Lore

Fuego (Pyro 5e)

Moons

Fuego is the fifth moon from the gas giant Pyro V, Pyro system. Relatively temperate but still cold, it has a mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere with small percentages of nitrogen, sulfur dioxide, and oxygen. High amounts of iron-sulfide in its soil gives its surface a yellow and…

Ignis (Pyro 5a)

Moons

Ignis is the innermost moon of the gas giant Pyro V, Pyro system. The canyons and dry riverbeds on its surface suggest that liquid water once flowed there in the distant past. Its frigid average temperature and deadly atmosphere of sulfur dioxide creates an unfriendly…

Europa (Sol 5b)

Moons

Europa (Sol 5b) is a moon of Jupiter (Sol V), United Empire of Earth (UEE). Coated with a sheet of water ice that hides a brackish ocean, its surface is crisscrossed with vast cracks that appear when tidal heating induces too much stress upon it. In SEY 2431, single-celled…

Ellis 5b

Moons

Ellis 5b is the second moon of Noble (Ellis V), United Empire of Earth (UEE), and is tidally locked to the planet. Nearly three times larger than its sister moon Ellis 5a, the light reflected off its pristine white surface is sometimes bright enough that Ellis 5a becomes…

UEE Naval Flight Academy

Human · Education · Military · Locations

The United Empire of Earth Naval Flight Academy (UNFA) is a coeducational service academy located on MacArthur (Kilian V). Established in SEY 2632, it is one of the oldest of the United Empire of Earth's (UEE) service academies. It educates officers for commissioning into the…

Fulcrum Mining Associates

Commerce · Human

Fulcrum Mining Associates was a Human mining concern that operated from 2448 through its sale to Shubin Interstellar in 2554. The company was one of the first Human off-world mining concerns. In 2554, Fulcrum reached out to Shubin with a bid to sell off unwanted corporate assets…

Gliese Belt Beta

Space

The Gliese belt beta is the second belt from the sun of the Gliese system, Banu Protectorate. Located between Nogo (Gliese IV) and Gliese V, it is packed with ancient outposts and abandoned rigs, left there from an earlier period in which resources were abundant. It is a popular…

Ellis 5a

Moons

Ellis 5a is the first moon of the planet Noble (Ellis V), United Empire of Earth (UEE). To the naked eye, it appears to be softly pink. In 2845, the prominent jewelry company Apgar's debuted a line of pink pearl necklaces inspired by Ellis 5a, made of pearls harvested from…

Kiel VI

Planets

Kiel VI is a tiny protoplanet in the Kiel system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). During the formation of the system, it failed to accrete enough matter to become a planet but avoided getting subsumed into Kiel V. The farthest object from its sun, it completes its orbit roughly…

Ganymede (Sol 5c)

Moons

Ganymede (Sol 5c) is a moon of Jupiter (Sol V), United Empire of Earth (UEE). The largest moon in the Sol system, its diameter is greater than that of the planet Mercury (Sol I). Before Ganymede's subsurface ocean was explored in the 25th century SEY, it was popularly speculated…

Herschel Belt (Sol Belt Alpha)

Space

The Herschel belt (Sol belt alpha) is an asteroid belt in the Sol system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Located between the orbits of Mars (Sol IV) and Jupiter (Sol V), it is where Humans first began to experiment with asteroid mining. Pure water ice harvested from the belt…

Kins Belt Alpha

Space

The Kins belt alpha is an asteroid belt in the Kins system, Banu Protectorate. Located between the inhospitable planets Kins IV and Kins V, it is home to multiple rest stops operated by interconnected webs of Soulis that attend to the various needs of visitors. Some Indenture…

Kallis Belt Beta

Space

The Kallis belt beta is the second asteroid belt from the sun of the developing Kallis system. Less dense than its sibling belt, it is primarily composed of dust grains and small asteroids that may be remnants from the formation of Kallis IV and Kallis V. In 2931, a group of art…

Bareton

Settlements · Human

Bareton is one of very few cities located on Noble (Ellis V) in the United Empire of Earth (UEE). Founded after the Governors Council voted to preserve Noble's environment, it was constructed as a series of enormous platforms connected by transparent walkways. A massive…

Osha (Kilian VI)

Planets · Human

Osha is a terraformed super-Earth located in the Kilian system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Many of the original settlers of Osha were service members' families and UEE Navy support personnel due to its proximity to MacArthur (Kilian V). While most of the people on Osha are…

Castor (Corel IV)

Planets

Castor (Corel IV) is a terrestrial, desert planet that sits at the far outer edge of the Corel system's green band, in the United Empire of Earth (UEE). In 2651, Corsen Messer V ordered several companies to terraform the planet, so it could serve as an example of the capacity of…

UEE Navy

Human · Military

The United Empire of Earth (UEE) Navy is the largest branch of the UEE's armed forces. It is responsible for the operation of capital spacecraft, support ships, and fighters and the maintenance thereof. The UEE Navy is headed by the Legatus Navium, who represents the branch in…

Ellis Belt Alpha

Space

The Ellis belt alpha is the only asteroid belt in the Ellis system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Best known as the location of one of the racetracks in the Murray Cup, the belt first began to be used as an obstacle course for spacecraft by off-duty workers on the Green (Ellis…

Shoel

Settlements · Human

Shoel is one of the only settlements on Hyperion (Fora III), United Empire of Earth. Briefly prosperous during a mining rush in the twenty-fifth century, the city fell into disrepair after mineral veins ran dry and the inhabitants abandoned it. Most of the urban sprawl is…

Kilian System

Planetary Systems · Human

The Kilian system is the largest planetary system in the United Empire of Earth (UEE). Discovered in SEY 2463, it was a key stepping stone in Humanity's early push outward from the Sol system. Four of its fourteen planets are populated. Kilian became the main headquarters for…

Second Tevarin War

History · Tevarin · Military

The Second Tevarin War was an armed conflict between the Tevarin and the United Empire of Earth that lasted from SEY 2603 to 2610. It began when Corath'Thal, a Tevarin warlord, launched a campaign to take back the Tevarin homeworld, Jalan (Elysium IV), from the UEE. Lacking the…

Illyana Messer VI

People · Human

Illyana Messer VI (2631-2697) was Imperator of the United Empire of Earth (UEE) from 2662 to 2697 after the assassination of her father, Corsen Messer V and brother Gammon. Under her rule, the UEE lessened some of its propaganda practices, allowing news organizations to…

Warlord Corath'Thal

Tevarin · People

Corath'Thal was a Tevarin Warlord who led an armed insurgency against the United Empire of Earth (UEE) during the Second Tevarin War. A brilliant and charismatic leader, he unified many Tevarin that had been scattered in the First Tevarin War in order to reclaim their homeworld…

Nul System

Planetary Systems

The Nul system is an unclaimed planetary system that consists of a type G cepheid variable star and five planets. Discovered in SEY 2290 by navjumper Antoine Lebec, it was one of the first systems visited and charted by Humans after Croshaw in 2271 and Rhetor in 2287. The…