BIAP also looks into space mines, large explosive devices which can track their target and explode near or on it to create as much debris as possible. The debris, however, would cause Kessler Syndrome which would severely hurt anyone who has anything in space.
The NPSS expands even more than before. It has had time to build another two tiers, and another seven docks for Astroplanes. Astroplane travel within the CPPE is becoming even more popular. On the NPSS, a small state-owned company and the crew of the station are collaborating to make a Space Hotel, which will revolutionize tourism.
The Jovian moon colonies, seeing the Vukmiri as overbearing, begin to resent the deal. Some colonists move to smaller moons as separate entities while continuing mining and extraction operations, independent of the CPPE entirely, so as to avoid the feudal taxation. They also complain of strict weaponry laws, and want weaponry suitable for a spatial situation. This would mean something other than bullets.
