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|author=Unknown historian
|affiliation=Inner System Historical Archives
|date=c. 2991
|location=Inner Solar System
|canonical=true
|reliability=medium
|bias=pro-market/inner-system expansion
|status=published
|related=Kosmos, MercuryLink, Venus, Cismercurial space
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= Source Summary =
A historical overview of the rise of Kosmos and economic activity in the inner Solar System, including Venusian nitrogen extraction.

= Document Information =
* Type: Historical Overview
* Author: Unknown historian
* Affiliation: Inner System Historical Archives
* Date: c. 2991
* Location: Inner Solar System
* Context: Development of Kosmos and inner system industry

= Provenance =
Origin uncertain; likely compiled from multiple secondary historical sources in the late 30th century.

= Content =
During the chaotic 22nd century, many state and non-state actors on Earth, particularly large private Western-style corporations, became active in the Earth–Moon system. Tired of the endless regulation of Artemesia, some actors looked inward toward the Sun.

Especially interested in these ventures were billionaire oligarchs from around the world and the Russian state-owned space company Roscosmos. At the end of the 22nd century, in response to what they regarded as “repressive” reforms by the Russian state back on Earth, investors and workers around the inner system declared themselves no longer part of Roscosmos, but instead a new state: Kosmos.

Kosmos looked outward toward the stars and toward a vision of freedom defined by unfettered capitalism and resource extraction. The orbits of Mercury and Venus, as well as much of cismercurial space (“Solar Space”), fell under the hegemony of Kosmos and its corporate partners.

On Venus, a centuries-old nitrogen extraction economy developed, involving floating extraction rigs that pump nitrogen from the upper atmosphere for export and use in habitat construction across the inner Solar System. A robotic mining economy also extracts metals from the planet’s surface, though it remains costly to bring resources off Venus.

Numerous scientific and exploratory robotic rovers operate on the surface, continuing to study the planet’s extreme environment well into the 30th century.

= Related Pages =
* [[Kosmos]]
* [[MercuryLink]]
* [[Venus]]

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