Mercenary pilots for tough but glorious assignments. I t's hundreds of years in the future. The planets and moons of 20th century textbooks and childhood imaginings have been colonized and mined. Corporations have taken over control of the solar system and created new home worlds for millions of Earth's descendants.
Space travel is big business.
In the past hundred years, the ever-territorial human colonists of the solar system had grown weary of Earth's dominance. With a demonstrative cry for colonial independence, a galactic war is ignited that devastates the planets and moons revolving around Sol. Earth is particularly ravaged. In the aftermath, the scavenging of technology and resources commences. As a space-faring mercenary contractor and pilot of a titular Lander vehicle, players of Lander take on numerous recovery missions for the highest paying corporate clients.