Cybernetic technology ever accelerates into the future, while neglected infrastructures and utilities crumble inward and backward as if chased by the past. The whims of the powerful change daily at the expense of the powerless. Still, Luridity's people call their respective slices of the Galaxy--in this reality and on the virtual Network many plug into--"home".
Living here are clan- and pack-bound
Kynd, minorities like humans and extranaturally gifted
aliens, and even smaller groups of society-forming species. They exist, ultimately, as people do when they've little agency in the paths taken by stars: they eat, sleep, work, date, dream, lust, escape, hope, fear, explore, mate, fight, play, imagine, collaborate, try...everything and anything to survive.
Let the elite argue, spend ceaselessly, and play their games of territory, bribery, trade, and governance.
Everyfolk else will live.