History Main / ColonizedSolarSystem

** The "Heinlein juveniles" (not actually a "series", with backgrounds that are clearly inconsistent and represent multiple "futures") include stories set on [[VenusIsWet Venus]] (''Literature/SpaceCadet'', which also features travel to the Asteroid Belt and a colony on Ganymede as part of the setting; and ''Literature/BetweenPlanets'', which also mentions outposts on Mars), Mars (''Literature/RedPlanet''), and Jupiter's moon Ganymede (''Literature/FarmerInTheSky''). ''Literature/TheRollingStones1952'' especially epitomizes the trope, as it starts off in a lunar colony (which appears to be a a subsequent version of the one in ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'') but quickly moves out into the Solar System, first to Mars and then to the Asteroid Belt, and with the family planning on heading to Titan at the end of the book. A previous family vacation to Venus is also mentioned. By the time Heinlein wrote ''Literature/TheStarBeast'' he was moving more into interstellar settings, but an Earth-colonized Mars figures prominently in the protagonist's background, and diplomatic and trade relations between Venus, Earth, and Mars are an important part of the setting.

* ''Fanfic/ASagaOfParallelWorlds'' has an In-Universe example with the multimedia franchise ''[=MythWar=]'' containing intelligent life on all eight planets in the Solar syatem, and an Earth-based Galactic Armada that colonized them.

** The Mars expedition in the opening scenes of the pilot episode (carried over from the movie of Creator/GerryAnderson's previous series, ''Film/ThunderbirdsAreGo'') shows the first steps towards beginning a human presence on Mars. Unfortunately, they discover that the red planet is already inhabited. They make the mistake of severely upsetting the locals, kicking off the interplanetary war that drives the plot for the rest of the series.

* Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons has the Moon dotted with human colonies, and they are self-sufficient enough to declare independence from Earth.
** The Mars expedition in the opening scenes of the pilot episode (carried over from the film Film/ThunderbirdsAreGo) shows the first steps towards beginning a human presence on Mars. Unfortunately, they discover that the red planet is already inhabited. They make the mistake of severely upsetting the locals, kicking off the interplanetary war that drives the plot for the rest of the series.

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** Season 1 has the United States building the Jamestown Base near Shackleton Crater on the Moon in the early 1970s as a response to the Soviets landing on the moon first [[WordofGod The creators of the show]] say that the point of divergence is actually the survival of Sergei Korolev, the chief of the Soviet space program. The Soviets eventually build their own base known as Zvezda.

** Season 1 has the United States building the Jamestown Base near Shackleton Crater on the Moon in the early 1970s as a response to the Soviets landing on the moon first [[Word of God]] says that the point of divergence is actually the survival of Sergei Korolev, the chief of the Soviet space program. The Soviets eventually build their own base known as Zvezda.

* In ''VideoGame/SierraOps'', Mars has been colonized for three hundred years, and 14% of humanity lives on space colonies located at Earth’s Lagrange points. There’s also Mondshire, a city on the surface of the Moon, and the game begins on a space station orbiting Venus.

* The alternate timeline of ''Series/ForAllMankind'''shows the United States building the Jamestown Base near Shackleton Crater on the Moon in the early 1970s as a response to the Soviets landing on the moon first. The Soviets eventually build their own base known as Zvezda. In Season 3, it is mentioned that China has opened their own Lunar Base by the late 1980s, and by the 1990s, the United States, a surviving Soviet Union, and a private aerospace company known as Helios are racing to colonize Mars...only to have been beaten to the punch by [[spoiler: North Korea.]]

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'': During the late Information, Interplanetary and Nanotech Ages, the Solar System (also referred to as "[=SolSys=]") was colonized. Earth and many of the colonies were later devastated in the [[GreyGoo Technocalypse]], and then GAIA forced almost all of Earth's population to leave in the [[HomeworldEvacuation Great Expulsion]]. By the present, every single part of the Solar System is populated and developed:

* In the ''Seetee'' series by Creator/JackWilliamson, the Solar System is in a cold war involving the US-dominated Earth-Moon Union, the Jovian [[DirtyCommunists Soviet]], the Martian [[ThoseWackyNazis Reich]] and Venus which is apparently populated by Chinese and Japanese [[SpaceJews stereotypes]]. The "asterites" are of course the [[LibertariansInSpace freedom-loving good guys]] living in the Asteroid Belt.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarComTheUSSpaceForce'', Mars and the moon have both been colonized, with the former having been partially terraformed. There are also mining facilities and military bases throughout the solar system, with [=StarCom=]’s main base being parked over the rings of Saturn.

* In the ''Setee'' series by Creator/JackWilliamson, the Solar System is in a cold war involving the US-dominated Earth-Moon Union, the Jovian [[DirtyCommunists Soviet]], the Martian [[ThoseWackyNazis Reich]] and Venus which is apparently populated by Chinese and Japanese [[SpaceJews stereotypes]]. The "asterites" are of course the [[LibertariansInSpace freedom-loving good guys]] living in the Asteroid Belt.

