For those of you who don’t pilot starships, all stars generate gravitic links through hyperspace with other nearby stars. We normally ride those rivers when traveling because they’re faster than going in open hyperspace. Beacon Stars generate more powerful links[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The cats of San Lucas love the slug wine even more than we humans do. Of course, they prefer it in its natural form, raw and very warm, from a still-living slug. Yes. Vampire cats the size of small horses. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
San Lucas orbits 61 Ursae Majoris, thirty-some lightyears from Earth. Like most South American colonies, they love visitors, and love them more when they leave, preferably after spending a lot of money. And it’s easy to spend money on San[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sunnydale is the name of the system, the star, and the primary colonized world. Well, technically they call the star Sunny, but that’s getting picky from an outside point of view. The world is a lovely place to live, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Torchdale is the single gas giant orbiting Sunnydale. Bright orange and red clouds gave it the name and it fits. Its atmosphere is amazingly rich in rare minerals, making it a very superior fleet base for our starships. There are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve been reading carefully, you may have caught onto the naming scheme some comedian decided to use for the worlds of Sunnydale. They were feeling particularly “humorous” when they named Cobbledale. It’s not even a world! It’s an asteroid[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sizzledale is half as far from Sunnydale as Earth is from our sun. She’s sizzling hot in almost every region and has very few resources, so has never been heavily populated. There are some people there of course, those who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sunnydale has a gas giant, one asteroid belt, and five terrestrial worlds orbiting her. Scorchdale and Sizzledale are too close to the sun to be habitable under any common understanding of the word. Scorchdale’s heavy mineral resources and low gravity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sunnydale is one of the hottest stars we’ve colonized, her surface nearly white-hot against the darkness of space. Only spectacularly inefficient greenhouse effects make any of the worlds under her powerful fires habitable at all. The Republic of California acquired[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the big three alliances went to the stars, so did Constantinople. One of the little secrets that nobody talked about at the time was that Constantinople actually helped fund the early colony expeditions to Alpha Centauri, and most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…