User:C0ZM0/theleap

The 2000s Space boom, also known as the Great Leap, refers to the rapid expansion and commercialisation of the global space industry quickly following the Millennium Peace. [...]

Background

• Space race never ends because the Cold War gets hotter
• Militarization of space during The Deluge
• massive expansion of imilitary spaceports in Northern Elia Austral, the !Caribbean, Eastern Hylasia and South Abaria using maglev and laser-based assisted launch systems in part because a couple of countries were trying to set up an SDI-style defence system to dampen the effectiveness of strategic nukes as a deterrent, alongside the testing of HEMPs and land-to-orbit weapon systems
• The big civilisation-ending war that the 6 day war was thought to have sparked never came to pass, so a lot of the new launch infrastructure is either privatised, leased or opened up to civilian uses which becomes the basis of the new space economy
• New companies and large private investment to capitalise on new launch infrastucture, governments still play a large role through either regulation, military affairs or even more directly through public companies

Boom

• Boom history here

Economic impact

• new jobs

Markets

Defense industry

• Great powers still miliarize space but its mostly anti-ICBM platforms and armed space stations
  • Orion Battleships????? idk (prolly not)
• Arms companies are in on the fun

Energy

• Lunar solar energy production is really big

Materials processing

• Synthetic crystal production stuff

Telecommunications

• fixed and mobile satellite services
  • Starlink becomes a thing

Mining

• Oxygen extracted from Regolith to make rocket fuel
• REMs and KREEPs extraction

Tourism

• Billionaire and multimillionaire thing

Electronics

• Robotics, modular construction

Geopolitics

Intergovernmental organisations

• International org to monitor the whole thing

Secondary powers

Equatorial regions

• A bunch of countries in Hylasia, the !Caribbean and South Abaria get rich over laucn sites. Orbital rentier states?