POP STARS
On this page we will feature those neighboring star systems that seem, quite unlike the virtually unconquerable Solar system, to have been repeatedly recolonized.
Aldebaran [alpha Tauri]
I -- wheelmen [Lensmen series by E. E. Smith]
II -- Human colony noted for bolega and ritoodolorum hunts [First Lensmen by E. E. Smith]
III -- Human colony noted for New Aberdeen Naval Yards and shellmouth [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson], Narabedla Inc. ["Narabedla Inc." by Federik Pohl]
IV -- arachoids ["Now! You can banish foot odor forever!" by Craig Shaw Gardner] and crystal cities [Stranger from the Stars by Nancy Etchemendy], Llyrdis, Vardda people [The Starmen of Llyrdis.by Leigh Brackett], Human colonists [Albébaran by Léo], Algon ["Monty Python's Flying Circus"]
chelonians [The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin]
green amphibians ["Comet Divers" by Edmond Hamilton, "Rest Cure" by Alexander Jablokov]
VI -- coleopterans [Star Surgeon by Alan Nourse]
Hastar's world [Clark Aston Smith]
triops
XXI -- Human colony [Conscience Interplanetary by Joseph Green]
Vasudan capital [FreeSpace 2]
8-legged Ilwrath [Star Control]
Algol [beta Persei]
II -- Algollians, humanoids with leathery skin, wide-set nostrils, headridges, noted for Well of Tomorrows ["Futures" by Ian Edginton and Dan Abnett]
IV -- ancestor worshipping warriors ["That Share of Glory" by C. M. Kornbluth]
crustacean teleks ["The Voice of the Lobster" by Henry Kuttner]
Kuum -- prison planet
Mitr -- Human colony, underground-dwelling Mechanvikis ["Mitr" by Jack Vance]
Vramen immortals [The Star of Life by Edmond Hamilton]
lavender-skinned humanoids ["Chain of Command" by Frank Abatemarco]
Alphecca [alpha Coronae Borealis]
plasmoids ["Lukewarm" by David Langford]
II -- Alphekkans, Human colony
xenophobic azurians [Intellivore by Diane Duane]
V -- Barathrum decimated by plasmoids' flare ["Lukewarm" by David Langford]
azurians
leathery-skinned ["Ménage à Troi" by Fred Bronson and Suzanne Brackett]
Altair [alpha Aquiliae]
III -- quadrupeds with eyestalks and antennae [Third Planet from Altair by Edward Packard]
I -- forced underground because of radiation ["Tin Man" by Jeffrey F. King]
proto-Sumerians [The Haunted Stars by Edmond Hamilton]
III ["Encounter at Farpoint"]
IV -- lost Krel civilization ["Forbidden Planet"]
V [IV after destruction of Krel world] -- Palkeo, lavender-blooded humanoids [["Dreadnought!"; "Prophet Motive", Black Fire by Sonni Cooper, "Into Your Tent I'll Creep" by Eric Frank Russll]
VI -- UFP quadrant HQ ["Amok Time"]
VII -- attacked by the Nagha ["The Sleeping God" by Jesco von Puttkammer]
Antares [alpha Scorpii]
II -- Antarians, long-lived ["Sentence" by Frederic Brown], noted for changeling net ["The Gathering" by J. Michael Straczynski] and glow water ["The Trouble with Tribbles" by David Gerrold]
hairless, humorless vertians ["Freighter Tails", Tales of the Galactic Midway by Mike Resnick]
shapeshifters ["Red Brain", "On the Threshold of Eternity" by Donald Wandrei]
IV -- amphibian hermaphrodites ["To Him Who Waits" by H. G. Stratman], lost war with Humans ["Heaven's Only Daughter" by Laura Resnick], Camborn sector HQ, noted for brandy ["Is There in Truth No Beauty?" by Jean Lisette Aroeste]
Arcturus [alpha Boötes]
II -- reptilian Tzen ["Remember" by Bucky and Juanita Coulson]
III -- four-tentacled Council of Sun members ["Within the Nebula" by Edmond Hamilton]
IV -- heat-adapted ["I Am Returning" by Ray Russell], ghostly-pale humanoids [Lost Years], Crazy Mel Transport Resale Center ["Space Raiders" by Howard R. Cowen
Sanus -- Sanusians [The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix by Homer Eon Flint]
hominids [The Star Conquerors by Ben Bova]
Tormance -- shrowk homeworld [A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay]
Helicon -- greti homeworld [Encyclopedia Galactica]
IX -- PPCorps sector base [Conscience Interplanetary by Joseph Green]
mega-donkey and mega-grasshopper homeworld [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams]
hairless, wrinkly humanoids ["The Fires of Pharos" and Metamorphosis]
Betelguese [alpha Orionis]
Gaia [Star Control], Human colonists ["The Voice of the Void" by John W. Campbell]
Alfar -- short azurians ["Honorable Enemies" by Poul Anderson]
