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 31 charted translight strings connecting the 29 star systems of the Amazonia Cluster. The Ilha De Vera Cruz system is the cluster's nexus, with five 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
Star System	Astropolitics	Organizations	Settlement	Notes
Ambition	United States
Atlantis
Belleau Wood
Blue Ridge	United States
Cantingny
Conscience	United States
Constitution	United States
Denali	United States
Determination	United States
Discovery	United States
Endeavor	United States
Enterprise	United States
Fortitude	United States
Hanlon
Harmony	United States
Heritage	United States
Independence	United States			Capital system of the United States.
Integrity	United States
Justice	United States
Katmai	United States
Kobuk	United States
Liberty	United States	Orion Treaty Organization
Locke
Marne
McCrae
Mill
Mont Saint-Quentin
Mosiac	United States
Passchendaele
Possibility	United States
Potomac	United States
Proclamation	United States
Progress	United States
Serendipity	United States
Symphony	United States
Tradition	United States
Tranquility	United States
Voltaire
Washington
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”).