The Imperial Museum of Modern Art (I-MAM) is physically located on the planet Apollos. However, it is also one of the most visited venues in intraspace. It is also one of the few venues outside of Unity Space that is freely accessible to Unity citizens.
I-MAM’s popularity online comes from its immersions of its attendees in all sorts of surreal interactive art. One minute an attendee might be a teacup being lifted up by a giant hand and tipped into a waiting mout, and in the next, they might be a fuzzy ball of fur rolling down a sand hill in a desert.
Some I-MAM exhibits can be highly political giving Unity citizens a rare opportunity to see how they appear to the rest of the galaxy.
The largest city on Sicily 4, with a population of 12,000,000.
A large Saturnian gas giant far out in the Sicily system. It’s inner moon Aetna is home to some 60,000 people.
Locate in the Sicily system in the Unity, Sicily 4 is an inhabitable planet with a breathable atmosphere and a population of just under 6.5 billion. It is one of the largest planets in the Unity and the home of Anna Prindle.
A star system owned by the Pax Empire itself and not a constituent state. One of only a handful of places where the Unity let cargo pass between its territory and the rest of the empire. As such it is an important hub for people smugglers trying to help those who need to escape Unity Space.
One of two restaurants that serve the wealthy inhabitants of the Unity Orbital 1358, in the Sicily system. A favorite hangout for Jack Halloway and his administrative staff.
The Unity Corporation orbital for the Moon Aetna in Sicily system. With its abundant water for fuel and warm moon below, the orbital serves as a main transit hub for the gateway, allowing interstellar cargo to be offloaded without requiring large ships to travel deep in the gravity well of the system.
The station is managed by Jack Halloway, a smuggler who uses its isolation as a means to hide his activities.
A planet in Unity space known for its fishing industry.
Aetna is a marginally habitable moon orbiting around the planet Catania in the Sicily system. Based on its position within the system, Aetna could easily have been a rock surrounded by a thick methane crust of ice, but as the inside moon of the system its position created a large number of active volcanoes that melted the methane and water on its surface, creating a thick atmosphere the holds the heat of the volcanism and contains the building blocks for a teaming marine ecosystem that lies between its thin icy surface and its warm interior. Over time, photosynthetic life in these waters created an oxygen rich atmosphere.
Aetna’s icy surface can marginally support human life with temperature being the greatest difficulty. Temperatures range from -80c at the poles to near 0c on the warmest days near the equator.
Aetna’s position within the Sicily system makes it an important strategic location for commerce. It provides an easy place to offload cargoes for large container vessels without having to travel too deep down the system’s gravity well. An orbital was actually the first human habitation near the moon. Its abundant water makes hydrogen based fuels easy to manufacture on its surface and soon a small manufacturing industry developed on the surface.
Aetna is home to 60,000 citizens, with 30,000 of those living in its only town Utopia. However, volcanism makes life on the surface of Utopia tenuous at best. At times huge Tsunamis of water melted by an eruption will wash at speed across Aetna’s surface. There is a team of scientists dedicated to monitoring this activity and keeping Utopia safe. All the buildings in Utopia are built with treads and are capable of moving across the planet to avoid a catastrophe. In the event of a disaster, all of the buildings are also designed to float if necessary. This reality has limited the height of buildings on the surface to no more than twenty stories.
Besides fuel manufacture, submarine based fishing is the only other industry of not on Aetna.
