List of Locations

A number of planets, stations, and solar systems are mentioned as part of the Starship Iris universe (literally, universe.) Some of their namesakes are more obvious than others.

## Solar Systems

### The Jemison System

The Jemison system was named for astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space. Contains the planet Elion.

### The Payne-Gaposchkin System

A solar system likely named for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, an astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed an explanation for the composition of stars. Contains the planets Hafizah and  Rosalind.

## Planets & Moons

### Artemis

The destination of the Iris II during the events of Cultural Enrichment.

### Cresswin Landing

One of the first artificial planets, created by the Cresswin family and originally intended as a state-of-the-art resort. When the project failed, it was converted to a prison colony. Arkady Patel was born and grew up there, and Sana Tripathi was sent there for hotwiring spaceships. The prison was shut down, most likely in 2178, after a successful revolt by the prison population.

### Crixton Colony (Crixton Col)

One of the first colonies out in the deep. After contact was lost for over 50 years, the residents created the first distinct regional vernacular native to space. Divided into "North Crix" and "South Crix", where North Crix seems to feel some superiority over South Crix, which "might as well be Mainspace."

### Earth

The planet presumably survived the Dwarnian-Human War, but the language Earth-English certainly has. Violet Liu was born on Earth (in Minnesota) and grew up there. It is described as having "a floating continent made of trash" (which could be real, or a pervasive myth) in Vignette #5: Aspirations.

### Echo-7

A planet whose residents have an unfavorable opinion of Crixton Colony and vice-versa.

### Elion

A planet in the Jemison System. It has a city called Capitol City and an abandoned dock at a landfill on the edge of town. The home of several seedy characters including the Fowley siblings and one or more mafias. The planet is likely named for Gertrude Elion, a Nobel-prize-winning biochemist and pharmacologist.

### Hafizah

A planet in the Payne-Gaposchkin System, named after a pioneering explorer.

### Hypatia

A planet with "two reasonably good colleges and extensive wheat fields", but its capital city, Prospero, is a "den of criminality", according to McCabe. Has a bar called Metzger's. Hypatia's hospitals are run by the mob.

### Hoff's Hideaway (Moon B7-02439)

Suspected to be the former hideout of pirate Kim Hoff and her Bald Cat Gang, although she no longer operates in the area. Has "extensive solar panelling". Most likely in the Payne-Gaposchkin System due to its proximity to Hafizah.

### Kaspi

A planet in the vicinity of Telemachus and Martineau, a suggested landing place for Telemachian evacuees. Possibly named for Victoria Kaspi, a Canadian astrophysicist and professor.

### Lachlan Station

A station in the vicinity of Telemachus where Brian suggests Yuuri Nakamura can land.

### Lovelace

A planet where  Violet's parents currently live. Likely where  Juniper and Violet previously lived, in a building on Eagle Road in Chamford Way, Blue Sector. Likely named for Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, widely regarded as the first computer programmer.

### Mars

The birth planet and previous residence of Brian Jeeter. Presumably the fourth planet from the sun in Earth's solar system. It has a base.

### Martineau

A privately-owned planet that is the birthplace of  R.J. McCabe, whose parents have considerable influence. French is commonly spoken there.

### Mirzakhani

The planet where Max Gavins's  school for orphans is located. Has a region called New Dearborn that includes the school. Likely named for noted mathematician and Fields Medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani.

### Nahar

A planet in the vicinity of Telemachus and Martineau, a suggested landing place for Telemachian evacuees. Possibly named for Sultana Nahar, a Bangladeshi-American physicist and research scientist.

### New Jupiter

A key planet in Intergalactic Republic territory and the location of ADVANCE labs.  Thasia arrived here in their attempt to aid the humans in the war effort and was taken prisoner, held captive in a laboratory until their rescue by Emily Craddock and the other Violet Liu, after which they escaped via train.  Alvy Connors had a successful security consulting business here, despite being described by Brian as "not exactly a cryptographer". New Jupiter is at the center of the Eagan Orientation, a space navigation system used by the IGR instead of the Alvarez Orientation, likely because, as Brian points out, the IGR feels iffy about putting Telemachus, a planet full of dissidents, at the center of the universe. The crew of the Rumor later landed here and blew up the penthouse floor of ADVANCE labs in order to deal a blow against the IGR. They escaped and were joined by Agents Park and McCabe.

### Planet 5925

The planet the crew of the Iris I was scouting and collecting samples from when the shuttle exploded, killing everyone but Violet Liu.

### Rosalind

A planet in the Payne-Gaposchkin System that houses mining companies. Likely named for Rosalind Franklin, a chemist known for her work toward discovering the structure of DNA.

