Alternates:GC-Places
There are many important and interesting places off-Earth. These are a few of them.
Cislunar
Greenwood is physically much like the version in mainline Fenspace. Socially, it has a much larger population - enough that it qualifies for statehood. After the 2020 census, the Cislunar State[1] gets congressional representation and Greenwood City becomes the state capital.
Stella Via is a Bernal Sphere, much larger than mainline's Stellvia station. It is part of the Cislunar State of the United States of America.
L3
Grover's Corners
The cabal behind the Grover's Corners started out much as they did in the mainline, launching from West Virginia and giving the US defense establishment a bit of a cardiac problem. Instead of hauling the entire farmstead up though, this time it was a bit more prosaic but just as ambitious haul of a couple big hydroponics modules. People have to eat after all, and somebody ought to be the local greengrocer.
Again much like mainline, the appeal of fresh veggies gave Team GC a lot of trading power in the early years (before the corporations start taking over), enough so that they managed to trade in the original town modules for a nice big Cole sphere habitat, something in the 1200m range.
Most Cole habitats are spun for gravity, which works nicely but only gives you a narrow strip along the spin equator that has a properly "pull."[2] Team GC, once they've got the bubble, decided to go for broke. They either invested in or invented (which one is still a secret) in darksci environmental technology, with the intent of making not just the interior, but the exterior of the new Grover's Corners habitable. Artificial gravity for both sides, exotic forcefield technology for a nice thick atmosphere surrounding the outside, plus plenty of dirt, water, plants and animals...
By July 2039, the whole asteroidforming project had almost wiped out Grover's Corners available capital - but having a 100% legit Wonder of the System sitting pretty at the Earth-Luna L3 point was totally worth it. Most of the people on "The Corners" live on the outside of the bubble Little Prince-style (the view's nicer) while the actual work of the habitat - the agricultural work - happens on the inside (the climate's easier to manage).
Mars
Venus
The Outer System
Elsewhere
- Grand Central
- Strangelove
- Tellus Secundus
Notes
- ↑ Which really needs a better name
- ↑ Yes, we know it's centripedal force, not gravity. You know what we mean.
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