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Abeir-Toril

Abeir-Toril (or commonly referred to as Toril) is the name of the fictional planet that makes up the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings and the 1st edition version of the...

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Alaspin

Alaspin is a fictional planet created by Alan Dean Foster for his Humanx Commonwealth universe. The planet has large jungles surrounded by equally large savannas and river plains; its only notable celestial feature is two moons. Currently the planet...

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Alderaan

Alderaan is a planet in the universe of Star Wars. It is the home of Princess Leia, Bail Organa and also, in 4000 BBY, Ulic Qel Droma who fought in the Great Sith War. Its name was most likely taken from the disused real star name Alderaan. There...

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Altair IV

Altair IV is entirely fictional, featured in the 1956 MGM classic science fiction film Forbidden Planet. This fourth planet orbiting the star Alpha Aquilae, or Altair, 16.7 light-years (98 trillion miles) from our Sun, is a rocky, terrestrial world....

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Anacreon

A fictional planet from Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, Anacreon is one of the most important worlds in the galactic periphery prior to the fall of the Galactic Empire. During the 12,000 years of the Galactic Empire, Anacreon was one of the...

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Anarres

Anarres is one of two inhabited planets of Tau Ceti, in the 'Ekumen' science fiction novels by Ursula K. Le Guin. Being the smaller body of a double planet system with Urras, Anarres is largely covered by land while having two large seas as the...

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Annubis

Annubis is a fictional planet created by Alan Dean Foster for his Humanx Commonwealth universe. The planet is most notable for the Hyperion forests from which the drug bloodhype is manufactured. In an attempt to eradicate the highly addictive and...

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Apokolips

In the DC Comics fictional shared Universe, Apokolips is the planet ruled by Darkseid, established in Jack Kirby's Fourth World series. It is also integral to many DC Comics stories. The planet is considered the opposite of New Genesis. Apokolips (a...

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Arcturus

In Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, Arcturus is one of the major planets. It was capital of the Sirius Sector in the Galactic Empire, and later of the Arcturus Sector. It was falsely believed by a number of late Imperial Archaeologists such as...

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Ark

Ark (Russian: Ковчег, Kovcheg) is a fictional planet described in Space Mowgli (Малыш) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. This planet is a part of the so called Noon Universe and presents a barren world very similar to Earth in all aspects except the...

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Arrakis

Arrakis (الراقص ar-rāqiṣ, "the dancer"), informally known as Dune and later called Rakis, is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert. Herbert's originating 1965 novel Dune is popularly considered one of the...

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Askone

Askone is a planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation. It is one of the planets in the Galactic Periphery, near Glyptal IV. After the successful rebellion of Askone against the Galactic Empire, a Theocracy was set up, headed by a 'Grand Master' and...

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Athas

Athas is the name of the fictional planet on which the campaign setting known as Dark Sun is set, for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It is a desert planet, due to the decay of its sun, and overuse of a form of magic (Defiling)...

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Aurora

Aurora is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. It was the first world settled by the Spacers, originally named 'New Earth'; it was located 3.7 parsecs (12 light years) from Earth. The planet was the very first extrasolar colony world...

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Aurora

The planet Aurora along with its two satellites orbits Tau Ceti in Isaac Asimov’s “Robot” and “Foundation” novels.

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Bajor

In the fictional Star Trek universe, Bajor (IPA: /be'dᅧメo￉ᄍ/ or /be'ᅧメo￉ᄍ/) is the homeworld of the Bajoran. It orbits the star Bajor-B'hava'el in the Bajoran sector. The politics and culture of Bajor play an important role in the show Star Trek:...

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Barrayar

Barrayar is a fictional planet in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga series of science fiction novels and stories. The series takes place at a time which is, apparently, one thousand years in the future. It is an Earth-like planet with a 26.7...

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Bespin

Bespin is a fictional planet in Star Wars films and books. The planet was first seen in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. In the early Star Wars films, planets were usually depicted with one single environmental characteristic: Tatooine...

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Beta Colony

Beta Colony is an important planet (although rarely the setting) in Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction series the Vorkosigan Saga. The planet's biome is almost entirely desert, described as "screaming hot," and the colony itself exists primarily...

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Betazed

Betazed is a planet in the fictional television, movie, and book series Star Trek. The Class M planet is populated by a species of telepathic humanoids, the Betazoid. They were first brought into existence on the series when a half Human, half...

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Bismoll

Bismoll is a fictional planet in the 30th Century DC Universe. Its name is a pun on Pepto-Bismol. It is best known as the home of Legionnaire Matter-Eater Lad, whose ability to eat matter in all forms is shared by all natives of the planet. It is...

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Blasusarr

Blasusarr is a fictional planet created by Alan Dean Foster for his Humanx Commonwealth universe. It is the homeworld of the AAnn race and is often called the Imperial Home World. Climate is dry and hot, largely desert, the preferred atmospheric...

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Braal

Braal is a fictional planet in the DC Comics universe. It is the homeworld of a race of magnetism manipulators. Its most famous resident is Cosmic Boy, a DC Comics' superhero and founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. It was also home to his...

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Braddox

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Cachalot

Cachalot (1980) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. Cachalot is an ocean planet where humans have begun building floating cities. It is also the same planet where all of Earth’s cetaceans were transplanted six hundred years ago...

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Caladan

Caladan is a fictional planet in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. Caladan, the third planet of Delta Pavonis, is the ancestral fiefdom of House Atreides, and Paul Atreides' home for fifteen years. The Atreides family have controlled the...

