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Orion's Arm Celestia Addons |
Clickable Location LinksOnce you have loaded these three
files, you can explore the first of
the Orion's Arm systems. The easiest way to do this is to click on a
preset Cel:URL link, which will take you to a preset destination within
Celestia. Cel:URL
links are shown below in red; note they will not work
properly until you have downloaded both Celestia and the appropriate
addons.
Tip:
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different versions of Celestia on your system if you like, each with
different sets of addons. If you have more than one version of Celestia
these links may open the wrong version. So to ensure the links work
correctly open the correct version of
Celestia first. If you have only one version of Celestia.
opening it first will help speed it up in any case.
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Let's start with the
Solar System; here
is the cargo
ship Almucantar, making its way through the asteroid belt Cel:URL |
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Ceres, the
dwarf planet has a long established shipyard where many famous
craft were built Cel:URL |
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Now to the nearest stars; the red
dwarf known as Barnard's
Star has a large asteroid belt, full of spacecraft and habitats Here is the fusion-drive vessel Ship Gamma, showing the droplet radiators at the rear Cel:URL |
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Several of the asteroids in
Barnard's Belt were colonised
long ago. This venerable habitat is now a luxurious hotel complex Cel:URL |
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Sometimes it is necessary to move
the asteroids in Barnard's
Belt; here a pair of gravity tugs arranged in tandem are gently pulling
this colonised rock to a new orbit Cel:URL |
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Now to the system of Epsilon
Indi; this is the terraformed world Tierra del Fuego, home of the
famous cloned House
Stevens Cel:URL |
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The small gas giant Neruda is the
largest world in the
Epsilon Indi system: Cel:URL other planets in this system include Deep Red, Express and Malvina |
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Epsilon Indi has two brown dwarf companions, both colonised by the Deeper Covenant; here is one of their habitats in orbit around the dwarf failed star Eps Ind Bb Cel:URL |
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The Deeper Covenant use the Beamrider
system of interstellar travel; here is a beamrider ship spreading its
magsail to catch the smart particle momentum beam
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Orbiting the star Delta Pavonis
we find the planet Darwin; this is an example of the rare class of
worlds with indigenous biospheres, and is now protected by a Caretaker
God Cel:URL |
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Largest world in the Delta Pavonis
system is the ringed gas
giant Wallace: Cel:URL Other planets in this system include Huxley, Thales, Aristotle and Mendel |
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The nearby star Gamma Pavonis holds
the terraformed world Zarathustra, a
world with a turbulent past Cel:URL other planets in this system include Ahura Mazda and Mithra |
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The system of Delta Capricorni is the capital of the transapient empire of Keter, and is now known as Ain Soph Aur. Here is the Jupiter Node Sagan, a vast artificial world dedicated to data processing Cel:URL |  |
Bolobo
is a small, paraterraformed world in the system HIP 107649; the
atmosphere is retained by a transparent worldroof. Cel:URL
Other worlds in this system include
Digit,
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Ecotopia
is the capital of the Zoeific Biopolity, and includes more than 300
artificial planets in a ring formation, each with a different
experimental biosphere Cel:URL a closer look |
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In the Ecotopia system are many Dyson Trees, genetically modified space-adapted plants which are used as habitats Cel:URL |
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The first intelligent alien species ever contacted was found on To'ul'h Prime, more than a thousand light years from Sol. This world has a hot, wet, thick atmosphere and is inhospitable to unmodified humans. Cel:URL |  |
Ribblehead is a large, carbonaceous planet which has been transformed into a lo-tech reserve, while a high-tech City ring orbits and monitors the world from above Cel:URL |
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Deucalion is a Mars-like world which has been terraformed in much the same way as Mars itself. The world has a rich artistic culture. Cel:URL |  |
Zeta Serpentis (Oikoumene) is surrounded by a massive Dyson Swarm, mostly consisting of pyramidal processing nodes collecting the light from this bright star. Cel:URL |
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Panthalassa is a large waterworld, with oceans hundreds of kilometers deep; many water dwelling clades live on this world. Cel:URL |  |
Lamorna is a waterworld in the Zennor system;
this was originally an ice ball, but has been artificially heated to
support water dwelling life.
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Oshiq is a postgaian world, rapidly losing its water due to a wet greenhouse effect. Here a Skylark-class ship orbits the world Cel:URL |  |
Sisyphos
is a Chthonian
type world, a gas giant so close to its star that it has lost most
of its atmosphere. Only highly specialised clades can live
here.
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Corona
(Iota Piscium I) was the capital of the Taurus
Nexus; it is named for the brilliant aurorae which play almost
constantly at the poles. Cel:URL
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Guanche
was at one time cut off from galactic civilisation and became a lost
colony, with bronze age technology. Cel:URL
However the world rebooted its civilisation with the help of the Encyclopedia
Everythingiana.
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Stanislaw
is the site of a machine ecology. The origin of this mechosystem is
still debated - it may be of alien origin, or the product of a
wandering
Terragen AI God
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Dionysos (56 Aurigae II) was the centre of the Dionysian Erotocracy, an influential early interstellar metaempire Cel:URL |  |
The star Rana holds the twin planets Bill and Bull, and was the centre of the vanished culture Vore Abergism Cel:URL |
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The predominantly cyborg culture of Oia has developed new standards of beauty, not all of which are shared with other cultures. Cel:URL |  |
Fira, a planet in the
Oia system, is near the star and tidally locked; a fierce asymmetric
atmospheric rotation distributes the heat to the dark side of the planet
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New Earth (104 Tauri) has been reshaped to resemble the original home of Humanity in the Solar System; however some details are different, such as the famous fjords of New Africa Cel:URL |  |
Daksha in the New Earth system is a typical jovian world, in approximately the same position as Jupiter occupies in the Old Solar System. Cel:URL |
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Trees (HIP 3170) holds an indigenous and complex biosphere, including gigantic tree-like organisms and the intriguing Pspyder species of near-sentient animals Cel:URL |  |
Harmonic-Resonance is a double planet or Rocheworld, terraformed by Edenese superiors in 2805 a.t. Cel:URL |
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Bourgatov
was at one time the capital of the Second Federation, but it was
devastated during the Version War
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Blue is a waterworld in the Seams, part of the widespread empire ruled by the Burdikeer Cel:URL |
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New Root is the capital of the Metasoft Version Tree; this world is not hospitable to unprotected humans, but suits the Moravec robots (Vecs) of that empire very well. Cel:URL |  |
Niuearth is a human baseline reserve world in the Metasoft volume; the vecs of that empire like to keep a population of unmodified humans safe, for reasons of their own. Cel:URL |
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The
worlds of Chorus
and Solo
hold an alien chlorine-rich
biosphere and is the home of the intelligent species known as the
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Muuhhome is a Titan-like moon which was the first world where humanity encountered the ancient Muuh race; a slow, cold crab-like species (Cel:URL) |  |
Lancer's World in the Outer Volumes is covered by a space canopy plant ; this world also has an interesting transport infrastructure Cel:URL |
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Pluton
is a depleted ice core world, with a large strip of paraterraformed
environment surrounding its equator. The red domes of several
independent Muuh colonies can be seen.Cel:URL
See also Croesus
and Midas in this system
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Audubon was the first world colonised by the Engenerator system a method which had some initial problems but has been used to good effect in more recent millennia Cel:URL |
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Other worlds in this system
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