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• Aralon
• Archetz
• Arkon
• Camelot
• Drorah
• Ertrusa
• Ferrol
• Gaia
• Gatas
• Halut
• Lepso
• Lokvorth
• Mount Olympus
• Plantagoo Galaxy
• Psopta
• Siga
• Sphinx (See Drorah)
• Stifterman III
• Topside
• Trakarat
• Trokan
• Unith
• World of the Hundred Suns
• Zentrifaal-Central

Aralon is the fourth planet of the yellow sun Kesnar. The Kesnar System lies within the M13 galactic cluster about 38 light years from the Arkon System.

It was here that the Aras settled, eventually converting the entire planet into the largest and most sophisticated medical center in the known galaxy. Aralon's surface is occupied with parks, administrative buildings, and medical university campuses. Nearly all medical facilities are underground, extending miles below the surface. The planet maintains no defenses because no group would would be foolish enough to risk medical censure by the Aras. Although there are medically-related transients of hundreds of races only Aras can have citizenship or official residence on Aralon.

In the year 1143 NGC Aralon became the central world for the genetic-experiments of the Cantaro.

Archetz is the fifth planet of the yellow sun Rusuma. The Rusuma System has 18 planets in total. It lies within the M13 galactic cluster and is about 44 light years from the Arkon System and about 34,000 light years from the Sol System.

If any system can be considered the home-system for the Springers it is the Rusuma System. Archetz serves as neutral meeting grounds for all clans of the Galactic Dealers. Other than Archetz almost all of other planets and moons of the system are used used for space-ship shipyards, administration/banking complexes, supply/trading centers, and the like.

Arkon is a white star about which orbit twenty-seven planets. The Arkon System lies at nearly the center of the M13 galactic cluster and about 34,000 light years from the Sol System. The world known as Arkon (the official homeworld of the Arkonides) was originally the third planet in the system. In an almost incomprehensible feat of planetary engineering the second and fourth planets of the Arkon system were moved from their original orbits into the same orbit as (and into relatively close proximity to) Arkon 1. Ever since Arkon has been a collective term for all three planets.

Arkon 1 (the original planet, the one in the middle) is the residential/recreational planet of the Arkonides. It is best known as the Crystal World. This world is somewhat larger than the Earth. Its surface is a vast array of "natural" parks and "natural" wonders carefully cultivated (and, often, artificially maintained) to provide a taste of every beautiful environment that the known galaxy has to offer. Except for the entrances to the vast underground residential and recreational facilities, there are no buildings on the surface of this planet except for a single estate owned by the Imperator.

Arkon 2 (the trailing planet) is the commerce planet of the Arkonides. It is about the size of Mars with about 0.7 G's. Its surface is nearly, but not quite, covered by a single planet-spanning city. While much light industry is based on this planet most of the heavy industry in the Arkon System is located on other, less desirable worlds in this system.

Arkon 3 (the leading planet) was the war world. Over the millenia it had been completely replaced (down to its core) by manufacturing facilities for the Arkon Empire's vast space armada. The most heavily armed planet in the known galaxy, Arkon 3 housed the Crystal Palace and the central facillities of the Robot Regent. The Robot Regent was destroyed in 2103. The entire planet was destroyed by the Blues in 2329. Its remains now form a ring of debris around Arkons 1 and 2.

The sun Ceres lies within the M 30 galactic cluster. The system possesses five planets with Camelot, the second planet, and Ultima, the fifth.

The second planet of this system is called Camelot. It is 12,900 km in diameter with 0.82 G's and a oxygen atmosphere. It has four continents: Arctos, Bonin, Ophir, and Inya. Arctos lies at the planet's northern pole and is a land of tundras and evergreen forests. Bonin, the smallest of the continents lies near Arctos in the Northern Ocean. Ophir is an Africa-sized continent situated in the Southern Ocean. Inya is wedge-shaped continent lying diagonally across the equator. In about the year 1000 NGC Camelot became the head world of the Free Traders.

It was on Bonin that the Free Traders first made planetfall and established the city Mandalay. Camelot's present capitol, Port Arthur, however, lies on the other side of the world on the west coast of Ophir. Presently, Port Arthur has about 500,000 inhabitants although the city was designed to hold four million.

