I have no idea if I've dropped this outside my brain or if it's another instance of me thinking so much about lore that I just think I've already shared it BUT
Pluto and Nova's story setting is basically retconned and no longer takes place in the distant future. It's still futuristic but it takes place on a man-made world. This is mainly so, BY SOME CHANCE, they could end up meeting my other OCs if I ever got around to doing a massive crossover thingy.
Basically, some decades ago during the first couple of UFO sightings and crashes, Earth realized there was indeed life in space. And in secret, humans worked with whatever aliens winded up on Earth to create a man-made planet that would serve as the dream utopia for human and aliens...as well as a lure to urge more outer space dwellers to land there and NOT Earth because it was getting harder and harder to lie to the public about their existence.
It was meant to follow the iconic vision of space travel you think of, with all the shine and perfection. The world we live on but better.
However, things rarely go to plan.
Due to the planet being man-made, it also became a dumping ground of sorts. Laws were difficult to reinforce like on Earth due to how complex the society had become with the influx of aliens and their own rules. Earth had begun to go through its own tensions, leading to attention drifting away from the planet.
Companies started to drop certain morals, shoving advertisements wherever they please leading to cities with skies filled with billboards and neon signs. Building regulations were just thrown out the window, leading to towers and clusters of buildings. There's a point there are even cities on top of cities.
The biggest development was technology and the heavy lean towards implementing it into living biology. What once was experimental became a widespread practice. Body modifications with tech ran rampant with some mods being completely harmless and just for aesthetic. Others, like merging the body with military grade weaponry became highly illegal. But with the Earth and alien governments being more focused on their home planets than the one they collaborated on together.
This led to the planet having to scrape together some kind of law enforcement to keep everyone in check.
Which is a lore dump for a different post.
BUT over the years things have settled down somewhat. Of course, this could simply be due to the lawbreakers becoming better at working in secret away from the public eye. Or the fact some are working alongside and even for law enforcement, leading to the lines of good and bad becoming blurred.
However, many residents are simply just residents trying to make it by. Some migrated to the planet during the dawn of its creation and have been there ever since, leading to generations that only know of Earth and their ancestor's planets through books and tv. Others recently landed on the planet with hopes of exploring a future.
While it wasn't a total lawless wasteland, it was far from the utopia dreamed of. However, it became the melting pot of the universe and still represents the unity of humans and aliens...
A unity that Earth continues to lie to it's own residents about due to them keeping the planet hidden from the public eye. Unless you got the right tech and know the exact coordinates, this all is just a conspiracy theory you may find on a long buried post, whose comments have been disabled, on a forum from a deleted user.
