I'm not surprised you haven't. If you're from the twenty-first century, I doubt they've discovered wormhole travel yet.

The thing about Jackson's Whole is that there are no laws whatsoever. Everything's legal, including things that any sane planet would outlaw. So the planet itself attracts a lot of unsavory people. The people I live with--my girlfriend's family--are about as nice as people get on the Whole and they're still utterly ruthless.