Lore

Term	Summary
Terran Congressional Republic	The primary interstellar government of humanity.
Rhakaria	An apparently impoverished and primitive planet in the Wayback System.
TCRN Impetus	The TCR Navy light cruiser the player commands.
Wayback System	The setting of the game, isolated from the Core Worlds for over a century.
Warp Gate	The only means of safe FTL travel; warp can be extremely dangerous without their "tethering."
Core Worlds	The most populous and important colonized planets of the TCR
Age of Estrangement	Not certain ATM, but assumedly a period of interstellar chaos before humanity was united under the aegis of the TCR.