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SOLAR SYSTEM GAZETTEER
Mercury
Major Colonies [population]: Mercury Energy/Resources Collective (ME/RC) [94 million]
Composition: Dense silicate/metallic
Notes: 60% of surface covered in ME/RC solar energy collectors, with the rest devoted to open-cast mining and logistics. ME/RC base their territorial claim on the entire planet through this wholesale possession.
Venus
Major Colonies [population]: Maat Mons Underground City [5 million], New Hope Sky City [4.5 million], New Zanzibar PRGC Colony [3 million], Technocratic Union of Marispatria Colony (under construction), Republic of Texas Colony (under construction)
Composition: Standard silicate/metallic
Notes: Several colonies, but plenty of free space. Colonies can be constructed in the cloud decks as well as on the surface or underground.
Earth
Polities [population excluding colonies]: Technocratic Union of Marispatria [6 billion], Technocratic Republic of India [3.12 billion], Democratic Republic of China [2.86 billion], Technocratic Union of China [2.11 billion], People's Republic of South America [1.5 billion], Commune of India [1.24 billion], Greater Indonesia [1.2 billion], The People's Republic of Greater Congo [844.7 million], Technocratic Collective of Pakistan [721 million], Great Plains Federation [500 million], The People's Republic of Mexico [450 million], Kingdom of Thailand [353 million], Confederate States of America [300 million], Republic of Burma [240.8 million], The South African Accord [217 million], Democratic Republic of New England [212 million], Republic of California [197 million], Republic of Vietnam [176 million], Peoples' Republic of Vietnam [176 million], Republic of Texas [147 million], The Eco-Technate of Australia [100 million], Republic of Greater Quebec [92 million], The Antarctic Coalition [85 million], Republic of Afghanistan [56 million],
Composition: Standard silicate/metallic
Notes: For many reasons, the effective centre of the Solar system.
Luna
Major Colonies [population]: People's Republic of Clavius [20 million], Lunarctica AC Colony [16 million], Marispatria Luna Colony [14 million], New Boston DRNE Colony [14 million], Virginia Selene CSA Colony [12 million], Lumumba's Pride PRGC Colony [12 million], Republic of Texas Colony (under construction)
Composition: Light silicate/metallic
Notes: The far side is empty of major claims, although the ICE maintain observatories there.
Earth-Sol L5 Point
Major Colonies: Orbitsville GPF
O'Neill cylinders (under construction)
Mars
Major Colonies: Federation of Martian Communes [200 million], Watchmen of Humanus [200 million], Federation of New Africa PRGC colony [176 million], Warmachine [150 million], Tharsian Commonwealth [125 million], Sanctum [100 million], Texan colony [88 million], Antarctic Colony [72 million], Robomarxist Colony [22 million], Amero-Carribbean Settlement [14 million], Democratic Republic of China colony (under construction)
Composition: Standard silicate/metallic
Notes: Terraformed, with extent of unclaimed territory quickly shrinking. Will this century see the end of the Wild Red Wastes?
-Phobos
Major colonies: Phobos Free Port
Composition: Standard silicate/metallic
Notes: A neutral territory and transit hub
-Deimos
Major Colonies: Deimos
Shadow Port [used by criminal elements and the Syndicate, population unknown]
Composition: Standard silicate/metallic
Notes: Location of numerous comms repeaters, navigational transmitters and observation posts.
Asteroid Belt
Major Colonies: Ceres, Pallas, Vesta and Juno are Belter Union colonies
Composition: Mostly standard silicate/metallic, but occurrence of carbonaceous and icy bodies increases rapidly with distance from Sol
Notes: Plenty of minor planets are free for colonisation.
Jupiter
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Gaseous
Notes: High gravity and storm-wracked atmosphere, although floating colonies are possible in the cloud decks
-Amalthea
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Small irregular potato-shaped icy moonlet, reddened by the intense radiation this close to the parent planet
Notes: Largest of an orbital cluster of inner moonlets
-Io
Major Colonies [population]: Ludorian Republic of Io (exclusive) [57 million]
Composition: Heavily irradiated rocky moon with significant volcanic and tectonic activity, due to tidal interactions with Jupiter.
Notes: Recently claimed by the Ludorian Republic, which grew out of the settlements of adventurers and wargamers who find the inhospitable terrain to be ideal terrain for their martial forms of play and exercise.