### Swope

A planet in the vicinity of Telemachus and Martineau, a suggested landing place for Telemachian evacuees. Possibly named for Henrietta Hill Swope, an American astronomer.

### Telemachus

A planet in an unknown system (but not Jemison). Most likely named for the figure in Greek mythology and central character in Homer's *Odyssey*, who was the son of Odysseus. The (probable) birthplace of Sana Tripathi, and current home of Ignatius Campbell. Known to be orbited by a considerable amount of war rubble and other debris from something called The Battle of Five Corners. It has a large population; Arkady Patel describes it as "a big place" when detailing how many dissidents from Telemachus were sent to  Cresswin Landing. This is confirmed by RJ McCabe who explains that the Alvarez Orientation, a navigational method widely used outside the IGR, puts Telemachus as an origin point because it is the highest human population center. Known areas of Telemachus include Bogdale, North Fenton, Fenton, Santa Brigette, Remmel, Calton, Mictlan City and San Ramos, referenced by Radio Free Telemachus as areas in which Regime Agents were about to conduct raids on unauthorised comm tech. Known ports include 4, 7B and 5C. The South dockyards is where  Yuuri Nakamura departs from when evacuating 29 people. San Ramos has an Office of the Governor, which houses the Emergency Alert System. The Office can be seen from the Keeefe building. There are bomb shelters remaining in San Ramos from the war, enough to hold 20% of the population, including one such shelter on the corner of 29th and Jackson and another on 17th and Mattei. A makeshift shelter, a stretch of unused subway tunnel in Uptown, can be accessed from a manhole cover on 2nd and Chavez and is where the Rumor crew stayed during the events of Extraordinary Times.

### Waconia

A planet, most likely in the Payne-Gaposchkin System, which is uninhabited due to a catastrophic ant infestation. Aid was requested by the population and denied by the Intergalactic Republic due to "budgetary concerns and improper paperwork". All consumable food on the planet was lost, and 45% of the population was evacuated.

## Neutral Zone

### Neuzo (The Neutral Zone)

The Neutral Zone (nicknamed Neuzo) is a cluster of stations in "C-sec" founded by a libertarian billionaire and outside of any government control. It is one of the few places in the universe where humans and Dwarnians could co-exist, trading and socializing, leading to the formation of the pidgin language Dwarnglish. The region is also rife with arms dealing, gambling and drug dealing. Rival mafias more or less keep the peace in this area. The air quality is extremely unhealthy and residents have to get regular breathing treatments, which Doctor Robinson later points out to Brian Jeeter is because the atmospheric impurities that used to be allowed there could result in motor oil in the bronchial tubes. Known stations include Ryedell Station and Kyretex.

### Halton Station

The station in the Neutral Zone where Emily Craddock and Thasia grew up together. Thasia was known to frequently wander there before their disappearance, presumably to visit their childhood friend.

### Ryedell Station

The station where Brian Jeeter and Alvy Connors tended bar together and likely met.

## Dwarnian Federation

### Dwarnian Homeworld (Mloss Thaylanch?)

Self-explanatory. Has a capital city. Everything is very green. The distance from Jemison System to the Dwarnian homeworld is approximately the distance a Dwarnian ship in a hurry can travel between the Dwarnian occasions of Ferin and Mlossthay Nansh.

### Nreech-Shlegga

A location (unclear whether it is a planet, station, stronghold or other type of settlement) where the final, decisive battle in the war between humans and Dwarnians was fought. It was captured by human forces, thus ending the war.

### Thlaskin

A Dwarnian location (planet?) where Krejjh lived and worked as a stunt pilot, prior to enlisting in the military.

### Glethnam

"Turns" of this object (possibly celestial) are a measure of time for Dwarnians, for example "three turns of Glethnam".

## Educational Institutions

### Brightwell

An elite college that offers graduate programmes. Brian Jeeter has "half a PhD" in Xenolinguistics from Brightwell, but his program fell apart during the coup and the outbreak of the  human-Dwarnian war. Brightwell is described in the script notes as "like Super Harvard. Super Ultra Space-Harvard."

### Everton

A college that offers graduate programs. Violet Liu graduated with a Master's there in 2189.

### Harmony College

An elite college and officer school. Offered courses include Introductory Biology and Early Pre-Crisis Folklore. Its architecture is from the 2050s, and it has a pond and a quad. Violet Liu attended as an undergraduate student from 2181 to 2185. Brian Jeeter also attended for one year, but transferred just before finals. The school's motto is "Scandendum Est Spiranti", which was intended to mean "As long as I'm breathing, I must climb". The actual Latin translation is closer to "They must climb, who breathe". Jessica Best described Harmony College in a Tumblr tag as, "basically space bryn mawr but with an unfortunate dash of White Feminism(TM) going on".

