Five Real Star Systems That Often Appear in Sci-Fi

[@Spacedock]

Whoops, got mixed up a bit there. It was the Vulcans that broke the Tau Ceti Accords and set up that listening post, not the Andorians. My bad, still haven't quite got a handle on working without a script.

[@Gelb33]

Was about to tell you that. Funny thing is it was the first episode of Star Trek Enterprise I've watched.lol Just wanted to let you know you forgot about the Draconis system, home of the Minbari (supposedly) and also a major point of conflict in the Wing Commander series.

[@thomaswijgerse723]

And procyon, location of the andorian honeworld.

[@MidnightMoon197]

Spacedock, Interesting video. I would love to see you make a video on Real Galaxies used in fiction.

[@HuggieBear39]

Glad you corrected yourself I was gonna yell at you once I finished the video. :)

[@shadowqueen1701]

HuggieBear39 I was gonna yell at you too.

[@SamaritanPrime]

Fun fact: in Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Padme Amidala mentions that the planet of Geonosis is "less than a parsec" away from the planet of Tatooine. I only mention it because, if the math holds up, then Tatooine and Geonosis are closer in the vast vacuum of space than the Solar System is to Alpha Centauri.

[@dionemoolman]

The way I see it is that Parsec means a different length in the Star Wars universe. Parsec in our own universe means one arc second of parallax made by the Earth going round the Sun. Since Earth doesn’t exist in Star Wars (or at least isn’t relevant), the length of a parsec would depend on which star they used and whether an arc second is the same angle as it is for us. It could be less than a light year or thousands.

[@lyly_lei_lei]

@@dionemoolman Coruscant is used as the base unit of measurement for everything. Coruscant has the same size, day, and orbital characteristics as earth, so a parsec is probably very close if not exactly the same.

[@dionemoolman]

@@lyly_lei_lei But we don’t know how their angles work. Maybe they divide the sky into 1000 degrees, with 100 minutes a degree and 100 seconds a minute. That would make a parsec 300 light years, which is more realistic.

[@lyly_lei_lei]

@@dionemoolman You’re just speculating. Also, in the galactic map, Tatooine and Geonosis are right next to each other.

[@Aethgeir]

The reality is, George Lucas didn't know what a parsec was when the original star wars came out. So after years of dorky fans pointing out the mistake, he figured he'd correct the problem in the prequels. The funny thing is, he's still wrong, because it's unlikely for two star systems to be that close together at the outer edge of a galaxy.

[@GabrielGABFonseca]

Hey man, just a thing I wanted to point out: when describing Alpha Centauri, you say Proxima orbits the "Lagrange Point" of the other two stars. That's actually incorrect. Proxima orbits the Barycentre of Alpha Centauri AB -- A Barycentre being the center of mass of a system. It's as if you were able to put the two stars on a lever: the point on the lever where you could balance the two stars is the Barycentre. Other than that, fantastic video! Great job!

[@Spacedock]

Damn, I was super suspicious of that bit, thought I might have got something wrong.

[@mancubwwa]

Also, honestly describing Alpha Centauri without even mentioning that Proxima actually does have an Earth size planet in it's golidilocks zone is quite a big omission

[@eatgreencrayons]

@@mancubwwa While that's cool, it's not really relevant to the video.

[@cadkls]

@@eatgreencrayons Usually solar systems that are mentioned in scifi have significant planets in them. Would it not be prudent to include a mere mention?

[@TheT7770ify]

I didn't realize Reach was in an actual star system

[@Dahaka27]

TandBinc11 What this guy said. Apparently slipspace journeys to Harvest took months and were rather dangerous for a while. It's actually quite odd in Halo. Star systems are counted as inner or outer colonies depend on how easy it is to get there from Earth, not usually their distance.

[@CD-Gaming]

An actual planet too!

[@Yingyanglord1]

Makes a lot of since and is a way I never thought to divide systems

[@Starfloofle]

@@Dahaka27 If you've ever played Stellaris, you can think about it like Hyperlane jumps-- sectors are built based on jump distance and neither the length of those hyperlanes nor the distance between two actual linked stars

[@ETHRON1]

I think most places in SF has some factual basis except SW.

