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Core Systems - 0-25 light years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

• Proxima Centauri - 4.223 - Bester
  • The Chime Tombs are a famous region on Bester.  Covering nearly thirty square kilometers, these badlands were carved into fantastic shapes by wind and rain over tens of thousands of years, when the Chime lands had a more active climate.  For the last seven thousand years, and likely for the foreseeable future, the region had been completely quiescent.  It is here, in passages carved into the naked sandstone, some of which extend hundreds of meters long and deep, the bodies of countless generations of Chime nomads have been interred.  Dismembered and bundled together in cloth sacks, these bodies date back as far as the late Old Neighborhood Period, when the nomads first began to move into the area.  While their numbers today are few, as most have moved to more urban areas of the planet and become integrated into modern Bester society, burials still occur here.  The Tombs are stringently guarded by those that remain, and modern League and Empire archaeologists have been imprisoned, and occasionally killed, by nomads.
• Alpha Centauri A - 4.395 - Ghellhonus
• Alpha Centauri B - 4.395 - Baahki
• Tau Ceti - 11.9 - Igom
• AX Microscopii - 12.9 - Tsubar
• Gliese 876 - 15.2 - Lrusos
• Gliese 832 - 16.1 - Riigarn
• Omicron-2 Eridani - 16.45 - Kidian
• 70 Ophiuchi A - 16.59 - Tsunami
  • Gave rise to the Yamaso Daimyo, and empirical polity that formed in the late Old Neighborhood Period.  It came to control several star systems within ten light years, and at least four others out to 25 light years.  These further systems had outposts known as "out stations".  The culture was known for its art and poets, as well as its militaristic society.  Its decline began in the mid Middle Neighborhood Period, under pressure from both the Kentauric Empire and the League of Worlds.  By the Late Neighborhood Period, all external star systems had been abandoned, interstellar flight largely abandoned in favor of utilizing the ArcWays for trade and commerce.  Early in the Miogenic Period Yamaso Daimyo had fallen as civil war and economic unrest swept the planet.  Eventually, with the aid of the League, the Island States of Tsunami polity had been created, and the planet became a League member world.  Today, Tsunami is a very conservative society, known primarily for its export of food stuffs grown in massive sea farms.
• Sigma Draconis - 18.81 - Hyannis
  • Lyonesse is a famous in-system example of pristine archaeological ruins dating back to the founding of the original colony, during the Great Hegira.  A small moon orbiting a distant gas giant, from the surface there are only a few structures present to hint that Humans had ever been present.  However, the entire moon is riddled with passages and compartments, as it had once served as both a water ice resource, and later a scientific outpost.  Lyonesse was abandoned within two centuries of its founding, as the colony on Hyannis became more and more insular, eventually losing the ability to travel through the solar system.  The moon, however, was left intact, although when discovered it had long since lost all power and environmental controls.  It is doubly famous, however, for the archaeologists' first discovery here:  a chamber that had happened to possess both complete maps of the entire complex, and a largely complete manifest of what was to be found there, and where.
• Eta Cassiopeiae A - 19.42 - San Gabriel
• Gliese 783 B - 19.74 - Tagua
• 82 Eridani - 19.77 - Tsevorda
• Delta Pavonis - 19.92 - Waterdon Prime
• Gliese 293 - 22.5 - ???
  • This world is one of the furthest Yamaso Daimyo out stations from their home system of 70 Ophiuchi.  Although the central star is a white dwarf, the Daimyo constructed its outpost here, on the largest moon of the sole remaining planet, as a means to observe the immediate Local Neighborhood covertly, via a system of multi-length telescopes.  As the planet moved in a highly eccentric orbit, most of the time it remained at a large distance from the star, providing an interference free environment for the telescopes to utilize.  The system was first colonized very early in the Middle Neighborhood Period, but was abandoned by the Late Neighborhood Period as pressures from civil wars in the home systems choked off funding and supplies.  The out station was abandoned quickly, with indications of all personnel having left within a matter of days.  Today the system remains empty, watched over only by a small compliment of robotic survey probes.
• Beta Hydri - 24.38 - Orra
• 107 Piscium - 24.36 - Kelari

