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"We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."
- Carl Sagan

Inhabited by Human beings for hundreds of thousands of years, the Sol System, more specifically, Earth, is the ancestral home to all Humans, and because of this, it serves as the capital world of the United Nations. Over many countless centuries, Humans have nearly gone extinct before even leaving this long-inhabited solar system more than once, be it to a disregard for the Earth's environment, or astronomical reasons. As the longest inhabited solar system with a functioning, unified government and space infrastructure -- long before the development of interstellar gravitational bridges (stargates), as it was assumed by most scientists and politicians that, aside from sublight interstellar travel over decades, Humans would be trapped in the Sol System forever -- the planets of Mars and Venus had been terraformed at immense costs in resources by several Earth-based governments, and Earth depopulated, and its remaining population more efficiently spread out over their home regions over the course of decades to preserve the indigenous Terran ecosystem.

Because of the extensive amount of time in which the Sol System has been inhabited by a spacefaring but non-starfaring civilization, its two debris belts, the Asteroid and Kuiper Belt, are sparsely settled with permanent asteroid settlements and cities, unlike other systems, where the settlement of asteroids is a temporary state to mine them. Despite this, the inhabitants of the Sol System seem to take a great almost spiritual pride in their home system, and unlike other systems, the local government restricts the permanent settlement of the atmospheres of the system's gas giants, as well as the establishment of domed colonies on barren moons and planets within the system, only mining installations, trading outposts, and depots.

The Sol System is home to a massive natural UNESCO Heritage Site: the frozen ocean moon of Jupiter, Europa. Home to literal hundreds of research facilities and the famous orbital university Clarke Station, Europa is home to a subglacial ecosystem, dwelling in an ocean layer, kilometers below the ice, despite existing in the frigid zone of the outer-middle system.

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"We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."
- Carl Sagan

Inhabited by Human beings for hundreds of thousands of years, the Sol System, more specifically, Earth, is the ancestral home to all Humans, and because of this, it serves as the capital world of the United Nations. Over many countless centuries, Humans have nearly gone extinct before even leaving this long-inhabited solar system more than once, be it to a disregard for the Earth's environment, or astronomical reasons. As the longest inhabited solar system with a functioning, unified government and space infrastructure -- long before the development of interstellar gravitational bridges (stargates), as it was assumed by most scientists and politicians that, aside from sublight interstellar travel over decades, Humans would be trapped in the Sol System forever -- the planets of Mars and Venus had been terraformed at immense costs in resources by several Earth-based governments, and Earth depopulated, and its remaining population more efficiently spread out over their home regions over the course of decades to preserve the indigenous Terran ecosystem.

Because of the extensive amount of time in which the Sol System has been inhabited by a spacefaring but non-starfaring civilization, its two debris belts, the Asteroid and Kuiper Belt, are sparsely settled with permanent asteroid settlements and cities, unlike other systems, where the settlement of asteroids is a temporary state to mine them. Despite this, the inhabitants of the Sol System seem to take a great almost spiritual pride in their home system, and unlike other systems, the local government restricts the permanent settlement of the atmospheres of the system's gas giants, as well as the establishment of domed colonies on barren moons and planets within the system, only mining installations, trading outposts, and depots.

The Sol System is home to a massive natural UNESCO Heritage Site: the frozen ocean moon of Jupiter, Europa. Home to literal hundreds of research facilities and the famous orbital university Clarke Station, Europa is home to a subglacial ecosystem, dwelling in an ocean layer, kilometers below the ice, despite existing in the frigid zone of the outer-middle system.