Sol System

Other major worlds include:

* Pluto
* Eris
* Makemake
* Haumea
* Vesta
* Pallas
* Hygiea

The Sol System is a planetary system surrounding a yellow dwarf star in the Milky Way Galaxy. It has 8 planets, and is the home system of Humans.

## History

### Pre-Common Era

4.57 billion years ago, the Sol System formed out of a primordial cloud of gas and dust. 8 planets formed around it, with the first, Jupiter, being born even before it's light illuminated the gas bands and storms of it's young body. Due to type II gas giant migration, it started to wander in from it's cold cradle. As it swung in, it disrupted the formation of the dwarf planet Ceres, later to become the major world Neo-Ceres (more on that later in the article). It posed a real threat to young planets Earth, Mars and Venus. Around this time, possibly as a result of the Jovian migration, a large protoplanet collided with proto Mercury, throwing it in toward the sun. It stopped forming, and began its four billion year blistering repetitious treck around the sun. Mars was partially starved of material, disrupting it's formation, and possibly dooming the life that was found dying on it's surface in the year 2041. Then, newly formed Saturn reeled Jupiter back in, sparing Earth and Venus from the horrible fate of their two siblings. During this time period the ancient world Thiea collided with Gaia, forming Luna and Earth. Presently, as if things could only get better, Neptune migrated from inside Uranus' Orbit to outside of it, disrupting the Kuiper Belt and shower the inner planets with water and ice. The molten worlds Venus, Mars and Earth all gained their oceans, which only Earth managed to hold onto. This was the Late Heavy Bombardment. Around this time, life began on Venus, and panspermia transferred it to Earth and Mars. Strangely, Venus is the only one without remnants of this three-way life exchange. Nothing much happened for the next billion years, until the microbial life on both Earth and Mars arose out of the oceans, and dominated the land. On Earth, this was because it was an evolutionary advantage, and on Mars it was because there were no longer oceans. At this time, the life on Mars almost died out when the atmosphere was depleted, but managed to cling on. The Cambrian Explosion happened on Earth, enabling all sorts of things. Life went by, lived, reproduced, and died for the next 500 million years, until the arrival of the first *Homo Sapiens*. They evolved in Africa, mastering tools. They spread up into Europe, and around Asia. Within ten thousand years they came to dominate all the continents on Earth - The Americas by traveling the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, Australia and Oceania by Island-Hopping their way across islands, and even a few adventurous tribes travelled to Antarctica. They died. They evolved, matured, and finally formed the rudiments of civilization. it first arose in Egypt, controlling a prosperous empire that lasted many thousands of years until the Greeks and Romans cam along and conquered them. Then they were conquered, and that brings us into the Common Era.

### Common Era

#### Pre-Spaceflight

##### First Millennium (0-1000)

Throughout the first millennium there were many nations, kingdoms, queendoms, nations, and wars. Many monarchs were assassinated, and many rose. All in all, it was your typical middle ages.

##### Second Millennium (1000-2000)

This was very similar to the first. throughout the fist 900 years of it, the world was in chaos. Only in the final century did it get interesting. Humans developed the atom bomb, two world wars were fought, two atomic bombs were dropped, humans landed on Luna for the first time, and robotic probes were sent out to the farthest regions of the solar system.

##### Third Millennium (2000-3000)

In the first century of the Third Millennium, the digital age began. Almost every aspect of daily lives were conducted through computers, whether it be saying hi to a friend, or organising a class of rowdy students. The third decade of the third century, however, was horrible. It started in the year 2019, at the very end.

##### The Infectious Years, Recovery, and the Dawn of Spaceflight (2019-2051)

From 2019 to 2023, the world was embraced in a global health emergency. A specific Coronavirus variant had grown to infect humans, and was proving incredibly deadly. It began in the final months of the second decade, when the WHO declared a global health emergency. It lasted for three years, officially ending on the 12th of June, 2023. Many millions of people from all the nations on Earth died, devastating the world economy and setting human progress back a decade. Nevertheless, humans landed on Luna again in 2025, and on Mars in 2031. This brings us into commercial spaceflight era.

#### Post-Spaceflight

Once commercial spaceflight was available, humans flocked from their dying homeworld out into the solar system. It was now that fossils of terrestrial life were discovered on Mars, and the terraforming process was started (see, Mars). All the worlds of the solar system were settled, and trade existed between them. However, propulsion was still limited too chemical, and resources were rapidly running out. A human scientists by the name of Alyssa Smith discovered the secrets of cold fusion, and the solar system was fully open for humankind.

##### The Solar Era (2051-2192)

Hydrogen was mined from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and shipped all over the solar system. Many millions of ships flew across the solar system in a day, and came back in time for tea. Many asteroids were mined out, and terraformed on the inside. They were then set on recurring orbits that intersected two destinations. These were like hotels that moved to your destination, carrying you across the solar system in complete luxury. Truly, this was an era of peace, prosperity, and livelihood. The Solar Era lasted from 2120 to 2191, when the first FTL ship was invented, and humanity flocked to the stars.

### The Confederacy of Humankind (2192-50,000)

After the horrors of IW1 and IW2, humanity united and took to the stars. Many colony worlds were founded, and humanity fractured. As new sub-species of humanity were created, unrest brewed between Old Sol and the new colonies. The solution to the threat of interstellar human civil war, was uniting. Under the one banner of the Confederacy of Humankind, humans came to dominate the Milky Way Galaxy and play a crucial part of the unfolding interstellar story.

## Politics

The Confederacy of Humankind remains on friendly terms with its neighbours, the Coalition of Simlunsa and the Empire of Humanity. It has only fought in two interstellar wars, The War of Human Evolution and The War of Milkomeda Transition. Its capital is located on Earth, in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean, on an Artificial Island named Capitolis Island. The city is over a thousand kilometres squared, and is visible from Orbit.

## Structure

The Sol System contains 9 planet-sized planets, and many other moons. In order:

* Hathor

Earth:

* Luna

Mars:

* Neo-Phobos
* Neo-Diemos

* Io
* Europa
* Ganymede
* Callisto

Saturn:

* Titan
* Iapetus

* Triton