Camelot also has two moons: Charon and Styx. That they possess names resembling names from across the Great Void is no accident as both moons have retained their names from the Time of the Free Traders.

Cyrus Morgan, the chief scientist of the Base, was also the chief scientist on Camelot until, during the investigation of the Igel ships on Dock II, he lost his life. Alfie Loidan, the chief physician of the Base, became Camelot's chief physician. In 1255 NGC the last Sigans in the Milky Way were residing on Camelot under the command of Aberno Pintoras.

Drorah is the fifth of eighteen planets orbiting the giant blue sun Akon. The Akon System is located 45,000 LY's from the Sol System. Drorah is the homeworld of the Akonides and has been for about 50,000 years. It has 1.1 G's, an oxygen atmosphere, and two moons. One of them is the size of Mercury. The other is only a few hundred kilometers in diamters.

The Akon System was discovered by Terran in 2102 AD and was called the Blue System. Although is later came to refer to color of the system's sun, Akon, it originally referred to the force field erected by the Akonides to surround their entire star system. This field, blue in color (hence the system name) was a six-dimensional time field maintained by hundreds of enormous generators space-platforms situated beyond the orbit of Akon's most distant planet. Since the field emits the same spectrum as Akon it is presumed that it was designed so as to camouflage the system. Although the situation has changed considerably since then, at the time of the Terran discovery of the Akonides, the Akonides had, essentially, no space travel prefering, instead, to make use of a network of matter transmission stations.

Ertrusa is the third planet of the Kreit System. Kreit is a yellow G-type sun with six planets. The system is 6,136 light years from the Sol System. Ertrusa is the homeworld of the Ertrusers with Barertrusa ("son of Ertrusa") as its capitol city. It was colonized in 2026 by genetically-engineered Terran emigrants.

Ferrol is the eighth planet orbiting the harsh blue sun Vega. The Vega System is about 27 light years from the Sol system and has some 42 planets. Ferrol is a hot world (average of 39.8 degrees C) with 1.4 G's and a rotation of 38.33 hours.

It is the homeworld of the Ferrons, a race descended from the Akonides or Arkonides (most historians consider descent from the Akonides during the Akon Civil War 20,000 years ago the more likely choice).

The planetary capitol is Thorta which houses the ruler of the system, the Thort, in his Red Palace.

Other planets of importance in this system are Pigell (the sixth planet) which is a major Ferronan colony, Rofus (the ninth planet) which is the other major colony in the system, and Gol (the fourteenth planet) which is the home of the Ghosts of Gol.

Gaia is the third planet orbiting the sun Prov. The Prov System contains eight planets and is situated about 35,000 light years from Terra. It has 1.003 G's, an average equatorial diameter of 12,986 km, and a rotational period of 21.1 hours. It has six continents. The capital of the planet is Aercto-Tanam and is located on the largest continent, Pront. The planet is the base of the Provconers. It was designated Prov-3 by Laren rebels and Gaia by Perry Rhodan (in 3459 AD).

After the Laren invasion of the Milky Way Galaxy began, the "Downfall Harmony" plan came into effect. In following this plan Gaia became the new homeworld for Terrans fleeing the besieged Terra. When the Solar Alliance finally collapsed and the Mounders began hunting for Terrans under the command of Letricon, Atlan initiated a plan which allowed millions of Terrans to escape to Gaia. Even Honeycomb-1000, containing the consciousnesses of the old mutants, was brought to Gaia. The planet soon became the homeworld of a new offshoot of the human race.

With the help of a group of Provconers, the Provcon Fist, Atlan established the New Einsteinian Alliance (N.E.A.). It is from this new center of political and military power that the resistance against the galactic invaders issued. When, in 3585 AD Terra and Luna returned to the Sol System and came under Laren domination, many Gaians left the Provcon-Fist determined to retake Terra for humanity.

Gatas is the fifth planet orbiting the giant blue sun Verth. The Verth System has fourteen planets and is situated 68,319 light years from the Sol System. Gatas is the homeworld of a race of the Blues, the Gatasers. It is also the homeworld of the Blue Empire.

