Locations in the Orion's Arm Universe


This is an add-on for various artificial ring type structures in the Orion's Arm Universe.
The Bishop ring concept was first described in detail by Forrest Bishop on this webpage; it is the largest ring shaped structure which can be made using conventional materials such as Buckytube.

The Banks Orbital concept was devised by Iain M Banks, and describes a ring large enough to rotate once per day while producing the desired value of centrifugal 'gravity'.
More details here
A Few Notes on the Culture
In Orion's Arm we have named such structures Banks Orbitals in acknowledgement to this author.
If you have already placed this add-on in the Extras file inside Celestia, you can simply click on one of the links below to visit the planet. Celestia will open automatically.
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You will also need to install the Orion's Arm Complete add-on, as this add-on modifies the structures in that addon
To find the 'Orion's Arm Complete' addon, click here



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Click here to see the new Bishop Ring models

Elsirac Ring at Arkab Prior B (A desert Ring)
Rendell Ring a temperate ring
Frunobulax Ring a largely maritime ring

there are several other rings at various stages of construction in this system; for a novel setr in this system, see here; Betrayals

Click here to see the new Orbital model
;Daleth Orbital Ring at Sadalmelik
A closer look


Here are the other worlds included in the OA Complete add-on (I forgot to include a page of clickable urls with that add-on, so as a bonus, you can have it here. Obviously it wasn't quite as complete as I thought it was.) I

Links on the Left are Clickable Cel:Urls                                   Links on the Right are links to the appropriate Orion's Arm page


Gam Pav     for Zarathustra, (by Anders Sandberg) Ahura Mazda and Mithra

JD 870135    for To'ul'h, (by Anders Sandberg) and the alien planets Shthossaa and Th'aa'ssoo
                                 (The cluster NGC 6633 is nearby)

Pi3 Ori     for Daedalus and the unnamed worlds Pi3Ori I,II,III,V,and VI (by Anders Sandberg)

 YTS 453 09440 3  for the Dreamsphere ;

Zet Ser      for the Oikomene Dyson Swarm  (and more Dreamspheres) (by M Alan Kazlev)

Pen-y-ghent   for Ribblehead, Gravel, Turner, Whernside, Shadrach, Mezach and Hackenbush

RHO1 Crc    for Danzig, Kiel, Rostok and Lubeck  

HD 222404   for Silence and Anomie

JD 98738  for Panthalassa and Amorica

HD 207129 for Bolobo, Digit, Stapledon, Struthios, Roanoke, Galapolis, Aung San Suu Kyi

HD 2071 for Deucalion (note red and green alternate surfaces) and Pandora

HD 135842 for Newlyn and Lamorna; this is the Zennor system

Zet1 Ret for Icarus, Atlantis,  Daedalus, Prometheus, Hayek, Max, Doc Halloway, Natasha

HD 13445  for Secharia, which orbits the already discovered exoplanet "b"

HD 74712   for Ozymandias, Castleregh and the moon Mary

JD 9802-8   for Oshiq and Noarchos

HIP 63469   for Sisyphos

Achird A   for Achird b and its moon Diwali

JD 76601   for Guanche, Canaria, Gomera and Fueteventura

Gliese 876   for Hartebeeste, an already discovered exoplanet 'b', and the inhabited moon Aardwolf

Psi Ser   for Daffy,(by Anders Sandberg) Bugs, Coyote, Fudd and Speedy

Enigma  star for Stanislaw (by Stephen Inness)

HD 211415 star for Audubon, Tradescant and Linnaeus

Caph  star for Nineveh and Tyre (cinder worlds)

HIP 85647  star for Dante and Beatrice

56 Aur star for Dionysos, and it's moon Pan (by Anders Sandberg)

Del Pav star for Darwin (by Anders Sandberg), Wallace and Huxley

Cantor for Chorus, the unnamed planets Cantor a, b, c, e, f, and the orbital Greenring, and other habitats (by Stephen Inniss)

Tau Ceti  for Nova Terra, Zeus, Hermes, Poseidon, Hades, Styx, Tartarus, Persephone , several asteroids and other habitats (by Anders Sandberg)

DEL Cap for the Ain Soph Aur system, (by Todd Drashner); this includes a dyson swarm, and several artificial gas giant-like worlds, including Carter, Varun, Rassilon, Node Godel,Node Esher,
Yudkowsky, Moravec, Yu-tang, Da Costa, Luwei,Yorvik, Eforwick, Ebor, Socrates, Erastothenes, Sagan, Hume, Euclid, Aquinas, Chomsky, Hoyle, Schrodinger, Gutenberg, Solon, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Van De Graaf

Hip 91438 for the Ecotopia Capital world, with a dyson swarm, the Wald (a collection of Dyson Trees) and 292 artificial Earthlike worlds(yes, 292- there should be 312 but I got bored) (by Todd Drashner)

20 lmi   for the Halcyon System, with Rama, Cronos, Bright, Tiamat (by Todd Drashner)

nu2 lup  for New Root, Ordered Light,Harmonic Path, and the New Root grid (by Todd Drashner)
 
Hiederia  for Redunin, Grishelda, Barish, the Garibald spaceport, and the Chrome box world (by M Alan Kazlev)

Rana  for the twin planets Bill and Bull (by Anders Sandberg), Sabrina, Mame, and Gilda

HIP 14058 for Pluton and Croesus

JD 836901 for Wurm, Riss, Mindel and Gunz

JD 836902 For Niuearth, Alto, Mesto, Largo and Multo

Sadalmelik for Daleth Orbital, the Karoo bishop rings, Asterix and Obelix

JD 10012 for Muuhhome, Muuhome Primary and several unamed moons

JD 10013 for Harmonic Resonance and Morphic Resonance

EG 471   for the Ouaddai ringworld

Arkab Prior B for the AIB Necklace (several bishop rings)

Sigma Draconis for Penglai, Carp, Turtle, Dragon (by Anders Sandberg

HD 3823 for Trees (by Anders Sandberg), Clouds, Storms, Dust, Rocks and Vapours.

If you have downloaded the Impossible Dyson addon, you can go to 18 Sco to see it outside and inside

Also included is a 3d overlay for Betelgeuse, a model of NGC 6633 (an open cluster near To'ul'h)
and Castor (using Grant Hutchinson's data for this system, except I have made all four main stars class A stars, which is the conventional representation- I expect Grant's version is more accurate, of course...

There are about 250 planets included in this package,not counting the Ecotopia labworlds; with them there are about 500;
Also included are dozens of spacecraft, habitats and other objects; you will have to find them by right-clicking on the planets to see if there are any satellites, or by using the Solar System Browser.

 One version of each spacecraft or habitat can be found by clicking on the name of the designer below.
The spacecraft are from designs by John.M.Dollan, Todd Drashner, Michael Capriola, Tony Jones, myself, and from a concept by Eric Lo.
The habitats are based on concepts by Forrest Bishop, Gerard K O'Neill, J D Bernal, Freeman Dyson, Paul Birch, Larry Niven and Iain M Banks.