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Titan

Titan from orbit

The lakes of Titan

**Titan** is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest natural satellite in the Sol System after Ganymede. It is the only moon in the system with a dense atmosphere, and is the only known object in the system other than Earth with stable bodies of surface liquid, that being liquid hydrocarbons. Titan was the fourth extraterrestrial colony settled by humanity after Luna, Mars and Callisto. A major world of the United Colonies and the sole moon of Saturn not owned by Cronos Incorporated, Titan is an important source of hydrocarbons for all of the U.C.'s worlds.

## History

### Discovery

Titan was discovered on March 25, 1655, by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Huygens was inspired by Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's four largest moons in 1610 and his improvements in telescope technology. It was the sixth moon ever discovered, after Earth's Moon and the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

## Atmosphere

Titan is the only moon in the Sol System with a significant atmosphere, and its atmosphere is the only nitrogen-rich dense atmosphere in the system aside from Earth's; like Venus, Titan's atmosphere rotates much faster than its surface. Space probes have shown that Titan's atmosphere is denser than Earth's, with a surface pressure about 1.45 atm. It is also about 1.19 times as massive as Earth's overall, or about 7.3 times more massive on a per surface area basis.

Titan's atmospheric composition is nitrogen (97%), methane (2.7%), and hydrogen (0.1–0.2%), with trace amounts of other gases. There are trace amounts of other hydrocarbons, such as ethane, diacetylene, methylacetylene, acetylene and propane, and of other gases, such as cyanoacetylene, hydrogen cyanide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, cyanogen, argon and helium. The hydrocarbons form in Titan's upper atmosphere in reactions resulting from the breakup of methane by the Sun's ultraviolet light, producing a thick orange smog.
Cassini

**Cassini**, officially designed **55 Cancri f III** or **Harriot III**, is the largest, densest and most massive moon of the gas giant Harriot, located in the 55 Cancri system 41 light-years from Earth. Lying within the habitable zone of its star, Cassini is one of the few natural satellites to have a liquid water ocean and an atmosphere favourable to humans, thus making it one of the most Earth-like worlds ever settled.

Settled by the martian sect of the Interstellar Collective in the 2220s, Cassini was one of the first colonies to rebel against the Collective in 2235, triggering the Herschel Wars. Following a military stalemate, Cassini and the other colonies declared indepedence as the Herschel Nations. The moon is often referred to as a "birther colony": its Earth-like gravity, atmosphere and liquid water ocean are favourable to developing humans and as a result most aresians are born there.
Ranger

***Ranger*** is the working title of the upcoming second instalment in the *Project Sagittarius* Universe. It is in early development, and will follow rangers of the Herschel Nations Sovereignty Patrol in the aftermath of the Herschel Wars.

## Premise

*In the aftermath of the bloody Herschel Wars, an elite squadron of H.N. rangers* *works to secure the borders of the free republics and suppress any encroachments...by any means necessary.*
Laconia

**Laconia** is a terrestrial planet located in the Laconia-B system, more than 1600 light-years from Earth, within the bridge systems. A sparse, hostile world, it was nonetheless settled by independent spacers in the 23rd century.

Between 2433 and 2445, Laconia was governed by the Hanseatic League, a spacer militia that aimed to make it the core of a spacer empire. The subsequent formation of the Hanza Republic, with Laconia as its capital, triggered the Great Galactic War that ran from 2435 to 2445; during that time, Laconia became one of the most powerful spacer colonies in the galaxy. The League's reign of terror came to an end with the allied invasion near the end of the war, during which Laconia, where all remaining Hanza forces had congregated, was bombarded with antimatter weapons, rendering it uninhabitable.
Anchor

**Anchors** are exoskeletal implants that compress the spine and accelerate muscle development in low gravity, allowing a wearer to quickly adapt to different gravity environments. They are primarily worn by spacers, who receive them shortly after birth and spend most of their lives living and working in space.

Culturally, anchors are seen as a unifer amongst spacers - something that they all have in common despite their divisions and often-conflicting ideologies - and a symbol of their resistance to terran and aresian oppression.

## Overview

Anchors are cybernetic implants that compress or expand the bones of the spine and stimulate the nervous tissue of the spinal cord. A typical anchor covers the entire spinal cord system, from the medulla oblongata in the brainstem to the lumbar region of the vertebral column. Most are implanted at birth; while they can be removed, it is a dangerous and invasive process that requires the replacement of the nerves and bones, possibly with more cyberware due to the cost of real tissue.

When in low, zero or artificial gravity, anchors relax the spine and stimulate the nervous system, improving motor function; this makes it easier for the wearer to move, work and sleep in such conditions. When operating in (comparatively) high-gravity environments, the anchor will compress the spine and dull the nervous system; this acclimatises the spacer's body to the new conditions much more rapidly. It is also incredibly painful; the sudden adjustment can cause whiplash, especially in gravity stronger than 0.8 g.

Anchors require regular tuning to improve optimisation; it is a painful process that effectively amounts to surgery. Due to the immense pain, most spacers treat it as a deeply personal activity and perform it in private (see culture below). Licensed doctors or engineers can also perform tuning for a price, though most spacers chose to do it themselves. Tuning is usually done once a month; depending on workload or gravitational conditions, it may need to be done every couple weeks.