[@Sector001ked]

40 Eridani = Vulcan home world and star system.

[@eatgreencrayons]

Wait seriously? That's only 16 LY away. Suddenly it doesn't seem so far fetched that a Vulcan scout ship just happened to be passing through the Sol system when Zefram Cochrane made the first human warp jump. They probably did regular sweeps of nearby systems.

[@JustAnotheNeoSilver]

Tau Ceti, it's also worth noting, is the setting of the original Marathon, an older Bungie game and the spiritual predecessor to Halo. In that universe, it was meant to be humanity's first extra-solar colony, but it didn't work out that way; it ended up being the start of a war between humanity and the Pfhor.

[@the_freebeard]

Zeta Reticuli is system where the titular alien from the Alien franchise is found, including LV-223 from Prometheus. It is also the home system of the Chigs from Space Above and Beyond. Lastly, it features prominently in a lot of alien abduction and conspiracy theories. Most notably, the Betty and Barney Hill incident.

[@spatialgaming1967]

Zeta Trianguli also features in David Weber's Empire From the Ashes book trilogy as the location of the first major battle of the Terran offensive against the Aku'Ultan's Great Visit.

[@elbone4114]

i thought the world that prometheus went too was in Gliese 326-3827

[@LtCWest]

I never realised that Bab5 was closer to Earth then Arcturus Station. Also, the Elite-universe, because it has ALL systems. ^^

[@jaspervlogt3843]

true, but then include Procyon

[@boreasreal5911]

Hutton Orbital :D

[@fraserdowd6552]

@@boreasreal5911 Remember you get a free anaconda

[@JordonVirtue]

"...Vancouver is the capital of Earth" So rent will have gone... down?

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Well, it's all free real estate now!

[@JordonVirtue]

With Bioware being a Canadian company I can see why they'd wanna toot that horn. The funny thing is, Bioware was founded in Edmonton. Guess they figured nobody would buy a western prairie city being capital of earth. As someone from a different prairie province, I know all about that inferiority complex haha.

[@Will831100]

If its like London, up.

[@ahcokris]

yeah, but first there will be world wars three and four, several minor plauges which shrink the population by 89,97%, and then vancuver can be world capital. when all the five inhabitants of the planet raise their hands and vote for it to become so. =) no sooner

[@TheArklyte]

Is that a Stargate joke?

[@datsun210]

Who can forget Robbie the Robot offering, "Welcome to Altair-4 Gentlemen" in Forbidden Planet.

[@nonmomentus4116]

Surely, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri would be worth mentioning? When things get unpleasant on Earth, the UN decides to send a colony ship to a planet in the system. In the game, the player is tasked with leading the colony founded by one of the factions that formed during the journey, competing or cooperating with the others.

[@alexandernikolaus3451]

I loved that game I could play it for day's. Also as a side note every once in a while I would got evil dictator and turn on cheat mode and Nuke everyone. Enemies, random mindworm swarm's, volcano's, rebelling colonies.... I also liked tweaking the code and writing different bio's for the characters.

[@barrywhite6060]

I loved that game too, do they even still make it. It was on the apple Store years ago but I haven't heard about a new game coming out.

[@DaytonaRoadster]

> mentions alpha centuri > does mention sid meyer alpha centuri Feels bad man

[@Ryvaken]

The progenitor aliens in SMAX repeatedly mention a scientific experiment turned disaster that destroyed their civilization. It happened in Tau Ceti.

[@stevearmstrong9213]

No mention of the 'real' small furry animals that come from there, either. Set the ravenous Bugblatter beast of Traal on them.

[@VladimirLorenzo-k4k]

The Hyperion series also includes some of these systems, the most notable of them (or at least the one I remember from when I last read them) being the capital planet within the Tau Ceti system.

[@McLaughification]

Hyperion doesn't get enough love

[@JimbobHarrigan1984]

Tau Ceti was also the site of a battle in the Mirror Universe where a Terran assault fleet was virtually destroyed by rebels in 2155

[@DocWolph]

Rigel. About 800 light years from Sol. It seems to get mentioned or used at least once in nearly every sci-fi series that has Earth in it.

[@ShiftyMcGoggles]

Even Farscape.

