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The planets and moons covered here are those which have hitherto been Out of Focus. Future posts may elaborate on them.
Mercury
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.- Dyson Sphere: A major faction on Mercury wants to disassemble the planet to build a Dyson swarm.
- Eagleland: Seems to have been settled chiefly by Americans.
- The Stoner: Mercury is noted to have a thriving drug culture, thanks in no small part to the underground mushroom ecologies cultivated by the colonists.
- Underground City: Common on Mercury, since it's easier to regulate temperature that way.
The Asteroid Belt
- Asteroid Miners: Naturally, full of them.
- Cult Colony: After becoming Persona Non Grata 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 theocracy. Later down the line, they fight at least one war with the Martian Alliance.
- Fictional Holiday: 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 Centrifugal Gravity. 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.
The Outer Planets
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, along with their moons.- Colonized Solar System: A twist, in that Uranus and Neptune weren't colonized by Earth, but by Mars.
- Full-Conversion Cyborg: Rare in most of the solar system, but common on Titan.
- Great Offscreen War: The "Saturn Wars," fought in the early 22nd century between Enceladus and Titan, backed by Earth and Mars respectively as part of the Space Cold War.
- Uplifted Animal: Enceladus is home to sophont squids. They're The Rival to the cyborgs of Titan.
- Transhumans in Space: Saturn's moon Titan is depicted as a transhumanist society where being a Full-Conversion Cyborg is the rule rather than the exception and Brain Uploading is socially accepted.
The Kuiper Belt
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.- Vampire Vannabe: Pluto was apparently colonized by a subculture from the German Goth scene who gene-modded themselves into vampires.
