

Titania, the first habitable planet orbiting Scylla, is a mountainous, mineral-rich planet, dotted with plains, forests and lakes. It has a population of 50 million, most of whom work as miners or rural farmers around the capital city of Valdasin. The planet has had a long and turbulent history, most recently the forced abdication and execution of the corrupt Trade Baron and ensuing dictatorship of former academic Nabori Kravychev, which has led to widespread poverty and famine. The planet has one moon, Bacchus, a sparsely populated agrarian world under Titanian control.





The third planet orbiting Scylla, Gelderland, is a trading planet, frequently fought over by neighbouring powers and with few local resources. Its best feature is the Grosholm Gate, an artificial wormhole in orbit around the planet that connects to Grosholm in the nearby Charybdis system. Its moon, Hjal, is icy and covered in large glaciers, colonised and claimed by Titania.



Fatima, the fourth planet, is warm and arid, with large stretches of desert and several large, mostly empty seas. It has been fought over by many nations in the past, and is now under Titanian control.



The fifth planet, Constantine, is noted for its rich and exotic culture, but is currently in the throes of a civil war and foreign invasion from Okushima. Its single moon, Xingfu, is a marshy farming world, ruled by Okushima.





Orbiting the great gas giant Quetzalcoatl are two worlds. Quetzalcoatl I is a centre of trade and commerce, under Cernunnian rule, while Quetzalcoatl II has maintained its independence by exporting minerals such as arcadium, a rare element which is essential to interplanetary travel. The next gas giant, Thor, also has two moons – Woden is a tropical world which exports timber and cocoa, while Burracksville is a Cernunnian colony, frequently racked by giant storms.

The first part of an allegory for the setup to World War II, based in a twin system 800 light-years away. Part 2: 8979y97y.deviantart.com/art/Ch…

The last habitable planet around Scylla is Okushima, a world covered by a giant ocean, broken only by small, distant pinnacles. It is heavily industrial, and most of its inhabitants live on ikuchi (giant floating cities). Between it and the Charybdis system, there is only the Midbelt – an Oort cloud-like group of asteroid, home to artificial farming colonies.



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Titania = Russia



Bacchus = Ukraine & Belarus



Gelderland = Poland



Hjal = Baltic States



Fatima = Central Asia



Constantine = China



Xingfu = Korea



Quetzalcoatl I = India



Quetzalcoatl II = Arabia



Thor = Southeast Asia



Burracksville = Australia & New Zealand



Kushima = Japan



Midbelt = Pacific islands