[@weldonwin]

@@ShiftyMcGoggles Nobody tell the Ex-Dominar he has a star named after him, there is only so much ego that can fit inside such a small alien

[@dionemoolman]

Which is weird as Rigil is a terrible location for a setting. The star is only a few million years old and is very massive, meaning that planets can’t have formed there, and there’s too much ultraviolet radiation. Even a planet did form and somehow retained an atmosphere, there’s not enough time for life to evolve before the star dies.

[@lyly_lei_lei]

@@dionemoolman Correct. If you ever had a science fiction adventure go to Betelgeuse, you’d probably only find a black hole/neutron star because the star has probably collapsed by then.

[@peterkrochmalni673]

@@dionemoolman I guess it depends on which Star of Rigel we are talking about, there are three of them.

[@dionemoolman]

I think it would be interesting to see a science fiction world which takes place exclusively in the region near Sol. There are enough systems to make it interesting, and it could make a fun concept. So many times we see civilisations go from discovering FTL to being galactic species in a matter of decades, and seeing the middle period where we can travel light years in a few days but not able to cross hundreds of light years in hours like in Star Wars or Star Trek would be interesting.

[@sultanofsick]

Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2 is almost this. There are instant FTL "jump nodes" linking systems, but the human settled space only spans a few systems out from Sol in a fairly local cluster. I wouldn't say it centers around that concept though. The big bads come from beyond this space to kick our asses, and in the sequel we venture far out into "their" unknown space through a portal.

[@striderSA]

So, fun fact: I actually have a simmering concept in this vein I've been working on for a while. But if / whenever it comes out (or even in what form) I can't predict. Still, glad to see some excitement for the same foundational idea!

[@volderhamer]

You might want to check out "We are Legion" by Dennis Taylor.

[@Brakkart]

Tau Ceti is also the system where the Homeworld of the lizard-like The Race aliens, who feature in Harry Turtledove's epic World War alternate history series, where their invasion fleet attacks Earth in 1942. Also this video was awesome, blending fiction & reality together, please do more of these!

[@MrMustang1945]

Alpha Centauri is usually the location for the Science Victory in the Civilization series. Not to mention that there was a game centered around the system as well.

[@joelker41]

I'm so happy you mentioned Freespace. Such a great and ahead of its time game. I put it (and the sequel) and Republic Commando in my top 5 still. They are amazing games for any era.

[@MrChristopher586]

Freespace was truly amazing!

[@The_Viscount]

You played Freespace??!! I would love to see ship breakdowns of Freespace 1, 2, and Blue Planet. It's a great series that it seems nobody has heard of. And Blue planet is my favorite FS2 mod acting as a third installment. Long live the GTA!

[@MrChristopher586]

Yes, there should be at least ONE single video dedicated to Freespace if not a whole series. Freespace was simply grand!

[@lovipoekimo176]

I love Alpha Centauri & Epsilon Eridani from Babylon 5. In Star Trek, Alpha Centauri is the retirement system of Zefram Cochrane. Tau Ceti is the homeworld of the Jaridians from Earth Final Conflict. Also, Deneb appears frequently in sci fi too.

[@Jebbis]

Epsilon Eridani is also the home system of the Eridani Light Horse, one of the oldest mercenary units that traces it's lineage back to the Star League Defense Force.

[@danielhaire6677]

Cool video. Only mistake I caught was that it wasn't the Andorians who set up the listening post underneath the P'Jem monastery, it was the Vulcans. Other than that, I continue to enjoy your sci-fi videos. They have been brilliant covering sof various ships, people and tech from various sci-fi franchises. One request, can you do one for the SDF-1 Macross from Macross/Robotech?

[@otheraccount5252]

"and not even a torpedo that hit anything." I blame Julie.

[@ClassicMagicMan]

Can't catch the Razorbaaaack! :3

[@t3h51d3w1nd3r]

this was a really good idea for mini series even just a few, its always good to mix fact with fiction and to learn about other scifi series, love ur vids, keep up the good work

[@banzeyegaming2234]

You forgot to mention Tau Ceti also appeared in the Hyperion Cantos as the capital system to the Hegemony of Man, the human empire of this universe. If you haven’t, give it a read, it’s really good!

[@robaitken4592]

A Descent Freespace call out? Excellent! Fantastic set of games, god how I wish they made a third one - The absolute pinnacle of space flight sim games

[@MrChristopher586]

A very underappreciated game!

