Jack of Harts

Bludworth Space Marine’s innovative spaceship designs that could launch and land in water captured a significant share of the spacegoing markets in the Twenty-Second Century. Most of the dedicated space forces thumbed their noses at the Bludworth designs as no wet navy ship could hope to match the effectiveness and versatility of their own specifically designed and optimized spacecraft. Civilian shipping agencies and national navies were another matter. The shipping agencies preferred to load and unload at preexisting docking facilities, and the various navies of Earth thought they could make superior space explorers than their space force competitors. The navies had centuries, if not millennia, of explorers in their past, and they knew how to handle large ships and long voyages. While most of the space forces had inherited their air force progenitors’ love of the strike fighter as the ultimate weapon of war and peace. They were two competing cultures, and Bludworth Space Marine and her competitors happily helped to fuel it. They remain a leading supplier of warships for the Republic of Texas Navy to this day, and their products can be found sailing the hyperspace lanes throughout known space.