Since anchors are mass-produced cyberware, wearers are required to take immuno-blockers to prevent their bodies from rejecting the implant; this has the effect of weakening the entire immune system, leaving the wearer more vulnerable to disease. Immuno-blockers often include powerful painkillers that are notoriously addictive; black market immuno-blockers are often mixed with psychostimulants for recreational use. Immuno-blocker production and distribution is subsidised in the United Colonies and Herschel Nations, but not in the Free Economic Zone.

## Cultural Role

Since tuning an anchor is a painful and invasive process, some spacer cultures chose to conduct it in private. Others choose to conduct it in groups, with prayers and rituals, usually following up with a feast or festivities.
Battle of Asgard

The DFFR armada approaches Asgard

## Casualties

The **Battle of Asgard** was the pivotal battle of the Luyten theatre of the Herschel Wars. It was the largest and deadliest battle of the entire conflict, fought when the Defence Force of the Free Republics launched a counter-offensive on the U.C. colony Asgard after SPACECOM's failure to capture the Herschel Nations fuel depot in nearby Procyon.

Following a series of failed offensives, the United Colonies were on the back foot in the final months of the Herschel Wars. Their unsuccessful siege of Procyon, a Herschel Nations fuel outpost and the closest system to Luyten, opened a window for the DFFR to launch a counter-offensive. The result was the largest naval assault in history at the time; having built strong defensive positions, the DFFR was able to assemble a gargantuan armada that included dreadnoughts, frigates and stealth fighters, some of the most advanced spacecraft of their time.

After crippling the enemy's naval forces, the DFFR commanders ordered a full withdrawl of troops before the ground invasion could commence; the Herschel Nations had demonstrated their ability to attack as well as defend, giving them an edge in the diplomatic war that followed. Humiliated by their loss, the U.C. was forced to engage in the 2442 Bidara Conference, which ultimately brought an end to the Herschel Wars.

The Battle of Asgard is considered one of the most important battles in galactic history; it cemented the military dominance of the DFFR as well as the national identity of the Herschel Nations. Meanwhile, in the United Colonies, the victory was widely considered a loss, and the Scientism Party that had ruled for a decade was voted out in favour of the Union & Democracy Party, which brought in sweeping reforms. Solomon Jayne's tactics, as well as his unexpected mercy, are still taught in DFFR doctrine in the present day.
Operation Broadsword

## Casualties

**Operation Broadsword** was the codename for the **Allied Invasion of Hanza Space**, the last major offensive of the Great Galactic War. It saw the forces of the Stellar Alliance, combined with factions of the Spacers Legion - including the Spartan Order and Bridge Alliance - as well as pirate fleets from Twin Moon, invade and conquer the territory of the Hanza Republic in late 2445, over ten years after the start of the war. The invasion saw two significant battles: the liberation of Sparta and the fall of Laconia, the latter of which included the second use of antimatter weapons in warfare.
Frontiers

―Motto of Frontiers

**Frontiers** is a space exploration corporation that is often regarded as the last truly independent organization of space explorers. One of the last surviving corporations from the 20th century, in the company's long history it has achieved several spaceflight milestones, including the settling of the Jovian system, the development of the first FTL-capable spacecraft, and the first human landing on an extrasolar world. In the 25th century, Frontiers remains independent and continues to explore the outer edges of the Settled Systems; its employees generally act semi-autonomously, allowing them to explore as they see fit.
Price's War

### Result:

* Twin Moon accepts an amnesty from the Alliance and provides naval support for Operation Broadsword

## Casualties

―King Price convinces the captains to fight with the Alliance during the Great Galactic War

**Price's War** was a conflict between Twin Moon and the Hanseatic League that ran from 2443 until 2444, when Twin Moon joined forces with the Alliance. Part of the Great Galactic War, it was born out of a proclamation by Pirate King Josia Price that none in Twin Moon would answer the Hanza's call for all spacers to take up arms against the Alliance. It was Twin Moon's first conflict since the War of Thunder.

In 2438, Price rejected Salen Dune's demand that Twin Moon take up arms with the Hanza against the Stellar Alliance, consisting of Twin Moon's lifelong enemies the United Colonies and Herschel Nations; Price reasoned - and convinced his people - that struggling to survive by raiding the Alliance was preferable to living under the iron fist of the Hanza. In June 2443, Price and his fleet were raiding the Sol System in the midst of the Home Systems campaign; during their escape, the pirate fleet was caught up in the Battle of Earth. Upon witnessing the Hanza's senseless slaughter of innocents, Price's fleet engaged the Hanza forces and ultimately proved pivotal to the Alliance's victory.

