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3	The planets and moons covered here are those which have hitherto been OutOfFocus. Future posts may elaborate on them.
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5	!Mercury
6	The closest planet to the Sun, not that that's stopped people from colonizing it, mostly at the poles, where the temperatures aren't quite as extreme.
7	* DysonSphere: A faction on Mercury wants to disassemble the planet to build a Dyson swarm.
8	* {{Eagleland}}: Seems to have been settled chiefly by Americans.
9	* PlanetaryNation: Mercury's north and south poles have such different cultures that this is an AvertedTrope for them.
10	* TheStoner: Mercury is noted to have a thriving drug culture, thanks in no small part to the underground mushroom ecologies cultivated by the colonists.
11	* TeamSwitzerland: It's not an easy planet to reach, so its people can afford not to care about any [[SpaceColdWar Space Cold Wars]] out there.
12	* UndergroundCity: Common on Mercury, since it's easier to regulate temperature that way.
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14	!The Asteroid Belt
15	* AsteroidMiners: Naturally, full of them.
16	* CultColony: After becoming PersonaNonGrata on both Earth and Mars (long story), the Church of Scientology settled in the Minerva Commonwealth (America's colonies in the Belt), and there they stayed, gradually subverting the Minervan government until it was effectively a Scientologist [[TheTheocracy theocracy]]. Later down the line, they fight at least one war with the Martian Alliance.
17	* FictionalHoliday: The inhabitants of the near-Earth asteroid Eros, by a complicated process, managed to reverse their asteroid's rotation, effectively flipping it upside down and simultaneously giving it CentrifugalGravity. July 30th, the day the project came to fruition, is now celebrated on Eros as Flip Day, when people do things upside down, do them the reverse of how they usually would, or start new and contrary habits.
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19	!The Outer Planets
20	Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, along with their moons.
21	* ColonizedSolarSystem: A twist, in that Uranus and Neptune weren't colonized by Earth, but by ''Mars.''
22	* FullConversionCyborg: Rare in most of the solar system, but common on Titan.
23	* GreatOffscreenWar: The "Saturn Wars," fought in the early 22nd century between Enceladus and Titan, backed by Earth and Mars respectively as part of the SpaceColdWar.
24	* UpliftedAnimal: Enceladus is home to sophont squids. They're TheRival to the cyborgs of Titan and apparently have a certain amount of FantasticRacism going on.
25	* TranshumansInSpace: Saturn's moon Titan is depicted as a transhumanist society where being a FullConversionCyborg is the rule rather than the exception and BrainUploading is socially accepted.
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27	!The Kuiper Belt
28	Pluto and the rest. It's also been mentioned in passing that the ninth and tenth planets, named Minerva and Terminus, were found at some point by a telescope on the far side of Luna.

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