Asteroid Belt

The Asteroid Belt separates the Rim from the Core, and is home to many trade hubs and asteroid mining colonies.

Locations

• Ceres - a dwarf planet in the middle main belt.
• Helsa Cluster - first mined by House Carthii of Venus.
• Trojan Cluster - a group of asteroids that shares Jupiter's orbit around the sun at one of the planet's Lagrange points.
• Greek Cluster - a group of asteroids that shares Jupiter's orbit around the sun at one of the planet's Lagrange points.
• The Academy - a school where Golds train in interplanetary warfare.
• S-1392 - a dirty pearl white asteroid at the edge of Rim space used by Diomedes au Raa in September 753 PCE as a covert staging area to rescue his sister from her incursion into the Core.
• 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 - A large grouping of asteroids on the outer edge of the main belt, used as a base for heavy mining operations by an Earth-run energy consortium. Home to several disreputable astral way stations.
  • Karin Subfamily - a sub-grouping of 90 asteroids within the Koronis family
    • 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.
  • 208 Lacrimosa (a.k.a. Lacricmosa Station) - the largest asteroid in the Koronis family, home to a way station where ships often stop to refuel on voyages through the Belt. Frequented by smugglers, and locally known as Our Lady of Sorrows, where life is said to be cheaper than a kilo of iced Helium and a gram of demonDust.
• 12193 - an unnamed asteroid discovered in the 2nd century PCE where Regulus ag Sun secretly constructed the generation ship Tabula Rasa.

History

Golden Son

Sevro and the Howlers stop on 208 Lacrimosa to refuel during their voyage to Luna in 741 for the Summit.

Morning Star

Several days after Darrow's escape from Attica in March 743, agents of The Jackal robbed the nuclear weapons depot on S-1988.

The Solar War

Cassius, Pytha, and Lysander frequented Lacrimosa during the Solar War to repair and refuel the Archimedes.

Quicksilver began constructing the Tabula Rasa inside Asteroid 12193 as late as 745 PCE.

Iron Gold

The Archimedes picked up a distress signal from the Vindabona while en route to Lacrimosa for repairs.