Twin Moon and the Hanza subsequently engaged in a series of skirmishes, most famously Price's assault on the UHFS *Galaxius* and assassination attempt on Dune. Shortly after, during the Parlay of '44, Price accepted the Alliance's offer of amnesty in exchange for Twin Moon's naval support during Operation Broadsword.
Sinclair Space

**Sinclair Space** is a privately funded space infrastructure developer headquarted on the planet Sinclair within the Free Economic Zone. Founded by David Sinclair in the early 23rd century to develop infrastructure for interstellar travel, Sinclair Space is a member of the Board, the F.E.Z's governing body. Sinclair Space operates hundreds of space stations and spaceports across several planets and was the key partner in the construction of the *Event Horizon* and *Fortune* ringworlds.
Sol Theatre

### Result:

**Herschel Nations** victory* Seizure of all non-corporate colonies beyond the asteroid belt, including Triton and Titan

## Casualties

The **Sol Theatre**, **Sol War** or **Second Earth-Mars War**, was a theatre of the Herschel Wars in which Earth and Mars, the respective capitals of the United Colonies and the Herschel Nations, fought for control of the Sol System, the core of both factions. It was primarily fought in the asteroid belt and outer planets, particularly around Neptune's largest moon Triton over which a three month campaign was fought.
Clan Venture

**Clan Venture** was a pirate clan of Twin Moon founded by captain Herrik Venture in 2419 after Saw Trace became Pirate King and Clan Trace ceased to exist. The clan sat at the Liberty Table from their foundation until their attempted mutiny in the War of Thunder, and which point they were purged and their seat taken by Clan Thorson.
Kirk Goode

**Kirk Goode**, also called **"The Man Out of Time"**, was a Collective pilot who, while testing a new gravity drive, underwent two centuries of time dilation after performing a slingshot around a black hole, travelling from 2228 to 2428 in what felt like a few minutes. After coming to terms with his ordeal, he started a family and bore a son, James, before being sent off to fight in the Great Galactic War, from which he did not return. His son went on to form his own prospecting company, *Disco Volante*, in his father's honour.
Synth

**Synths**, short for **synthetic humanoids**, also called **androids**, are biosynthetic robots manufactured from cloned tissue of millions of donors and composed of both organic and synthetic material. They vary from simple drones to advanced models that near-perfectly replicate human emotions and responses.

## History

### Types

#### First Generation

The first generation of synths were composed of a metal endoskeleton controlled by a surgically implanted human brain.

#### Hysynths

Hysynths are a subtype of synthetic that are designed with non-human genes in their genome, causing them to resemble aliens.

## Notable Synths

* Astrid
* Jacques Sage
Herschel Nations Sovereignty Patrol

Sigil of the Rangers

―Motto of the rangers

The **Herschel Nations Sovereignty Patrol**, whose members are called **Rangers**, are an elite military outfit of the Defence Force of the Free Republics, the military of the Herschel Nations. The rangers are a volunteer special forces renowned as much for their expert reconnaissance capabilities as their bravery and combat prowess. Their primary purpose is dealing with threats regular forces cannot handle, as well as keeping the borders of the H.N. secure, scouting out threats and other special assignments. Their superior training, weaponry and assortment of technology allows them to tip battles in the H.N.'s favor even when a situation may see them outnumbered and outgunned.
Helium War

## Casualties

The **helium war** was a theatre of the Herschel Wars that pitted the United Colonies' corporate and spacer allies against those of the Herschel Nations, primarily over the isotope helium-3. The helium war is best remembered as the founding conflict of the Spacers Legion.

In 2239 antimatter production was accelerating to produce more fuel for FTL travel; however, production was being strangled by resource rationing, forcing both the U.C. and H.N. to rely on helium-3 as an energy source. Since both factions were preoccupied with defending their major worlds, they turned to their respective corporate and spacer allies to fight over what precious helium-3 remained. Many of these spacer factions, instead of fighting each other, banded together to take the helium-3 supply for themselves.

By 2441, the "Spacers Legion" held a monopoly on helium-3, forcing both the U.C. and H.N. to recognise the sovereignty of each of the Legion's factions. As helium-3 became harder to acquire, and their respective advances began to stall as a result, the warring factions were forced to make peace in 2442, bringing an early end to the Herschel Wars.
Fortune

***Fortune*** is one of the two ringworld space stations built by humanity, alongside *Event Horizon*. It is under the jurisdiction of the United Colonies, and is thus their largest space station.

## History

The origins of *Fortune* trace back to the 21st century, when humanity was beginning to permanetly colonize the worlds of the Sol System. Before planetary colonies were established, many explorers settled on space stations within the L2 Lagrange point of the system's planets; one of the largest and most important of these early space stations was the Japanese *Kibō* station, which possessed the first von Braun wheel to generate artificial gravity via rotation; similar technology was eventually installed on the *Gateway*. The World Initiative for Space created active plans to build an international ring-shaped station in the late 2070s, but these plans were ultimately abandoned to provide funding for the secretive *Crusader* Program.

By the 24th century, mankind had spread far beyond Earth into a territory called the Settled Systems; in the wake of the Herschel Wars, many spacer settlers were displaced, caught between serving either of the two new governments or joining the Spacers Legion. An alternative was offered by von Braun Construction, an aerospace architecture corporation that sought to build two ringworlds, true wheel-shaped space stations, that could be permanently inhabited; one would be built in orbit of a planet, while another would be built around a small star.

