It's kind of an Outerspace Western set in the 26th century, there abouts, the Chinese have taken over, the trek to space, and Anglosphere (Londinium) have colonized a nearby star system, there
was a Civil War type Rebellion, a rag tag band with strictly libertarian
principles

Well maybe it will be like the world of Firefly, where the Chinese 'Sinan'
rule the roost

WE could be charitable and regard it like the post Apollo interregnum
after Skylab, but we were actually developing the shuttle in that period, so that's not an exact comparison, There is the X-37 which
will supposedly be deployed some time in the future

It's all about 'returning science to it's rightful place,' endorsed by the
Ehrlich disciple Holdren, practicing the alchemy of clean energy, through the cap n trade, card monte, imposing a vast regulatory
straightjacket, on every aspect of human enterprise, in tandem with
a stultifying health care framework, call it triage, or death panels, the
terms don't really matter