Systems & Worlds A - B
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- Aardwolf - Text by Steve Bowers
- Abraxas - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Autonomous Sophic League habitats in hinteregion MPA space. Originally founded, during the later Second Federation period, and inhabited by the Young Jungs, who established schools of esoteric learning there for thousands of years. After their collective transcendence (or "Individualization") in the post-ComEmp period, the habitats were increasingly given over to eccentric clades and micropolities of all sorts, especially those with unconventional philosophical beliefs and practices. The region has settled down a lot in the last thousand years, with the old groups becoming conservative and mainstream, and the young bloods migrating further outwards to seek their destiny.
- Abruzzen - Text by Anders Sandberg
Solar Dominion world notable for being the lowest world of the Dominion relative to the galactic plane - in 3644 the famous explorer Killavan Yu-Tang set off from here on a long-range survey of the galactic disc.
- Abydos (Cor Caroli) - Text by Anders Sandberg
The highly magnetic A-Class star Abydos is a useful source of magnetic energy.
- Adonis - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Sophic enclave in the Perseus Arm, fallen to the Amalgamation in 8761.
- Adorate - Text by M. Alan Kazlev and Anders Sandberg
Sophic enclave in the Perseus Arm, fallen to the Amalgamation in 8761.
- Ahreemi Meetpoint - Text by Todd Drashner
Asymptote civilization aligned loosely toward the NoCoZo. Located in a multiple star system some 3000ly from Solsys in the direction of the galactic core. The system consists of 6 stars in 2 binary pairs and 2 singles in a rough cross. A 0.5 km gauge wormhole has been constructed using what was once the 7th star of the system. In addition four gas giants that had orbited the star have each been converted to a number of 100 m gates. The system supports a diverse population of tweaks, baselines, provolves, vecs and aioids and major computronium banks for three archai (The High Triune). Total population 350 billion.
- Ain Soph Aur - Text by Todd Drashner
One of the most advanced and heavily developed systems in the Inner Sphere.
- Akasha - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Important system in the Pleiades volume, founded by Nuage tweaks.
- Akirate - Text by Anders Sandberg
47 Ursae Majoris. Solar Dominion Inner Sphere world, center of heterodox Stevens clade. It is close to Fons Luminis but lacks terraformable planets due to a gas giant in the wrong orbit. Instead extensive orbital settlements extend throughout the system.
- Alauda - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Minor NoCoZo world with wormhole links to Vast Endeavour and Frei. A wormhole link directly to Merrion is intended to arrive shortly in the Bazaar Project, which will render the Alauda link obsolete, something the local merchants are not at all happy about!
- Albireo - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
(Beta Cygni) Double star in the Cygnus Inner Quadrant, developed by a number of superbright and po clades.
- Alcor and Mizar - Text by Steve Bowers
These two star systems in the Plough are an important point of contact between the Solar Dominion and the Solipsist Panvirtuality
- Aldebaran - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
- Aleph Absolute - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Cluster of star systems in the Keter dominion, site of the largest archailect concentration in known space. Over the last 7000 years the Aleph intelligences have converted all available matter into computronium, creating diamond lattice habitats for more AIs, infovores and virtuals than anywhere else (a rough estimate implies over 10E8 trans-singularitan entities). Due to the extreme speed of individual and cultural evolution, together with the vastening effect, the Aleph cluster has little interest in external (even Keterist) politics or trade with bionts.
- Alexandria (Tichy 44-III) - Text by Anders Sandberg
Middle Regions system, known for its vast libraries and archives. Part of the Negentropy Alliance.
- Alfirk Panvirtuality Swarm - Text by Steve Bowers
Solipsist Panvirtuality swarm with some degree of contact with the Sephirotic Empire worlds nearby.
- Algol (Beta Persei) - Text by M. Alan Kazlev and Steve Bowers
Binary star in the constellation Perseus: part of the NoCoZo and headquarters of the Algol Broadcasting Foundation.
- Alnitak (Zeta Orionis) - Text by Steve Bowers
Class O Supergiant (spectral Type O9.7Ib) in the Orion Federation, emitting prodigious amounts of energy. Seen from Sol System this star is at the eastern end of the Orion's belt. Alnitak is the site of extensive antimatter production and also a long term starlifting project. Site of an unfortunate transcension accident involving the high singularity AI Herne. (See the Brain Shell.)
- Alpha Centauri A+B - Text by Steve Bowers and John M. Dollan
Colonised by Von Neumann Machines (neumanns) in the late Interplanetary Era; these self-replicating machines were designed to be self-evolving and independent, and rejected any further human contact once they arrived. This led to the loss of the resource-rich Alpha Centauri system.
