If somebody is coming to the Stanton system for the very first time, give us a primer from a story perspective: what is the Stanton system, what's going on, what's life like, and who's in charge?
TL;DRStanton is a divided corporatocracy of megacorporation-owned planets, poorly governed by those companies, with growing discontent among residents and criminals exploiting the limited lawful presence.
Sure, yeah. So the Stanton system is kind of a divided corporatocracy, where all the major planets are owned by megacorporations after having purchased the rights to these planets and kicked out some illegal settlers and all that. They've taken these planets and turned them into HQs for their companies that also work as full cities with governments, and as you might expect, a lot of these companies aren't great at being governments. They're not necessarily doing the best job, and so within that you have a lot of discontent brewing amongst different parts of the populace for various reasons, as well as a lot of criminals encroaching, whether from nearby unlawful systems or just within Stanton itself, where there's not yet a massive lawful presence as the companies are figuring all this out, trying to take advantage of the opportunities and the commerce that's available to be pirated, stolen, etc., that's all transiting through that system.