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Veer’jahn

Fnarr (human designation: Wartris-II) is the second planet of the Wartris system, which orbits a small, K-type star 342 light-years away, in the constellation of Lupus. A super-Earth, Fnarr is roughly 1.35 times larger in radius than Earth, and almost three times as massive.

A much older planet than Earth, Fnarr is home to the H'darr, a Type-II Kardashev species and a founding member of the United Free Systems Alliance, of which humanity is now a member. Fnarr itself is an arid planet with a thick, nitrous-oxide rich atmosphere, covered from pole to pole in H'darr cities. Much of the planet's energy is derived from solar reflector stations, which tap into the solar corona of Wartris to obtain near-limitless energy. As a result, observers often mistake the intensely bright mirrors of the reflectors for tiny stars: this has been documented as a psychological advantage in H'darr warfare for millions of years.

No human has yet visited Fnarr due to its extreme distance from Earth, inhospitable conditions to humans and the H'darr's policy of not sharing advanced knowledge to species deemed to be on a 'lower' Kardashev level.

Astrobelt

Noakhali

Arrakis

Named after the lost dog god of Old America, Pluto is a thriving hub of commerce on the outer edge of human-inhabited space. The fourth planet from a G-type star called Coleus, Pluto is roughly 74 light-years from Home, the birthplace of mankind.

The Coleus system is rich in natural resources, with four inner rocky planets and three gas giants. Pluto is the residential and industrial hub of the system, as the only remotely habitable world for several light-years. The upper atmospheres of Minos and Taros (the two largest gas giants) are rich in helium-3, a key fuel source in the powering of a faster than light 'jumper' drive: as a result, Pluto is a hotly contested planet, with a long history of both civil, human warfare and extraterrestrial conflict.

The planet is currently under the control and jurisdiction of the Human Colonial & Industrial Force (HUCOLINFO). The ongoing cold war between humanity and the Quab indicates that the Quab armada intends to seize Pluto as a vital strategic resource, hence the increasing military build-up in the Coleus system.

Nice! I especially liked the idea of solar lanterns for star blind people to be able to see. It didn't quite occur to me that they wouldn't be able to see at all without them, but of course, our Sun is a star.

Verexxia

Askari

Life Happens Because of Us

I remember when my daughter was born. How could I not.

The doctor handed her over to me wrapped tightly in the pink-and-blue striped hospital blanket, her skin yellowed from jaundice. At that moment she was rivaling my wife for the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.

This was Gemma. This was the daughter I longed for and fell in love with while reading Dr. Seuss and Eric Carle to my wife’s belly.

A month before, I stood stuck in Babies R’ Us as a first-time dad overwhelmed by the high shelves of baby products the marketing on the packages said I needed. I didn’t know. Who trusted me with this kid again? I didn’t know. I got it all because I wanted her to have what she needed. I wanted her to be safe.

In the delivery room Gemma had been crying the whole time, but stopped immediately as soon as the doctor gave her to me and I started talking to her. My wife was asleep, exhausted, but everyone in the room witnessed this, the obstetrician, two nurses, my-mother-in law. She remembered my voice. She knew she was safe.

But the color vanished from my mother-in-law’s face. Her joy transformed into worry because at that moment she saw what a loving, first-time dad at first glance could not. She saw that Gemma had Down Syndrome.

There is no plot to the story we all find ourselves in. And we can’t choose when we enter or when we leave. We are all written into the Grand Novel with just a few blank pages. Though few, our pages are important. They can’t be penned by Shakespeare or vicariously lived through your favorite streamer. Only you can write them.

So, how do you make the most of it?

We need to be the harbingers of our own life.

