The Colonial Network 

Expansion throughout the cosmos is the great game changer the world is anticipating. When it was finally discovered how to harness the power of the wormhole, planets, moons and asteroids could be colonized without the need for expensive and slow moving liquid rockets.

The Colonial network is the name given to all objects connected through wormholes that are either colonized, or are scheduled to be colonized.

Colonization at this early stage involves resource extraction and all this is for the benefit of the Sky Lords who own the businesses and the objects beyond the Earth. 

The Sky Lords have learned their lesson about relying on human labour. Therefore, most of the colonists are robots. But there are still many professionals that oversee the operations. These are often highly skilled engineers, mechanics and supervisors, as well as other support workers. Only professionals with strong bonds to Lords are given permission to fan out across the colonial network. Those without bonds beyond the perimeter are banned from travel beyond Earth.

Because of the immense scale of the resources available and due to the devastating consequences of refining those resources on earth, all smelting and manufacturing occurs on the moon. The moon is therefore of huge importance. It lights up at night like a giant interconnected city, but this city is mostly populated by robots and the lights come from sprawling industrial fields.

There are a number of access points to the Colonial Network. The main one is in the free state of Texas and is run by an incredibly powerful company called Red Star Transport that also runs the state. But there are others. There are even some in China that were taken over by the rebels. While the rebel particle accelerators are sometimes bombed by the Sky Lords, the rebels make every effort to fix them so they can spread their rebellion through the Colonial Network. 

Most analysts believe the only chance the rebels have of winning is for them to choke off the Earth from the Colonial Network and stop the immense production power of the cosmos to swarm the Earth with weapons.