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Old 01-26-2011, 04:05 PM   #1
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Default Help! Notable locations for "local" space opera setting

I'm working on a setting with a fairly heavily settled region roughly 20 lightyears around Sol, and a frontier that runs from 35 to 50 lightyears. (FTL travel is available, hyperspace travel at 1 lightyear per week; FTL communications is limited to one lightyear per nine months, so news travels quicker by courier than radio.)

What I need now are some points of interest in the region. Planets, moons, notable asteroids, Kuiper Belt Objects, Oort Cloud Objects, O'Neill Colonies, Stanford Toruses (Torii?), stuff like that. Only caveat is that Garden and Ocean planets must be in the "comfort zones" around K, G, and F type stars (orange dwarfs to yellow-white sub-giants).

Here are three of the places I've got so far:

Ishtar Station – An O'Neill Colony located in the L5 (trailing Lagrange Point) of Venus, this station is known for its large population of genetically-engineered SPANCs.

New Detroit – An industrial colony in the Epsilon Indi system, originally settled as a company town run by General Motors Corporation, New Detroit is the leading manufacturer of civilian and military spacecraft and after-market modification parts.

Valeria – Originally just an agricultural planet in the Omicron (2) Eridani system, with carbon-based megafauna that has proven edible by both Humans and K'Hissh, Valeria has also begun mining operations of iron, titanium, and aluminum.
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