January 1, 2345. If nothing unexpected happened, this should have been the 216th year of the Wasteland Era.
However, because so many things had happened, the timeline leading straight into the abyss had ultimately changed.
The Orion had not fallen into the hands of the Celestials, nor had the entire azure planet.
The survivors of the new era had turned the tide, taking up the torch from their forebears and using it to drive away the boundless long night, welcoming the arrival of dawn.
January 1, 2345.
The Orion, bound for the Lagrange Point Space Station, docked at the starport.
Besides bringing back the heroes of the Burning Corps and delivering replacement troops, it had also carried forty thousand standard containers—nearly five hundred thousand tons of cargo in total.
For the first time in two centuries, goods produced on the surface had entered the docking orbit of Lagrange Point.
Just two years earlier, dense orbital debris had still filled Earth's outer orbital space.
Only a tiny portion of those five hundred thousand tons was supplies. Most of the rest consisted of aerospace materials, intermediate products, and various components manufactured by the industrial districts of Dawn City, Utopia City, the South Seas Rim, Ravenca, and Batoya.
According to their previous agreement, the Academy had shared with The Alliance the starship manufacturing blueprints from the Human Alliance era, as well as the logistics records and "supplier orders" it had recovered from the wasteland for the Lagrange Point Space Station over the years.
Using that data as a reference, The Alliance could gather its many allies and reproduce the entire "Lagrange Point Space Station-related industrial chain" from the Prosperity Era.
In exchange, The Alliance would complete the first order for a "large civilian interstellar cruise liner" for the Lagrange Point Space Station since