List of Andromeda star systems
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The Known Worlds of the fictional Andromeda
Andromeda (TV series)
Andromeda is a Canadian-American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt...

universe include more than a million star systems, scattered across the galaxies
Galaxy
A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias , literally "milky", a...

 of the Local Group
Local Group
The Local Group is the group of galaxies that includes Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way. The group comprises more than 30 galaxies , with its gravitational center located somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy...

. Slipstream
Slipstream (science fiction)
"Slipstream" is a science fiction term for a fictional method of faster-than-light space travel, similar to hyperspace travel, warp drive, or "transfer points" from David Brin's Uplift series.-Usage in Star Trek:...

 travel discovered by the Vedrans made actual distance irrelevant and allowed them to colonize the "Three Galaxies" quickly and discover most intelligent species.

Apparently there were no known attempts to colonize galaxies outside of the Local Group
Local Group
The Local Group is the group of galaxies that includes Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way. The group comprises more than 30 galaxies , with its gravitational center located somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy...

. However, by the time of Vedran Empire's founding most of those galaxies might be already destroyed by the Magog Worldship, first discovered by the Andromeda Ascendant
Andromeda Ascendant
The Andromeda Ascendant is a fictional starship in the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.In the series, the ship is said to have begun her life in the Newport News Orbital Shipyards above Earth, where her keel was laid in CY 9768...

.

Apart from habitable planets, the Known Worlds include numerous space habitat
Space habitat
A space habitat is a space station intended as a permanent settlement rather than as a simple waystation or other specialized facility...

s ("drifts") and colonized asteroids
Colonization of the asteroids
The asteroids have long been suggested as possible sites for human colonization. This idea is popular in science fiction. Asteroid mining, a proposed industrial process in which asteroids are mined for valuable materials, especially platinum group metals, may be automated or require a crew to...

.

Major planets and stations

Major planets and space stations of the known worlds are listed below in alphabetical order.

Arkology

Arkology (the name is a portmanteau of ark and arcology
Arcology
Arcology, a portmanteau of the words "architecture" and "ecology", is a set of architectural design principles aimed toward the design of enormous habitats of extremely high human population density. These largely hypothetical structures would contain a variety of residential, commercial, and...

) was a large space station
Space station
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing...

 with pacifist
Pacifism
Pacifism is the opposition to war and violence. The term "pacifism" was coined by the French peace campaignerÉmile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress inGlasgow in 1901.- Definition :...

 population, infamous for trying to make peace with the Magog.

Arkology orbited the planet Ganesha and was basically a 36 km-long tube, slowly rotating to provide artificial gravity
Artificial gravity
Artificial gravity is the varying of apparent gravity via artificial means, particularly in space, but also on the Earth...

, with country-like landscape inside. The design was very old; Arkology had a slipstream engine, but it was unused for a long time and barely operational. Arkology was ruled by a "dream council"—a council of all citizens meeting in a shared dream every night, with a man called Marlowe at the head.

Arkology made a peace treaty with the Magog, but the ambassador (whose ship was saved from pirates by the Andromeda) was infested with Magog larvae and died on board of the Andromeda. Dylan attempted to persuade Marlowe and the dream council to prepare some defense against the Magog, but they refused. Marlowe himself disappeared after telling Dylan that they both were Paradine
Paradine
The Paradine are a fictional race in the science fiction universe of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda television series.In Andromeda, the Paradines are both referred to as evolved Vedrans, as well as the first race of sentient beings in the galaxy. Trance Gemini hypothesizes that the Paradines may have...

s.

When the Magog Worldship arrived and attacked the Arkology, only the Andromeda was available to defend the station; attempts to teach its citizens some basic self-defense turned out to be horribly inadequate. Arkology was perforated with point singularity projector shots, and broke apart when its antique engine finally opened a slipstream portal. Presumably all Arkology inhabitants died. Andromeda itself was saved only by Trance's intervention.

Earth

Earth was humanity's birthplace and a rich human world, but apart from its cultural significance it had no special position in the Commonwealth. During the Long Night Earth was occupied by the Nietzscheans and repeatedly attacked by the Magog. The remaining human population had to live in abject poverty and basically became slaves of the Nietzscheans.

Seamus Harper, the engineer of the Andromeda (who was born on Earth) helped his cousin Brenden start a revolt against the Nietzscheans. However, Andromeda failed to provide necessary support in time, and the revolt was brutally suppressed.