Zyph -- trochophore homeworld [The Mathematics of Oz by Cliiford A. Pickover]
VI, Cron -- Autocrons [Machine Man #3], Soror [Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle]
VII, Praxibetel -- destroyed in collapsing Hrung disaster [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams]
furry, four-armed, four-legged, headless ["Comet Divers" by Edmond Hamilton]
Canopus [alpha Carinae]
II -- Human colony ["Locked Up in a Spaceship for a Year Without No Women Blues" by Joe Haldeman]
III -- Arrakis, source of melange, Zensunni colonists [Dune by Frank Herbert]
IV -- source of futurite [Ghost Devices by Simon Bucher-Jones], where James T.. Kirk found antique 20,000 Leagues under the Sea [Yesterday's Son by A. C. Crispin]
V-- drella homeworld, New California colony ("The Wolf in the Fold" by Robert Bloch)
Canopeans, benevolent imperialists [Canopus in Argos by Doris Lessing]
Canopians, red-eyed, black-furred felinoids ["The Big Night" by Henry Kuttner]
black liquid with two eyedisks ["Comet Divers" by Edmond Hamilton]
XII, much-studied natives ["Growing Up on Vlin" by Sydelle Shamah]
Capella [alpha Aurigae]
IV -- New Texas, Human colonists [A Planet for Texans by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire], or Kohath desert nomads, power-cat homeworld ["Friday's Child" by D. C. Fontana] and Aurigan cave paintings ["Steal from the World" by Kate Orman]
V -- Capra ["Lost on Capra" by Martin Gardner]
hairless rubbermen with 3-fingered hands [Lumen by Camille Flammarion]
large, glossy, green and black space-dwellers ["Schwartz Between the Galaxies" by Robert Silverberg]
Capellan Confedeation HQ [Battletech series by Rick David Stuart]
1-meter, orange-haired humanoids ["The Day the Aliens Came" by Robert Sheckley]
Green Folk planthropes, Council of Stars members ["Within the Nebula" by Edmond Hamilton, "Flowering Mandrake" by George Turner]]
XVI group-minded amorphs ["Growing Up on Vlin" by Sydelle Shamah]
Deneb [alpha Cygni]
II, Kreta, humanoids [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson]
III, waterworld, bug-eyed natives ["The Bug-eyed Musicians" by Laurence M. Jenifer]; ghastly, bloated one-eyed, armored hexapod [Len Elliot], half-ton invertibrate [Spock's World by Diane Duane]
IV, Kidta, Human Colony [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson], Bandi ["Encounter at Farpoint" by D. C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry]
V, Kelta, Human colony [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson, Second Stage Lensman by E. E. Smith]
IX Sarek negotiated treaty with ["Sarek" by Peter S. Beagle]
X, mass suicide ["Squirrel Cage" by Robert Sheckley]
Creeth, Dalminian Empire ["Space Opera" by Michael Kandel]
slimeweasel ["To Him Who Waits" by H. G. Statmann]
stone-like with lambent eye ["Signs and Stones" by Judith Tarr]
xenophobic, green-glowing Shiva worshippers [Attack of the Denebian Starship by Gilbert Morris and Dan Meeks]
Fomalhaut [alpha Piscis Austrini]
Pumor, Fomalhauti one-eyed discoids [Thor #258]
III -- Human colony ["The Dead Lady of Clown Town" by Cordwainer Smith]
Veegl, mobile plants ["Eripmav" by Damon Knight]
V -- slimy, beastly ["Social Lapses" by Darrell Schweiter]
octopodal ["The Bug-eyed Musicians" by Laurence M. Junifer]
Pollux [beta Gemini]
IV Vainmill Syndicate's Alien Education Fund [Eros Descending by Mike Resnick]
V Zwergwelt, dwarvish Zwergs and elementals [Conscience Interplanetary by Joseph Green]
Polluxians lost civilization ["Something Else" by Robert J. Tilly]
Procyon [alpha Canis Minoris]
III, The Company, Crazy Mel's Transport Resale Center ["Space Raiders" by Howard R. Cowen]
IV, anatians colony [Quack #5 by Ken Macklin]
Isis, Isidians, elephantoid with hand-like trunk [The Queen of Zamba by L. Sprague de Camp]
Osiris, Sha'akhfa, small tyrannosauroid [Viagens Interplanetarias series by L. Sprague de Camp]
Perratin, Procyonites, small stegosauroids [Thor Annual #6]
Thothians, androgenous monkey-rats [The Queen of Zamba by L. Sprague de Camp]
humanoids [The Star Conquerors by Ben Bova]
12-limbed insectoids ["Comet Divers" by Edmond Hamilton]
Regulus [alpha Leonis]
II Arodi, saurians, Human colonists [The World of the Federations by Shane Johnson]
III one moon [The World of the Federations by Shane Johnson]
