Practical Space Mapping

Hex Kit!

This was made using my EE-based route-layer, planet tags, and names & types

Yellow Polity

Kubaba

Superterrestrial Arid Martian (Polity Capital, Trading Hub)

• Building blocks of organic life found in surviving aquifers.
• High axial tilt leads to extreme seasonal temperature fluctuations.
• Citizenship software is lootpass-based.
• Slow Road route to Carcosa
• Swift route to an unclaimed system.

Green Polity

Carcosa

Watery Martian World (Polity Capital, Independent Colony) 

• Majority population of uplifted octopi and squid.
• Economic and social conditions steadily getting worse over last half century.
• The revolution has come, hopefully not too late.
• Slow Road to Kubaba.
• Variable Speed route to unclaimed system.

Red Polity

Dvaraka

Rocky Superterrestrial (Polity Capital, Major Colony) 

• Extensive android rights
• Thick atmosphere is incredibly toxic.
• Ruling C-Level has both martyr and god complex.
• Standard route to an unclaimed system
• Instant Transmission to Zagreus
• Lightspeed route to Goalposts

Zagreus

Molten Terrestrial (Economic Boom)

• Original colony abandoned, reclaimed later.
• Smartpets current fashion, even among working class.
• Asymmetric fashion common due to omnipresent surveillance tech.
• Instant Transmission to Dvaraka.
• Instant Transmission to Sehkmet.
• Collapsed route to Ambergris.

Sehkmet

Hot Neptune (Travel Hub)

• Primary settlement has particularly high gravity for a moon of its size.
• Red Death epidemic sweeping through colony.
• Citizenship software runs on an RPG basis.
• Instant Transmission to Zagreus.
• Standard route to Ambergris.
• Lightspeed route to Goalposts.

Ambergris

Titanian Superterran (Marginal world)

• Sun flares regularly - distance, strong magnetism, and thick atmosphere protect against.
• Autarchic commonwealth.
• Recent crisis of entire colony experiencing three minutes of brain death.
• Standard route to Sehkmet.
• Decaying route to unclaimed system.

Blue Polity

Goalposts

Exotic (Chlorine) Gaian (Polity Capital, Independent Colony) 

• Often mocked for perceived backwards culture.
• Often respected for locals' ability to weather crisis situations.
• Trade deal with Red Polity fell through.
• Lightspeed route to Dvaraka.
• Lightspeed route to Sehkmet.
• Slow Road to Nessus.

Nessus 

Greenhouse Gaian (Blue / Purple Disputed Territory)

• Infamous for unwelcoming, hostile architecture.
• Major meteor impact <10,000 years perviously.
• Colony currently being taken down for ritual rebuilding.
• Slow Road to Goalposts
• Lightspeed route to Oliphaunt
• Exit point of inaccurate route from Malina.

Purple Polity

Malina

Cold Neptunian (Major Colony, Polity Capital)

• Open warfare with Blue Polity
• Closed borders, even to other Purple Polity citizens.
• Cambion births via neogenic surrogate fathers in fashion with nobility.
• Inaccurate route to Oliphaunt and Nessus.
• Inaccurate route to Algedonia and Caravan.

Oliphaunt

Gaian terrestrial (High Water, Purple / Blue Disputed Territory)

• Home of famous monastic order.
• Major xenopaleontology dig underway on southern continent.
• Political upheaval, as normally Purple-aligned factions switch to Blue Polity.
• Lightspeed connection to Nessus.
• Inaccurate connection to Malina and Algedonia

Algedonia 

Ice-rock Dwarf (Minor Colony)

• Unexplored surface
• Orbital habitats run dreamworld simulation for colonists.
• Recently hit with Voynich virus, all is chaos.
• Inaccurate route to Malina and Oliphaunt.
• Instant transmission to Caravan.

Alien 

Caravan

Gaian Terrestrial (Mid Water, alien homeworld)

• Paleolithic alien species.
• Conflict between Red and Purple over contact rights.