Life will happen to us, that we can’t control. But we can control how it impacts us. Understand life for the joy that it is and embrace it. Like I did with Gemma. Approach each day with intentionality, perseverance, and curiosity, and I promise you will look back proud of the pages you wrote, and finding the true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Gemma’s in middle school now, and her contagious joy immediately lifts your soul as soon as she smiles. And she’s always smiling. She loves ballet and Roald Dahl, she has a ravenous appetite for chocolate, and a great group of friends. She still rivals my wife as the most beautiful girl in the world, and there’s no one my mother-in-law loves more than “Gems”. She didn’t choose to have Down Syndrome but to her, that doesn’t matter. Because if you know Gemma, you know she’s a harbinger.

Yeah, life happens to us, but also, make life happen because of us.

This is a true story. What’s yours?

Anansi

Tau volantis

Milszo-3

Praxxis orbits Barnard's Star, one of the closest stars to Earth at a distance of 5.9 light years. It was one of the first extrasolar planets settled and colonised by mankind, during the Early Interstellar Expansionist Era (2566 - 3239 CE)

Praxxis is small and cold, with a mass roughly 76% that of Earth and an average surface temperature of -49 degrees Celsius. Originally, it was used as a penal colony and supermax security prison, housing extremely dangerous criminals of the former Solar Federation in a highly inhospitable and inescapable environment. Following the adoption of the Chee Doctrine and the eradication of confrontational thoughts through the Human Empire, Praxis was repurposed as a military outpost and shipyard: its small mass and lack of significant atmosphere allows for easy launching of spacecraft, and the Imperial Navy of Man have extensive training facilities on the planet.

Due to Praxis' close proximity to Sol and the Holy Earth, it is considered one of the Human Empire's most important military strongholds and a major component in the Imperial Navy's strategic arsenal. Despite several outspoken threats against humanity's 'uncivilized practices' on the planet from alien envoys, Praxxis is highly valuable and necessary to the mounting war effort, and under no circumstances is implicated in any outlawed or sanctioned activity.
- from Unipedia, the free human-space encyclopedia

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Naldonn

Eptie.

Jiakoru is an Earth-like world, orbiting the red dwarf star Dremina, 88 light-years from Earth. It is the homeworld of the Onsu, a militaristic alien race currently under sanction by humanity and seventeen other members of the Orion Arm Council.

Due to Jiakoru's close proximity to Dremina, the planet's rotation is drastically slowed; while the planet completes a full orbit, or year, in 15.2 days, the planet rotates once every 153 hours; therefore, every year on Jiakoru is equiavalent to two and a half of its days. Most of the population is confined to latitudes near the planet's poles, where there are temperate zones and oceans of liquid water: the equatorial region is covered by a vast, dry desert, hotter than 150 degrees Celsius on average, in which nothing survives. High emission of light in infrared frequencies gives the planet a distinctive dark-green/black vegetation cover: human spy probes have returned pictures of a low-gravity world, poles covered in towering dense foliage.

Further information on Jiakoru requires authorization from OAC High Command, due to wartime information restriction policy A29.3CX.

Jungalia 5. Or Vega 9.

Yemoja is a sparsely inhabited Human-Controlled frontier planet, located 244 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Its parent star, classification F-type main-sequence, is relatively young at an estimated age of 600-650 million years old: as a result, the system is highly volatile and unstable.

Yemoja is highly similar to the early Earth, slightly larger in radius with 135% of Earth-gravity, possibly due to to a heavy, metal rich core and mantle. Humanity's discovery of the planet occurred a few million years after the end of a cometary bombardment similar to Earth's own Late Heavy Bombardment, four billion years ago. The planet's high metallicity and heavy volcanism have produced a thick, smoggy atmosphere laced with sulphur dioxide and ammonia. The surface temperature on average is roughly 180 degrees Celsius.

Despite these unlivable conditions, a small mining outpost and refinery station mine for newly exposed heavy elements, as well as a contingent of scientists curious about the conditions on a primordial, Earth-like world. Future habitability of the planet is highly doubtful, due to its presence on the inner edge of its system's habitable zone as well as the short lifespan of its parent star.

Hamplanet

Fnarr

Pluto

Jiakoru.