[Space] 'Space Opera' Setting

[thtraveller]

Originally Posted by Frost

Despite these advantages Earth remains the so-called ‘poor man of the inner ring’ unable to catch it’s smaller but less damaged rivals due to endemic warfare and widespread environmental degradation.

This implies that the environments of alien "habitable" planets are more benign than the ravaged Earth. Seems unlikely unless Earth is a near wasteland.

Though the vastly reduced population implies multiple things:
- that AI and/or human uploads are not established,
- that life extension technology has not been particularly successful,
- that extremely nasty warfare has taken place.