Space was a real mystery.
Even in the year 2030 where mankind had found all kinds of precious metals and lost technologies from previous civilizations buried deep in the ocean, most of the Solar System, let alone the Milky Way, home of Planet Earth, had yet to be studied.
During the year 2022, the governments of the world began to slowly shift the direction in which they were investing their financial resources and their focus from outer space to the waters within their own world. After all, if they didn't even know about the world they resided in as well as the possible dangers lurking there, what was the point in looking further into space? Wasn't it just plain stupid? The main governments, who had realized that they were trying to chew more than they could digest, finally put aside thoughts of adventuring into the vast universe to focus on the planet's oceans.
