By the time Earth was simply a shell of a planet where all raw materials were imported, heavy goods and passenger vehicles were in desperate supply to ferry whole populations and goods to the closest inhabitable planets.

The Japanese, of course, were the first to bring mass production to the spacecraft market.

Their most notable venture in the field was the imaginatively named LHFP1. Boring, but extremely practical.

The fuselage was of the latest low gravity composite alloy. Virtually indestructible — therefore ensuring durability and strength. Passengers felt safe in this cocoon.