Hurgh. Making planets is tough on your imagination.
I'll release what I completed now with placeholder planets. If you want you can make a planet yourself from one of the placeholders, remember that Terraforming did exist long before the war. Oh, and
this may come in handy while building a planet.
I'll finish the placeholder planets some day. Turn up sometime after today.
All of the planet names that aren't custom names are roman god names. From
here.
Alpha Centauri AAlpha Centauri A I.Alpha Centauri A II.Alpha Centauri A III.Felicitas was an earthlike planet. Orbiting 1.19 AU from Alpha Centauri A. It is ~0.95 times as large as earth. And it's mass is only ~0.76 times as much. Leading to a gravity 0.76 times as much as earth. Water covers ~27% of the planet. with ice covering only ~6%. It possessed massive prairies. Felicitas's day is 30 hours. It's year is 424 earth days.
It was colonized by the UNSS in 2238. It was quickly made into a farming planet after finding that Felicitas was poor in useful metals of any kind. Before the glassing, Felicitas had 3 Billion people. All but ~2 thousand people were evacuated to Omega Earth. Who decided to stay behind.
Hercules is a tiny, but very, VERY dense planet. Resting about 1.9 AU from Alpha Centauri A, It is made out of solid Neutronium. It is less then one half the size of Mercury. Yet sports a gravity twice that of earth. How it was made out of solid Neutronium is unknown. It's day is 15 hours. It's year is 1623 earth days.
Despite pressure from businesses to mine Hercules, the majority of the rest of the UNSS decided to leave Hercules alone due to being an impossibly rare planet. However, this didn't prevent tourist businesses from constructing various attractions there. Before the colony was glassed, it had around 84 thousand people living and working there.
Aeolus is a tiny gas giant, orbiting roughly 2 AU from Alpha Centauri A. It's only 11 times as large as earth. With a laughable gravity. It sports a single, non important moon that's half as large as pluto. Aeolus has winds that move about 1000Km/h! Thus the name. It's year is 1893 earth days.
Pi-centhi Lies roughly 2.2 AU from Alpha Centauri A. Between Aeolus and Fulgora. It is ~0.21 times as large as the earth. Yet it's mass is ~0.96 times as much. It's gravity is ~0.96 times as much as the earth. Thus Pi-centhi is extremely rich in metals. It sports a gigantic amount of ice on the poles. It's day is ~5 earth days. And it's year is 2102 earth days. Pi-centhi has many asteroid sized moons orbiting it (153 to be exact).
It was labeled top priority to colonize as soon as it was found. And was colonized in 2236. Although it contained no Duranium or other metals like it, it did contain large amounts of other, less valuble metals like copper, silver, iron, titanium, aluminum, etc. It became a miner's paradise. On average, the normal miner usually had around 10000 Credits (Credit's are roughly worth what the dollar is today)! It sported massive biospheres. All in all, Pi-centhi had around 24 million people on it before it was glassed. Not a single person made it off of Pi-centhi before it was glassed.
Fulgora is a gigantic ice giant at roughly 24.3 AU from Alpha Centauri. It is roughly ~12 Times as large as Jupiter. It's year is 18621 earth days. It is known to have enormous lightning storms. It's gravity prevents it from having any moons. Fulgora is known to have had quite a few close encounters with Alpha Centauri B. Fulgora protects the system from comets with it's massive gravity.
Mania lies a scorching 0.12 AU from Alpha Centauri B. Mania is almost completely molten. Mania is ~0.05 times as large as the earth. But has a mass of ~0.14 times as much. Mania has a year of 6 days. And a day of 5 hours. And a Mania is completely uninhabitable, even with top of the line colony equipment.
Using simulations, scientists found out in 425 million years, Mania will crash into Alpha Centauri B.
Omega earth lies roughly 0.68 AU from Alpha Centauri B. Omega earth is ~3.12 times as large as the earth. Yet it's mass is only ~1.212 times as much. It's gravity is roughly 1.2 times as much as earth. It's oceans cover ~54% of the planet. With the ice covering ~8%. It's tidally locked to it's moon, Omega Luna. Omega Earth's year is 238 earth days. And it's day is 21 hours. It has an enormous magnetic field, due to Omega Luna and it's magnetic field combining with Omega Earth's magnetic field.
Omega earth was the first colony founded outside of Sol by the UNSS in 2235. Why it was chosen over the rest is because scanners detected massive amounts of high grade metals. And even a small amount of an unknown metal, now known as Duranium. However, while mining the Duranium, miners found small amounts of two other unknown metals. Tritanium and Neutronium. Omega Earth became incredibly rich selling these amazingly rare metals. Omega Earth sported a shocking 13 billion people before it was glassed. All but 1 million people successfully evacuated from Omega Earth. The rest chose to stay behind.
Omega Earth sports an earth sized moon, Omega Luna. Which lies roughly double the distance Luna does from earth. It has roughly the same gravity as the earth and roughly the same mass. It is an earth-like moon. Sporting oceans that cover ~24%. With ice covering ~52%. It is tidally locked with Omega earth. It's day is 21 hours. It orbits fast enough to give both Omega Earth and itself a earthlike day. It is also rich in high grade minerals. And even had it's own bit of Duranium. It sported 2 billion people before it was glassed with Omega Earth. All but 20 thousand people were evacuated. The others stayed behind.
Delta Andis lies 1.5AU from Alpha Centauri B. Delta Andis is around 5 times as large as earth. But has a near earthlike mass and gravity, as 83% of the planet is made out of ice. Delta Andis's year is 532 earth days. And it's day is 76 hours.
Delta Andis was colonized to provide water/ice to the other less fortunate colonies in Alpha Centauri. Delta Andis sported 157 million people before it was glassed. Everyone but 634 people evacuated. 'Rest chose to stay behind. Delta Andis's colonies lasted the longest per-block then all the other colonies. Likely due to the large amounts of water/ice on Delta Andis.
Nehalennia is a small planet with a shockingly eccentric orbit. At it's max distance, it orbits 54 AU from Alpha Centauri B. At it's minimum distance, it orbits at 0.7 AU. Nehalennia is 0.26 times as large as the earth. With a mass 0.461 times as much as earth. Nehalennia's day and year are highly unstable. With the shortest day lasting only four hours. And the longest day lasting 21 years.
Nehalennia is made entirely out of metals, mostly iron, with small impurities. It is believed to have been a part of core of a planet. Before it was shattered off in a collision between two massive planets. Which also explains the eccentric orbit. Nehalennia, with it's inclined orbit of 5 degrees, manages to always miss collision with the other planets and Alpha Centauri A.
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