The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, home to millions of workers and their descendants who mine ice, ore, and vol...

A creole language spoken throughout the Belt, blending English, Romance languages, Chinese, Hindi, and others - reflecti...

The largest station in the Belt, built inside a dwarf planet spun up to provide gravity. Home to millions, it serves as ...

Humanity's homeworld, still the most politically powerful body in the solar system but groaning under thirty billion peo...

A spinning asteroid station in the Belt, smaller and seedier than Ceres. Site of the protomolecule's first large-scale d...

The deliberate infection of Eros Station's population with the protomolecule by Protogen Corporation, under the directio...

One of Jupiter's moons, used by Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile as a secret research facility for protomolecule-human hybrid ex...

The largest planet in the solar system, orbited by moons that serve as critical locations in human expansion. Its moon I...

One of the most powerful corporations in the solar system, with interests spanning shipping, mining, and colonial develo...

The second human world, a century into a multi-generational terraforming project that defines Martian identity and milit...

A loose political movement representing Belter interests against Earth and Mars. Ranges from legitimate labour unions an...

A small, irregular moon of Saturn where the protomolecule was first discovered. Phoebe is not a natural satellite but a ...

Protogen Corporation is a subsidiary of Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile, created to weaponise the protomolecule. Operating unde...

An alien technology billions of years old, sent to Earth's solar system before complex life evolved. Neither purely biol...

A network of approximately 1,300 wormhole portals connecting star systems, constructed by the protomolecule from the mas...

A Martian corvette-class warship (originally the MCRN Tachi) captured by James Holden and crew during the Eros incident....

The ringed gas giant whose gravity captured the extrasolar object Phoebe, preventing the protomolecule from reaching Ear...

A massive mobile construction platform in the Belt, headquarters of Tycho Manufacturing and Engineering. Under Fred John...