V bloodworm [The World of the Federations by Shane Johnson]
Regulians made 1st contact with T'sai ["The Interlopers"]
Rigel [beta Orionis]
green-brown sphere with many long arms ["Out Around Rigel" by Robert H. Wilson]
II tentacled, four-mouthed cylinder [Lensmen series by E. E. Smith]
III jeuneans, founders of Rigellian Empire [Thor #129]
IV Goohrk, Human colony [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson]
V, Vulcan colonists [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson]
VI, starport [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson]
VII green, one-eyed cephalopodans ["Simpsons" series, "Menagerie" by Gene Roddenberry], Kalar neanderthaloids [The World of the Federation by Shane Johnson, Flash Gordon: "Heat Wave" ]
VIII Orion, jauneans and vertian animal-women [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson], intelligent apes [Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle], insectoid predecessors of Tzen ["Remember" by Bucky and Juanita Coulson]
IX, Tamaran City
Karthis, cephalopodan Nioth-Karghai [The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson]
Baltoon, azurians [Zen Intergalactic Ninja #1 by Steve Stern and Dan Cole], scaly, hairless azurian with crest [Mind for Trade by Andre Norton]
XII, desert dilithium mining colony ["Mudd's Women" by Gene Roddenberry]
tall, avians ["The Dead Planet" by Edmond Hamilton]
Rigil Kentaurus
II - panthallasssic, Alphans on one artificial island [Encyclopedia Galactica]
III - scaly, purple Arimans [Sub-Mariner #17]
V Axaanivus Celesco Starcraft shipyard [Ships of the Star Fleet]
VII Cochrane Warp Dynamics [Ships of the Star Fleet]
six-armed, one-eyed cylindroid ["Curse of Peladon" by Brian Hayles]
dome-headed, yellow-skinned with proboscis and tentacles ["Yeah!" by Peter Bagge and Gilbert Hernandez]
Proxima II shapeshifters [The Face-eater by Simon Messingham]
Chain Rifts [The Mary-Sue Extrusion by Dave Stone]
Sirius [alpha Canis Majoris]
III Adrozani Minor ["The Caves of Adrozani Minor" by Robert Holmes], humanoids [Avengers #36], [Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein]
IV Adrozani Major ["The Caves of Adrozani Minor" by Robert Holmes], humanoids [Avengers #36], Cochrane Research Facility disaster, saurians ["V"]
VI Sirius Joe's [The Tick: The Karma Tornado]
VII hypersonic truth-tellers ["The Bug-eyed Musicians" by Laurence M. Jenifer]
IX ant-like [Viagens Interplanetarias series by L. Sprague de Camp]
Kailoo ["Gulliver Joi" by Elbert Perce, "The Struggle for Empire" by Robert W. Cole]
Kroto -- fierson homeworld [Jets*Rockets*Spacemen Trading Cards]
Yomot -- green nonapod [X-Men #37]
imperialists ["Starship Invasions"]
ovoids ["Proof" by Hal Clement]
green-furred decapodal warriors [The Age of the Pussyfoot by Frederik Pohl]
Spica [alpha Virginis]
II, shipbuilding [Oracle by Mike Resnick]
IV, empaths [Hunters of the Red Moon by Marion Zimmer Bradley]
VI, mining colony [Oracle by Mike Resnick]
VII, with seal-like head, long arms, kangaroo-like tail ["A Planet for Texans" by H. Beam Piper]
green and yellow saurians ["Schwartz Between the Galaxies" by Robert Silverberg]
Vega [alpha Lyrae]
I -- Citadel, enemy of Tamarans [Green Lantern #141]
II, source of triple-fire gems ["That Share of Glory" by C. M. Kornbluth], Human mining colony ["Menagerie" by Gene Roddenberry]
Kalthar -- pointy-eared, coneheaded, horizontal noseslitted humanoids, glagon homeworld ["Deadly Planet" by James Opie]
Vegia -- felinians [Lensman series by E. E. Smith]
VIII -- Tamara, tall, bronze-skinned felinians [DC Comics Presents by Marv Wolfman]
IX -- Kesir-Tosharra, scora homeworld [Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson]
XIII -- Okaara, warrior training colony [Green Lantern #141], snow lizard homeworld [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams]
XVI -- Euphorix, humanoids [Green Lantern #141]
Yeracsin, luminous spheres [The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson]
horned humanoid giants [Tales to Astonish #58]
vertians [Green Lantern #141]
telepaths [This Immortal by Roger Zelazny]
creamy-furred marsupial ["Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" by Robert Heinlein]
hominids [The Star Conquerors by Ben Bova]
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