List of Andromeda star systems

The Known Worlds of the fictional "Andromeda" universe include more than a million star systems, scattered across the galaxies of the Local Group. Slipstream 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. 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"cite episode
title = Its Hour Come 'Round At Last
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-05-14
season = 1
number = 22 ] .

Apart from habitable planets, the Known Worlds include numerous space habitats ("drifts") and colonized asteroids.

List of 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") was a large space station with pacifist 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, 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 Paradines.

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.cite episode
title = The Dissonant Interval
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
began = 2004-05-10
ended = 2004-05-17
season = 4
number = 21-22 ] .

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 Edwa to start a revolt against the Nietzscheans. However, "Andromeda" failed to provide necessary support in time, and the revolt was brutally suppressedcite episode
title = Bunker Hill
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-01-26
season = 2
number = 11 ] .

Earth was destroyed by the Abyss 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 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.cite episode
title = Under the Night
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2000-10-02
season = 1
number = 01 ]

The "Andromeda Ascendant" (a "Glorious Heritage"-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" 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 of Sinti asked Dylan Hunt to provide help in their scientific experiment in determining the wavefunction 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 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 Seefracite episode
title = Through a Glass, Darkly
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2005-01-14
season = 5
number = 11 ] .

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 filecite episode
title = The Opposites of Attraction
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2005-02-11
season = 5
number = 15 ] .

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, 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.

an-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. It is unknown whether San-Ska-Re and the Hegemony ever joined the Commonwealth.

eefra

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, 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 draught 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.

inti

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.cite episode
title = Ouroboros
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-02-02
season = 2
number = 12 ]

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.cite episode
title = Home Fires
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-11-19
season = 2
number = 08 ]

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.cite episode
title = The Heart of the Journey
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
began = 2005-05-06
ended = 2005-05-13
season = 5
number = 21-22 ]

Tarn-Vedra

Tarn-Vedra was the Vedran homeworld and the capital of the Old Systems Commonwealth. Located in the Andromeda galaxy, 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.cite episode
title = The Weight
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
began = 2004-09-24
ended = 2004-10-01
season = 5
number = 01-02 ]

Tarn-Vedra was mysteriously cut off slipstream soon after the Nietzschean rebellion, 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.cite episode
title = It Makes a Lovely Light
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-05-07
season = 1
number = 21 ]

