Ladies and gentlemen, this is Citizens of the Future number 5: Kuiper B-0085.
When it became obvious Earth's resources were dwindling, humanity sent spaceships to start slowly dwindling space's resources.
These brave human miners were short (to fit better on ships) and pumped full of testosterone (to be tougher, early days of body modification). The isolated societies of squat, tough, hairy and masculine miners started calling themselves "Dwarves", inspired by the fantasy species.
Kuiper B-0085 is a colony on the Kuiper belt shared by different "dwarven" cooperatives, or clans, as a port for their spaceship cities.
This dwarven miner follows the trend of customizing his work spacesuits with fantasy helmets and armour. Who says you can't explore the oxygenless asteroids with style?
Aside from miners, dwarves are also considered great, though not particularly responsible, mechanics. Using the minerals they mine to build and repair the tools used to mine even more minerals.
These mates from different clans are partaking in the holy ritual of "having a cold one with the boys" to celebrate the ginger fella having given birth to his hairy baby, and therefore, being able to finally have a cold one with the boys again.
With no sane people around to stop them, the baby's name is Direwolf Steepcliffson of Clan Copperbeard (co-op).
I caved (pun intended), I put fantasy dwarves in my SF universe... I just love them so much...
I will use these LARPing morons to show the things I like about masculinity, but also criticize the many, many negative aspects.
