Jack of Harts

The War forced changes in most of our lives. Even those who never raised a weapon in anger felt the effects of increased prices of civilian products. The combined industrial might of entire interstellar nations and alliances poured into building the weapons it took to fight the Shang and their allies. There just wasn’t a lot left over to make new cars, phones, or even toys for kids. People had to keep what they had working, because replacements were hard to come by. That took some people a long time to figure out.