The objects that resulted became *Fortune* and *Event Horizon*; von Braun Construction sold *Fortune* to the United Colonies to try and avoid bankruptcy but ultimately folded, leaving *Event Horizon* unfinished. While *Event Horizon* ultimately became independent, *Fortune* became the U.C.'s largest space station.
Defence of Schwarzschild

DFFR ships during the defence

## Casualties

The **Defence of Schwarzschild** - so named as to not detract from the more pivitol Battle of Schwarzschild in 2233 - was a decisive battle in the Kepler Campaign of the Great Galactic War that marked the first instance of direct Herschel Nations participation in the conflict. It was fought in March of 2437, two Earth-weeks after the Hanza attack on space station *Norfolk* and almost two years after the Lesson.

Shortly after their preemptive attack on the Herschel Nations in the form of the *Norfolk* assault, the Hanseatic League launched a full-scale invasion of Kepler Space to attack both U.C. garrisons and deter DFFR intervention in the conflict. With the Herschel Nations still yet to declare war, the United Hanza Fleet commenced **Operation Stranglehold**, an attack on Schwarzschild to gripple the naval forces of the DFFR before the Moot had time to debate on a final declaration. Under the command of the UHFS *Augusta M. Sutton*, a Hanza invasion force entered the Kepler 22 system to no resistance, only to be slaughtered in a surprise attack by DFFR stealth bombers and a pre-prepared asteroid storm.
Ringworld

A **ringworld** is a type of von Braun wheel space station, where the habitat is wheel-shaped and rotates about its axis to create an environment of artificial gravity, that is also large enough to support a population in the tens of thousands. Two ringworlds have been built by humanity: *Fortune*, controlled by the United Colonies, and *Event Horizon*, officially an independent station where several factions operate.
Jupiter

Full disk view of Jupiter

The Great Red Spot

**Jupiter** is the fifth planet from Sol and the largest in the Sol System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the system combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of Sol. Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen, but helium constitutes one-quarter of its mass and one-tenth of its volume. Jupiter has 80 known moons and possibly many more, including the four large moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, the latter three of which harbour life. Io and Europa are about the size of Earth's Moon; Callisto is almost the size of the planet Mercury, and Ganymede is larger.

Since the late 21st century, Jupiter has been owned and governed by the United Jupiter Company, one of the largest non-Board corporations in the Settled Systems, which controls the planet itself and the moon Callisto. The Jupiter colonies were among the most powerful extraterrestrial colonies in the 21st and 22nd centuries, and Ganymede remains one of the most powerful members of the United Colonies.
Clan Trace

**Clan Trace** was a pirate clan of Twin Moon founded by captain Saw Trace and his fleet in the late 23rd century. One of the largest clans in Twin Moon's history and the largest of its time, Clan Trace was the foremost raiding fleet of its day and was responsible for several historic heists within U.C. space, so much so that it was the first - and only - Twin Moon clan to be declared a "common enemy" of both the U.C. and the Herschel Nations. It was succeeded by Clan Venture when Saw Trace became Pirate King in 2419.

Despite their fearsome reputation, Clan Trace was also known for their humanitarian missions where they would provide relief to impoverished colonists throughout the Settled Systems, usually in the form of supplies or armed security. Such activities would be continued by one of Clan Trace's scions, Clan Price, and shape the ideology of Josia Price, Trace's successor as Pirate King.
Messier 23

**Messier 23**, also known as **NGC 6494** or **M23**, is an open cluster of stars within the constellation of Sagittarius, discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. Lying 2,050 light-years from Earth, at the farthest edge of the Settled Systems, it was targeted for exploration in 2475 by a colony fleet led by the UCS *Voyager* when three "golden worlds" were detected within its bounds.

## History

### Exploration

Throughout the 2460s, M23 was surveyed remotely from the deep space station *Nemo XI*, one of the the U.C.'s most distant stations; these observations detected three candidate "golden worlds" - planets with compositions, environments and biomes that would make them suitable for human habitation without extensive terraforming or life support - within its bounds: Grissom III and two unassigned planets.

## Structure

#### Golden Worlds

##### Grissom III

Named by captain Rick Goodspeed of the *Voyager*, Grissom III is a super-Earth and the third world of its kind to be named after the astronaut Gus Grissom. A terrestrial planet 1.17 times the size of Earth, it is less dense and thus has a gravity only minimally stronger than Earth's (1.4g compared to 1g). Its atmosphere primarily consists of argon and oxygen in a similar ratio to the nitrogen:oxygen content of Earth's atmosphere (80% argon, 19% oxygen and 1% of other gases, including carbon dioxide). It is home to an abundance of complex multicellular lifeforms, including a variety of plants; Grissom III's plant life evolved to use retinal rather than chlorophyll, making most plants purple instead of green.
Heather Belladonna

**Heather Du Bois**, better known as **Heather Belladonna**, is a notorious Nemesis City fixer, owner of the Underworld and wife of Gallowglass vocalist Adam Belladonna. While her husband attempts to ignite revolt with his lyrics and stage persona, Heather prefers to work in the shadows using espionage, sabotage, contract killings and blackmail to hurt the powerful in Nemesis City.
Pirate King

