Alright! First things first, What is Jupiter's Ghost?
Jupiter's Ghost is a space ship operated by the space corps on the outskirts of a crumbling intergalactic utopia.
The space corps is an organization that exists on the edges of the Solar Federation, picking up the pieces that the federation drops. They do mutual aid. They run supplies and rescue people after natural disasters, they explore and document what they find, occasionally they do mutual defense.
Think Starfleet, without the monopoly of violence.
The Solar Federation is a fractured utopia. Even if it was ever a wonderful place, it isn't anymore. Everyone has enough to eat, but a lot of people are still just barely getting by for one reason or another.
I recorded a log entry about this: https://intergalactic.computer/social/podcast/personal-log-james-andrews/