[really, really Infinities] strange things are afoot

[ECSNorway]

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.

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Meta: And that gives Fee and the Toy Box a reason to show up in the new setting...

Very much fits with what I've imagined Marsden's character to be, and he'd definitely run a program like this as a non-profit.

He'd probably also run a forensic on the collider to try to find out what it was... if it's still completely unknown then I'd assume it ricochet'ed off somewhere and its new orbit was never successfully determined.
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