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Alpha Centauri

Overview

Alpha Centauri is generally considered a trinary system, but AC-A and AC-B are two sunlike stars orbiting each other every 80 years or so. AC-C, or Proxima Centauri is much farther away from the other two, and it is uncertain that it is actually “captured” by the gravity of the other two or it will wander off in a million years or so.

Both A and B have habitable zones which can hold a few terrestrial planets each. Their closest approach to each other doesn’t really affect the weather on those planets, but observers living there would certainly notice the change in brightness for the “star”.

AC-A is almost a twin of Sol.

Caloris

Gravity%dlstar%
Good
Habitat
Terrible
Colony
Terrible (Imp)
Resources
Poor

Caloris is a boiling rock whipping around AC-A.

Terre Nouveau

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Good
Habitat
Great
Colony
Superb (Imp)
Resources
Mediocre

Terre Nouveau is a lovely, but very warm world. With a romantic pair of moons.

Glacia

Gravity%dlstar%
Good
Habitat
Good
Colony
Great (Imp)
Resources
Good

While habitable around the equator, Glacia is a cold world. She has one small moon, Witi.

AC-B is a little cooler than Sol. She is orange

Harrison’s Group

Gravity%dlstar%
Great
Habitat
Mediocre
Colony
Poor (Imp)
Resources
Good
//www.physics.montana.edu/faculty/cornish/lagrange.html).

Goetel’s World

Gravity%dlstar%
Fair
Habitat
Good
Colony
Great (Imp)
Resources
Good

AC-C is a dim red dwarf

Planet Habitability Resources Colony Gravity
Ziggy Poor Poor Terrible (Imperium) Poor

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