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Sol is humanity’s home stellar system and a strategic subject in the story. Accord and Imperial voices classify its political status differently. Those competing territorial claims are preserved in their respective Codex accounts.
At a glance
- Humanity’s Solar System
- Earth is its populated focal world in the novel
- Accord and Theron records assert different political status
In the novel
Selected passages from P.X: No Man’s Space.
Only eleven light-years away lay Earth, now drawn into the heart of that contest. Its position made neutrality impossible. Control of Earth meant command of the gateway behind it, and Oron did not need the projections to tell him what that gateway was worth: access to the Neutral Zone’s vast veridite fields, the resource on which faster-than-light power ultimately depended. The planet was no longer a distant curiosity. It had become a variable in every calculation, a risk neither side could ignore, and the prize both powers were learning to name.
The planet blinked. A targeting marker locked over the Sol system on cue.