====== The Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) ======

The Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) will be a low budget, partially crowd sourced, CC-BY-SA, science fiction TV series about our world, more or less, when space travel is attainable for anybody with a basic understanding of soldering and $200. 

It's heavily inspired by Aesop Rock's Spirit World Field Guide, Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the anthology FTL, Y'all.

The year is 2030. 5 years ago, someone uploaded plans for a DIY interstellar engine to hacker news, and ... It worked. It could be assembled for peanuts. 

The american empire has collapsed. The world is in chaos. Interstellar flight is possible, easy, cheap, not remotely safe.  

It's a vast, nearly infinite cosmos. All of it is basically uncharted. 

A weird combination of hardcore nerds and long haul hikers are out there documenting it and contributing back to the wiki.