The Satellite Kingdoms

Excerpt from Volume 9, Chapter 15

In the context of the Silver Millennium, the satellite kingdoms were just as important as those of the main planetary kingdoms. However, within their own sphere of influence they had their own unique dynamics and relationships between each other, as well as their parent worlds.

First, we must ask ourselves what defines a satellite kingdom. Most often it is used to describe the moons which orbit the plants of the solar system and their respective kingdoms. However, this term can also be used for any planetary body which is subservient to a much larger one, for example, the dwarf planet Salacia, to a large independent planetary body and its own rights pledge this loyalty to the larger planet Quinox and those could be seen as a satellite kingdom.

It is also important to note the distinctions between each satellite kingdom. Though in the service of the larger planets, many had their own independent governments, culture, and rulers, which for the most part acted on their own. Each planet also had a different relationship with their satellite kingdoms. The Neptunian and Jovian satellite kingdoms, for example, were highly loyal to their home worlds. Uranus mostly used their satellite kingdoms as an extension of their industrial work. Most infamously, the Plutonian satellites were almost equal in strength to their homeworld, with Charon being a fine example of this.

As many of these planets utilize their satellite kingdoms in the defense of their own worlds, as well as helping them in other matters, their loss during the war of the satellites provided a devastating blow to the Silver Mmillennium, weakening it and, ultimately, perhaps contributing to its fall.