Spacer

On the boundary between mythology and history, the term spacers is often used to refer to the pre-historical travellers who ventured between planets in the days before Pope John Paul V's miraculous insight granted humanity access to the Vault of Heaven. Limited by the speed of light, it would take lifetimes to journey to even the nearest inhabited world, and the early spacers must have been incredibly brave or foolhardy to even attempt it.

Some, it is believed, even managed to calculate discontinuous transit routes by luck and intuition, bujt lacked the instrumentation to pass on their skills. These men were known as Spacer Aces, and formed an elite corps who for generations were the only way for distant worlds to communicate.

The styles of this age (both the primative solid-fuel cruisers, and the bulky exo suits) are immitated by the fashion movement known as spacerpunk.