The Constantinople Trade Network goes everywhere that humanity has gone. We puny Earthlings at least. They’ve even set up some offices in alien space. Yeah, I’ve been to some of them too. I’ve really gotten around since The War. Actually been a lot of places they ain’t seen yet but those are other stories. And it’s always nice to know that we can come back to at least a small slice of home whenever we find one of their stations. Real nice.
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 make it a favored mining outpost though. It’s tidelocked to the star, one side eternally scorched, and the dark side forever frozen. Most people live on the dark side.
At the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the defeat of the French Republic, we installed those nobles who still lived back in command of France. Unfortunately, they were as unpopular as they had been before the French Revolution, and the French continued to disagree with their ruling methods. Rebellions became so numerous that they named them after the month they occurred in, until they depleted the months of the year. After that, they had to be more original.
Constantinople created a lot of trade worlds as we expanded into the stars. Arcturus. Antares. Celaeno. Canopus. Polaris. Rastaban and more. They all orbit giant stars that twist the fabric of hyperspace more than standard stars. Starships can sail between them on rivers of gravity deeper and faster than those linking Earth with nearby stars. They form a trade network so large even I haven’t seen it all. You see, there’s some places I just ain’t welcome.
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 colonization rights after Contact, and named it after the famous fictional city of the same name. It truly is just a nice place to live, rich in minerals, sunshine, and wide-open spaces.
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