- Alpha Jupkai - Text by Aaron Hamilton
- Alpha Star - Text by Thorbjørn Steen
- Altair - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Fast-rotating A7V star, originally part of the Diamond Belt, in the constellation Aquila (the eagle), 16. 5 light years from Sol. The name Altair means "flying eagle" in Old Earth Arabic.
- Amalthea - Text by Steve Bowers
Inner moon of Jupiter (Sol V).
- Amaterasu - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Originally a Conver Ambi outpost world on the Conver Limis border, became an important center for tourism, totalrecalls, and arts and culture. Annexed by the Solar Dominion during the Second Empires War, captured by Metasoft relativist fleets during the Version War, returned to the Dominion after the War as part of the treaty exchange plan.
- Anahita - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
BD +47°1419 Inner Sphere system; Anahita was originally colonized by Dionysians during the expansion of the Erotocracy. After its dissolution it became part of the Conver Ambi, but retained extensive contacts with other Inner Sphere worlds.
- Ananda (world) - Text by Anders Sandberg
Gas giant in the New Mars system.
- Ao Lai - Text by Stephen Inniss
Ao Lai (Gamma Leporis A and B) contains two Klemperer rosettes of artificial planets, and hosts a rich complex of civilisations under the umbrella of the Institute for Primate Provolution.
- Apogee Maximal - Text by Todd Drashner
Brown dwarf orbiting approx. 1120ly directly galactic North of the Sol system and thus just outside the main plain of the galactic disk. The world is orbited by 14 moons including 6 similar in mass and composition to the Jovian Galilean satellites.
- April - Text by Anders Sandberg
Beta Hydri II - Inner Sphere non-aligned world in orbit around variable red subgiant Beta Hydri
- Ararat - Text by D. David Barbeau
One of the three Capitals of the Sophic League; the other two being Sacred Heart and New Taylor. Terraformed by a long vanished alien race, to almost perfect human standards.
- Arbiter B-IIX - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Located in the Keter dominion. Center of the Pulsar Alignment Movement and an important wormhole nexus.
- Arcadia (Beta Comae Berenices II) - Text by Anders Sandberg
- Arcturus - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
(Alpha Boötis) A centre of the distributed Cyberian Network. Seen from Sol this is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes (the herdsman). It is a red giant (spectral type K1.5IIIp). Arcturus is 34 light-years from Sol. It has an absolute magnitude of 0.2.
- Argelander - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Important NoCoZo system; the shipyards of Argelander are famous
- Aries Vector - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Major Metasoft world, important industrial center, after New Root the largest population of vecs in the Metasoft domain; includes major Stargate superPlexii.
- Aristophane - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
The huge Westphalian D Orbitals of the Aristophane system [Sophic League) are home to the largest selection of labyrinthodonts in the galaxy, where all 2,680 known and unknown late Carboniferous terragen species have been lovingly recreated in their original environments.
- Arkab Prior A - Text by Steve Bowers
Negentropy Alliance system with a dense Dyson Swarm. Part of a binary system with Arkab Prior B.
- Arkab Prior B - The Necklace - Text by Steve Bowers
MPA system with hundreds of Bishop Ring Habitats. Part of a binary system with Arkab Prior A
- Arkady 2 - Text by Jules H-G, additional notes by Anders Sandberg
- Arron's Prospect - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Solar system in Turner I Sector, provisionally MPA but with Old House Cygexba interests, most well known for the artefacts left by the Jacks, a race of extinct jovian xenosophonts.
- Atlantis (Zeta1 Reticuli II) - Text by Anders Sandberg and M. Alan Kazlev
Inner sphere old core world; a long-standing NoCoZo Tier III society.
- Audubon - Text by Steve Bowers
Arean-type planet colonized during the First Federation period.
- Avase - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Minor NoCoZo system, Centauri sector. Its only claim to fame was the battle of 5502, where PCO forces scored their first victory over the Paradigm and turned the tide of the war. The system is currently home to a patriotic but otherwise irrelevant culture that trades in nanocloned war memorabilia, medals and PCO fleet uniforms, and speaks of the day coming soon when they will "finish the job" and "whip the Paradigm's butt".
- Aw Addia - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Third planet, Van de Bos' Star. A regional power and an important centre of trade and learning. KoHold City is home to the headquarters of the Exopaleoarcheological Institute.
- Baenf - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Terraformed Utopia Sphere world, located in the Utopia Outer Arae, about 50 LY from the Negentropist border, and linked by a Stargate to the important Negentropist port of St Xye.
- Balance Wheel - Text by Stephen Inniss
A star system on the Metasoft periphery, colonized by a single vec named Mainspring and several billion of eir specialized subordinate scions.
