Proxima Centauri b
| Proxima Centauri b Proxie B | |||||
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False-colour image of Proxima Centauri b | |||||
| Celestial State | |||||
| Capital: | Kimber's Landing | ||||
| Currency: | Proxian Centauri (₡) | ||||
| Demonym: | Proxian | ||||
| Politics | |||||
| Government: | Unitary technocracy | ||||
| - Secretary General: | Orion Kimber | ||||
| Settled: | 2863 | ||||
| Colours: | De-facto: (Civil) (Military) | ||||
| Demographics | |||||
| Population: | 200,000 (average) | ||||
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| Planet: | Proxima Centauri b | ||||
| System: | Alpha Centauri System | ||||
| Avg. distance from Earth: | 4.2 ly | ||||
| Orbital period: | 11.185 days | ||||
| Surface gravity: | 1.3 g | ||||
| Temperature: | 234 K (−39 °C; −38 °F) | ||||
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Proxima Centauri b (Martian English: Prakzimsentarii-b), colloquially known as Proxie B, is a stateless planet that is managed by Proxian mining conglomerates. Its largest demographic is fly-in fly-out miners from Proxima Centauri d and the Solar System. Proxie b was the first exoplanet in human history to be scouted by interstellar probes in the early 3rd millennium, with surface scans confirming the then long-held suspicions of the planet being unsuitable for life. Further investigations in the following millennia revealed that the planet was rich in valuable resources, including sulfur, iron and copper, giving enough incentive for its eventual colonisation by mining conglomerates. Proxian Credit is the most prominent of these conglomerates, and it holds a close relationship to the Commonwealth of Earth.
While Proxima Centauri is too dim to be seen from the Solar System with the naked eye with an apparent magnitude of 11.13, its two sisters that make up the rest of the Alpha Centauri trinary star system are the third brightest in the night sky.
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Habitability[edit | edit source]
Though Proxima Centauri b orbits its parent star's habitable zone, it is subject year-round to solar wind pressures of more than 2,000 times those experienced on Earth, and thus has no atmosphere. Humans on the surface are required to wear appropriate Interface Suits to survive the high radiation levels, which includes levels of X-Ray radiation over 400 times those received on Earth. Due to its closeness to its star, Proxima Centauri b is also tidally locked.
Its surface gravity is 1.3 g.