[@therealderjett]

That was a great break down of some pivotal story plot points.

[@datfisheboi6519]

I do wish we would have done a spoiler alert though... I have just started watching Babylon 5

[@therealderjett]

Dat Fishe Boi you are joking about a spoiler alert for Series this old?

[@datfisheboi6519]

Dave J As I said, I’m only just watching it now. People actually still watch those.

[@therealderjett]

Dat Fishe Boi I have all of the box sets so I get that people still watch these shows. I just don't think anything older than 10 years qualify for spoiler warnings. Bab 5 is a common topic of discussion on any sci fi forum. It would be like saying you don't want to be spoiled on Starwars episode 3.

[@datfisheboi6519]

Dave J Well, I know not to read Babylon 5 forums or watch videos that say they are about Babylon 5. This video gave no indication that it would give spoilers for Babylon 5. And it would not take that much, just before spoiling, just take a few seconds to say “and, spoilers for Babylon 5” or something

[@valen123456]

In the Honorverse novel series the Epsilon Eridani system was also important. Although it does not appear directly it was the source of the Eridani Edict, a law which heavily regulated the use of orbital bombardment techniques after a kinetic strike there resulted in 7 billion civilian deaths. Violating the edict would result in the star nation performing it loosing it's right of sovereignty and being targeted and shunned by virtually any other star nation.

[@jesseberg3271]

Sigma Draconis is another real system. 18 light years out and home (we hope) to the planet Beowulf and the Beowulf terminus of the Manticoran wormhole junction.

[@KevinSmithGeo]

@@jesseberg3271 Well, it's either 18 ly to galactic spinward, or 40 ly to galactic north.

[@thesealsharkproductions9780]

He’s right

[@callumrhodes6010]

For the record, it was the Vulcans that set up that listening post under the Vulcan monastery of P'jem. The Andorian commander Shran led a team there to try to uncover the Vulcan deception. You probably just misspoke as it can be an easy thing to to but this is just for clarity.

[@crashstudi0s]

Daniel mentioned Descent: Freespace, again, my day got better in that single moment

[@MrChristopher586]

That game! I think I spent more listening and thinking about space in that game than any one other sci-fi game or story. It built my childhood impression of space. It is the space game by which I personally compare all other space sci-fi to. Such a beautiful and tragic story. Descent: Freespace and Freespace II !

[@VentXekart]

Tau Ceti was also the starting location in the campaign for Conquest: Frontier Wars and I believe that is where the terraformers that eventually evolved into the Sentients from Warframe were sent.

[@Jartist234]

Alpha Centauri has also appeared as the location for several missions for the Decent Freespace and Freespace 2 games. I can't recall the exact details, but some of the missions in this location had importance to the game's story.

[@sanghelian]

If you include videogames in this too you REALLY shouldnt have skipped how notorious proxima centauri is in Elite:dangerous

[@LtCWest]

Hutton Orbital Only once....

[@sanghelian]

LtCWest it would make a nice theme party :)

[@Distress.]

Explain

[@sanghelian]

X3C well you gather some friends, snacks and beer. You set up elite on a big screen(projector etc.) Party starts at alpha centauri and ends when ship reaches hutton orbital. Swap out pilot at reasonable intervals. Sort of like a "wake" for the ship.

[@AridosUK]

I still haven't received my mug yet

[@IffyJottere]

A few mentions for you @Spacedock, good video! I'd like to add a few things. 1: Tau Ceti was also the location to which the first hyperjump was made via Kearny-Fuchida Drive in the universe of BattleTech / MechWarrior, ushering in the age of expansion and the first most signifigant step in the founding of the Star League. 2: Another real set of stars is used in the Dune novels, with Arrakis (Dune) itself being the fourth planet surrounding the star of Canopus, AKA Alpha Carinae, in the constellation of Carina. The same universe sees Caladan, the oceanic birthworld of Paul Atreides, at Delta Pavonis, in the constellation Pavo. Their rivals, the Harkonnens, hail from Giedi Prime, a planet orbiting the star 36 Ophiuchi B, in the constellation of Ophiuchus, which narrowly missed being a Zodiac sign. Nearly every planet is given a real-world astronomical location in the Dune novels. 3: Speaking of Ophiuchus, that star system factors heavily in the (as yet unread by me, but happily owned) story of "The Ophiuchi Hotline" by John Varley, about a spacefaring post-earth society receiving vast technological and biological information from an unidentifiable signal from that constellation.