The Gatasers have been engaged in a millenia-old civil war with other Blue clans. Because of this and Gatas' high population density much of its population, industry, and government are located underground.

In November 428 NGC Gatas was activated as the fourth Chronofossil. As a consequence of this the Blues have taken a dramatic evolutionary step forward in their development.

Halut is the only planet of the weak red sun Haluta. The Haluta System is some 30,000 light years from the Sol System and lies near the galactic core. It is the homeworld of the Haluters. It has an oxygen atmosphere, has a diameter of 23,409 km, and has a gravitational pull of 3.6 G's. The planet is very old and, consequently, has no high mountains or deep valleys as younger planets have.

It was colonized some 50,000 years ago when the ancestors of the Haluter's, the Beasts, where made peaceful by the Lemurians and they retreated from galactic affairs.

Its surface was destroyed by the Blitzern in 492 NGC. However, after the defeat of Monos the Haluters were able to recondition the surface of their world and make it habitable once more.

Lepso is the second planet of five that circle the small yellow sun Firing. The Firing System is located some 8,467 LY from the Sol System. Lepso has 0.96 gravities, a 21.3 hour day, and a diameter of 11,981 km. Situated just outside the official boundries of the Arkon Empire, Lepso has always been a free port with no customs regulations or ship inspections. As the region of space immediately around it comes under no governmental jurisdiction it has been a focus of black market and smuggling activity for the Empire and, later, the Solar Alliance.

The Cell Activator bearer, Ronald Tekener, had a special relationship with this planet. The ship that he used through much of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries NGC (before he was given command of a module of the Gilgamesh) was called the Lepso.

Lokvorth is the second planet of the Scarfaaru System. Scarfaaru is a small yellow sun, situated about 36,414 LY from Sol System in a remote side-arm of the galaxy. It has four planets: Peiga, Lokvorth, Agastor, and Nuz. Lokvorth has 0.8 G's, an 18.6 hour day, and a diameter of 9,280 km.

It was the only planet in the system which could support Terran-compatible life. In fact, it was blessed with a colorful abundance of life, but no intelligent life.

In 424 NGC the Virus reseacher Quiupu was provided a research facility on this planet by the Cosmic League. His research ended with the completion of a partial construct of the Virus Empire. In 425 NGC this fragment was taken away by the UFOnauts by means of a Drugun-Converter. In the course of the next few centuries Lokvorth underwent considerable change. By 800 NGC it had become decadent. Construction of the Humanidrom was begun but the costs soon became too much for the world to support it. Within a century Lokvorth had become a ghetto world. The capital, Lokvorth-Therm degenerated, its inhabitants splitting themselves into castes. With the end of the Monos Domination of the galaxy Lokvorth has, once again, become a civilized planet and, in fact, the embassy world of the Hangay people.

In 1288 NGC Lokvorth's greatest significance is the Humanidrom which still orbits it and brings in considerable off-world capital to the world.

Mt. Olympus is the second planet of the red dwarf sun Boscyks. The Boscyks System is located 6,309 LY from the Sol System and has two planets. Mt. Olympus has seven continents, the largest of which is about the size of Terra's Asian continent. It had no intelligent life before colonization by the Free Traders in 2430 AD.

The capital city is Trade City, located on the largest continent. In 300 years of progress Mt. Olympus developed into a major galactic trade center with Terra's financial aid.

Mt. Olympus (often called just Olymp) was first moved on November 11, 3430 AD when the Sol System was moved into the future under the effects of the ATG-Field. During 3431-32 AD Trade City became the most important trading port on the planet. The number of inhabitants increased irregularly and a transport corridor was established between Terra and Mt. Olympus as a precaution. At this time Emperor Anson Argyris was the ruler of the planet. He was succeeded by Emperor Lovely Boscyk and King Roi Danton.

When the Fall Harmony occured many important people from the Sol System were forced to flee. Many of these took refuge on Mt. Olympus which brought the planet back into the galactic mainstream.

Near the end of the 13th Century NGC Olymp is, once again, an important world in the Milky Way Galaxy. It maintains a Camelot office to recruit volunteers.