Mid Volumes - 26 to 55 light years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

• Pi-3 Orionis - 26.2 - Hokul'ea
• Beta Canum Venaticorum - 27.3 - Retunda
• 61 Virginis - 27.81 - Dradgeworld
• Zeta Tucanae - 28.03 - Cordillera
• Chi-1 Orionis A - 28.26 - Cicero
  • One of the original Earth colonies, little is known of the world's history, or its eventual downfall.  It is reasonably certain that Cicero existed as a troubled colony, considering the young age of the planet and the relative regularity that it suffers major impacts, solar storms, and other side effects of its youth.  Cicero itself was originally slated for colonization due to the remote discovery of large amounts of water in its atmosphere, as well as sufficient amounts of oxygen.  What was not realized, however, was that there were forms of microbial life on the planet that existed as vast mats of algae-like rafts, often several square kilometers in size, floating on the vast oceans.  These mats, Cicero's equivalent to Earth's stromatolites, pumped out huge amounts of oxygen into the atmosphere.  Eventually, within a few centuries, it would reach a high point and become toxic to the mats, which thrived on the large amounts of nitrogen and carbon dioxide.  The mats would then die off, and the oxygen levels would plummet.  It was during one of these high points that remote observations from Earth gave the impression of a world ripe for Human colonization.  By the time that the colony arrived, the oxygen levels were falling rapidly.  Habitats were constructed on the surface, pressurized domes and subsurface passages, which for a time fostered the people. During the next few centuries, the establishment of the famous Cicero Catacombs occurred, tombs which housed the dead.  Little else was accomplished, and the population eventually began to dwindle as resources and technology began to fail.  Combined with the deleterious effects of asteroid and comet impacts across the planet, the Human population finally vanished, sometime during the mid Hegemony Period.  It was not until the late Miogenic Period that an archaeological expedition arrived on Cicero and began to investigate this lost colony and its tragic history.  Today, there remains a small manned outpost of the surface, with a sister facility in orbit.  Transports regularly move between here and Pi-3 Orionis, a trip of some ten light years.
• Gliese 849 - 29 - ???
• Gamma Leporis B - 29.26 - Ithaca
• Beta Comae Berenices - 29.86 - Phione IV
  • One of the original Earth colonies (the twelfth sent out), the world today is one which is a study of tragedy.  Aside from the well known genocide of the native Khai species, the original colony itself suffered greatly.  Following its establishment during the Great Hegira, it existed a continent away from the Khai, and while they may have known about that species through remote surveying, there is no evidence that the colonists and the Khai ever interacted.  The colony itself eventually settled down into an agriculture-based society, which was stable for several generations.  However, by the end of the Commonwealth Period, a technological advancement had taken place, establishing several cities on their continent, connected by a well maintained road system.  A new industrial revolution was taking place, when religious zealotry seems to have taken hold.  Just as the people were set to begin exploring beyond the shores of their continent, a theocracy was established which severely restricted intellectual and cultural growth.  This was the state of the world when the Hegemony arrived via the ArcWay.  The ruling polity, called simply Aesir, disallowed meaningful contact with the Hegemony, and immigration was forbidden.  When the Dominion came to power, they found it easy to take control of the government, and to create a ready made Dominion ruling polity.  The fall of the Dominion saw a cultural collapse, the old polity being replaced by a feudal system that relied on pre-industrial technology.  The ArcWay had long been blocked off, with an almost mythical fear surrounding it thanks to the deprivations of the Dominion, and new growth was extremely slow, until a series of scientific revolutions occurred during the Middle Neighborhood Period.  Within two or three generations, the technological level of the society exploded, to the point of establishing an industrial and power base which rested firmly on steam-powered technology, and the extensive use of fossil fuels.  For nearly 600 years the society prospered, with expeditions traveling throughout the globe, establishing colonies on various islands and continents.  At the height of their technological development, this culture had begun to design simple, if cumbersome computer systems.  And then, abruptly, the entire civilization collapsed.  It is unknown why this happened, but it is obvious that within a single generation the entire framework of the civilization fell apart.  To this day, the Human colonial descendents are confined to a single region on their original continent, living in a series of small villages and maintaining a population of some 100,000 individuals.  When the ArcWay was finally reopened towards the end of the Middle Neighborhood Period, the League and Kentauric Empire explorers found a world that was a mere relic of what it had once been.  Both polities established colonies on the planet, a major point of contention between the two polities.  