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If classic space is "exploration focused", what exactly are they exploring, and for what purpose? We never see colony ships or space mining equipment or cargo transports, just a bunch of ships that look more like starfighters than anything and some ambiguously-purposed surface rovers. Even the few bases we see seem to exist for the sole purpose of launching ships and satellites.
>What about Rock Raiders?
Technically a space theme but they don't seem to fit into the standard classic space world. All the RR vehicles are designed with open rollcages, and none of them wear spacesuits. Every single other line shows planets that require pressurized bases and air tanks to inhabit, so it wouldn't make much sense for their mining equipment to require you to stumble upon a breathable air-filled cavern system. Not like they sought one out intentionally either, the "lore" from the RR game is that they just so happened to crash land on a planet they could breathe on. If breathable atmospheres are so common that you'd base your entire space mining operation on their existence, why don't we see them in a single other space theme? Seems more likely that they're set in two separate universes/continuities. Also helps that Rock Raiders doesn't interact with any other themes in marketing/supplementary material, whereas you can find commercials that show M-Tron and Futuron together on the same planets and similar.
