The Age of Sparks is the era when soot and starlight finally shake hands: a diesel-scarred frontier age where voidships, Ark-Network gates, and aetherium engines drag civilization off the planet and into the cold between worlds. Empires fracture into corporations, frontiers harden into trade routes, and progress arrives wearing a ledger, a badge, and a gun. It is an age of opportunity wrapped around exploitation, where humanity reaches the stars not because it is ready, but because it is desperate enough to try.