets existed with mixed specie populations and some with sole-species populations.   No magic. No lasers. Basic ballistic slag being shot into space at other ships.   Privateer. Sieze Oppurtunity.