The Asteroid Belt, colloquially referred to as The 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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- Priam - an asteroid city in the Trojan Cluster.[3]
- Greek Cluster - a group of asteroids that shares Jupiter's orbit around the sun at one of the planet's Lagrange points.[2]
- Agamemnon - an asteroid city in the Greek Cluster.[3]
- 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,[4] used as a base for heavy mining operations by an Earth-run energy consortium. Home to several disreputable astral way stations.[5]
- Karin Subfamily - a sub-grouping of 90 asteroids within the Koronis family[6]
- 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.[5]
- 208 Lacrimosa (a.k.a. Lacricmosa Station) - the largest asteroid in the Koronis family,[4] 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.[5]
- Karin Subfamily - a sub-grouping of 90 asteroids within the Koronis family[6]
- 12193 - an unnamed asteroid discovered in the 2nd century PCE where Regulus ag Sun secretly constructed the generation ship Tabula Rasa.
History[]
Sons of Ares: Volume Two[]
Fitchner au Barca visits Locus Folium 9 in 722 PCE in the hopes of obtaining leverage over his employer, Regulus ag Sun. He is followed there by Arturius au Vardan, who destroys the facility.
Golden Son[]
Darrow attended The Academy in 741 PCE from January to October alongside Victra, Roque, Tactus, Karnus, and Cagney.
Sevro and the Howlers stop on 208 Lacrimosa to refuel during their voyage to Luna in 741 for the Summit.[5]
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.[7]
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.[8]
Iron Gold[]
The Archimedes picked up a distress signal from the Vindabona while en route to Lacrimosa for repairs.[9]
Light Bringer[]
References[]
- ā Ceres (dwarf planet)
- ā 2.0 2.1 Jupiter trojan
- ā 3.0 3.1 Light Bringer, Chapter 37
- ā 4.0 4.1 Koronis family
- ā 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Morning Star, chapter 38
- ā Karin family
- ā Morning Star, chapter 37
- ā Light Bringer, chapter 35
- ā Iron Gold, chapter 08