The Outlaw Accident was the proximate reason behind the Low-Earth Orbit Clearance Project. Earth's various "space powers" and the corporations based in cislunar space send specialist crews out to remove the various orbital debris that has proven to be flight hazards, salvaging any still-useful components from the satellites and recycling the smaller debris and what can't be used from the larger items.
Greenwood and Stella Via are the leaders in this project (with both Marsden and Anderson taking personal interest in its progress), coordinating their efforts with each other and the government agencies. None of them are making a profit on the project. The space agencies are taking part because their governments have ordered them to, while the two space-based companies are taking the long view and treating the project as an investment in humanity's future.
Meta: And that gives Fee and the Toy Box a reason to show up in the new setting...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Greenwood and Stella Via are the leaders in this project (with both Marsden and Anderson taking personal interest in its progress), coordinating their efforts with each other and the government agencies. None of them are making a profit on the project. The space agencies are taking part because their governments have ordered them to, while the two space-based companies are taking the long view and treating the project as an investment in humanity's future.
Meta: And that gives Fee and the Toy Box a reason to show up in the new setting...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012