Setting Thoughts for Sci-fi

I wanted to test out the Roles mechanic from the new section on Hacking Ironsworn, so I decided to set up a brief playthrough using a sci-fi setting that follows the same basic premise of the Ironlands.

The Void: From the first days of Man, we looked to the skies and wondered what awaited beyond the quietly winking stars that watched patiently from above.  We don't wonder anymore.

 Once, humanity maintained a stellar empire across the Milky Way with Earth as its crown jewel and capital.  A Golden Age unlike any mankind had ever known spurred science and technological innovation to unparalleled heights.  Warp Drives, teleportation, and a million other wonders carried us from one end of the galaxy to the other.

It couldn't hold.  Though no one can tell us now exactly what caused it, all interstellar communication was suddenly interrupted.  A vast Empire, suddenly and immediately cut off from itself, from each other.  Without communications, the vast starships that sailed the black of the Void could no longer find their destinations.  Without a destination, they were lost to the Dark.

Many worlds could not sustain themselves, billions went hungry or died of thirst in the months following the Great Silence as scheduled deliveries of resources failed to arrive.  Yet more perished in the wars of petty tyrants using the event as an opportunity to consume neighboring worlds without consequence.  Vast troves of technology and learning faded into the Void, never to be seen again.

It's been a hundred and twenty-three years since the Collapse, and even the oldest of us can't remember a time before Silence.  In order to survive, groups of planets have allied and pooled their resources in unified government.  Recently some have even begun to send unmanned probes or scouting crews beyond their borders, probing the Void beyond for signs of life.

These are hard and dark days for Man, on many worlds the terraforming hardware that makes the world safe for humankind is failing and no one knows how to repair it.  Others are trapped under the rule of warlords and tyrants.  Many live on worlds that have dangerous flora or fauna, and just a few are still drawn to the inky black of the Void.  The Empire has Collapsed and it's every man for himself.

What do you do?