Jack of Harts

The joker who named the planetary bodies of the Sunnydale system was in rare form when he named the three major moons of Torchdale. Char, Sear, and Toast are about as habitable as their names suggest. But after a liberal application of gravtech, the Western Alliance built some very comfortable settlements for the local workforce. They weren’t large enough for the quarter-million or so naval personnel in orbit to have easy shore leaves, but I did manage to spend some time there. Imagine a two or four kilometer square central park surrounded by housing and refineries for the fifty thousand or so people who lived on each moon. They weren’t much bigger than small cities planted in the middle of old impact craters, but if you stayed inside those cities, you could walk like normal and see the blue skies of a planet when you looked up. In a galaxy full of worlds ready and waiting for us to live on, we brought Earth to three airless hunks of rock on the outskirts of a star system at war. There are times that human ingenuity amazes me to this day.