The **Pirate King** is the elected pirate captain granted supreme control over all the clans of Twin Moon; in essence, they are "captain of the captains". Elected by a simple majority of Twin Moon's pirate captains, the Pirate King is charged with enforcing the loose set of rules that keep Twin Moon together. The elected king holds office until their demise, whether by natural causes, crossing the law, or mutiny. The Pirate King's personal warship is the *Ivan the Terrible*, and tradition states that the newly-elected king pass on command of their ship to their first mate.
House Izar

―Motto of House Izar

**House Izar**, also called the **House of Stars**, is a powerful mining dynasty controlling a vast interstellar territory within the constellation Boötes. Sitting at the head of several large corporations, including Nova Galactic and Boötes Mining, House Izar is by far the richest family in the Settled Systems and the fourth most powerful faction in the galaxy, dwarfed only by the three superpowers. Although formerly tied to the United Colonies, House Izar has been autonomous since the Izar Proclamation in 2361 and severed its ties to the rest of the Settled Systems during the Great Galactic War. The dynasty has since become a rogue state operating without limits through all of settled space, primarily through Boötes Mining and their highly-trained Werewolf death squad.

## History

### Foundation

House Izar's origins lie in a wealthy Earth dynasty with English and French heritage. During the 21st and 22nd centuries, members of this dynasty contributed immense funds to space exploration and sponsored missions by Sinclair Space and Frontiers. During the 22nd century the family even began their own space corp, Nova Galactic, that provided tours of the Sol System's planets and colonies.

The family departed Earth during the Exodus and searched for their own homeworld outside of government control; they eventually settled the planet Izar in the binary star system Epsilon Boötes, where they founded an interstellar empire consisting of mining corps. At this point the family's old name and they took on the title "House Izar", the House of Stars.

## Overview

The richest and most powerful family in the Settled Systems, ruling over their empire from their homeworld of Izar, House Izar wields immeasurable political and economic power; their influence is great enough to rival the Free Economic Zone, an entire collective of powerful corporations. A family of megalomaniacs notorious for their god complexes and dedication to Scientism, House Izar, like their rivals in the F.E.Z., treat their subjects as little more than property. Unlike the F.E.Z. and other major factions, House Izar holds an extreme disgust for synths of all models. House Izar are also known benefactors of the Terran Preservation Society, a terran supremacist group and political party.
UCS Archduke

The **UCS *Archduke*** was an *Armstrong*-class United Colonies exploration starship that was famously destroyed and shipwrecked on an uncharted planet in 2470. Built in the late 2390s, the *Archduke* was a veteran exploration ship that had mapped hundreds of uncharted light-years before its fateful final voyage; while in orbit of an unmapped planet the ship suffered a reactor core meltdown followed by explosive decompression, killing all the crew aboard. The cartographers outside the vessel were shredded by debris, leaving just one survivor, James Goode, who crash-landed on the surface. Goode was rescued 55 days later when he reached the wreckage of the *Archduke*, which was subsequently declared a memorial site.
Spartan Order

The **Spartan Order** is a military order within the Spacers Legion that operates throughout the Settled Systems, where they act as lawful outlaws and conduct vigilante activities. Native to planet Sparta, a spacer world known for its warrior culture, the Order took to the stars after their homeworld became the hub of the Hanseatic League and the Hanza Republic they supported. Since leaving their homeworld, the Spartan Order has operated as freelance bounty hunters that, instead of selling their services to the highest bidder, conduct operations in aid of isolated homesteaders and colonists.
Shield of Sol

The **Shield of Sol** was an impromptu defensive force consisting of the remnants of the Earth Defence Fleet and the United Saturn Fleet that fought to defend Earth and the Sol System during the Battle of Earth. Led by Admiral Leon Shaw from Boreal City and Captain Damon Snow from the U.S.F.S. *Retribution*, the Shield successfully repelled the League's invasion during the battle, triggering the liberation of the few Home System planets that had been invaded and seized by the League. The Shield's victory despite impossible odds, including being outnumbered at least 2-to-1, made them widely-celebrated heroes of the Great Galactic War.
Speed of Light

The **speed of light** in vacuum, commonly denoted ***c***, is a universal physical constant that is important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is defined as 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 km/s). According to special relativity, *c* is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter, energy or any signal carrying information can travel through space; any matter, energy or signal travelling beyond the speed of light is undergoing FTL travel, which is only possible via the generation of sagittarius fields. A light-year is a distance unit, defined as the distance travelled by light in one Julian year. The speed of light is sometimes referred to as **lightspeed**.
Oppenheimer System

The **Oppenheimer System** is a gravitationally bound planetary system located in the Orion–Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way, 575 light-years from Earth. A backwater system for much of humanity's spacefaring history, the system became the home of the pirate armada Twin Moon in the 23rd century. The planetary system is unremarkable aside from the binary planet Ultima Thule, which serves as Twin Moon's headquarters.

## Stars

### Oppenheimer

* Diameter: 1,567,487 km
* Mass: 1.15 M☉
* Distance from Parent: 26,575 light-years from galactic centre
* Rotational period: 17 days
* Orbital period: 246 million years
* First landing: N/A

Oppenheimer is a calm star similar to Sol, being only slightly larger and brighter in absolute magnitude. It has a stellar classification of G0 V, compared to G2 V for Sol.