-Europa
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Largely ice and water with a rocky core
Notes: A designated Nature Reserve due to the discovery of life in the liquid water under the ice, although small settlements and scientific outposts can be found on the icy surface
-Ganymede
Major Colonies [population]: Syndicate of Ganymede [500 million], Marispatria Colony [123 million]
Composition: Various ices with a rocky core
Notes: Subsurface slushy layer
-Callisto
Major Colonies [population]: Mexican Colony [200 million], Texan Colony (under construction), Marispatria Colony (under construction)
Composition: Various ices with a rocky core
Notes: Rugged surface
Saturn
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Gaseous
Notes: like Jupiter, can be colonised with floating habitats. Unlike Jupiter, radiation is less deadly and lower gravity makes harvesting fusion fuels an attractive prospect. This is where Texas gets all the fuel for their complex of fusion reactors on Iapetus
-Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, and Epimetheus
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Small irregular icy moonlets orbiting just outside Saturn's rings.
Notes: Like Amalthea but less hostile due to lower radiation levels.
-Mimas
Major Colonies [population]: Atlantean Colony [8 million]
Composition: Various ices, small rocky core
Notes: Roughly spherical moon with the signature massive crater.
-Enceladus
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices with a rocky core
Notes: Has a subsurface liquid layer and extensive cryovolcanic activity.
-Tethys
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices with a rocky core
Notes: This moon shows some degree of cryovolcanism.
Lagrangian points L4 and L5 are occupied by the icy moonlets of Telesto and Calypso, respectively.
-Dione
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices with a large rocky core
Notes: Although possessing an icy surface, this moon's density means superdeep borehole mining may recover silicates and metals
-Rhea
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices with a large rocky core
Notes: Geological soundings indicate a layer of liquid water between icy crust and rocky mantle, kept fluid through radiogenic heating.
-Titan
Major Colonies [population]: PRGC Colony [12 million]
Composition: Various ices with a large rocky/metallic core
Notes: Saturn's largest moon, featuring its own naturally-evolved low-temperature biosphere.
-Hyperion
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Semi-irregular icy moonlet
Notes: Possible location of pirate base
-Iapetus
Major Colonies [population]: Prometheus [110 million], Texan Colony [32 million], Marispatria Colony (under construction)
Composition: Icy moon with two-toned surface and equatorial ridge
Notes: Ancient alien artefact in the centre of its largest crater, which appears to have been responsible for the appearance of the Daemon wormhole.
-Phoebe
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Semi-irregular icy moonlet with extensive cratering
Notes: Most significant outermost moonlet
Uranus
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Gaseous
Notes: Cloud layers can be colonised. Has a number of small icy asteroids (iceteroids?) orbiting within Miranda
-Miranda
Major Colonies [population]: ROSSO Capital [90 million], Marispatria Colony (under construction)
Composition: Various ices with a small rocky core
Notes: heavily broken and cratered terrain
-Ariel
Major Colonies: None
Composition:
Notes: Like Dione, has a thick icy surface concealing denser layers more interesting to miners, with occasional cryovolcanism
-Umbriel
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices with a rocky core
Notes: Heavily cratered surface
-Titania
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices with a large rocky core
Notes: Icy moon with denser layers to mine
-Oberon
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices with a large rocky core
Notes: Rugged surface terrain
Neptune
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Gaseous
Notes: Cloud layers can be colonised. Has a number of small icy asteroids (iceteroids?) orbiting within Larissa
-Larissa
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices and rock
Notes: Roughly spherical icy moonlet
-Proteus
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices and rock
Notes: Semi-irregular
-Triton
Major Colonies [population]: ROSSO Colony [21 million]
Composition: Various ices with a large rocky core
Notes: Icy moon with world-famous cryovolcanism including spectacular ice geysers popular with visitors
-Nereid
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices and rock
Notes: Irregular icy moonlet with a highly elliptical orbit
Pluto-Charon
Major Colonies: Texan Colony on Pluto (under construction), ROSSO Colony on Charon (under construction)
Composition: Various ices with small rocky cores
Notes: Icy pair of dwarf planets with two irregular icy moonlets, Nyx and Hydra
Haumea
Major Colonies: ROSSO Colony (under construction)
Composition: Various ices
Notes: Icy dwarf planet colonised by ROSSO, part of the Kuiper Belt.
Other Kuiper Belt Objects are available
Planet X
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Gaseous
Notes: Sub-brown dwarf glowing gently with its own inner heat. Colonisation of the upper atmosphere may be possible
-North Wind
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Standard silicate/metallic
Notes: Possible minor volcanism due to geo-tidal stresses
-West Wind
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices with a large silicate/metallic core
Notes: Titan-like moon with dense but clear atmosphere
-East Wind
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Standard silicate/metallic
Notes: Rocky moon with significant icy surface deposits
-South Wind
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Various ices with a large rocky core
Notes: icy moon with denser layers, the uppermost reddened by cosmic rays
-Nibiru
Major Colonies: ROSSO Colony (under construction)
Composition: Dense rocky core cloaked in a thick icy crust
Notes: Large moon
Oort Cloud
Major Colonies: None
Composition: Probably largely various ices
Notes: No major bodies yet found, but that doesn't mean they aren't there...
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