The Encyclopædia Planetæ -- The Home System

THOSE WORLDS WHICH ORBIT the star Sol are Humanity's core. They are the worlds which he grew up with, which he watched wander across the sky from his African infancy, to which he assigned supernatural attributes, which he yearned for as he learned to secrets of interplanetary travel. They saw the rise of Humanity, and they provided him the raw resources with which to gain an interplanetary foothold and, later, the strength to take the great leaps required to reach other stars.

Of these worlds, of course, Earth is the true mother. But her siblings have been the stepping stones which Humanity used in his ascension to interstellar civilization. The Moon, often simply called Luna, was the first such stop, and a possibly necessary means by which our feet were first made wet in the cosmic ocean. Without Luna, movement to Mars and beyond might have been too great of a first step. Certainly we would have eventually made it to the worlds of Sol, but perhaps not so timely. Mars was another fortunate placement for us. Without this world, remarkably Earth-like in many ways, even before terraforming, it gave us an eagerly awaited destination for both our imagination and our need for resources. Once we had mastered movement to these worlds, the rest of the Solar System was only a matter of time.

Unlike the rest of the Encyclopædia Planetæ, this section will deal with each world of the Sol System as a separate sub-catalogue. Despite our prowess at interstellar travel, and the degree of colonization and exploration that has been performed, we still know Sol and his children the best.

Sol System Bodies in order of their distance from the Sun
	Brost Small Body Group --> Vulcanian Class Last updated April 30, 2006
	Mercury Dwarf Terrestrial Group --> GeoPassive Class --> Lithic Type --> Hermian Subtype Last updated April 30, 2006
	Venus Terrestrial Group --> Telluric Class -- Cytherean Type/terraformed to Gaian status Last updated January 14, 2007
	Earth Terrestrial Group --> Tectonic Class -- Gaian Type --> EuGaian Subtype --> GaianContinental Subdivision Last updated February 3, 2006
	Mars Dwarf Terrestrial Group --> GeoCyclic Class -- Arean Type --> EuArean Subtype/terraformed to Gaian status Last updated May 21, 2007
	22 Kalliope Planetesimal Group --> Metallic Class Last updated June 27, 2006