Sunset Gates

Sunset Gates
Location:	Sea of Clouds
Subregions:	4 Subclusters Gateway Subcluster McCrae Test and Training Range New American Colonies Symphony Subcluster
Star Systems:	38+ Star Systems Core Enterprise Serendipity Symphony Mill Voltaire Heritage Locke Tranquility Fortitude Liberty Mosaic Independence Belleau Wood Harmony Tradition Determination Hanlon Integrity Conscience Progress Constitution Endeavor Ambition Outer McCrae Cantingny Marne Justice Proclamation Discovery Possibility Washington Atlantis Potomac Blue Ridge Denali Katmai Kobuk Mont Saint-Quentin Passchendaele
Organizations:	3 Organizations League of Nations Orion Treaty Organization United Americas
Nations:	1 State United States

The Sunset Gates is a cluster of 38 star systems located in the Sea of Clouds. The cluster includes 27 colonized systems belonging solely to the United States of America. As a Legacy Nation, it shares strong direct historical, cultural, and linguistic ties to a nation that once existed on Earth.

Astrography

The Sunset Gates are situated trailward of the Hydrus Expanse, rimward of the Rubicon and is in the coreward-by-spinward edge of the Sea of Clouds. It consists of four constituent subclusters: the Gateway Subcluster, New American Colonies, Symphony Subcluster and the McCrae Test and Training Range.

Translight Strings

There are a total of 54 charted translight strings connecting the 38 star systems of the Sunset Gates. It is the Spinward end of the Atlantis-Avalon super-string connecting the Sunset Gates to the Shade of Avalon. The Independence system is the cluster's nexus, with seven strings converging there.

Subcluster	Astropolitics	Organizations	Settlement	Notes
New American Colonies	United States	Orion Treaty Organization		Capital subcluster of the United States.
Gateway Subcluster	United States
Symphony Subcluster	United States
McCrae Test and Training Range
Regional Interstellar Travel
Sunset Gates - Hydrus Subcluster				ERR - Alpha Hydrus
				McCrae - Alpha Hydrus
Sunset Gates - Star of Albion				Atlantis - Avalon

Etymology

An allusion to the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus.

Sunset: From Middle English son-sett, Sonne set, equivalent to sun +‎ set.

Gates: From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).