Planets of The Childe Cycle
Dickson has admitted that he was frequently inconsistent on the total number of inhabited worlds. The correct total is sixteen, counting Old Earth, under nine stars. (Of the list below, Oriente is not inhabited.)
- Sol
- Mercury: Site of Project: Springboard during the 21st century. Not a major inhabited world.
- Venus: Hard Science culture. Research stations were set up early, expanded, and eventually became connected together.
- Old Earth: Homeworld of Humanity, and most populated and richest of the worlds. Politically not very united.
- Mars: First human colony to be terraformed. Cold, and is not a major power.
- Alpha Centauri: Has 12 planetary bodies.
- Newton: Hard Science culture, the leading world in science. It is also known to have the best physicists.
- Cassida: Hard Science culture, known for its technicians and engineers. A poor world, it also provided mercenaries.
- Altair
- Dunnin's World: A harsh, dry world, with low population and resources.
- Epsilon Eridani: Both Harmony and Association are ruled by the Joint Church Council (United Council of Churches). Both worlds are known for their cheap but poor mercenaries.
- Association: Poor world, lacking in many resources and has poor soil for growing crops.
- Harmony: Similar to Association.
- Fomalhaut
- Dorsai: A watery world of primarily island settlements. Known for having the highest quality professional mercenaries, and for producing soldiers unlike any other.
- Procyon: Mara and Kultis are ruled by the Exotics, and are known for producing the best psychologists.
- Mara
- Kultis
- Ste. Marie: A small Roman Catholic farming world.
- Zombri: An uninhabitable small world. Despite this, it is a strategic location.
- Coby: Mining planet. A world of tunnels and mines, where the surface is uninhabitable. Since all the other settled worlds, unlike Earth, are metal-poor, Coby is the primary source of metals for the other planets.
- Sirius
- New Earth: Once had an atmosphere of hydrogen sulphide. By the late 23rd Century, it had long been terraformed with a more breathable atmosphere. Has a large variety of cultures. Atland, a territory of New Earth, had a civil war fought between the North and South Partitions.
- Freiland
- Oriente: an uninhabited planet, airless with a highly eccentric orbit. It is important only as a strategic military base in Dorsai!
- Tau Ceti
- Ceta: Commercial low-gravity planet.
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