The villages of the Phione peoples were largely ignored, save by sociologists and anthropologists, although those people did benefit from trade with outlying League and Kentauric colonies.  Little has changed in the modern age.  While the Empire has faded, the League has prospered, its Phione colony slowly growing into a major center of travel and commerce.  The original Human villages have since consolidated into the Highlandic Thanedom, and control most of the northern regions of their original colony.  Conflict between the League and these natives is common, and typically revolves around territorial disputes.  A movement to grant the Highlanders control of all aspects of life on Phione IV has recently cropped up, gaining more and more momentum as facts about their past on the planet have come to light.  Both nations study the long dead Khai.  The League is interested in their apparent Earthly origins and biology, while the Highlanders have become enamored of the spiritual aspects of the extinct species.
• Kappa Ceti - 29.87 - ???
• 61 Ursae Majoris - 31.12 - ???
• Alpha Mensae - 33.1 - Ambisagrus
• Gliese 436 - 33.4 - ???
• Beta Virginis - 35.6 - Benthis
• Lambda Serpentis - 38.34 - Arsemis
• Zeta-2 Reticuli - 39.4 - Minos
• Zeta-1 Reticuli - 39.53 - Pretarus
• 55 Cancri A - 40.87 - ???
• Alpha Aurigae AaAbBaBb - 42.2 - ???
• Gliese 167 - 42.66 - Sechenei
• 18 Scorpii - 45.75 - Pangaia
• 47 Ursae Majoris - 45.91 - Odessa Steppes
• Nu-2 Lupi - 47.48 - Westrimm
  • A highly developed garden world, being a major center of cultural and industrial exports.  Named for the original colonial landing site, on the western edge of a super volcano caldera, the colony was initially powered by geothermal energy.  However, over the past few thousand years, the population and energy requirements have grown to the point where geothermal energy is now a minor source of power.  Westrimm has had a varied history.  One of the original colonies from Earth, it was founded during the early portion of the Commonwealth Period, and seemed to have had a relatively prosperous history after that.  However, a series of events lead to a period of dark ages, resulting in the loss of technology.  By the beginning of the Old Neighborhood Period, Westrimm had recovered to the point where it had begun to move back into orbital space.  This space race seemed to have sparked some major international competition, however, which lead to a period of at least two century's worth of strife and minor wars, collectively known as The Troubles in Westrimm history.  It was not until the Middle Neighborhood Period that proper exploitation of the solar system had begun.  Towards the end of this Period, the Local ArcWay had been discovered, and Westrimm was reunited with the rest of Humanity.  Shortly thereafter, the planet became allied with the League of Worlds as a series of loosely allied planetary governments.  Full League membership occurred in the Late Neighborhood Period.  Today Westrimm is one of the most prosperous and active worlds in the League.
• Psi Serpentis A - 47.85 - Megiddo
  • Founded as an original Earth colony during the Commonwealth Period, little is known of the planet's early history.  What is known is that the world and system was eventually united under the banner of the Megiddo Empire, and empire which developed an interstellar drive and managed to colonize worlds in the Lambda Serpentis, 18 Scorpii, and BK+00 2334 Systems.  At its height during the Old Neighborhood Period, the Empire made a definite impression on the Arsemians of Lambda Serpentis, though the Megiddoans maintained their holdings largely in orbit.  At 18 Scorpii, their presence was a bit more intrusive, hinting at the Empire's higher comfort level when dealing with Humans.  However, they remained at neither of these systems for more than a few decades, being unable to maintain any form of dominion while being so greatly separated from their homes system.  Their arrival and withdrawal from both of these systems predated the opening of the local ArcWays, and thus the Empire was known only through rumors and old tales by the time either the Empire or the League arrived.  Their holdings on BK+00 2334 were more substantial, having no indigenous people to contend with.  The colony here, in fact, survived right up until the eventual collapse of the Empire, during the Middle Neighborhood Period.  The Empire's collapse was total, being fraught with resource depletion and civil war.  Today, Megiddo is a world lost in a feudal society, the highest level of technology revolving around simple industrial manufacturing.  All spaceflight has been lost, and the days of the empire, even locally, are little more than legend.  Indeed, the existence of the Empire was discovered only through the recovery and salvaging of an Imperial Megiddo shuttle, left originally in a wide planetary orbit above Pangaia at 18 Scorpii, and since ejected into solar orbit.  An expedition was launched and arrived at Megiddo during the last century, but despite the system's relative closeness to both 18 Scorpii and Lambda Serpentis, no follow up expedition has occurred.  The Megiddoans continue to exist as a feudal society, spread over two continents, their entire universe now confined to their single planet.
• Nu Phoenicis - 49.1 - New Phoenix
• Mu Arae - 49.83 - ???
• 51 Pegasi - 50.1 - Arroyo
• Psi-5 Aurigae - 53.86 - Iskander
• Gliese 295 - 54.8 - Würm

