Alpha Centauri has five habitable worlds, and by 2120 we had outposts or full colonies on every single one. We targeted New Earth, the most Earthlike of them, with two major colonies from China and the Western Alliance, and numerous[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Alpha Centauri was our first gateway to the stars. A year away via hyperspace, we had to plan very carefully before sending scouts or colony expeditions. If anything broke, they had to be able to do without or fix it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Pleiades Star Cluster is home to over a thousand stars within forty lightyears of the core, and we’ve colonized thirty of them. All those stars interact with each other to make the Pleiades Gravitic Field one of the most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While we colonized towards the Pleiades, the Chinese actually centralized much of their colonization in and around the Hyades Cluster. We avoided the Hyades, due to the way the chaotic gravity currents affected our hyperdrives. Even now, the Hyades slows[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arkadia is a refugee. It is where the last survivors of a once powerful race of humanity came, and very few have ever left. It is such an alien world, figuratively speaking of course. It is too vast to occupy,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ll never forget Arkadian weather. Those zero-gee storms were something else, and yes there are storms in zero-gee. They just…spread, covering the space of worlds and beyond, lashing everything in their path. And it doesn’t rain. There’s no gravity to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of the Arkadian Ring is air of course. It wraps around an entire star, and there are not enough rocks left in the entire binary system to pave all the way around. So Arkadia is made up of islands[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the things I’ll always remember Arkadia for is the amazing parties. You’ve never been to a real low-gee dance until you’ve been to one of theirs. You can drift forever, in air without end, no walls as far[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Antigonia is not the only moon in the Arkadian Ring of course. Over the millennia, they’ve towed most of the surviving rubble from their old home star to the ring. Most of it is asteroid-sized, but there are many very[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to Arkadian history, after the total destruction of the other half of the Arkadian Binary system, the survivors towed one of the last remaining moons over to the smoke ring surrounding the other star. They renamed it Antigonia, after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…