The history of the inner stars

2400-2750

Barnard’s Star History

• short descriptive planet map description:
  • small 4 planets Mercury/Moon sized but to close to the star to be inhabitable
  • a large Asteroid Belt covering most the inhabitable zone(IZ) and beyond
  • another moon sized planet just outside the IZ with a very high inclination so it is not observable from Earth the Main station is on this “Barnard’s Moon” with several large stations in the system
• the whole system is rich in montane resources

Barnard’s Star colony was founded around 30 years after Proxima Centauri.
Barnard’s Star does not provide any good location to settle down. The main bodies are 4 Mercury, Moon-sized planets to close to the star, to be in it’s inhabitable zone. In this zone there is an asteroid belt and shortly beyond the inhabitable zone another small planet with a steep inclination, so it isn’t measurable, visible from Earth or Proxima. On the other hand the system is full of valuable resources, which defined it early fate. Montane corporates tried to establish their reign, but failed as soon the early settler form a strong union of workers, the Barnard’s Montane Union. The Union acted as a mix between governance, trade-ambassador in the interests of the settler, who all worked as miners or in supporting roles.
For the first 100 years this was the main role of Barnard’s Star, a montane industrial tech-settlement based on space-stations, and not on planet settlements like Proxima Centauri or the Earth. After the colonies on Wolf 359, Lalande 21185 and Ross 128 were established, the colonies which formed the Wolf-Pack, who than colonized Procyon and Luyten’s Star, Barnard’s Star role changes drastically. The fact, that stars on the rim where in reachable distance for colonization, yet the only star in the correct position outwards is Barnard’s Star. This forced a cultural shift from a miners culture, the interstellar Ruhrpott, to the one main hub of migration, as the Wolf-Pack was stuck in their expansion. Barnard’s Star’s further social and cultural development was shaped by immigration, and transfer-migration. People come and go. A true multi cultural influence mixed with the old traditions of the miners culture. The Union stayed the focal point of Barnard’s Stars inhabitants for identity and social-political organisation.
From Barnard’s Star the first colonies founded were those of the Outer Rim, North and North West of the Sun, Barnard’s Star and Wolf 1061. To the east shortly after the Rim, the half-circle in a radius of 12ly+ around Earth down to Tau-Ceti and Teagarden’s Star. Barnard’s Star remained for a long time a transfer hub for the colonization movement from the sun, but also slowly changed to the transfer of resource inwards and towards the south-west. The main contender for this position is Proxima Centauri.

Proxima Centauri

• short descriptive planet map description:
  • 3 planets,
    • 1 inhabitable, but almost to close to the star a biosphere is given without higher live-forms, mostly micro-biology and fungi-trees, before the settlers established plants very much later also limited zoological livestock
    • 2 smaller planets near the sun
    • a large asteroid belts, with larger celestial bodies
  • Alpha Centauri A and B nearby and a cloud of objects around them
• the whole triple system is rich in energy, vital and montane resources

1. First Contact & Colonization (2390–2400)

2375, 2378 and 2381: Three sub-FLT colony-ships (Amara Homework, Varna Homestead, Elara Homeland) leave OORT-cloud-main-station for a ~15 years travel to colonize Proxima B. 2389/90 : The Chop Hop Vanguard conducts the first FTL jump at 1.03c , reaching Proxima Centauri in 4.2 Earth years / 3.8 subjective years. 2390 : The 1st sub-FLT ship arrives, establishing Proxima B as humanity’s first extrasolar colony. 2393 : Meeting under the stars, the Varna Homestead and the Chop Hop Vanguard arrive a Proxima at almost the same time. 2398 : First FTL ship returns from Proxima Centauri to Nova Arcis. The crew was ‘Geen Grissom’, ‘Paula Chaffee’, ‘Armster Neil’ and ‘Nova Young’ on broad of the Chop Hop Voyager, a CHV-Vessel. 2400 : Proxima B becomes a cultural hub, blending Earth traditions with alien pragmatism.

1. Cultural Identity & Expansion (2400–2900) 2406 : Zac Pepelinos introduces tea farming and “5 O’Clock Teatime” rituals, symbolizing cultural fusion. ~2450 : The Aproxi fraction emerges, uniting settlers under a shared identity tied to Proxima’s pragmatism. 2500 : Proxima Centauri is the largest colony (million inhabitants) and economic powerhouse.

2. Alien Discoveries & Philosophical Shifts (2916–2917) 2916 : The High Yards Academies discovers an “alien artifact” near Proxima Centauri. 2917 : The artifact is revealed as Voyager 1/2 , sparking debates about humanity’s legacy. 2917 : A 160,000-year-old alien transmission is detected, raising existential questions: “Do not exceed the threshold.” “Are you still there?”
3. Modern Era & Legacy (3000–3024) 3024 : Proxima Centauri is the Republic of Proxima Centauri , a key hub for: Quantum-Displaced Communications (invented 2976). Beep-Gong Timing System (introduced 3024).

Wolf 359 and the Wolf-Pack

• the stars of the Wolf-Pack are Wolf 359, Lalande 21185, Ross 128 as later settlements Procyon and Luyten’s Star
• Wolf 359 Star-System
  • a small inner planet “Wolf 359 b”,
  • the inhabitable “Wolf 359 c Sesame”, a very primitive plant based biosphere
    • with the two Moons “Coonibert” and “Coonernie”
  • two Asteroid Belts with larger celestial bodies outwards
• Lalande 21185 has 3 planets:
  • “Lalande 21185 b”, to close and to small
  • “Lalande 21185 c”, 4 times heavier than earth and to far away
  • and “Lalande 21185 d” in the IZ, yet is small like Mars planet, and needed terraforming
  • a cloud of celestial bodies
• Ross 128
  • one Planet 1.4 times bigger than Earth, to close to the star,
  • a resource rich environment with 5 belts
• Procyon mirrors more or less the conditions of Ross 128
  • 1 planet
    • 1 main belt
• Luyten’s Star
  • 4 planets with lot’s of moons
  • two belts and a cloud

the main settlements are all tech-focused, harvesting resource and energy to to transform then in stationary biodomes.