Although a small galaxy there is much that remains unknown about the Planatgoo Galaxy. The prevailing language is Standard Goo. The variety of peoples is similar to that found in the Milky Way Galaxy. At the time it was visited by inhabitants of the Milky Way its technology was about 2,500 years behind that in the Milky Way. They used hyper-jump engines, thermo-beamers, disintigrators, and positronics.

The most important people in the Plantagoo were the Zentrifaal, the Kroogh, the Paradea, the Mocksgerger, and the Tasch-Ters-One. Of these races the most powerful were the Zentrifaal who had spread from their homeworld, Zentrifaal-Central, on the "north"-side of the Plantagoo to about twenty colony worlds.

Actually, the most important race in the Plantagoo was the Galorn. Little is known about this mysterious race. No Galornian colonies, if they have any, or even any traces of their inhabitation of the Plantagoo have ever been found but they have made contact with the other races of the Plantagoo. With a technology that is so far advanced beyond that of the other races of the Plantagoo that it is sometimes regarded as magical they have, on very rare occaisions, made their presence known. Years ago they gave the planet Galorn (galactic "north"-side) and its single city to the peoples of the Plantagoo to be used, it is believed, to promote peace in the Plantagoo. An ethically superior race, the Galorns do not wish to see any of the Plantagoo peoples killed, enslaved, or exploited by the others so they have instituted the Shifting and informed the peoples of it. None of these races is certain what the Shifting but it is rumored that the Zentrifaal went through the Shifting a thousand years ago.

Psopta is the fourth planet of the Ayc-Tohotche System. Ayc-Tohotche is a large red sun with eight planets located aboout 42,819 LY's from the Sol System. It has a diameter of 14,877 km, a gravity of 1.04, and a rotation of 25.7 hours. It has ten continents of various sizes and several small seas. It is volcanically active with two ocher-colored moons.

It is the homeworld of the Cheborparners.

Siga is the second of four planets orbiting Gladors. The Gladors System is located 10,251 LY's from the Sol System. Siga is a 1.12 G's world with a Terra-like climate and size. It is currently claimed as a protectorate of the League of Free Terrans although the L.F.T. maintains only a research station on the planet.

Siga was colonized by Terrans in the Twenty-First Century AD. By 1255 NGC it was found to be totally depopulated. The reason for this remains unknown and that is one of the main reasons that the L.F.T. is keeping the planet isolated.

Stifterman-III is the third planet of the Bedden System. The Bedden System is located 13,411 LY's from the Sol System and has seven planets. During the time of Monos's domination of the galaxy it was an important fleet base. The two-mentality being Ellert/Ashdon appeared here, for the first time, in 3584 NGC.

For a time it was also a base of operations for the Plosophers and the Arkonide Yart Fulgen. After that time much of the military and industrial base of the planet was removed and it became a world frequented only by the adventurer, the stranded, and the outlawed.

Recently, Stifterman-III has come into the galactic scheme of things once more because of the presence of the Base orbiting about it. No longer capable of travelling between the stars, this monument to the struggles of humanity now serves as an enormous casino and recreation facility.

Delta-Orion is a double star where the main star is white and its companion violet. The Delta-Orion System contains eight planets and is some 815 LY's from Sol System. The third planet of the system is Topside, the homeworld of the Topsiders.

The Aptut System contains a double red sun and lies 38,439 LY's from Sol System towards galactic center. Trakarat is the sixteenth planet of system and was colonized by Akonides in about 1800 BCE.

Something about Trakarat's environment (some believe it to be the solar radiation, others believe it to be a planetary effect such as what happened to the Sigans) affected the colonists' genetic structure allowing them to develop powerful psionic abilities. These mutated offspring of the Akonides became known as Baalols or Anti-Psis (often just Antis).

Today Trakarat remains the center of the Baalol Cult of the Antis. They maintain training sites here for their priests and the High Baalol, the chief of the cult, resides here.

In the course of events that occured in the Great Void with the Abruse, Mars was 'infected' with crystal splinters that began to grow and emit lethal radiations. When it became obvious that all of Mars would soon be infected with the Death Crystals and that their radiations would soon begin affecting Terra, Rhodan sought a means of averting the disaster. With the help of Ayindi Rhodan instituted a fantastic plan in April of 1218 NGC. He traded Mars for the planet Trokan which had, previously, existed in the Arresum (the negative side of this universe).

