This chapter includes a combination of real-world stellar information combined with information particular to the Macross Saga. This serves as a guide to our home system as well as an example of a star system fit for human colonization. This section is liable to become outdated as more discoveries are made.
Sol
Our sun is classified as a G2V star; the G2 signifying an average surface
temperature of 5,500 degrees Kelvin, and the V indicating a main sequence star (nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium, and the star is not changing size). The sun has a white color, but due to atmospheric scattering it appears yellow on earth. It accounts for more than 99% of the star system’s mass. The sun is also sometimes called Helios.
• Diameter: 1.392×106 km
• Circumference: 4.373×106 km
• Surface Area: 6.09×1018 m² (11,900 Earths)
• Volume: 1.41×1027 m³ (1,300,000 Earths)
• Mass: 1.988 435×1030 kg (332,946 Earths) Vulcanoid Asteroids
• between 0.08 and 0.21 AU from Sol
Mercury
Mercury has no atmosphere to speak of, and if it had one, it was blown away by the strong solar wind long ago. Some current theories now say that current day Mercury is nothing more than the core of the planet after the sun evaporated the rocky surface and blew it into space.
• 0.39 AU from Sol.
• Equatorial diameter: 4,879.4 km
• Orbit time: 88 terran days
• Surface temperature: 700 degrees Kelvin in the sun to 90 degrees Kelvin in the shadow (430 to -180 Celsius)
• No confirmed natural satellites Mercury-Crosser Asteroids
• 2101 Adonis - 0.5—1.2 km; 0.441 AU to 3.307 AU
Venus
Venus has no magnetic field and thus gets baked by solar radiation. The
atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide with traces of nitrogen, and the surface pressure is 75 to 100 atmospheres. Surface temperature ranges from 855 to 885 degrees F (455 to 475 C). The clouds form a layer, ending 22 miles above the surface. This cloud layer is actually three distinct layers. The two upper layers are primarily sulfuric acid and chlorine droplets, while the lowest layer is phosphoric acid (H3PO4) solution. There is strong lightning activity as well, although no high-frequency (0.125 to 16 MHz) radio waves were detected; this is common to lightning. The surface has some unusually huge shield volcanoes and arachnoids, and seismic activity has been detected in the crust. A huge double atmospheric vortex exists at the south pole.
At 50km above the surface the atmospheric pressure is 1 Bar (equal to earth), 0.9 G and temperatures of 0 to 50 degrees C. It is argued the resources for life are abundant at this height and suitable for colonization.
• 0.72 AU from Sol
• Equatorial diameter: 12,103.7 km
• No confirmed natural satellites
2002 VE68 - quasi-satellite, this asteroid is also a Mercury- and Earth-crosser. See Venus-crosser Asteroids for more information
Venus-Crosser Asteroids
• 4183 Cuno - 4-9 km in diameter
Earth
• 1 AU from Sol
• Diameter: Equatorial 12,756.270 km, Polar 12,713.500 km, Mean 12,745.591 km
• 1 confirmed natural satellite o Africa
Grand Cannon III (Victoria Autonomous Region) - construction began in 2004, October. Construction was incomplete.
o Eurasia
Central Russia Administrative Region
• St. Petersburg [Leningrad] - the Anti-UN Army uses strategic [tactical] thermonuclear reaction weaponry and destroys the city in 2006, October as a demonstration of their capability and willingness to use such weapons against the UN.
Kazakh Autonomous Region - location of rioting in 2005, January.
Kirghiz Autonomous Regions - location of rioting in 2005, January.
Garalia
[Great Britain] - Liverpool
Bjorn City (Located in the Danube Area) o Japan
UN Far East Command Headquarters
Yokohama o North America
Alaska
• (Earth) UN Military Headquarters (for anti-stellar-warfare) - Construction began in 2002, May.
• Grand Cannon I (Same site as UN Military Headquarters) - Construction began in 2002, May with completion on 2010, January 10. Intact but nonfunctional ruins.
• Macross City - reconstruction begins and is completed in 2010, May. Located near the Grand Cannon I site. By far the largest and best city in the UN. Macross city is home to the Macross, U.N. Government and Military HQ.
• Macross Lake
• SDF-1 Macross
California (Los Cupid, Mojave Desert)
Gante City
Highlander City - Located a few hours from Macross City (by air).
This city was a thriving pretty good just after the SW1 and attracted a lot of show business types.
Lonesco City - A city best known for being the city that Kamjin took Minmei hostage.
Onogi City - A major industrial city (Reaction Engines) located not far from Macross City. Onogi is on a coast and is possibly located east of Macross City.
Ontario
South Coast City - City most likely located on a southern coast line. In 2012 the City had become self-sufficient enough to leave direct U.N. control and be self-govern.
Trad City - Trad City is located in old America and has high Zentraedi presence (50% population is Zentraedi.)
o Oceania
Grand Cannon II (Australian Autonomous Region) - construction began in 2004, March. The under-construction Cannon is
destroyed in 2005, November during an Anti-UN Army retaliatory attack on UN Forces
Mayan Island (South Pacific Ocean) - site of Protoculture
phenomenon and a dispute over the discovery of it, which resulted in the secret deployment of the VF-0 and SV-51 by the UN
Government and Anti-UN forces in 2008, September. (The events are kept secret for at least five decades.)
South Ataria Island
New Anderson Base - Guam. First mentioned: 2044 (VFF
stationed at the base - though could be on another planet, a la New Edwards of Eden.)
o South America
Grand Cannon V (Brazilian Autonomous Region) - construction began in 2007, May. Construction incomplete.
o Location - unknown
Eagle Nest Aerial Tactics Centre - in 2029 Captain Milia Jenius is appointed as an instructor at the centre.