Earth was destroyed by the Abyss
Spirit of the Abyss
The Spirit of the Abyss is the leader and god of the Magog in the TV series Andromeda. The Abyss is also referred to as "the Darkness" many times in the series...

 in series finale.

Hephaistos

Hephaistos (Hephaistos IV, according to All Systems University website http://saveandromeda.com/allsystems/worlds/hephaistos.htm) was an important Nietzschean trade system. However, it is most famous as the site of the first battle of Nietzschean rebellion in 9784 CY (depicted in pilot episode "Under the Night"). A rogue black hole
Black hole
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 was entering the system, threatening to destroy Hephaistos, and the Nietzscheans issued a distress call. It turned out to be a trap; responding Commonwealth vessels were faced by a fleet of 10,000 ships.

The Andromeda Ascendant
Andromeda Ascendant
The Andromeda Ascendant is a fictional starship in the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.In the series, the ship is said to have begun her life in the Newport News Orbital Shipyards above Earth, where her keel was laid in CY 9768...

(a Glorious Heritage
Glorious Heritage
The Glorious Heritage Heavy Cruiser is a fictional starship class in the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda....

-class heavy cruiser) was trapped near the event horizon of the black hole. It remained "frozen in time" for 302 years, until a cargo ship named Eureka Maru
Eureka Maru
The Eureka Maru is a fictional starship in the television series Andromeda. The Maru is a cargo ship owned by Beka Valentine.-Ship technical aspects:...

pulled it free. Hephaistos itself was completely consumed by the black hole in 9811 CY.

The Andromeda returned to the Hephaistos black hole once again when the Perseids
Perseids
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 of Sinti asked Dylan Hunt to provide help in their scientific experiment in determining the wavefunction
Wavefunction
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 of the universe, in exchange for signing the New Commonwealth charter. The black hole was used as an information sink. Seamus Harper built a teleporter
Teleportation
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 device which worked only near this black hole but allowed to teleport matter in space and even in time (although with a high chance of failure). Dylan used this device to teleport back in time, to his fiancee Sara's ship. However, he could neither take her back nor stay in that time, and had to return heartbroken. Nevertheless the Perseids' experiment was highly successful and they signed the charter

Much later, when Dylan and the Andromeda were trapped in the Seefra system, Harper discovered that the teleporter somehow still retained the connection with the Hephaistos black hole, so Dylan and his crew (though not the Andromeda) could teleport out of Seefra and back in time, before the Fall of the Commonwealth. However, one of the side effects of that was destabilization of Seefra's artificial suns; thus Dylan refused to use the teleporter to avoid the destruction of Seefra.

Dylan also met the avatar of Hephaistos black hole, Marida, on Seefra. Marida tried to hinder his mission, and Dylan had to lock her in a data file.

Mobius

Mobius is a human world without any atmosphere, with a large population living in vast underground settlements. It was ruled by a series of dictators, which ended with Ferrin and Great Compass Venetri; later Mobius became a New Commonwealth member.

Venetri became a dictator because he had participated in Ferrin's assassination before the Fall of the Commonwealth, together with Dylan Hunt and Gaheris Rhade (they had planned only to detain him, but Ferrin had put up unexpected resistance, wounding Dylan. Dylan and Rhade also had had to kill a few guards in Ferrin's palace). Horrified by the ruthless methods of the High Guard
High Guard
The High Guard is a fictional military organization in the TV series Andromeda.-History:Its origins can be traced back to a legendary Vedran male warrior, General Huascar Nax Yoweri, whose campaign of conquest across the three Galaxies produced the Vedran Empire...

, he tried to fix the damage they caused. A former architect and self-styled "Great Compass", he survived for 300 years by transplanting organs from his clones, but ended up as bad ruler as Ferrin. After the next visit of Andromeda (when Dylan was imprisoned), Trance Gemini convinced Venetri to leave his office and turn the power to the parliament (episode "Forced Perspective").

Mobius quickly joined the New Commonwealth and became one of its most active members.

San-Ska-Re

San-Ska-Re is the homeworld of Than-Thre-Kull (Than) race and the capital of the Than Hegemony. Despite San-Ska-Re's arid climate, it has a population of 23 billion Than and other sentient beings living in Than-like social arrangements.

San-Ska-Re never actually appeared on screen, but the Than Hegemony is one of the major powers of the post-Fall Known Worlds. It appeared neutral to the idea of the New Commonwealth.