There were additional anticipated benefits as Trokan was known to possess an Ayindi archive. It is likely that Ayindi did not part with Trokan gladly but time and physical parameters prevented using another planet.

Unfortunately, the situation was not as helpful as the Terrans had hoped. As with any object existing in another universe, Trokan retained physical properties of its native universe. The Terrans knew that this phenomenon, known as Strangeness, would decay with time and that, eventually, Trokan would be almost completely acclimatized to this universe. However, the acclimatization took far longer than anticipated and no one was able to visit Trokan for years (the Strangeness was strong enough to be fatal).

In 1222 NGC subterranian activity was detected on Trokan. When Geo Sheremdoc sought to investigate this phenomenon he and the entire crew of the Polyamide were caught and destroyed in an energy field that suddenly engulfed the entire planet of Trokan. This energy field, refered to as the Time Lapse Field, proved to be a domain of accelerated (about 3.7 million times normal) time that was beyond even the theoretical physics of the Milky Way's finest minds. Sixty years later, in 1288 NGC, the Time Lapse Field suddenly collapsed. Beneath it was revealed a planet that had evolved from lifelessness to an eco-system with intelligent life.

This people called themselves the Herreach and had developed to a level similar to 19th Century Terra. They are not a wide-spread people, preferring to develop only a few cities all centered around the strange object that had, apparently, generated the Time Lapse Field. This is due both to the limited ecology of the planet and to the religious significance of the Gate of Trokan. Moond is the capital city of Trokan.

Unith is the third planet of the Unatha System. The Unatha System has seven planets. Unith is a Terra-sized world with and oxygen atmosphere, 0.94 G's, and an 18.6 hour day. It is the homeworld of the Unithers.

This lonely world is situated 289,412 light years into inter-galactic space from the M13 galactic cluster and towards the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a Terra-like world with an oxygen atmosphere and a gravity of 1.13 G's. It is a world of constant sunlight as it is surrounded by over 200 miniature, artificial suns orbiting about the planet.

A combined force of Terrans and Arkonides first visited this world during the Laurin War of 2113 AD. Though they did not learn the origin of this obviously artificial star system they were able to help the Posbis (who use this world as a communications relay between the Central Plasma in the Andromeda Galaxy and the Posbis in the Milky Way Galaxy) by destroying the Hate Circuit installed in the communications devices located there.

In June 428 NGC the World of a Hundred Suns was activated as the third Chronofossil.

Zentrifaal-Central is the fifth planet of the blue giant star Zentriff. The Zentriff System is located about 8,400 LY from Galorn on the northside of the Plantagoo. It has seven planet of which only Zentrifaal-Central is inhabitable. It has 1.08 G's and an average temperature of 13 degrees C. The planet is rather unstable geologically with much of its surface occupied by hills. Forests and lakes are uncommon. The seas are, essentially, dead, poisoned by the ecological sins of times long ago.

Usually refered to simply as Central, this planet is inhabited by about 3.8 billion Zentrifaals who prefer to live in the megopolises scattered around the planet. The capital city, Cursor, is inhabited by some twelve million people. Life in these cities resembles that of 20th Century Terran cities with a strong "Help Yourself" mentality.

An outstanding feature of Central cities is the astonishing variety of ambient art. Scattered throughout them are numerous, usually anonymous sculptures. No mentally competent Zentrifaal would consider damaging these plastic sculptures and many have become so popular that streets and even entire communities have been named after them.

Central's government is the A-Betchaga which concerns itself only with the large matters of governing the people. Its main function is to collect and distrubute taxes. Much of the tax money goes into Central's education system and defense against the other peoples of the Plantagoo. Because the occupation of tax collector is so dangerous on Central the collectors are heavily armed and try to live anonymously. Despite, or perhaps because of, the dangers of this occupation it is a popular one.

Because of the A-Betchaga's policies the Zentrifaal of Central enjoy a high level of technology and space travel despite the sometimes harsh conditions of life on Central.

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