List of Enderverse planets
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This is a list of planets from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series.
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[edit] Albion
A planet that is briefly mentioned in the short story "Investment Counselor". It is home to a woman named Jane whom Ender briefly thought may have created the computer programme Jane.
[edit] Battle School
A space station obiting Sol somewhere in the asteroid belt where young boys (and a few girls) are trained to fight the Formics. Both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are set primarily at this school. The most important piece of that school is the battlefield. There are nine battlefields and the students use them to train for tactics and battles. The teachers use the battlefield to evaluate who has leadership skills.
[edit] Bugger homeworld
After the Second Invasion, which the humans narrowly won, the International Fleet built and sent the "Third Invasion" to their planets. In order to fight, the I.F. decides to use child commanders and pretend that it is just a fantasy simulation. After a number of grueling battles that causes three of the children to collapse, the fleet arrives at the homeworld. Mazer Rackham tells Ender that this is the final battle. Ender, tired of battling, simply decides to use the Molecular Disrupter Device to destroy the world to try to get himself kicked out of school. Apart from the egg on Rov, all the Hive Queens were present at its destruction, which effectively wiped them out, until Ender revived the last Hive Queen on Lusitania.
A few seconds after its destruction, the planet's own gravity pulled its particles back towards itself, making a new, smaller planet.
[edit] Divine Wind
A planet inhabited by Japanese people, with a lot of tourists. It was one of humanity's first colonies and has a high influence in Starways Congress. Peter Wiggin and Wang-mu came here in Children of the Mind as part of their mission to "find the center of power among humankind" and to "persuade them to stop the [Lusitania] fleet before it needlessly destroys a world [Lusitania]".
[edit] Earth
Due to overpopulation, planetwide laws stated that each family could only have two children; during the destruction of the Buggers and the subsequent colonization of their worlds, this rule was repealed. It is somewhat more advanced than present-day Earth; people are able to travel around in cars that hover over magnetic rails that go at 150 mph, for example. However, due to International Fleet rule, some nations have declined drastically. One shining example is Rotterdam, a city in the Netherlands, in which children roam the streets fighting each other for food.
[edit] Eros
Eros (named after the real-life 433 Eros) is a wandering asteroid where Command School is situated. It was originally a Formic colony and the International Fleet took 1,000 casualties in order to take it. Colonel Graff says that they fought for every inch of the place. The capture, however, allows the humans to discover and utilize both artificial gravity and ansible technologies.
Spaceships approaching Eros land on one of three orbital platforms, whereupon passengers are transported to the asteroids in school bus-like spaceships and sucked through tubes in zero gravity to the main colony. Due to the Formics painting it black, it's albedo becomes only slightly brighter than a black hole. Humans noted it disappearing from their monitors and sent someone to investigate, which led to a confrontation with the Formics.
In Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin is sent here to attend Command School, where he unknowingly defeats the Formics, believing he is playing a space combat simulation computer game.
[edit] Lusitania
Lusitania is a world first introduced in Speaker for the Dead. Catholic by religion, Portuguese by language, and Brazilian by culture. It is named after the Roman name, in Latin, for Portugal. This planet is inhabited by all three Ramen races - the Pequeninos, the Formics and Humans. It contains a deadly virus called the descolada that would destroy the ecosystem of any other planet if it were to spread.
[edit] Path
Path is a Chinese-inhabited planet in Orson Scott Card's Xenocide and Children of the Mind. Inhabitants include Han Fei-tzu, his wife, Jiang-qing, their daughter, Qing-jao, and their servants, including Qing-jao's secret maid, Wang-mu.
The inhabitants of this planet are divided into two classes – normal people and the godspoken. The "godspoken" are actually genetically-modified human beings with both superhuman intelligence and a crippling OCD-like disease. Any research into this disease would get the researcher sent off-world.
At the end of Xenocide, a newly-spawned copy of Peter Wiggin bearing Ender's aiúa shows up in the FTL starship controlled by Jane. After dropping off the retrovirus to make everyone on Path supergeniuses (minus the OCD), he takes the one person who is already in this state, Wang-mu, with him to reunite humanity as Hegemon once again.
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, it is suggested that the evil geneticist Volescu - responsible for Bean's genetic condition - has been, or will be, sent off to a colony. Since Volescu had previously been developing a means of changing human DNA via a virus - not unlike the descolada in Children of the Mind and Xenocide - it is speculated amongst fans that Volescu may have some connection with the emergence of the godspoken on Path.
[edit] Descoladores' home planet
The homeworld to the descoladores, discovered in Children of the Mind. Observing it from afar in an "Outside"-capable ship, the ship's riders begin to believe the inhabitants to be varelse; however, due to the Peter Clone's attack on them, they realize they need to take more time in studying the descoladores. This planet is rumored to be the subject of Card's next book, Shadows in Flight.
[edit] Rov
Humanity's first colony outside of the Solar System, previously a Formic colony. Ender moved here after blowing up the buggers' home planet. It took 50 years to get here at lightspeed, but, due to time dilation, it only seemed like two years to the colonists. This planet's name is not mentioned until Xenocide.
The buggers made a portion of the planet look like parts of the Mind Fantasy Game that Ender played back in Battle School, such as a playground and a tower, inside which is a mirror which Ender breaks to find the Hive Queen's egg inside. The planet is inhabited by some animal that was farmed by the Buggers and a predator that eats those animals.
[edit] Sorreledolce
An Italian-speaking planet, estimated to have been settled about 100 years prior to the events of "Investment Counselor". At the time, the colony's population was four million, with one million residing in the capital city, Donnabella, and was unfederated with the Starways Congress. In "Investment Counselor," Ender and his sister Valentine settle on that planet. Ender, who has just turned 20, must pay heavy taxes on his funds. It is there that he meets Jane, a sentient computer program. They leave after ten weeks.
[edit] Trondheim
An icy planet, Ender's home at the beginning of Speaker for the Dead. When Ender leaves for Lusitania, Valentine stays with her husband on Trondheim.