## Planets

### Ultima Thule

A binary planet system that orbit around a common barycenter between them, Ultima Thule is the headquarters of the pirate armada Twin Moon.
Mazovist Revolutions

The **Mazovist Revolutions**, also called the **Social Revolutions**, the **Materialist Revolution** or the **Dolorian Spring**, were a series of interstellar conflicts primarily between various Mazovist military groups, collectively known as the Communards, and the planetary governments within the United Colonies and Herschel Nations. Inspired by the writings of John Mazov, the revolutions began in 2334 in the bridge systems and rapidly spread to more populated systems, including Asgard and Harmony. The **Mazovist wars** were the various armed campaigns by the governments to quell the Communard uprisings and ran from 2336 to 2380.
Lovell City

**Lovell City** was a megametropolis located on Earth's Moon that served as the capital city of the Interstellar Collective and then the United Colonies until its destruction in the Lesson. It was humanity's first permanent extraterrestrial colony and the first city built on another world.

Founded as an American colony in 1984 and named after astronaut Jim Lovell, a principle architect of the city who also served as its first governor, Lovell City became an international settlement under the political framework of the World Initiative for Space and subsequently the capital of the Interstellar Collective, the organization that governed the Sol System and the colonies until the Herschel Wars. Upon the formation of the United Colonies, Lovell City was declared its capital, and it became one of the most powerful cities in the galaxy.

In 2435, Lovell City was selected as the Hanseatic League's target for its attack on the United Colonies; in late May, League operatives detonated an antimatter bomb in downtown Lovell, tearing apart Luna's surface and devastating Earth. The attack killed billions and triggered the Great Galactic War.
Centaurus

*Proxima Centauri b*

**Centaurus**, officially **Proxima Centauri b**, is a terrestrial planet orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to Sol and part of the triple star system Alpha Centauri. It is approximately 4.2 light-years from Earth, making it, Proxima c, and Proxima d the closest known exoplanets to the Sol System.

Centaurus was humanity's first extrasolar colony, settled in the 2210s shortly after it was first reached by manned spacecraft, the *Endeavor II*, in 2207. Originally believed to hold bodies of liquid water, Centaurus is actually a warm and dry world with an atmosphere that mostly consists of oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Despite this, Centaurus is a major world of the United Colonies, serving as a key transport hub in the Home Systems.
David Sinclair

**David Sinclair** was a business magnate and engineer who was the founder and CEO of Sinclair Space, artificial intelligence developer AmpMind and synth manufacturer Metadyne. Following his death in the 23rd century, his digitised consciousness was brought back to life as a personality engram, allowing him to continue his role as CEO and a member of the Board, the governing body of the Free Economic Zone. The engram grew more and more advanced over the centuries, eventually evolving into an advanced hologram that continues to rule Sinclair Space.
Sagittarius Field

**Sagittarius fields** are negative energy fields generated when HZQ interacts with normal spacetime, creating a region of warped space known as a starbridge that is governed by non-conventional physical laws; within these structures a starship can travel beyond the speed of light. First discovered in the late 22nd century alongside the HZQ, sagittarius fields are the only known method of FTL travel and thus have been extensively used by humanity to colonize the Milky Way.

## History

Sagittarius fields, alongside their progenitor HZQ, were discovered by Cameron Hammond and Zhōu Mǐn on the space station *Jump Zero* in orbit around Bifrost, on the edge of the Sol System. The fields themselves were reproduced via the McBride process on *Jump Zero*, unlocking the secret to FTL travel and the expansion of mankind into interstellar systems.

## Physics

The Alcubierre metric defines the spacetime warped by sagittarius fields. When the strength and density of the fields reach a certain threshold, they form a Lorentzian manifold that, if interpreted in the context of general relativity, allows a warp bubble to appear in previously flat spacetime and move away at effectively faster-than-light speed.

The interior of the bubble is an inertial reference frame and inhabitants experience no proper acceleration. The speed of light in a vacuum, *c*, is dramatically lowered in front of the starship and dramactically increased behind it, thus allowing the starship to travel beyond *c* without violating causality or the negative impacts of time dilation.

This method of transport does not involve objects in motion at faster-than-light speeds with respect to the contents of the warp bubble; that is, a light beam within the warp bubble would still always move more quickly than the ship. Conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation would not apply as they would with conventional motion at near-light speeds.

## Use

### FTL Travel

> *See also: FTL Travel*
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The negative energy density created by sagittarius fields warps space to such a degree that a cavity of altered physics can form around the fields' epicenter; called a starbridge, this cavity is effectively a higher dimension where the relative speed of light is higher than *c*, the speed of light in a non-warped vacuum. As a result, a spacecraft can accelerate beyond the speed of light *c* relative to unwarped space while within a starbridge.

Sagittarius fields are currently the only known method of faster-than-light travel aside from wormholes, which are too unpredictable to be relied upon.
Fall of Thermopylae

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The **First Battle of Thermopylae**, also known as the **Fall of Thermopylae**, was an early battle of the Kepler Campaign that saw the Hanza invade and conquer the Free Republic of Thermopylae in 2436.

