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Arcturus
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Radius: 26 x Sol
Distance from Sol 34 ly
Galactic xyz 12.98, 3.517, 34.16
Colonised 1427 AT
A centre of the distributed Cyberian Network. Seen from Sol this is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes (the herdsman). It is a post-main-sequence orange giant (spectral type K1.5IIIp). Arcturus is 34 light-years from Sol. It has an absolute magnitude of 0.2. This star is a member of a population of stars that originally formed a small separate galaxy that merged with the Milky Way more than a billion years ago.
This star is deficient in metals, and has several small volatile-poor planets that have been baked by the star during an earlier red giant phase. The Cyberian Network have built numerous dataspheres on, inside and around these worlds that support a large number of cybercosms, including those where the Arcturus Institute of Alternative History was first founded.
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Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Additional material by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 07 October 2001.
Additional material by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 07 October 2001.
