No matter how bad it looks, it’s hard not to have hope for the future. Shiny chrome sci-fi worlds evolved into capitalist hellscapes back in the late 80s/early 90s and have been stuck there ever since, but unless it’s a straight-up horrorshow there’s a belief that individuals can escape even if the society in general won’t change. Sometimes it’s pure wishful thinking (just about every cyberpunk story ever written) and sometimes Arnold Schwarzenegger manages to get Mars a breathable atmosphere, but aside from the occasional Star Wars/Trek setting, the goal is almost always to break free of being a disposable corporate resource. Difficult as that may be, it seems to be a little easier in Prospector seeing as they’ve given you an entire wild planet to call your own.