New Mirimar Base Earth Orbit
• Van Allen Radiation Belts
• Factory Satellite - in Earth orbit at L5 point from 2011, November.
• Earth Defense Force (On 2037, January 23rd, Isamu Alva Dyson is assigned to it.)
• Space Colony Clusters [Bunches ] - survived SWI unscathed. Location unknown Earth-Sun Lagrange Points
• L4
o Earth's Lagrange 4 space unit: Suzie Newtlet ends her test pilot assignment and relocates to the unit in 2049
Moon
• Equatorial diameter: 3,476.2 km
• Apollo Lunar Base Colony (In the Sea of Tranquility on the Lunar surface) - In a factory beneath the Base, using feedback from restoration work on the ASS-1, construction begins on SDF-2, a stellar space warship entirely of Earth origin in 2003, November. Construction of the large-scale permanent base began in 2000, October. Patrols of the Solar System begin in 2010, June, using Super Valkyries based at Apollo Base
• Moon Riverside City (Lunar surface's civilian sector, Earth's Moon)
• Grand Cannon IV (North Polar Region) - construction began in 2006, March.
Construction incomplete.
• Test site of the first thermonuclear reaction bomb (Lunar Surface) - detonation occurred in 2004, February
Moon-Earth Lagrange Points
• L4
o Kordylewski cloud - at L4 and L5; they could be at least 14,000 km across, about the size of the Earth
• L5
o Manufacturing Station (in Lunar orbit) - Large-scale station and construction site of ARMD Carriers and Oberth Destroyers from 2003, April. Station presumably damaged during SWI. Construction of the station began in 2001, May
o New Frontier (Ship Yards and Space Colony) This could be the manufacturing station post SWI
Earth-Near Asteroids
• Earth-Crosser Asteroids
o 3753 Cruithne - Earth's second Moon! ~5 km; 0.998 AU from Sol
• Arjuna Asteroids
• Amor Asteroids
o 1221A Amor - 1.5? km; 1.086 AU to 2.754 AU
o 433 Eros - 13×13×33 km; 1.133 AU to 1.783 AU from Sol o 3908 Nix - Diameter: 1 - 2 km
• Apollo Asteroids
o 1862 Apollo - 1.7 km; 0.647 AU to 2.295 AU
o 69230 Hermes - radar observations showed it to be a binary asteroid with two equal-sized components almost in contact with one another. Each component is about 300–450 meters in diameter; has passed within 0.005 AU of the Earth (approximately 1.5 the distance of the Moon.)
o 1566 Icarus - 1.4 km; 0.187 AU to 1.969 AU
o 25143 Itokawa - 540 x 270 x 210 meters; 0.953 AU to 1.695 AU from Sol
• Aten Asteroids
o 2062 Aten - 0.9 km; 0.790 AU to 1.143 AU
Mars
Mars is an arid desert-like planet. Massive sandstorms are frequent. There are gullies and channels in the terrain, suggesting the existence of water at some point; and the Ares Vallis is believed to be an ancient flood plain. It is further believed that at one point Mars was much warmer and wetter, with a thicker atmosphere. The Meridiani Planum has large deposits of hematite, further indicating the presence of water at some point. Research conducted in 2008-2009 have indicated large quantities of water ice buried under the surface.
• 1.5 AU from Sol
• Equatorial diameter: 6,804.9 km
• H.G. Wells City (First mentioned as birthplace of Gamlin Kizaki in 2026, January
• SALLA Base - permanent base. Construction began in 2001, July. Manned by UN Spacy personnel from 2003, November until 2005, August, with withdrawal from Mars Base led by Harry Miler. The return fleet from Mars is destroyed at 18:00 on September 8 by the Anti-UN hijacked Oberth class space destroyer
Tsiolkovsky with a loss of 3,055 UN Forces personnel. Base is destroyed in 2009 when the Macross escapes from a Zentraedi trap.
• 2 confirmed natural satellites; both in degrading orbits Phobos
• 26.8 × 21 × 18.4 Km
• Orbit: 9,235.6 to 9,518.8 km from Mars
• Its low orbit means that Phobos will eventually be destroyed: tidal forces are lowering its orbit, currently at the rate of about 1.8 meters per century, and in about 50 million years it will either impact the surface of Mars or (more likely) break up into a planetary ring. Because of its ellipsoidal shape alone, the gravity on Phobos' surface varies by about 210%; the tidal forces raised by Mars more than double this variation (to about 450%) because they compensate for a little more than half of Phobos' gravity at its sub- and anti-Mars poles. As seen from Phobos, Mars would be 6400 times larger and 2500 times brighter than the full Moon as seen from Earth, taking up a full 1/4 of the width of a celestial
hemisphere Deimos
• 15.0 × 12 × 10.4 Km
• Mean orbital radius: 23,460 km
• As seen from Deimos, Mars would be 1000 times larger and 400 times brighter than the full Moon as seen from Earth, taking up a full 1/11 of the width of a celestial hemisphere. Deimos moves away from Mars at a rate of 3 inches per year, and will eventually be thrown out of orbit and into space.
Mars Trojans
• L4
o 5261 Eureka - 2-4 km
It trails Mars at a distance varying by only 0.3 AU during each revolution. It's minimum distances from the Earth, Venus and Jupiter are 0.5, 0.8 and 3.5 AU, respectively
o 1999 UJ7
• L5
o 1998 VF31, 2001 DH47, 2001 FG24, & 2001 FR127
Mars Co-Orbitals
• These are not destined to remain as Trojans as they'll be perturbed away by Mars within the next 500,000 years or so.
o 1998 QH56 & 1998 SD4
Mars-Crosser Asteroids