The Asteroid Belt separates the Rim from the Core, and is home to many trade hubs and asteroid mining colonies.
Locations[]
- Ceres
- Helsa Cluster - first mined by House Carthii of Venus.
- Trojan Cluster
- Greek Cluster
- The Academy
- S-1392 - a dirty pearl white asteroid at the edge of Rim space used as a staging area by Diomedes au Raa as a covert staging area to rescue his sister from her incursion into the interior.
- Hildas Station - a star-shaped hub of trade and communications on the outer fringes of the belt.
- Locus Folium 9/24.990.1 - a secret shipyard built by Ag-Regate Industries to compete with the Ganymede Docks and the monopoly on shipbuilding held by Houses Raa and Codovan.
- Koronis family - used as a base for heavy mining operations by an Earth-run energy consortium. Home to several disreputable astral way stations.
- Karin Subfamily
- S-1988 - a minor silicate-based asteroid with zero mining potential. After the First Moon Lord Rebellion it was home to a secret nuclear weapons depot housing 500 nuclear warheads with a yield of 30 megatons each.
- Lacrimosa Station - a way station in the belt where Sevro and the Howlers had a layover on the way to Luna near the beginning of Golden Son. Frequented by Cassius and Lysander for repairs to the Archimedes after the Rising.
- 208 Lacrimosa - a smugglers' cove locally known as Our Lady of Sorrows. Life there is said to be cheaper than a kilo of iced Helium and a gram of demonDust.
- Karin Subfamily
- 12193 - an unnamed asteroid discovered in the 2nd century PCE where Regulus ag Sun secretly constructed the generation ship Tabula Rasa.