### Max Gavins Orphan School

A school for children with no parents, founded by Max Gavins, and located in New Dearborn on the planet  Mirzakhani. The school includes a goat farm for animal therapy and provides milk and fertilizer to nearby residents. Max Gavins teaches math and fighting, his partner  Julio is a counselor. The total number of students is unknown, but thirty are age 16 and above.

### Wexler College

Another elite college, with more support for trans students than  Harmony College. Located on a different planet to Harmony College. Brian Jeeter transferred to Wexler before finals of freshman year, and finished his undergraduate education there. It was described by Jessica Best in a Tumblr tag as "Intersectional Space Stanford".

#### Vaughan University

A university in San Ramos on Telemachus, located at the intersection of State and Liberty streets. Has a large radio antenna.

### Two Hypatian Colleges

Though not mentioned by name, McCabe states that the planet Hypatia has two reasonably good colleges.

## Businesses and Industries

### ADVANCE

A company with laboratories on  New Jupiter that employed  Emily Craddock,  Alvy Connors and the other Violet Liu at different times. The crew of the Rumor later blew up the penthouse floor and escaped on a hot-wired spacecraft.

### Hotel Virgo

A possibly-fictitious establishment on  Elion where Brian Jeeter and Violet Liu claimed to have left their identifying documents to trick an  IGR  guard.

### Incorporated Technologies

A previous employer of the other Violet Liu.

### Jamie Price's

A bar on  Ryedell Station in the  Neutral Zone. A previous employer of Brian Jeeter and Alvy Connors.

### Northern Enterprises

A previous employer of the other Violet Liu.

### Strauss & Marquez

The company where Violet Liu worked as a research assistant before her mission on the Iris I.

### Unnamed Mining Companies

Located on  Rosalind. They have a monopoly on noise-cancelling headphones.

## Other Locations

### Checkpoint O-11

Violet Liu lived near this area for "a few years" and worked as a paramedic there the year after graduating college. Described as a "rough area", which had a lot of very young mothers. The neighbouring checkpoint O-10 (aka "Checkpoint Osiris") was never built, possibly due to unrest in the area, and was the subject of local rumours.

### The Deep

The name given to the parts of space that are unexplored and unsettled. In the words of Arkady Patel, "The Deep is where the weird shit happens."  Thasia, and later the crew of the Rumor, encountered the Vre Chel Noke nanoswarm out in the Deep.

### The Gay Louisa

A luxury gambling ship reported lost in space in the summer of 2177. Multiple alleged sightings of the ship were reported over the decade that followed, in which it did not respond to hails but continued traveling at a "leisurely" speed. It transpired that the wreck must have been pulled into the orbit of a nearby star; the Rumor crew later landed on it while fleeing from the IGR, plundered it for fuel, and reactivated the ship's local network for their own use.

### Fortinbras Station

A station, most likely in the Payne-Gaposchkin System, that was closed due to budget issues. 97% of the station was successfully evacuated. It was later the initial handoff location for teens from Max Gavins's school to be transferred from the Iris II to the Zephyr as they join the resistance.

### Rowan

A place where Sana Tripathi and Arkady Patel had previously performed an operation similar to their role in Brian Jeeter's "Carmen Gambit" operation in  Episode 5.

### Triton Quad[rant?]

 Arkady met (and kicked in the stomach) a guy from Triton Quad who claimed his whole crew saw a giant squid or jellyfish floating out in the Deep.

### Zone Z

A mysterious location to which the  IGR sends dissidents who are suspected or convicted of serious crimes against their regime. Agent Park was sent here and subsequently tortured. Despite the fact that "no one comes back from Zone Z", he was released when it was discovered that someone else (Ensign Best) had committed the crimes he was accused of and arrived back on  New Jupiter. He subsequently turned against the IGR and aided the Rumor crew in their escape from  ADVANCE Labs.

## References

1. ↑ Vignette #5: Aspirations, by iriscasefiles via Tumblr. Published April 7, 2018 (Accessed November 7, 2020).
2. ↑ Referenced in Mini-episode 1: Airplay.
3. ↑ Phone Home (Episode Transcript)
4. ↑ Anonymous asked: If it's not a spoiler for anything: What does the Harmony College motto "Scandendum Est Spiranti" mean? by iriscasefiles via Tumblr. Published April 6, 2017 (Accessed November 7, 2020).