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Space is vast. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone, and hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe as a whole. Yet science-fiction writers frequently use the same collection of stars as a setting when writing their stories, despite having literally infinite room to create their own from scratch. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Part of this is because, while there are a lot of stars out there, only a few are close enough to visit within one human lifetime (unless the setting makes use of Casual Interstellar Travel, in which case these stars tend to constitute our "local neighborhood"). There's also the fact that many of these names simply sound awesome and futuristic, and may already have some name recognition with the audience. Among the list of stock stars are the following: |
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Dune: Richese is the fourth planet in the Epsilon Eridani system. There's some question as to the location of the planet Ix. Some sources also place it in Epsilon Eridani, while others claim it's located in the Mu Boötis system. In either case, it's the ninth planet from the star, hence the name. | |
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Master of Orion: In the fourth game, the Terran Khanate has its capital in the Alpha Ceti system. | |
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2300 AD uses many of the nearby stars as significant colonies or outposts, but only "Tirane" orbiting Alpha Centauri is mature enough to be considered a core world, almost on par with Earth itself. | |
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The Three-Body Problem depicts the centuries-long conflict between Earth and Trisolaris, a planet in the Alpha Centauri system. In the book, Alpha Centauri's three stars orbit each other in a chaotic pattern with Trisolaris itself being kicked around between them like a football, frequently subjecting it to extinction-level events due to its extremely unpredictable climate. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: Vulcan and Andoria are located in the 40 Eridani A and Procyon systems, respectively, and Vega has a major Earth colony as early as the 2150s. In "Anomaly", Trip Tucker is offered a medical treatment involving being covered with Aldebaran mud leeches, which would require him to lay prone and stay still to avoid angering them. He declines. In "The Aenar", Regulus is used as a staging ground for a Vulcan invasion of Andoria. Considering how far away Regulus is from Procyon and 40 Eridani, it's likely the writers took some creative license here for the sake of using a familiar name. Rigel X is visited by the crew of the NX-01 in the pilot episode, and again in the series finale. The system is home to the Rigelian species and, according to the Star Trek Expanded Universe, the Orions as well. Phlox's planet of Debobula fought a series of wars with the inhabitants of Antares that ended inconclusively in the 19th century, according to "The Breach". According to a possible future depicted in "Azati Prime", the final battle against the Sphere Builders in the 26th century is fought near the planet Procyon V (presumably close to Andoria). |
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The Lathe of Heaven: When the protagonist, whose dreams shape reality, dreams of world peace, he unwittingly creates a race of methane-breathing aliens from Aldebaran which invade the Earth, uniting its nations against this common threat. | |
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In The Expanse, the Generation Ship LDSS Nauvoo (which later became the OPA's flagship, the Behemoth) was originally built by the Mormon church to colonize a planet in the Tau Ceti system. | |
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Childe Cycle: In addition to Alpha Centauri (see section above), the Cycle uses a number of these for major systems in the series: Altair has Dunnin's World, a dry, low-population backwater of a planet. Which makes sense considering the primary: blue stars emit far more light than yellow stars, so planets orbiting them will receive far more energy than the Earth does. Epsilon Eridani, with the rocky worlds of Association and Harmony. They're the homes of the Friendlies, ascetic but hardcore religious folk who ironically don't along very well with each other. Sirius has the worlds of Freiland and New Earth, both terraformed to allow human habitation. Procyon hit the jackpot of habitable worlds, having three. Two of them, Kultis and Mara, are ruled by the powerful Exotics. The third is Ste. Marie, a farming world with some importance for being in the same system as the Exotics. There is also a fourth planet inhabited by humans — Coby — but it's an airless planet that is settled underground because of its rich metal resources. Tau Ceti has one colonized world, the simply named Ceta. A massive planet that has the same gravity of Earth due to the lack of heavier metals. Thankfully it doesn't suffer from frequent meteor storms. |
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Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is pretty self-explanatory: it's set on a planet called Chiron (or "Planet"), orbiting Alpha Centauri A. The aliens in the expansion pack are stated to be from Tau Ceti, which was destroyed by the awakening of another sentient planet. | |
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Cthulhu Mythos: In some works, Hastur resides on a planet orbiting a dark star near Aldebaran. | |
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In Star Trek: Discovery, Stamets describes meeting his husband in a bar in the Alpha Centauri system. | |
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The Alien franchise: Prometheus takes place on LV-223, a moon in the Zeta Reticuli system. "Arcturians" are mentioned in Aliens. It's not clear whether they are human colonists or an alien race, though dialogue suggests the latter. |
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Halo: Reach: The titular planet orbits Epsilon Eridani, and unlike its real-life counterpart, the planet is old enough to have some native life forms (until the Covenant glassed it). | |