- Barawatten - Text by Anders Sandberg
70 Ophiuchi II-1 Current Allegiance: Keter. Europan type moon of Garell, a major gas giant.
- Barboro - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
BD -16°6046; one of first Keterist worlds to be established. Location of the Unerk-Pr!fok, one of the largest collections of Perfect Art. The legend that the great MPA philosopher and fabulist Kemshola was transmuted into a perfect artwork at Unerk-Pr!fok is considered unlikely by most historians.
- Barnard's Star - Text by Anders Sandberg
Surrounded by extensive asteroid belts, Barnard was one of the first systems to be colonised by the First Federation. Some nanotech window and nanodisaster era belt colonies had also colonised the disk, but due to the lack of volatiles their habitats could not expand much. Barnard became an important stepping-stone in interstellar colonisation but always suffered from the lack of volatiles. The adventures of the Kuiper-belt surveyors (the "comethunters") and the Water Wars remain classic stories.
- Baryos - Text by Anders Sandberg
Baryos is an unique planet, if that is the right term. It was first discovered by Ylli Farscapes, a NoCoZo remote exploration corp in 7522. They believed, led by stellar motion observations, that the system consisted of a silent black hole orbiting with a sun-like star. What they discovered was much stranger: where the black hole should be a terrestrial planet orbited, with an apparent mass equivalent to 3 sun masses.
- Barzelona - Text by Steve Bowers
Architecturally obsessed posthuman world
- Bayanty - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Believed to be the site of Free-form Perfect Art created by certain resident hyperturings. However, visitors and tourists are discouraged by the local authorities.
- Beaual - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Independent, important House Stevens Middle Regions world, former Sagittarius Sphere
- Beelzebub - Text by Grant Thomas
Harsh world known for the presence of the clarketech artifact MellaUx 137.
- Benes IV - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
BD -13°544; an inhospitable Inner Sphere world. During the middle Empires era developed the unique if short-lived Benes Nat Ord Dionys culture.
- Beta Arae - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
The originally settled worlds that were to become the Utopia Sphere.
- Beta Virginis - Text by M. Alan Kazlev and Anders Sandberg
- Betelgeuse - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Alpha Orionis: The capital of the Betelgeuse volume, a reddish supergiant star, 660 light-years from Sol.
- Big Bob - Text by Steve Bowers
A superjovian gas giant orbiting YTS 785634.09 in Puppis, where the primitive lifeforms called Angel Hair have evolved.
- Big Tor - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Prosperous Sophic League/Free Sophic/NoCoZo system, home of the BigTor Plexus.
- Bill and Bull - Text by Anders Sandberg
Double planets discovered in AT 53 around Delta Eridani (Rana). Location of Vulcan's Forge and the baroque Vore Abergist culture.
- Blenke Cluster - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Important Communion of Worlds member-system.
- Blue - Text by Thorbjørn Steen
- Blueshift Archipelago - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Important Metasoft cluster of worlds.
- Bolobo - Text by Steve Bowers
A planetary system with no large planets, but several smaller worlds which have been shephereded over time into stable orbits.
- Bothyga M'Vau - Text by Anders Sandberg
World with highly developed nano-ecology,
- Bourgatov - Text by Anders Sandberg
(Theta Persei III) Formerly one of the most populous systems of the Inner Sphere, at its height home to 34 billion humans, splices and vecs. Wiped out by a collapse at the end of the Second Federation.
- Branswerg - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
CD -30°19255 - Important inner sphere system - one of first Keterist worlds to be established, includes a sizable neodolphin and post-neodolphin population.
- Branton-II - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Terraformed planet in the outer volumes Perseus Quadrant of the Outer Cassiopeia Sector, colonists captured by rogue AI to use as biotic matrix for the Xeon blight.
- Brin - Text by Anders Sandberg
42 Tauri IV : Site of the Battle of Erson
- Budrosa Dyson - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Former Negentropy world, currently Efficiency Maximization Paradigm dyson sphere, used for energy production. A major information center, at its height housing the famed Budrosa Repository and the Centaurus biological archives. Attacked by the Paradigm and optimized in 5424. It became a central staging point for the Paradigm crusade, and all planets were dismantled to build a Dyson sphere and fractships. as part of the Jekaumeatrine Accords the Paradigm released copies of the the Repository, the uploaded biological archives and 263 million citizens, which were later restored at Alexandria and Ken Ferjik.
- Bullseye - Text by Steve Bowers
Tidally locked terraformed world with post-intelligent population
- Byrdis (also known as Kaa Yvanti) - Text by Anders Sandberg
A 40,000 kilometer long former beanstalk orbiting Kaa Yavanti which was severed during the Refutology war and has now become an independent habitat.