Seefra

Seefra is an artificial star system, consisting of nine almost identical planets (Seefra-1 to Seefra-9) and two suns (Methus-1 and Methus-2). It is located in its own "pocket universe". Slipstream doesn't work in Seefra; the only way in or out is the Route of Ages
Route of Ages
The Route of Ages is a fictional portal in spacetime, in the fictional universe of the science fiction television show Andromeda, sought by many of the show's characters throughout season four .-Description:...

, which apparently opens only in some unusual circumstances. The locals (mostly humans) are superstitious and unfriendly; technology is shunned. Solar flares on Methus-2 cause drought and make spaceflight extremely hazardous.

Andromeda and its crew were transported to Seefra by Trance Gemini (who had to save them from imminent death) in Season Four finale. Trance "got everything right, except the time" - everyone of the crew had to spend a different period of time there. Andromeda itself was undamaged, but lost all its power.

Restoring Andromeda's power and attempts to leave Seefra are the most obvious themes of Season Five. Andromeda managed to leave the system only with the help of the Lambent Kith Nebula, in the series finale.

Seefra-1 is actually Tarn-Vedra and when Trance remembers who she really is, the true Vedran sun returns and destroys all but Seefra-1. At the end of the series, the Andromeda and her crew return here through the Route of Ages and uses the Vedran sun to destroy the Spirit of the Abyss. The Route of Ages then turns into a Slipstream portal, reuniting the Seefra system with the rest of the universe.

Sinti

The new homeworld of the Persids. Sinti was the first world to sign up to the renewed Commonwealth. It was the home of Chief Technical Director Höone. Andromeda was in orbit of Sinti when the tesseract generate built by Harper was activated, generating massive tidal and tectonic problems on the planet's surface.

Tarazed

Tarazed is a world with significant human and Nietzschean population, notable for surviving the Long Night remarkably well. It had retained most of the social structure of the Old Commonwealth, including the Home Guard (commanded by Admiral Telemachus Rhade). Tarazed was appointed as the provisional capital of the New Commonwealth.

When Dylan first arrived on Tarazed, he discovered that the planet's Triumvir, Rekel Ben-Tzion, welcomed the prospect of joining the Commonwealth, but most of the population didn't. Rekel went as far as staging a fake Magog attack to persuade her people (one Home Guard officer actually died as a result, colliding with empty Magog swarmship hull on a slipfighter), but her plan was exposed by Dylan. He left the system, refusing to circumvent the law.

Tarazed joined the Commonwealth some time later and became its new capital.

Tarazed was the last stand of the New Commonwealth fleet against the Nietzchean forces. In the middle of the battle, Andromeda fled through the Route of Ages, leaving Tarazed to fend for itself. Once the Spirit of the Abyss was destroyed and Seefra/Tarn-Vedra rejoined the slipstream, the survivors of the Commonwealth fleet arrived in Tarn-Vedra, suggesting that the Nietzcheans were driven off.

Tarn-Vedra

Tarn-Vedra was the Vedran
Vedran
Vedran is a Slavic masculine given name of Croatian origin. Vedran means clear or cheerful.Vedran may refer also to* A member of the race originated in Tarn-Vedra, a fictional planet in the Andromeda , see List of Andromeda star systems...

 homeworld and the capital of the Old Systems Commonwealth
Systems Commonwealth
The All Systems Commonwealth or simply the Systems Commonwealth is a fictional intergalactic government from Gene Roddenberry's science fiction TV series Andromeda. It was born out of the Vedran Empire...

. Located in the Andromeda galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Andromeda. It is also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, and is often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. Andromeda is the nearest spiral galaxy to the...

, it was home for 14 billion sentient beings; Dylan Hunt was born in the human quarter of its capital city, Etashi-Tarn. Physically Tarn-Vedra resembled Earth.

Tarn-Vedra was tesseracted away from the slipstream soon after the Nietzschean rebellion, possibly after the Empresses; death, leaving the Commonwealth without leadership. Since then, no one has ever heard anything about Tarn-Vedra, although the "Mad Perseid" Hasturi claimed to have found a previously unknown highly hazardous slipstream route there.

Tarn Vedra is found again by the crew of the Andromeda who realize that Seefra 1 is in fact Tarn Vedra. The planet is later reopened to Slipstream after the Spirit of the Abyss is destroyed and the Route of Ages (the only way to get there) is turned into a slipstream portal.

