International Space Station

The International Space Station is a largely out of use space station that orbits the human homeworld of Earth. By 2783, the ISS has become a sort of museum piece due to its importance as humanity's first collectively made space station.

History
Launched from Earth in 1998 as a joint-venture for scientific advancement, the ISS would remain humanity's largest space station until the 2040's. With the advent of the Third World War, the ISS was effectively abandoned due to a lack of funding from the nations of Earth due to war needs. Over the course of the next few decades, the ISS deteriorated and would not see another human set foot on it until the arrival of the Elos in 2114, which brought a resurrection of human interest in space.

Seeing their abandonment of the ISS as being a great failing, the revived United Nations of Earth saw to the repair of the space station. The newly improved ISS was much the same as it had been over one hundred years ago. This was because the United Nations wished to maintain its historical authenticity and also because the United Nations had already begun the construction of a more up to date space station on Luna that would go on to serve as the point of entry to Earth itself.

Role
Today the ISS is galactic monument, as officially designated by the Coalition. The space station sees tourists, primarily human, from around the galaxy every year.