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Warframe: The Sentients, one of the rarer enemy factions, are an enigmatic and alien race of pseudo-biological robots. They were eventually revealed to have been sent to Tau Ceti by the Orokin to terraform and prepare the system for settlement. Having worked hard for generations to make a home for themselves, and remembering how the Orokin trashed their own system and the horrific abuses they laid on their subjects, the Sentients decided to return to the Origin System to conquer it and scour it of life. | |
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Worldwar: The Race is from the second planet in the Tau Ceti system. They have previously conquered the Rabotevs (from Epsilon Eridani II) and the Hallessi (from Epsilon Indi I). | |
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Elite Dangerous: Altair and Tau Ceti were among the five founding members of The Federation, the others being Sol, Delta Pavonis, and Beta Hydri. A crisis in Tau Ceti 3 was itself what prompted the formation of the Federation. The Sirius Corporation operates out of the Sirius system, obviously. More generally, the game contains all four hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, including all of the ones listed above (many of which contain terraformed, inhabited planets). Most of them are Randomly Generated Levels by necessity, but the developers have hand-crafted many of them to match real-world astronomical data. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Among the Federation ships destroyed by the Dominion as of "In Purgatory's Shadow" is the U.S.S. Proxima, named for Proxima Centauri. In the episode "Past Tense, Part II", one of the signs the timeline's been altered is that the Defiant is picking up Romulan communication signals near Alpha Centauri. After Betazed falls to the Dominion in "In the Pale Moonlight", Dax notes that the Jem'Hadar can now threaten Alpha Centauri, along with Vulcan, Andor, and Tellar. |
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Arcturus is the destination point of the Sol Mass Relay. The Systems Alliance built a large space station in the system to serve as their capital, which is destroyed offscreen by the Reapers in Mass Effect 3. | |
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Mass Effect: Arcturus is the destination point of the Sol Mass Relay. The Systems Alliance built a large space station in the system to serve as their capital, which is destroyed offscreen by the Reapers in Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect: Andromeda is set in the Andromeda galaxy, obviously. |
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"Arcturians" are mentioned in Aliens. It's not clear whether they are human colonists or an alien race, though dialogue suggests the latter. | |
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture: A number of the Rubber-Forehead Aliens seen in the background are given names behind the scenes that invoke this trope: Arcturians, Betelgeusians, Rigelliansnote not to be confused with the Rigelians of Star Trek: Enterprise, see below, etc. | |
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In Avatar, Pandora is a moon in the Alpha Centauri A system. This is only implied in the film itself, but confirmed in the backstory. | |
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Much of Project Hail Mary takes place in the Tau Ceti system. The Eridians are from 40 Eridani A. Epsilon Eridani and Sirius are among the stars afflicted with astrophage. | |
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The Wicked Years: The Ozian equivalent of Sirius (the "Dog Star") is the "Lizard Star". | |
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Footfall: Lampshaded by the Robert A. Heinlein stand-in, during the discussion of where the aliens came from. At first "Bob" didn't like the theory that the aliens were coming from Alpha Centauri, but then "It's trite. But, you know, it's trite because it got used so much and it got used so much because it's the best choice." | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: Enterprise: Vulcan and Andoria are located in the 40 Eridani A and Procyon systems, respectively, and Vega has a major Earth colony as early as the 2150s. In "Anomaly", Trip Tucker is offered a medical treatment involving being covered with Aldebaran mud leeches, which would require him to lay prone and stay still to avoid angering them. He declines. In "The Aenar", Regulus is used as a staging ground for a Vulcan invasion of Andoria. Considering how far away Regulus is from Procyon and 40 Eridani, it's likely the writers took some creative license here for the sake of using a familiar name. Rigel X is visited by the crew of the NX-01 in the pilot episode, and again in the series finale. The system is home to the Rigelian species and, according to the Star Trek Expanded Universe, the Orions as well. Phlox's planet of Debobula fought a series of wars with the inhabitants of Antares that ended inconclusively in the 19th century, according to "The Breach". According to a possible future depicted in "Azati Prime", the final battle against the Sphere Builders in the 26th century is fought near the planet Procyon V (presumably close to Andoria). Star Trek: The Original Series: After being thrown off course in "Arena", one of the stars Sulu uses to get a navigational fix is Sirius. The planet killer in "The Doomsday Machine" is on course for the Rigel Colonies, threatening millions of inhabitants. It's mentioned in "Whom Gods Destroy" that Kirk defeated a Romulan warbird at Tau Ceti using a Cochrane deceleration maneuver. Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Encounter at Farpoint", the series pilot, is set on or near the planet Deneb IV. Wolf 359, while uninhabited, is the site of a disastrous battle with the Borg in "The Best of Both Worlds", with 39 Starfleet ships destroyed out of 40. In "Hide and Q", Q takes the form of an Aldebaran serpent, a creature resembling a floating ball of light with three cobra heads sprouting from it. Star Trek: Voyager: Captain Janeway's father drowned on Tau Ceti Prime when she was a teenager, as mentioned in "Coda". |
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In Across The Universe (Beth Revis), the Godspeed is on a 300-year mission to colonize "Centauri-Earth", a habitable circumbinary planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A and B. | |
