Morning Star

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Orbiting space station to which April travels on her way to the Guardian's Realm. Here she discovers Adrian, and travels with him to the Guardian's Realm, unaware that they are followed by Gordon Halloway. The Morning Star is a colonial stop-off point where colonists, newly shipped up from Earth, wait for transports to whatever planet they've been assigned to. The station is heavily secured by Bokamba/Mercer guards, probably because this is the point where families would be separated and riots break out as a consequence.

The Morning Star seems to have been the site of some kind of oppression in 2204, as a song released the same year by Royn Dale - 'Those Sons Of Bitches With Blood On Their Boots' - was written in memory of the "Morning Star Exile", the precise details of which we are never given.

The Morning Star is an archaic name for Venus, as it is the last celestial body visible in the morning (and the first in the evening - thus its other appellation "Evening Star", and its status in philosophical study.). The Romans referred to this body as Lucifer ('light-bringer').

It is also known from Funcom MMO Anarchy Online, where it serves as the starting area for character creation. It has orbited the world of Rubi-Ka for at least the in-game years of 29 475 - 29 481 (presumably AD). Given this distance of time it seems unlikely that there is meant to be any real connection.