Outer Systems - 56 to 100 light years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

• 37 Geminorum - 56.34 - Alba
• q-1 Eridani - 56.57 - Altiplano
• 70 Virginis - 59.07 - ???
• Gliese 848.4 - 69.44 - Haer Kirban (Far Harbor)
• HIP 109084 - 69.8 - Urgchitkritnu
• Alpha Leonis B - 77.49 - Erebus
  • Initiated by a special interest group, this colony was established in the mid Miogenic Period via a massive interstellar sleeper ship, accompanied by a veritable fleet of supply vessels.  The religious group which backed the colony vanished from the League, their aim to set up a self-sufficient colony on a world with terraforming potential in the Regulus B system.  The colony, however, has never initiated contact with the League, and being relatively isolated from any other colonial world, it is unlikely that they will in the near future.  There are no plans to investigate this system, as it would involve a major interstellar flight with a very large time debt.
• Gliese 756.1 - 85.3 - ???
• Xi Scorpii C - 92.5 - Amasha
• Gliese 304 - 93.8 - ???
• HD 199476 - 96.5 - Apa Cel

The Periphery - 101 to 150 light years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

• HD 28185 - 138 - ???

The Frontier - 151 to 200 light years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Worlds Beyond the League - beyond 200 light years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

• V4641 Sagittarii AB - 1,600 - Requiem
  • This system possesses the nearest black hole to the Sol System, and has thus long been an object of scientific interest to the League.  During the latter part of the Late Neighborhood Period, after the sudden reappearance of the Miogenics, following their disappearance from the Local Neighborhood during the Middle Neighborhood Period, all manner of scientific exchanges took place.  Among these was the ability, via the Miogenics ArcWay-like interstellar travel capability (which has never been shared), to travel to this system.  The Miogenics had already established a heavily shielded outpost on a distant planetoid, its sole purpose to observe the black hole.  The Miogenics themselves have long since ceased to be a common presence here, save for repairs or upgrades to the outpost, but it is curious to note that the Tsubar'ey have a presence here as well, and that they willingly utilize the Miogenic travel methodology.  This is curious because of their near manic distrust and avoidance of all ArcWay travel, leading many to speculate that the Miogenic "gates" are not related to ArcWay travel at all.  Today, the outpost remains fully functional, and while recreational travel is restricted, a population of several hundred League citizens is always present, along with their families.  The Miogenics technology is effective at protecting the outpost from all activity coming from the black hole, and its companion blue giant star.
• NGC 6791 - 13,000 - ???