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Luna
The first celestial body visited and colonized by humanity. Luna is very closely tied to Earth, to the point where it's sometimes referred to as the "Eighth Continent."- The Alliance: The Lunar Union, an association of all states and colonies on Luna founded in 2045.
- Insistent Terminology: The Moon is always called Luna. Since other planets' moons have now been colonized, "only boomers call it 'the Moon' anymore."
- Planetary Nation: Theirs is the Lunar Union.
- Polyamory: Apparently slightly more common on Luna than on Earth.
- Space Cold War: After Hell Day, the Lunar Union becomes involved in one with the Martian Alliance, kicking off the Solar Wars, which last the better part of a century.
- Team Switzerland: The Selenites (the people of Luna) usually try not to get involved in Earthly affairs. After Hell Day, that changes in a big way.
- Underground City: Many Selenite cities extend beneath the surface as well as above it. The caverns are frequently where the public green spaces are.
- We Can Rule Together: The Solar Wars started when, in the wake of Hell Day, Luna made this offer to Mars. Mars, seeing it as an attempt at hegemony by the Selenites, refused.
Lunar Orbit
CryptoStar Free Station
- Merchant City: The concept of cryptocurrency-based capitalism didn't pan out in El Salvador, so its adherents headed for the moon instead.
- We Will Use WikiWords in the Future: CryptoStar.
Lucent
- Speculative Fiction LGBT: A Space Station founded by and for non-binary people, both those who are biologically so and those who aren't.
Elohim & the Raelian Church
- Clones Are People, Too: The Raelians are firm believers in this trope, having historically been pioneers of human cloning technology. It's in large part thanks to their work that, by 2150, one-quarter of Selenite births are clones.
- The Remnant: As Raelian influence on Luna declines (see below for why), their station of Elohim in Lunar orbit has become the last bastion of their church's orthodoxy.
- You Cloned Hitler!: In the 2110s, it came out that one of the long-term goals of the Raelian Church's affiliated biotech firm was to produce clones of Hitler, in hopes that one of them would have Past-Life Memories and could then be tried for crimes against humanity. None of them did. The whole affair succeeded only in seriously damaging the Raelian Church's reputation on both Luna and Earth.
Kumara
- Commie Land: A variation. Kumara's aim is to achieve an ideal socialist state through AI, automation and cybernetics.
Blue Moon
- Mobile Fishbowl: A strange sort of large-scale example: Blue Moon is a spherical space station filled with water, allowing aquamorphs and uplifted sea creatures to thrive in space.
Lunar Surface
Tranquility Republic
- Eagleland: America's colonies on Luna.
- Fictional Holiday: All across Luna, but especially in Tranquility, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is celebrated as a holiday.
- Fictional Province: Tranquility comprises four US states: Armstrong, Apollo, Kennedy and Plymouth.
- Holy City: The city of Plymouth, being built around the original Apollo 11 landing site, is considered almost sacred by some Selenites. (It's also significant for being where nuclear fusion was perfected.)
- Naming Your Colony World: The four US states on Luna are named for the first man on the moon, the Apollo program that got him there, the president who started the program and one of the first colonies in what became America.
Barmingrad
- The City: The very first one on Luna.
- Commie Land: While no longer this trope, it did start out as a Soviet colony, and it's still culturally Russian.
- Famed In-Story: Selena Porishenko, the first human born offworld, lived all her life in Barmingrad. By 2150, she's long dead, but her memory remains highly revered by the inhabitants of the city, to the point where one could mistake her for a saint.
The Orion Society
- Brotherhood of Funny Hats: They style themselves as a Benevolent Conspiracy promoting reverence for Selenite history and carrying on an Ancient Tradition while they're at it, but in practice, they're this, and largely aware of it.
- Conspiracy Theorist: The Society's beliefs incorporate a largely-benevolent Masonic coverup controlling the US government, the supposed significance of ancient Egyptian astrology to the early space program and the existence of ruins on Luna left behind by Advanced Ancient Humans.note
The Grays
- Wandering Culture: The nomads of the far side of Luna, descended from helium-3 miners.
The Lunar Poles
- Always Night: The bottoms of craters at the lunar poles are always in shadow, never receiving sunlight. Being incredibly cold as a result, they make good places for ice mining and supercomputers.
- Endless Daytime: Crater rims at the poles, on the other hand, are always in sunlight. They are thus covered in solar panels.
- The Neutral Zone: The poles, with their ice deposits, are strictly neutral and controlled by the Lunar Union, so as to ensure that all Lunar colonies get equal access to water.
The Verne Gun
- Arcology: The Verne Gun is so huge that it has arcologies in its struts.
- Magnetic Weapons: A non-combat example that operates on the same scientific principle. The Jules Verne Memorial Mass Driver, or the Verne Gun for short, is a series of mass drivers
which wrap around the entire lunar equator, constantly launching vast amounts of ore off the Lunar surface to be used in building habitats elsewhere in the solar system.
