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Albireo
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Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds A - B
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 Image from Steve Bowers | |
| Albireo A is 4000 AU from Albireo B at closest approach. Albireo B is a fast rotating blue star with Be characteristics; Albireo A is a giant yellow star, with a yellow dwarf companion at 40 AU and an even smaller red dwarf companion at less than one AU (in this image, the red dwarf is too dim to be visible) | |
The primary is Albireo A, a K3II bright yellow giant star with two smaller companions, and the companion Albireo B is blue. Distance about 386 light years from Sol. The system was developed early on by a number of superbright and posthuman clades. Presently a major stargate plexus and Known Net Relay along the route linking the Inner Sphere with the Cygexpa Middle Volumes. Capital system of the Albireo Confluence.
Industries include datastorage, virchrunning, amat production, anakalyptics, ultratech futures exchange, avatar templates and persona production, finance, media, magmatter computronium development, heavy industry, shipyards, archailectology, and clarketech analysis.
The Albireo Confluence
Association of some 2000 distinct superbright and transapient polities in and around Albireo. The Confluence also extends through Known Net and Wormhole Nexus relays and links to a large number of local and distant systems. Historically it has expanded outwards primarily through the old and the current Cygexpa wormhole /stargate nexus, but it has also established its sphere of influence along other wormhole axes. Economically and memetically the Confluence dominates the Albireo Plexus.The Albireo Plexus
Volume of space of 500,000 cubic light years, approximately centered on Albireo. Fairly densely populated and well settled region, including a number of important cultural and infrastructure centers.Although it includes many systems closely affiliated with several of the bigger super-empires like the Solar Dominion and the MPA, most of the polities in this sector have only nominal allegiance, or are completely independent.
Most of these polities have links and ties through the Cygexpa wormhole plexus, and many of these systems serve as something of a waystation between the Inner Sphere and the Cygexpa Outer Volume.
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Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 31 December 2001.
Combined together from 3 related articles (Albireo, Albireo Confluence, Albireo Plexus) in May 2025
Initially published on 31 December 2001.
Combined together from 3 related articles (Albireo, Albireo Confluence, Albireo Plexus) in May 2025