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Caprica

￯ᄏ﾿Caprica is a fictional planet featured in both the original and re-imagined Battlestar Galactica science fiction television series. Caprica is devastated in the opening storyline for both the original series and the re-imagined series in a sneak...

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Cardassia Prime

Cardassia Prime (also known as "Cardassia") is the homeworld of the Cardassian in the fiction series Star Trek. In Cardassia's early history, its inhabitants were a peaceful and spiritual people. In the days of the First Hebitian Civilization, the...

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Centauri Prime

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Ciress

Ciress is a fictional planet, situated in CrossGen comic's fictional universe, the Sigilverse. It features primarily in the American comicbook series Mystic. Ciress is known for an unusually high concentration of Universal Energies. It has three...

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Colusa

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Comporellon

Comporellon is a planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. It orbits the star that is known today as Epsilon Eridani. This planet was supposedly known originally as Baleyworld, and later Benbally World, after its founder Bentley Baley, son of...

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Comptor

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Constantine III

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Corellia

Corellia is a fictional planet in the Star Wars galaxy. It is the homeworld of several notable characters, including Han Solo, Wedge Antilles, and Corran Horn. It is also the planet of origin to Juri Juice a popular Ale throughout the Galaxy. It is...

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Corribus

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Coruscant

Coruscant (pronounced /ˈkɒrəsɑːnt/) is a planet in the fictional Star Wars universe. It first appeared on screen in Return of the Jedi: The Special Edition (1997), but was first mentioned in Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire. An ecumenopolis, it was...

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Cybertron

Cybertron is a fictional planet, the homeworld of the the Transformers in the various fictional incarnations of the metaseries and toyline by Hasbro. In the Japanese series, the planet is referred to as "Cybertron" (first shown on Japanese Galaxy...

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Cybertron

The comic-book incarnation of Cybertron is described in the first issue as being the size of Saturn, which would logically mean it possessed incredibly dense gravity, and yet it did not, possibly as a result of its hollow structure, honeycombed as...

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Cybertron

Cybertron is the home planet of the Transformers in the three television series, Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon and Transformers: Cybertron. The presence of a sentient energy core named "Primus" at the heart of Cybertron in the Armada...

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Dagobah

Dagobah is a fictional planet in the Star Wars movie universe. It appears in the films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. It also makes an appearance in a deleted scene from Revenge of the Sith. Dagobah, in the Sluis sector, is a world...

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Dar Sai

Dar Sai is a fictional planet referenced in author Jack Vance's fourth "Demon Princes" novel, The Face. It is a desert planet orbiting the fictional star Cora, with a single large natural satellite called Mirrasou. Dar Sai is home to a race of...

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Darkover

Darkover is the focus of the Darkover series of science fiction novels and short stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley and others published since 1958. According to the novels, Darkover is the only human-habitable of seven planets orbiting a fictional...

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Darwin IV

Darwin IV is a fictional planet that was the subject of Wayne Barlowe's book Expedition and the television special, Alien Planet, based on Expedition. Although the details of the discovery and exploration of Darwin IV differ in the two presentations...

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Daxam

Daxam is a planet within the fictional DC Universe. It is home to a race called the Daxamites, who are descended from Kryptonian colonists. Like their Kryptonian cousins Daxamites manifest powers and abilities similar to those of Superman when...

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Demetria

Demetria is a fictional planet, situated in CrossGen comic's fictional universe, the Sigilverse. It features rimarily in the American comicbook series Meridian. Demetria is an Irish/Scottish name meaning Earth. Demetria is also a Greek name meaning...

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Dobro

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Dosadi

The planet Dosadi is the hellish setting for Frank Herbert's science fiction novel The Dosadi Experiment. Dosadi is enclosed by a barrier called the "God Wall" maintained by a Caleban. The planet is deliberately set up by a Gowachin conspiracy to be...

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Downbelow

Downbelow (also known as Pell's World) is a fictional planet in American science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe. It is the first planet discovered by humans with an advanced ecosystem and, even more significantly,...

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Dularix

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Dzelluria

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Ego the Living Planet

Ego the Living Planet is a fictional extraterrestrial being that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Thor #132 (Oct. 1966) and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. Ego was created by...

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Epsilon III

Epsilon III is a planet in the science fiction television series Babylon 5. Epsilon III is the third planet of the Epsilon Eridani system, which the eponymous space station of the series Babylon 5 orbits. Formerly the home of an advanced alien race,...

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Erna

Erna is a fictional planet on which C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy is set. The series begins in the far-future, 1,200 years after humans colonized Erna. The planet has extreme seismic activity due to its three moons (Domina, Prima, and Casca) and...

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Erphano

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Eternia

Eternia is the name of the fictional planet that serves as a setting for the Masters of the Universe toy collection and animated series. According to the 36th produced episode of the 1980s series, "The Search", and the 1987 motion picture, Eternia...

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Etheria

Etheria is a fictional planet introduced in the animated film The Secret of the Sword. It is the main setting of the She-Ra: Princess of Power animated series. Etheria was founded by a group of beings known only as The First Ones. Their living...

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Ferenginar

In the fiction Star Trek universe, Ferenginar is the homeworld of the Ferengi and the capital of the Ferengi Alliance. Rain is nearly constant over most of Ferenginar. The buildings of Ferenginar seem to be designed with this in mind, and in fact...

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Fire

In the sci-fi television series LEXX, the fictional planet "Fire" is the afterlife for all evil souls, and the location for much of Season 3. It shares a tight mutual orbit and an atmosphere with the Planet Water, which is the afterlife for all good...

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