Transhuman Space: 2300AD is hard sci-fi setting placed in a rough, but not entirely grim, readily recognizable near future where Man has reached out to the stars using faster-than-light starships and established colonies on distant worlds. Man's road to the stars, however, has not been an easy one; strife is plentiful, between Earth's nations and peoples, between states and corporations, between the rich and the poor, between the young and the old. Although technology does not offer easy fixes for everything it does hold three promises – increased prosperity for all, access to the endless reaches of space, and the ability to remake mankind. All this even as humanity faces an indomitable alien species bent on its utter destruction! Can mankind put aside it differences long enough to weather this threat or is this the last war that will ever be fought? And even if man endures – one wonders what other dangers and wonders await in the vastness of space...