Traveller
Humanity has gone to the stars and found them crowded with other forms of life and sentient races, and science and technology have advanced vastly over the present day - but the essential nature of humanity is unchanged. Life continues as it does today, only spread out over the sea of stars. A mighty Imperium unites thousands of star systems under a single rule, but it is beset by enemies both internal and external.
The Imperium commands the space between the stars, ensuring that civilisation endures and trade continues. Megacorporations and feudal lords conduct the bulk of this trade, but there will always be a place for the free trader - hardy travellers and adventurers on the fringes of Charted Space, dealing in strange foods and smuggled cargoes, doing whatever they can to make a credit.