Other Planets

  • Acheron - A planet where a High Guard Missile Defense Battery, was taken over by the Drago-Kazov.
  • Almagest - a Nietzschean-controlled world that is home to the greatest shipyards in the three galaxies.
  • Amarna - A planet where Dylan is fighting the Genites and is saved by Constantine Stark.
  • Arazia - Destitute, war-torn world in the grip of a crime wave.
  • Arun-Roy - A Nietzschean-controlled world where Tyr met with Beka Valentine before going to the route of ages.
  • Brandenburg Tor - Devastated by Magog invasion.
  • Carva-Rakhshasa - a Nietzschean-controlled world where the secret stolen Magog weapon "File-D" is kept.
  • Cascada - where Colonists were using the Native Mugani's to dig Thorium 232 in the mines, slaves on their own world.
  • Castalia - Second government to sign the charter for a restored Systems Commonwealth.
  • Delgron V
  • Diphda V - Heavily urbanized center of trade and commerce.
  • Elba IX - A prison planet guarded by a weapon of Bartolome Naz's creation, the Attrox.
  • Empyrium - Where Rev Bem was changed/altered in to a new being.
  • Enga's Redoubt - Homeworld to the Drago-Kazov Pride.
  • Enkindu - Battleground for the Sabra and Jaguar Nietzschean Prides.
  • Fountainhead - Homeworld of the Nietzschean offshoot of Humanity.
  • Genites Research Asteroid - An Asteroid where the Genites have a research facility.
  • Halcyon - One of the brightest spots in its devastated region of space.
  • Hasturi's Asteroid - Hasturi's secret home, hidden in an Asteroid Field.
  • Haukin Venya - A volcanic planet on the Tour Route Molly was to show Tourists.
  • Hazen-Brown - the Chichin population had to be evacuated because shifting tectonic plates destroyed the planet.
  • Helios IX - A prison planet where Dylan and Rommie was captured on.
  • Herodotus - Largely abandoned system.
  • Hidden World - Where Tyr leaves Olma and Tamerlane for his sons' protection.
  • Iceworld - An old Mining Planet the Maru crash landed on.
  • Infinity Atoll - Homeworld of the amphibious Bamiya species.
  • Kasimir - The Fiftieth World to sign up for the Renewed Commonwealth.
  • Kodiak Asteroid - The former home of the Nietzschean Kodiak Pride.
  • Krishnamurti - A main center of Wayist learning and activity.
  • Lonestar Euphrates - Where Beka Valentine first saw Able Landron.
  • Lundmark - A planet where Marshal Man Ka-Lupe is targeted by a famous assain named "The Leper".
  • Machen Alpha - Famous for producing some of the most advanced artificial intelligence entities in known space.
  • Makrai VII - Primary home of the Makra.
  • Mardiks IV
  • Marduk - A planet where they had found out how to build Nova Bombs.
  • Midden - Key supplier of agricultural products to Enga's Redoubt.
  • Monastery of the Way - A asteroid city built by monks and used by Restorian agents.
  • Ne'Holland - The first world to be attacked by the Magog.
  • Orca Pride Asteroid 1 - An asteroid city where the Orca Pride first lived.
  • Orca Pride Asteroid 2 - An asteroid city where the Orca Pride lived.
  • Perliss Mott - The planet where the second Magog World Ship was built by Kronon.
  • Pythia - Isolated planet being terraformed and settled by the Than Hegemony.
  • Ral Parthia - a Planetary Nature Reserve.
  • Samsarra - Planet where the Pyrians placed 24 fusion-powered atmosphere generators.
  • Savion - A planet there was going to be attacked by a spaceborn creature the "Cetus".
  • Serendipity - A planet where slavers was attacking the Hajira population.
  • Shintaido - A planet where the legendary "Engine of Creation" was supposed to be located.
  • Svarog's Anvil - It was hardest hit by the Kalderans, almost a wasteland and an ore processing facility now.
  • Tartarus - The remnant of a brown dwarf supernova, the perfect place to intern captured High Guard ships.
  • Venceremos - the Jaguar Homeworld.
  • Veras - Beka traveled here to testify for her old friend Able Ladrone.
  • Virgil IX - Beka, Harper and Dylan went to Virgil IX to help evacuate people stranded there.
  • Ymir - Planet where a race of glowing girls were living on one of its moon's

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