Wild Space

Wild Space is the colloquial term for the expanse of the solar system stretching roughly from the Asteroid Belt to the moons of Uranus. Riddled with shipwrecks and debris from the war, this vast patch of the solar system provides a seemingly endless number of places to hide. Although corporations have actively taken the place of governments, the justice system is still controlled by the terrestrial authorities on Earth, Mars, and Pluto. Extraditing criminals to Corporate Space is a lot of work, and with their bases of operation on or near the terrestrial planets, the further and further towards the center of the system they flee, it becomes less and less worth it for corporate security to bring them to justice.

And so, Free Traders try to remain in this zone, this bit of Wild Space where they're free to do what they want and the authorities won't bother coming to get them. Most of the time. And so, countless independent Free Stations and Free Colonies have opened up and flourished without the intervention of the powers that be.

Corporate Space tends to see things in a different light, referring to this area as "Savage Space" and their own as "Civilized Space".