[@MrChristopher586]

I love your channel and your starship assessments. BUT, I surprisingly found this video far more exciting than I expected. To know there are non-fictional places in space used within fiction is amazing and I always wondered how these real world (real space?) locations match up to their portrayal in various science fiction stories. I'd like to request another video done on more real star systems and what they are like. The stars and their exoplanets within them. What people think they are like now and what we may find out they are really like in actual space travel in the next thousand years. Will our descendants laugh at us as to how miserably wrong we got these places in our sci-fi the same way we laugh at concepts in sci-fi written 50 to 100 years ago. Great video!!!

[@JediAcolyte94]

This was really interesting and informative. Hope to see you cover Star Fox related stuff in the future.

[@timothyp873]

Incidently Wolf 359 is the setting for a interesting podcast title well: Wolf 359.

[@christophergroenewald5847]

If I remember right the only time u ever got to see Arcturus station in mass effect was after it was blown up. It is located in the nearby star cluster, The Arcturus stream and it guards the Arcturus Mass relay which is the only rely linking to the Charon relay and the Sol system. It also serves as Alliance HQ and as a ship yard for the various Alliance fleets

[@athrunzala6543]

personally I like the tau ceti system for an anime series I like called Bodacious Space Pirates. in the series the third planet is called Sea of the Morning Star

[@dixievfd55]

Alpha Centauri is also mentioned in Star Trek works alternately as one of the founding Federation members or as the first extrasolar Earth colony depending on the source. It is also known that Zefram Cochrane lived there for a while.

[@hatfield4805]

Loved the vid. Definitely had me glued listening

[@Viguier89]

I would like to mention the system of Altair in Forbidden Planet. I also really love the Arcturus system in Mass Effect.

Tau Ceti is also featured in the Foundation series. An ocean planet around it was partially terraformed by the Empire when Earth became too radioactive for life. The project was abandoned, but an artificial archipelago was built which supported a stable human population even after the Empire's collapse.

[@JCDFlex]

3:15 "...slightly smaller and cooler than our sun..." My brain went: Epsilon Eridani looks at our sun, puts on black sun glasses and goes all like "Deal with it!"

[@StarTrekGames]

Great catch from the game Star Trek Bridge Commander!

[@tennoshenaniganizer9234]

Alpha Centauri, or as Elite Dangerous players call it: Hutton

[@Nic0maK]

Mug!

[@SuperAerie]

Yeah....Hutton. Brings me back, and to the other things I started to do during the trip there

[@kfeltenberger]

A lot of these are familiar from Traveller: 2300/2300AD, the paper and pencil RPGs from the 80s/90s. That's a franchise I'd love to hear your take on.

[@Rose_Nebula]

Speaking of Alpha Centauri, do you have any thoughts on the new Lost in Space? Maybe an upcoming video?

[@Sifeus]

I'm halfway through Leviathan Wakes. Whoooooops

[@WillKeaton]

Tau Ceti was also the destination of the UESC Marathon in the Marathon games by Bungie. The Marathon is actually the Martian moon Deimos, having been hollowed out and turned into a spaceship.

[@princeprocrastinate6485]

Would love to see another video on real star systems used in science fiction!

[@billmorse5724]

My favorite use of Tau Ceti is as the location of the planet Plateau/Lookatthat in Larry Niven's Known Space series, specifically "A Gift From Earth".

[@VirulentShadow]

Tau Ceti is used in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos as well, as the center of human civilization after the Hegira.

[@coreydonaldson3303]

Very cool and interesting episode SpaceDock !

[@Fozz20Movies]

I think it was Vega that ended up being significant in FreeSpace 2 and the second Shivan war.

[@pudlordtynan919]

Oh Wolf 359 is actually real?

[@thebudgieadmiral5140]

Yes. I had a fun talk with my physics teacher after we did a task on Wolf 359. I then explained to him what role it played in Star Trek, and he greatly enjoyed it.

[@thebudgieadmiral5140]

Trek001 Dude you are bold! How did the exam turn out?

