Help! Notable locations for "local" space opera setting

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

I looked for one of those, but I didn't find any within his defined area. However the large belt of HD 69830, combined with the possibility of a habitable moon in close proximity, made for a fairly cool possibility, I thought.

<shrug>I'm not throwing rocks at your ideas. I'm just contributing things as they occur to me, frequently triggerred by other's ideas.

Speaking of that, if you melted Ganymede, Callisto or Europa and put it in the habitable zone (possibly while orbitng a gas giant) a "water world" (common meaning, not techical use in G:Space) is pretty much what you'd get.