In January 2436, the United Hanza Fleet attacked the DFFR station *Norfolk*, killing thousands of civilians that were visiting family members stationed there. Hoping to deter a Herschel Nations retaliation, the Hanza began a full-scale invasion of Kepler Space with the purpose of crippling the DFFR by invading Schwarzschild. Thermopylae was chosen as the Hanza base thanks to its central location in Herschel Nations territory.
Aegis Party

The **Aegis Party**, or **Aegis**, is the dominant and ruling political party of the Herschel Nations, comprising an overwhelming majority of the Moot since the first democratic elections in 2259. It functions as a *de facto* one-party authority as all other political parties support or are unopposed to its policies. Described by political scientists as a "big tent" party, Aegis embraces specific politicians and officials who hold various political views but support the Herschel Nations' "military first" policy.
Republic of Schiaparelli

The **Republic of Schiaparelli**, abbreviated as the **ROS**, is a country and former habitat-state in Acidalia Planitia, the northern plain of the planet Mars in the Sol System. Its capital is Olympus City, which is also the capital of Mars itself. Established in 2036 as the first country on another planet, the ROS was the progenitor of the aresian sovereignty movement that led to the C.A.R. Rebellion and ultimately the Herschel Wars.
Europa

**Europa** is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter and the sixth-largest moon in the Sol System. Slightly smaller than Earth's Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate rock, with a water-ice crust and an iron–nickel core. It has a very thin atmosphere, composed primarily of oxygen. Its white-beige surface is striated by light tan cracks and streaks, but craters are relatively few. The moon is home to a subsurface ocean, the Aegean Ocean; heat from tidal flexing causes the ocean to remain liquid and drives ice movement similar to plate tectonics.

The second of Jupiter's moons to be permanently colonized after Callisto, Europa was long suspected to harbour extraterrestrial life, which was discovered by the crew of the Marius II expedition in 2029. Outside of Earth, Europa is home to the most complex ecosystem in the Sol System, which consists of life very similar to invertebrates in Earth's oceans; bioluminescence is a common trait among Europa's lifeforms. As part of the power sharing of Jupiter, Europa is governed by the **Free Republic of Europa**, a member of the Herschel Nations.
Ashna Pharmaceutical

**Ashna Pharmaceutical** is a chemical company and rogue corporation known as the largest manufacturer and distributor of aurora in the Settled Systems. In addition to aurora, Ashna also produces many of its derivatives, including "lace", "mindfuck" and "TIP", and operates out of a series of space stations. One of the largest rogue corps, they are listed as an official "state enemy" of the United Colonies.
Prospector

**Prospectors** are spacefarers that earn a living by scavenging, salvaging, contracting, bounty hunting, mineral hunting and scientific analysis, among others. While some prospectors are government agents, most are independent, scrounging out a living however they can and usually never settling for a single source of income.

## Known Companies

 Sedna Salvage & Shipping | Sedna | A former megacorporation that helped found the Free Economic Zone, Sedna is a salvage company with alleged ties to organized crime, which it hides in a complex web of vice presidents and contractors. The company has fallen on hard times since the Sixth Corporate War and their expulsion from the Zone, primarily due to Sedna's increasing distance and isolation from Sol.
Clan von Ironclaw

**Clan von Ironclaw** is a pirate clan of Twin Moon, formed when Josia Price became Pirate King and Cyrus von Ironclaw took his seat at the Liberty Table in 2423. Following Cyrus' own ascent to the throne in 2458, leadership of the clan passed to his first mate and wife Dayna Stark and subsequently to their children Aiesha and Asher von Ironclaw.

## Notable Members

* Aiesha von Ironclaw
* Asher von Ironclaw
* Cyrus von Ironclaw - Pirate King from 2458—2468

## Trivia

* Clan von Ironclaw is unique among Twin Moon clans for retaining its original name, as most clans are replaced by that of a founder's successor. For example, Clan von Ironclaw itself replaced Clan Price when Josia Price became Pirate King and Cyrus von Ironclaw took his seat.
Earth

**Earth** is the third planet orbiting the star Sol and the only astronomical object known to harbour intelligent life. Located in the Sol System, it is the homeworld of the human race and possibly of the extinct travellers. The former capital of the United Colonies, it is directly governed by the Earth Directorate.

Poisoned by substanial environmental damage throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, Earth underwent a Great Migration of humanity into the outer planets and subsequently the extrasolar colonies. Climate engineering in the 24th century largely repaired Earth, attracting a significant population to resettle the planet. In 2435, Earth was devastated by an attack, later called "The Lesson", that destroyed Earth's Moon with an antimatter bomb. Billions were killed in a matter of days, while hundreds of millions more were forced to evacuate. Faced with otherwise abandoning their homeworld, the United Colonies leased it to the Nemesis Group, who built the last - and largest - city in Earth's history to house its remaining population: Nemesis City.

Decades later, Earth has become a backwater home to only a few hundred million, while its old political influence has been transferred to colony worlds such as Asgard; nonetheless, its standards of timekeeping remain in wide use across the Settled Systems.
Home Systems Campaign

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The **Home Systems Campaign** was a military theatre of the Great Galactic War encompassing the Home Systems, which contained some of the most crucial worlds within the Stellar Alliance including Earth and Mars, the respective homeworlds of terrans and aresians. The events of the campaign, particularly the Battle of Earth, are considered the turning point in the war and among the most decisive events in all human history.