[@TheVeritas1]

+Pud Lord You're not alone. I thought Wolf 359 was fictional until I looked it up.

[@earnestbrown6524]

Greatest thing to come out of Wolf 359 is the "U.S.S. Ben Sisko's Mutha F***in' Pimp Hand." kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZisgJeZd9CesMk

[@keithperkins3798]

Pud Lord in the case of Star Trek, while many of the planetary systems within the Federation borders are made-up, they orbit actual known stars to give more realism to the show in terms of stellar locations. Also left out on Alpha Centauri was that was the original destination for the Jupiter 2 before she was lost in Lost in Space.

[@yankaichen6749]

Tau Ceti is also the capital of the Hegemony in Hyperion universe

[@ajlancjc99]

Five other often used star systems would be good for another video in the future.

[@mpetersen6]

Many moons ago there was some freeware on the Net called Its Full of Stars. It featured a massive number of stars in a scaled to distance. Iirc it also had data buried in it that if you expanded the view on a certain star you got any known exoplanets.

[@thegardenofesim1174]

I really wanted to go to Arcturus in the mass effect games it's a shame it was not available

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

The Garden of E sim 117 Considering it's the Mass Relay system for the cluster Eden Prime is in, I find it a real missed opportunity.

[@thegardenofesim1174]

Velociraptors of Skyrim I wish if there are prequels games or others we could see the capital of the alliance that would be nice

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

The Garden of E sim 117 Indeed.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Connor O'Brien I know,. But I wish we could visit Arcturus before the invasion.

[@jediarchives7826]

I remember one time in Stellaris the Ether Drake spawned in Tau Ceti for me

[@wickiei4556]

First time my notification worked in time! Great video and i would have loved to go to Arcturus, but i think the station looks more like a ship

[@NurmYokai]

Alpha Centuri - Lost in Space, TV original series, movie, Netflix series Wolf 359 - Outer Limits episode Wolf 359 (1964) And you left out one of the most famous: Altair - Forbidden Planet (1956), Star Trek original series, Star Trek TNG, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who

[@cosmicprison9819]

No love for Teegarden's Star? Great, then I can use it in my story instead 😁. It's slightly further away from Earth than some of the other candidates here, but Teegarden b has the highest Earth-similarity index so far, so it's worth the longer trip.

[@tonathazcarate4517]

Very good video. Just a small correction. The Vulcans were the ones that violated the Tau Ceti accords by installing a listening station below the P’Jem monastery, not the Abdorians.

[@SuperS05]

All of those systems were very important in the bobiverse series. I particularly liked epsilon eridani segment.

[@utoro5]

There is also Tau Ceti from Battletech. It is the forst colony outside te solar system, which was settled in 2116, nine years after KF-drive was created.

[@gab211985]

Epsilon eridani is mentioned in the honnor harington books as a edict to prevent the slaughter of civilians when attacking a planet

[@followerofjulian1652]

Wolf 359: "Outer Limits" (TOS) episode "Wolf 359" Altair: "Forbidden Planet" (1956 film) Vega: "Contact" (1997 film)

[@xensan76]

I urge you to check out Alpha Centauri, the PC 4X game. We need sci-fi of that quality, badly.

[@jacenvila3962]

Vega is the star from where "The message" is sent from in Carl Sagan's Contact. I know it's not a classical science fiction universe, but it's a rather interesting one.

[@TheLycanThroope]

Epsilon eridani also appeared in the Bobiverse series as a hub for ship building and R&D

[@Sinapus]

Epsilon Eridani is also important in the Honor Harrington series, since an atrocity that killed billions in that system is the reason for the Solarian League's Eridani Edict. A set of rules on how to handle attacking an inhabited planet and if you violate it, the Solarian League Navy will come after you.

[@johnparadox9429]

#1 Wolf 359 is also the system recreated in the original Outer Limits episode Wolf 359.

[@lucofparis4819]

The Arcturus system is also the capital of the Arcturus Sector, where the heroes of the book Earth and Foundation discovered Earth again (written by Isaac Asimov). Centauri is also featured in this book. Both are said to be part of humanity's first wave of colonization.

[@ebay242628]

Wolf 359 was also the title of an episode of the original Outer Limits.

[@BurnCorpoMedia79]

Great video! Keep it up!

