Sol
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The Sol system (alternatively called the solar system) is the home star system of the human species, hosting their homeworld Earth amid its contingent of planets. At its center is the G2V-type yellow dwarf star Sol, the only star in the system.
Astrography
Location
The Sol system is essentially at the heart of known space. Its closest system is Proxima Centauri, and by extension Alpha Centauri, at just 4.24 lightyears distant. However, Sol has jump links to ten other systems: Helios, Luhman 16, Chaos, Wolf 359, Muse, Sirius, Gliese 65, Ross 154, Ran, and Anemos - the latter two by way of rogue planet stopovers.Structure
Sol is a solitary star with a broad assortment of planets. Outward from the star: the first four planets (including Earth) are telluric, and are separated from the four outer gas and ice giants by a silicate debris belt. One of these giant worlds, Jupiter, is so massive that it forces Sol itself into a slightly binary orbit. Beyond the outer four giants lies a disk of scattered icy planetoids called the Kuiper Belt, as well as an extensive cometary shell called the Oort Cloud in its furthest reaches. This cloud hides the last major planet of the system: Terminus, an ice giant in exile.Sol
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Icarus* (mp)
- Mercury* (s)
- Venus* (d) Apophis* (mp)
- EarthΔ (tr)
- Luna* (s)
Eros* (mp)
- MarsT* (dtr)
- Phobos* (mp)
- Deimos* (mp)
{Sol Main Belt}
- Jupiter (j)
- Io* (s)
- EuropaΔ* (e)
- Ganymede* (e)
- Callisto* (e)
- Saturn* (j)
- Uranus* (n)
- Miranda* (e)
- Ariel* (e)
- Umbriel* (e)
- Titania* (e)
- Oberon* (e)
- Neptune (n)
- Triton* (s)
- Proteus* (mp)
- Nereid* (mp)
- Larissa* (mp)
- Galatea* (mp)
- Despina* (mp)
{Kuiper Belt} - Pluto* (e) + Proserpine* (e)
- Styx (mp)
- Nix* (mp)
- Kerberos (mp)
- Hydra* (mp)
- Haumea* (e)
- Namaka* (mp)
- Hi'iaka* (mp)
- Makemake* (e)
- Haua* (mp)
- Eris* (s)
- Dysnomia* (e)
- Terminus (n)
- Nemesis* (e)
- Tyche* (e)
{Oort Cloud}
Ecology
The Sol system hosts a widely varied and highly successful genesis group: the terragenids. While the group originated on Earth, a catastrophic planetary impact event in the Carboniferous period caused a panspermia event that transported microscopic terragenid life to Europa. Additionally, Saturn's moon Titan potentially hosts an extremely primitive biosphere of complex hydrocarbon chemistry.Asteropolitics
The Sol system is organized under the United Sol System, a pan-governmental organization evolved from the original United Nations. The USS assembly, seated in Gaia Station over Earth, is convened to address issues that affect internal interplanetary relations and/or the Sol system at large. It is one of the most populous and most powerful asteropolitical entities in the UNH.Maps
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Solar System
The Sol system in full.
Archive Data
DESIGNATIONS
- Pahlo/Inshem
- OHSE 19
- Veqhnasi Liyr
- AM 128
- 4 Pirrzne
- EZN 103
- Imh Tel ikh'Bakhur
- KAZ 126
DEC 00° 00' 00"
DIST 00 ly
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