Sol system

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The Sol system, formally called the Solar System, is humanity's home system and the most populated system of the Human Sphere. It is centered on the G2V-type main sequence star known as Sol both in official contexts and by outsiders, though it is more commonly known as the Sun by the system's inhabitants. The Sol system's immediate region within a five light-year radius is known as SolCore, encompassing the system's Oort Cloud and its closest neighbor, Alpha Centauri.

Planetary system

The Sol planetary system encompasses the four terrestrial Inner Planets, an asteroid belt, and the four Outer Planets, two gas giants and two ice giants. The system is home to numerous small bodies, including the centaurs, whose orbits lie between those of the Outer Planets, and the trojans, which occupy Lagrange points along the orbits of planets, most prominently Jupiter. Beyond the planets lies the Kuiper Belt, a circumstellar disc composed of several dwarf planets and numerous small bodies largely composed of volatiles. A thousand times more distant, beyond Sol's heliopause, is the Oort Cloud, a spherical collection of icy bodies; some of these periodically move near Sol on highly elliptical orbits and are known as comets.

Venus

Main article: Venus

An inhospitable hothouse world with an atmosphere largely composed of carbon dioxide, Venus has been home to various experimental terraforming efforts throughout humanity's spacefaring history. These efforts fell by the wayside following the invention of slipspace travel and the off-system exodus of the 24th century, and Venus is now a relative backwater. It retains various scientific outposts and floating colonies in the upper atmosphere, which are also the target of a fairly thriving intrasolar tourism business.

Earth

Main article: Earth

Luna

Mars

Main article: Mars

Sol's second-most populous world and humanity's first interplanetary colony.

Asteroid Belt

Commonly known as the Sol Belt or Sol Asteroid Belt to differentiate it from other systems' asteroid belts, the asteroid belt is home to numerous mining efforts and small habitat communities traditionally known for their independent mindsets.

Jupiter

Jupiter's extensive system of moons hosts Sol's most notable subsystem colony network. While none of the Jovian Moons are as notable individually as Mars, as a group they form a formidable collective.

Io

Europa

Ganymede

Callisto

Saturn

Saturn's orbital space is home to a colony system similar to Jupiter's, albeit considerably less developed or populous; the onset of the Domus Diaspora led to many of the colonies being effectively abandoned. However, Saturn's much less dramatic radiation belt also makes its moons more hospitable than Jupiter's. Saturn's atmosphere is skimmed for various gases, most notably fusion fuels.

Titan

Saturn's largest moon, Titan is a cryoworld whose frigid atmosphere makes its conditions ideal for certain specialized industries as well as high-end processing or "cold computing". It is notably home to the ongoing "Titan Experiment", a physically fixed network of Smart AIs operating long past their formal "expiration dates".

Uranus

Skimmed for gases, most notably helium-3 and hydrogen. Some of its moons house minor colonies.

Neptune

Houses gas-scooping operations similar to Uranus. Hosts a handful of small colonies and outposts on its moons.

Centaurs and the Kuiper Belt

Several of the small objects of the Outer System were colonized during the 23rd century, after the development of fusion propulsion allowed long-distance travel in economical timeframes. These tend to be small and independent communities colonized precisely for the sake of isolation.

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