Technology

Necessity has forced Earth to maintain its historical artifacts under extreme conditions and with limited resources. This has led to a culture of craftsmanship focused on care, attention to detail, and consummate skill even in deprived circumstances; though other planets have the means to produce goods in haste and at a much higher volume, Earth is a byword for quality work for a reason – so much so that restoration services across the Alliance market their services as being comparable to, or even directly trained in, “the Earth way”.

Earthlings did not develop manifold collapse technology on their own, and their early forays into spaceflight relied on crude methods of propulsion. The cultural drive to preserve legacy technology has allowed Earthlings to retain more knowledge of rudimentary alternatives to our high tech defaults, and engineers from Earth continue to learn and to teach these old solutions. One such project has seen students in an Earth/Kessler collaboration attempt to build a T/OM unit that runs solely on a steam-powered punch-card system, albeit so far without success.