Other Planets

*Acheron - A planet where a High Guard Missile Defense Battery, was taken over by the Drago-Kazov.cite episode
title = Una Salus Victus
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-11-12
season = 2
number = 07 ]
*Almagest - a Nietzschean-controlled world that is home to the greatest shipyards in the three galaxies.cite episode
title = Double or Nothingness
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-10-20
season = 4
number = 04 ]
*Amarna - A planet where Dylan is fighting the Genites and is saved by Constantine Stark.cite episode
title = Twilight of the Idols
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-04-28
season = 3
number = 20 ]
*Arazia - Destitute, war-torn world in the grip of a crime wave.cite episode
title = A Rose In The Ashes
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2000-11-27
season = 1
number = 09 ]
*Arun-Roy - A Nietzschean-controlled world where Tyr met with Beka Valentine before going to the route of ages.cite episode
title = The World Turns All Around Her
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-11-10
season = 4
number = 07 ]
*Brandenburg Tor - Devastated by Magog invasion.cite episode
title = Harper 2.0
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-02-12
season = 1
number = 14 ]
*Carva-Rakhshasa - a Nietzschean-controlled world where the secret stolen Magog weapon "File-D" is kept.cite episode
title = Harper/Delete
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-10-27
season = 4
number = 05 ]
*Cascada - where Colonists were using the Native Mugani's to dig Thorium 232 in the mines, slaves on their own world.cite episode
title = Be All My Sins Remembered
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-02-16
season = 2
number = 14 ]
* Castalia - Second government to sign the charter for a restored Systems Commonwealth.cite episode
title = All Great Neptune's Ocean
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-01-15
season = 1
number = 10 ]
*Delgron Vcite episode
title = Slipfighter the Dogs of War
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-10-28
season = 3
number = 06 ]
*Diphda V - Heavily urbanized center of trade and commerce.cite episode
title = The Pearls That Were His Eyes
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-01-22
season = 1
number = 11 ]
*Elba IX - A prison planet guarded by a weapon of Bartolome Naz's creation, the Attrox.cite episode
title = And Your Heart Will Fly Away
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-11-25
season = 3
number = 09 ]
*Empyrium - Where Rev Bem was changed/altered in to a new being.cite episode
title = What Happens to a Rev Deferred?
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-02-24
season = 3
number = 15 ]
*Enga's Redoubt - Homeworld to the Drago-Kazov Pride.cite episode
title = Shadows Cast By A Final Salute
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-05-12
season = 3
number = 22 ]
*Enkindu - Battleground for the Sabra and Jaguar Nietzschean Prides.cite episode
title = Lava and Rockets
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-02-09
season = 2
number = 13 ]
*Fountainhead - Homeworld of the Nietzschean offshoot of Humanity.cite episode
title = The Unconquerable Man
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-01-20
season = 3
number = 10] cite episode
title = Angel Dark, Demon Bright
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2000-11-06
season = 1
number = 06]
*Genites Research Asteroid - An Asteroid where the Genites have a research facility on.
*Halcyon - One of the brightest spots in its devastated region of space.cite episode
title = Forced Perspective
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-02-19
season = 1
number = 15 ]
*Hasturi's Asteroid - Hasturi's secret home, hidden in an Asteroid Field.cite episode
title = Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-04-09
season = 1
number = 17 ]
*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.cite episode
title = Be All My Sins Remembered
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-02-16
season = 2
number = 14]
*Helios IX - A prison planet where Dylan and Rommie was captured on.cite episode
title = A Rose in the Ashes
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2000-11-27
season = 1
number = 9]
*Herodotus - Largely abandoned system.cite episode
title = The Mathematics of Tears
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-01-29
season = 1
number = 12 ]
*Hidden World - Where Tyr leaves Olma and Tamerlane for his sons' protection.cite episode
title = Knight, Death and the Devil
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-05-04
season = 2
number = 20 ]
*Iceworld - An old Mining Planet the Maru crash landed on.cite episode
title = Exit Strategies
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-10-08
season = 2
number = 02 ]
*Infinity Atoll - Homeworld of the amphibious Bamiya species.cite episode
title = The Ties That Bind
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2000-11-13
season = 1
number = 07 ]
*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.cite episode
title = The Banks of the Lethe
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2000-11-20
season = 1
number = 08 ]
*Lonestar Euphrates - Where Beka Valentine first saw Able Landron.cite episode
title = The Right Horse
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-02-17
season = 3
number = 14 ]
*Lundmark - A planet where Marshal Man Ka-Lupe is targeted by a famous assain named "The Leper".cite episode
title = The Leper's Kiss
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-11-11
season = 3
number = 07 ]
*Machen Alpha - Famous for producing some of the most advanced artificial intelligence entities in known space.cite episode
title = All Too Human
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-11-05
season = 2
number = 06 ]
*Makrai VII - Primary home of the Makra.
*Mardiks IVcite episode
title = The Shards Of Rimni
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-11-28
season = 3
number = 02 ]
*Marduk - A planet where they had found out how to build Nova Bombs.
*Midden - Key supplier of agricultural products to Enga's Redoubt.cite episode
title = Music of a Distant Drum
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-02-05
season = 1
number = 13 ]
*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.cite episode
title = The Prince
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-01-19
season = 2
number = 10 ]
*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.cite episode
title = Immaculate Perception
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-05-11
season = 2
number = 21 ]
*Perliss Mott - The planet where the second Magog World Ship was built by Kronon.cite episode
title = Waking the Tyrant's Device
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-10-13
season = 4
number = 03 ]
*Pythia - Isolated planet being terraformed and settled by the Than Hegemony.cite episode
title = The Devil Take the Hindmost
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-04-16
season = 1
number = 18 ]
*Ral Parthia - a Planetary Nature Reserve.cite episode
title = Fair Unknown
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-04-20
season = 2
number = 18 ]
*Samsarra - Planet where the Pyrians placed 24 fusion-powered atmosphere generators.cite episode
title = Point of the Spear
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-03-31
season = 3
number = 16 ]
*Savion - A planet there was going to be attacked by a spaceborn creature the "Cetus".cite episode
title = Belly of the Beast
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-04-27
season = 2
number = 19 ]
*Serendipity - A planet where slavers was attacking the Hajira population.
*Shintaido - A planet where the legendary "Engine of Creation" was supposed to be located.cite episode
title = In Heaven Now Are Three
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-03-02
season = 2
number = 16 ]
*Svarog's Anvil - It was hardest hit by the Kalderans, almost a wasteland and an ore processing facility now.cite episode
title = Last Call At The Broken Hammer
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2001-10-29
season = 2
number = 05 ]
*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.cite episode
title = For Whom the Bell Tolls
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2002-11-18
season = 3
number = 08 ]
*Ymir - Planet where a race of glowing girls where living on one of its moon'scite episode
title = Vault of the Heavens
series = Andromeda
serieslink = Andromeda (TV series)
airdate = 2003-04-07
season = 3
number = 17 ]

References

External links

* [http://saveandromeda.com/allsystems/worlds/worlds.htm Planets section of All Systems University website]