* The original ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' was set in a distant future where humanity had colonized every world in the solar system, resulting in some pretty odd evolutionary offshoots of the species. In the team we had a crystalline man from Pluto, a {{Heavyworlder}} from Jupiter, and a flaming girl from Mercury.

** In "Quality of Mercy" and "The Light Brigade", there are colonies on UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} and various moons in the Solar System. [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfJupiter Europa base]] is a major part of the Solar System's defence perimeter.
** On a much smaller scale, there is a research facility called Aphrodite on UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} in "The Joining".
** In "Phobos Rising", both the Free Alliance and the Coalition of Middle Eastern and Pacific States have bases on UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}. It is also mentioned that both blocs had moonbases 30 years earlier and that the Alliance had one on a body known as Sagan V.
** In "The Human Factor", the sequel to "Phobos Rising", there is a base on UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}}'s [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfJupiter moon Ganymede]] in 2084. It was established by Free Alliance and Eastern Coalition moderates in order to terraform Ganymede and show that the two sides could live together in peace.
** In "Worlds Apart", there is mention of a moonbase.
** In "Think Like a Dinosaur", Earth has established a base, the Tuulen Transfer Station, on UsefulNotes/TheMoon.
** In "In the Blood", there are bases on the [[UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} Martian]] moon Phobos and UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}}'s [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfJupiter moon Titan]].
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'':
** In "Cold Hands, Warm Heart", General Jeff Barton is working on Project Vulcan, the planned colonization of UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}.
** In "The Invisible Enemy", the ''M-2'' is sent to UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} in 2024 to assess the feasibility of colonizing it in the future.

** The "Heinlein juveniles" (not actually a "series", with backgrounds that are clearly inconsistent and represent multiple "futures") include stories set on [[VenusIsWet Venus]] (''Literature/SpaceCadet'', which also features travel to the Asteroid Belt and a colony on Ganymede as part of the setting; and ''Literature/BetweenPlanets'', which also mentions outposts on Mars), Mars (''Literature/RedPlanet''), and Jupiter's moon Ganymede (''Literature/FarmerInTheSky''). ''Literature/TheRollingStones'' especially epitomizes the trope, as it starts off in a lunar colony (which appears to be a a subsequent version of the one in ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'') but quickly moves out into the Solar System, first to Mars and then to the Asteroid Belt, and with the family planning on heading to Titan at the end of the book. A previous family vacation to Venus is also mentioned. By the time Heinlein wrote ''Literature/TheStarBeast'' he was moving more into interstellar settings, but an Earth-colonized Mars figures prominently in the protagonist's background, and diplomatic and trade relations between Venus, Earth, and Mars are an important part of the setting.

* Elon Musk-owned space company Space-X is currently working on a project to send humans back to the moon to stay for a permanent colony and to send humans to Mars for the first time and also create a colony base there as well. This project, working alongside NASA, is set to carry out these actions by the end of the 2020’s decade as of when this was written (Late 2021). This project could set up humans on both worlds by 2024. After this, Elon Musk then wants to set up colonies on the moons of Jupiter’s moon Europa, Saturn’s moon Enceladus, Kuiper Belt Objects, and even a transport depot settlement on Pluto to work as a base for materials collected from long-term manned interstellar voyages into the Oort Cloud. These interstellar ships could potentially have [[OrionDrive nuclear pulse propulsion drives]] if stable antimatter engines, which Elon Musk says he would prefer, aren’t invented in the near future. Elon Musk has said he would want the different civilizations in the Solar System to band together to create a warp drive.

* ''Literature/AlienInASmallTown'' is set in a future when the solar system has been colonized, ''but not only by humans.'' In exchange for their help introducing us to interstellar cultures, the alien Jan have been permitted to colonize Jupiter's moon Callisto.

** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' takes the cake with regards to this, featuring colonies on the moon, Mars, and Jupiter. As well as being the first mainline ''Gundam'' series to be set outside the Earth Sphere (The above mentioned ''Crossbone'' and ''Frozen Teardrop'' being LooseCanon spinoffs).

* ''VideoGame/{{Redout}}'' takes place in this setting, as the Earth was rendered increasingly uninhabitable by climate change, forcing most of the population to relocate to colonies across the solar system. The game actually subverted this trope at launch, as the initial four track locations were all on Earth, with only Mars getting more than a token mention in the backstory as one of the birthplaces of the SRRL. Played straight later on as more tracks were released, taking place on Mars, the Moon, Europa, a space station above Neptune, and the fictional planetoid of [=P-AR219=]. Notably, the difficulties of this are shown -- a failed attempt to terraform the Moon created an enormous fissure, while the planned colony on Europa never even took off, as evidenced by the abandoned structures left lying around the tracks there.