Hardwar: Misplaced Optimism - Background Story

This site is a member of:

Hardwar is a futuristic arcade flight simulation which will give PC gamers a huge virtual world to explore, conquer and ultimately escape from.
You're an Operative, a free agent and a speculator. Your home is the overcrowded and terminally-ill city of Misplaced Optimism, the last of the crater clusters on the barren mined-out Titan. Scanning the comms channel for salvage or sabotage jobs throughout the hostile network links, you aim to better your reputation, gain credit, enhance your Moth (your ship, your only real asset) and ultimately escape Titan, a fantasy for all but the most powerful and influential.
You are free to do what you want within the solar-powered city. Lightwells which energize ships and power the craters are free but hotly contested and you can expect repercussions for any serious criminal behavior. It's always a question of who you know; if you scratch no one's back there's plenty waiting to stab yours.
Your mainstay is delivery, escort and salvage but as your reputation grows you'll pick up more lucrative work like bounty, assassination and demolition. The pay-off is high and so are the risks, but to trade up to a Warp drive Moth with extensive firepower, on-board CPU, top comms and interplanetary capability, you need all the Hardwar you can get.
Hardwar's open-ended, non-linear game play will appeal to anyone who likes a lasting challenge. You have total freedom to choose which missions you want to take and which factions you work for or against. Job offers come your way via the constant chatter over the communications channel.
There are many missions on offer and the choices you make will affect the structure of each game, giving Hardwar a great deal of depth and longevity.
Hardwar takes place in a real-time environment, with Titan's short night/day cycles affecting the performance of your solar powered craft. At night competition for refueling at the few Light-Wells available is ferocious.