Following their losses in the Kepler Campaign, the United Hanza Fleet turned their goals towards the Home Systems, which, despite their importance to the United Colonies and Herschel Nations, had been left relatively undefended in order to better equip Alliance military operations elsewhere. Under the direction of the *Olympus Mons*, captained by the League's second-in-command Pierre Danois, the 6th fleet of the United Hanza Fleet conquered vast regions of the Home Systems, including Centaurus in 2443, forcing the remaining Alliance forces to form a stronghold in the Sol System. This culminated in the Battle of Earth, the largest and deadliest battle in the history of warfare, which concluded with an Alliance victory and a major turning point against the League, which until then had been on the edge of victory. Rallied by the defence of Earth, Alliance troops drove League forces out of the Home Systems and back into Hanza space; subsequent Alliance victory in the Battle of the Bridges set the stage for the allied invasion of the Hanza Republic and the end of the war.

## Analysis

By the beginning of 2444, Alliance victory in the war was inevitable. Having gambled his future ability to defend the Hanza Republic on conquering the Home Systems, only to decisively loose, Salen Dune had no real strength left to stop the powerful Alliance forces. Even when the hopelessness of the League's situation became obvious to his most loyal subordinates, Dune refused to admit defeat; only when the United Hanza Fleet's largest division was destroyed in the Battle of Earth did he begin to realize the final outcome.
Settled Systems

The **Settled Systems** are all of the star systems of the Milky Way that have been settled by humans since their development of FTL travel in the late 22nd century, having previously been restricted to just their home system, the Sol System. The Settled Systems extend for around 1800 light-years outwards from Sol across the Orion-Cygnus Arm, although some star systems further afield have been settled by deep space explorers such as Astra Aerospace and Frontiers, stretching the territory out to around 2000 light-years. The Settled Systems are divided between the three major factions: the United Colonies, the Herschel Nations and the Free Economic Zone. Those outside of these states include independent spacers, mercenaries, pirates and religious zealots.

## Divisions

The Settled Systems are divided into a number of regions under various degrees of control by the major factions; only a few of these are considered continuous areas:

* Bridge Systems
* Corpo Space
* Edge Systems
* Home Systems
* Izar Space
* Kepler Space

The primary population pockets are within the Home Systems and Kepler Space; the Home Systems comprise of a 50 light-year area surrounding the Sol System and contains some of the most powerful U.C. colonies, while Kepler Space is dominated by the Herschel Nations. Both the U.C. and H.N. possess major colonies in the respective regions of space.

Most of the Settled Systems' area is made up of the bridge systems, a network of sparsely-populated star systems that contain inhospitable or outright uninhabitable worlds; these systems act as "bridges" between more welcoming planetary systems.

Izar Space is a sovereign area comprising the habitable star systems in the Boötes constellation. The territory is entirely controlled by House Izar, a powerful mining dynasty.
Monarch

Monarch from orbit

Mining operations in Monarch's orbit

**Monarch**, officially categorized as **TOI 700 d**, is a terrestrial planet located in the Dorado 700 System, 101.4 light-years from Earth. An ocean planet rich in hydrocarbons, Monarch is owned by the powerful megacorp Anvil Engineering, a member of the Free Economic Zone. Thanks to the planet's central position in exclusive corporate territory, Monarch is considered the capital of the Free Economic Zone.
War of Thunder

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The **War of Thunder**, also called the **Mutiny of '30**, was the only civil conflict in Twin Moon's history, fought between the main body of Twin Moon that was loyal to Pirate King Josia Price and an alliance of clans under Herrik Venture known as the Thunderous Coalition, which sought to depose Price. Although brief, it is considered Twin Moon's darkest hour and the closest they ever came to total collapse.
Jericho Heim

**Jericho Heim**, known as **"Steelbeard"** for his prosthetic jaw, was the leader of Clan Heim and one of the principal founders of Twin Moon, as well as the first Pirate King. A teacher and philosopher before he turned to piracy, he was responsible for assembling the first Great Parlay on his capital, Libertalia, which resulted in Twin Moon's creation.
Scorpius-Centaurus Campaign

The **Scorpius-Centaurus Campaign** was the last major Hanza offensive of the Great Galactic War, fought through 2444. It was launched in the Scorpius-Centaurus region of space, a major trade hub between the Home Systems and Kepler Space, with the objective of encircling and destroying the bulk of the Alliance fleet in order to cut off the resource-deprived inner colonies from the outer colonies, where the Hanza itself was located. The Hanseatic League hoped that such an offensive would restore the Hanza's momentum after their losses in the Home Systems campaign; secretly, the League's leadership had agreed that an allied invasion of Hanza space was inevitable and that a loss in the Scorpius-Centaurus region would render them unable to defend themselves. Despite early victories in the offensive, the Hanza was quickly repelled by Alliance forces and it was called off within a year; the Hanza would retreat until the end of the war.