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The Solar System (IRL), also referred to as the First System by later interstellar colonists, is the home planetary system of several significant planetary, dwarf-planetary, asteroidal, cometary, and satellite bodies including Earth, a terrestrial formerly-life-bearing planet. It is the ultimate origin of all Earth lifeforms, including humans and their various factions and client species.

History[]

Humanity developed technology sufficient for spaceflight in the mid 20th century.

During the course of the 21st century, a gradual manned colonisation effort followed, establishing colonies on the Moon, later Mars and some of the moons of Jupiter (e.g. Europa).

Description[]

The decline of Earth itself has led to a mass exodus of humanity from the solar system, with many of the planets and moons containing abandoned megastructures. The sun is dimming and is now a dwarf star, surrounded by a the decrepit remains of a Dyson sphere. Debris of ancient spacecraft littler the system, making much of it hard or even impossible to navigate.

Known celestial bodies[]

  • Sol or Sun (unary star)
    • Mercury (terrestrial planet)
    • Venus (terrestrial planet)
    • Earth (terrestrial planet, human homeworld)
    • Mars (terrestrial planet, Earth colony, later contested between early Conjoiners and the Coalition)
    • the asteroid belt of the Solar System
    • Jupiter (gas giant, various Earth colonies in its vicinity)
    • Saturn (gas giant)
    • Uranus (gas giant)
    • Neptune (neutron star companion)
    • the Kuiper Belt of the Solar System

Appearances[]

Notes[]

Doomed, sadly. In more ways than one.

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