The Kupier Belt

The Kupier belt is simply a massive ring of asteroids and dwarf planets (such as Pluto/Charon, Sedna, Eris, etc.) orbiting the sun on the very perimeter of our solar system. These asteroids are primarily used as listening posts, neutral trading grounds, and for mining.

Geography

The Kuiper belt consists of hundreds of thousands of asteroids, some being no larger than a golf ball, while others are many kilometers across. Larger planetoids found within the belt are home to millions of people living on spinning habitation rigs, mining bases, fuel depots, and construction yards.

Fauna & Flora

The Kuiper belt is famous for having the first specimens of alien life ever found by humankind, being a form of anaerobic bacteria living on the dwarf planet 90482 Orcus. These bacteria are the only known lifeforms to have naturally evolved outside of Earth within the Terran System. The bacteria are fairly mundane and posses no truly unique qualities, despite its seemingly exotic origins. They exist around cryovolcanoes, and consume what little amounts of hydrocarbons they can find, such as methane, to sustain themselves.

Natural Resources

Asteroids within the Kuiper belt consist primarily of water and methane ice. However, a very considerable portion of them contain metals such as Iron, Copper, Nickle, and Gold. While these rocky asteroids are comparably "rare" to icy asteroids, they each have billions of tons of materials, meaning anyone who manages to claim one will be stacked with a sizeable fortune of credits if they were to mine it out and sell the materials to a production company. Even still, there is a considerable fortune to be made off of icy asteroids; given we are water based creatures, a freighter full of ice would be able to turn a considerable profit should they sell to a colony in need of water.

Alternative Name(s)

The Outer Belt, Trans-Neptunian Belt

Type

Asteroid belt

Location under

Major Planets

Included Organizations

• Morgan & Shang Factorium Inc.