[@TinaLouise73]

Space facinates me no end! So meny diffrent world's we have yet to discover and study! Sci-fi takes us there and I love it! Wish we had the technology to actually visit these worlds! N to think most of these are just in our own galaxy alone!

[@steeler180]

In college we had a relativity problem. That took us from Earth to Tau Ceti. From which the professor and all the students realize that relativity is very picky on who is the Observer and who is traveling.

[@patrickschulz2193]

Brennan's Triumph in the X games is Alpha Centauri apparently. The now-destroyed Gate there used to lead to Earth's homebrewed Gate.

[@gummihu]

In the Honorwerse the Eridani edict are the regulation on when orbital bombardment is permissible, named after the Epsilon Eridani incident where cargo shuttles were filled with rocks and flown into a inhabited planet around Epsilon Eridani

[@coreydonaldson3303]

Season Three of The Expanse has been pretty awesome so far !

[@Edd25164605]

I always had a problem with the battle of wolf 359. Its suggested the Federation lost a large percentage of its fleet (39 ships). Yet later on we learn individual Federation fleets consist of hundreds of ships. In one Episode of DS9 they state the Federation 9th fleet had 112 ships. In 'Sacrifice of Angels' Captain sisko had to make do with an under strength fleet of 627 Ships for Operation Return

[@SPatrickRoss]

Tau Ceti is also the home system of Marika, the main character in Bodacious Space Pirates.

[@samspeed6271]

My personal favourite is 40 Eridani A, which is used as Vulcan in Star Trek. It's about 16 light years away

[@Okiedog1]

Altair! Seen in an old Sci fi movie called "Forbidden Planet". Also supposedly a major world in Star Trek.

[@Keisper92]

Epsilon Eridani is also home system for Chasm City and thosands of habitats built in asteroid belt in Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space-series.

[@RebeccaCampbell1969]

2:14 the Andorians weren't the ones who "violated" the agreement, they were the ones who destroyed the monastery and the listening post below… built by the Vulcans, the ones who broke the treatment

[@RebeccaCampbell1969]

read the explanation/apology after writing this… never mind

[@PassiveSmoking]

Arcturus appears many times in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. It's the home of megagnats, megadonkeys, megacamels and lots of other interesting fauna and flora, all of it mega.

[@MikeJMurdock]

I know Alpha Centauri was used in the PS1 space flight game series Colony wars in various different paths ( The games had different paths if your succeed in a campaign or fail it). Once such path if your fail the campaign in the Gallonigher system (a fictional system in the game which is the home system of the league of free worlds [one of the two factions] ) you go to Diomedes to prepare to hit the colonial navy hard in Alpha Centauri, but you can also be send there if your fail the campaign in the Draco system

[@AridosUK]

MikeJMurdock down with the earth empire, long live the father of the league

[@MikeJMurdock]

The navy fighters do weak empire damage. our glorious League S-21 Eclipses do REAL league damage :)

[@BartRos1980]

Epsilon Eridani also was greatly featured in Revelation Space book series. One of the best Sci fi series.

[@gaylordzapikowski9053]

Don't forget the Battle of Tau Ceti in Halo

[@pedromoreira6720]

Tau Ceti is also the star of Aurora, the greatest Spacer world of the book series "Robots/The Caves of Steel" written by Isaac Asimov

[@RRW359]

Tau Seti was also the site of a major battle that happened in the mirror universe just before the Enterprise episode "In a Mirror Darkly" between the Terran Empire and the rebels. All that is known is that it went badly, although that was not how it was presented to the public.

[@coreymicallef365]

The thing about the Andorrians setting up a listening post at P'jem (spellimg?) against the Vulcans has it backwards, the Vulcans were spying on the Andorrians.

[@Doppleganger1983]

Proxima Centauri was also the intended destination of the Event Horizon :)

[@charvolth]

For Battletech Fans, Arcturus is the first capital of the Lyran Commonwealth till it was moved to Tharkad. The Arcturan Guard is still a fairly prominent line of Lyran battlmech regiments.

[@HexAyed]

Epsilon Eridani is also the home of Tribute, Circumstance and Tantalus You also have Harvest, in the Epsilon Indi system

[@UltimaSigmarAlonso]

Would you do the new ships from the expanse ?