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Alpha Centauri: (Sol)
A binary system, the two stars are seperated on average by roughly the distance of Earth to Saturn. Both stars are home to small solar systems. No planets are inhabitable by normal Earth life, however the small gas giant Chiron (orbiting Alpha Centauri B) is home both to a Europa analog, with a subsurface ocean home to a few small settlements and a so-called 'warm Titan' analogue that is home to a varied, thoroughly weird and poorly studied methane based ecosystem. With the growth of the Successor States in the last few decades there has been an effort to coordinate efforts between several interested universities in cataloguing this ecosystem. The Martian government enforces a not-particularly stringent watch over the moon to ensure there is no chance of spreading any organisms to Titan.
Barnard's Star: (Aurigae)
A couple of not particularly useful rocky planets and an ice giant not especially rich in H3. Some mineral wealth. A few small mining colonies. Its real-space proximity to Sol and Tau Ceti makes it a popular haven for piracy, given the relatively short time required to calculate a FTL jump and escape from either of those two systems.
Sigma Draconis: (Barnard)
Sigma Draconis is home to a busy little system of planets. Had the Collapse been averted, it is likely the system would be heavily populated today. Home to seven planets, two of which deserve mention, and a thin but serviceable asteroid belt, the system had just begun seeing heavily settlement when the Collapse happened. The second world, Beowulf, is a marginally habitable planet somewhat larger and denser than Earth. The gravity, while high, is tolerable for humans (especially those who got bone density and organ modifying genetic treatments to settle the world). The atmosphere is a poisonous soup of nitrogen, oxygen and an array of other gases, most notably traces of chlorine. However, the topography of Beowulf sports some truly impressive highs, and the weight of the more toxic gases means they are trapped in the lowlands. There are a few substantial high plateaus and mountain ranges that could support human settlement, ‘above the clouds’ of the toxic soup and in the more conventional nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. Agriculture was projected to be extremely difficult, the local life utterly poisonous to humans, which is why settlement had really only just begun at the time of the collapse.
Gliese 86 (Eta Cass)
One of the more distant systems thoroughly surveyed by humanity prior to the Collapse, FTL travel to Gliese 86 is difficult due to its distance from any inhabited system. The gates there are inactive and settlement had not been particularly heavy prior to the Collapse. Contact over the last century has been very infrequent. The system is a fairly wealthy one, with a Earth-sized Mars analogue in a position to be fairly easily terraformed. The system had attracted attention in the first place due to it being host to one of the closer true so-called "Hot Jupiters" known to science prior to the Collapse. The most accessible jump gate to the system, aside from the inactive gate in Eta Cassiopei, is the off-line gate in the Epsilon Eridani system. Good luck with that.