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The Phantasy Star quadrilogy is set in the Algol system. The "Demon Star" is actually the can for an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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The Stars My Destination: After his apotheosis in a burning cathedral, Gully Foyle teleports to several stars in the Milky Way, including "Aldebaran in Taurus, a monstrous red star of a pair of stars whose sixteen planets wove high-velocity ellipses around their gyrating parents." | |
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Melancholia: Antares disappears from the night sky at the end of the first act, having been eclipsed by the titular Rogue Planet as it rapidly approaches Earth. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: After being thrown off course in "Arena", one of the stars Sulu uses to get a navigational fix is Sirius. The planet killer in "The Doomsday Machine" is on course for the Rigel Colonies, threatening millions of inhabitants. It's mentioned in "Whom Gods Destroy" that Kirk defeated a Romulan warbird at Tau Ceti using a Cochrane deceleration maneuver. |
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Outsider: The six worlds settled by humanity, in addition to Earth, Mars, and two in the greater Alpha Centauri system, count Tau Ceti II and 82 Eridani VI. | |
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Futurama: The proud warrior race Omicronians are native to the Omicron Persei star system, which, In-Universe and Real Life, is located a thousand light years away from Earth. That's why it takes a thousand years for them to get old-fashioned Earth shows like Single Female Lawyer and Friends. | |
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Babylon 5: The titular space station orbits a planet in the Epsilon Eridani system. | |
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In the National Geographic Channel Speculative Documentary Evacuate Earth, a planet orbiting Barnard's Star becomes humanity's new homeworld after Earth and the solar system are destroyed by the Gravity Screw of a passing neutron star. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Multiple stock stars appear throughout the series. The Betelgeuse system is the home of Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox. Barnard's Star, six light-years away from Earth, is a way station for interstellar travelers and where the Vogon ship goes into hyperspace and Arthur Dent realizes he's now a long long way away from home. Sirius also hosts a long-speculated-about race of intelligent aliens that speculation and folklore on Earth has ascribed to this star — only the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation designs and builds superbly flawed and irritating robots, like Marvin. Aldebaran is noted for its fine wines and liqueurs. Arcturus is home to a wide variety of megafaunal animals all named "Arcturan Mega[Earth animal]", such as Arcturan Megadonkeys, Arcturan Megacamels and Arcturan Megaleeches, in addition to being the home port of Arcturan Megafreighters and the source of Arcturan Mega-Gin, a key component in the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Numerous stars are mentioned in a popular ditty: "Aldebaran's great, okay; Algol's pretty neat; Betelgeuse's pretty girls will knock you off your feet..." |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Eye of Terror was apparently known as Cygnus X-1 at some point in Imperial history, although based on the timelinenote the Eye didn't come into existence until the fall of the Eldar, around the 31st millennium it's probably not the same system that exists in reality. | |
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Alien Legacy has Earth attacked by beings from Alpha Centauri in the backstory, necessitating the construction of colony ships to ensure humanity's survival elsewhere. | |
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Proxima depicts the efforts to colonize a planet in the Proxima Centauri system called Per Ardua, which is a Tidally Locked Planet and experiences frequent Solar Flare Disasters that the native life has evolved to take shelter from. | |
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Foundation: In "The Encyclopedists", 61 Cygni, Alpha Centauri, Sirius and the third planet of Arcturus are mentioned by Lord Dorwin as among the star systems that lay claim to being the homeworld of humanity, along with, of course, Sol. | |
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Stellaris has Sirius as a scripted colony site for Earth-based empires, and Procyon and Barnard's Star nearby as well. There's also Deneb, which serves as the capital system for the Commonwealth of Man. | |
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Lensman: The planets Aldebaran I and II both feature on a number of occasions; Aldebaran II in particular is one of the first planets to be settled by humans, and the site of several of Kimball Kinnison's adventures. | |
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In Captain French, or the Quest for Paradise, humanity's first interstellar flight involved a near-light jump to Alpha Centauri, where the titular protagonist discovered a habitable planet, which he named after his daughter Penelope. It's one of the first exoplanets settled by humanity. | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda is set in the Andromeda galaxy, obviously. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: Captain Janeway's father drowned on Tau Ceti Prime when she was a teenager, as mentioned in "Coda". | |
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Prometheus takes place on LV-223, a moon in the Zeta Reticuli system. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Encounter at Farpoint", the series pilot, is set on or near the planet Deneb IV. Wolf 359, while uninhabited, is the site of a disastrous battle with the Borg in "The Best of Both Worlds", with 39 Starfleet ships destroyed out of 40. In "Hide and Q", Q takes the form of an Aldebaran serpent, a creature resembling a floating ball of light with three cobra heads sprouting from it. |
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