| The Solar Republic is the official name of the Earth Empire, a polity spanning all nine explored quadrants, comprising over eighty inhabited systems, and with a population of almost 50 billion. Humans have been in space for over 500 years, but the planet Earth in the Sol System remains the cradle of civilisation, and the centre of the oldest and most respected polity of those now representing Humanity. |
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