List of Alliance Colonies

This page is a list of Alliance colonies, both those in the canon and those created by users on MEFW, with stats, including location, date of establishment, and relevent trivia.

Amaterasu

 * Longtime residence of the Williams family.

Anhur (Eagle Nebula, Amun System)

 * Founded 2165 CE
 * Population: 208,587,000
 * Capital: New Thebes
 * Garden world with both human and batarian populations.
 * Starting point of the Anhur Rebellions, during which humans tried to banish slavery throughout the system in response to their government's abolition of minimum wage in a mistaken attempt to help their corporations compete with batarian rivals

Arvuna (Caleston Rift, Aysur System, Dranen)

 * Founded in 2160 CE
 * Population: 948,700
 * Capital: Asa
 * Ocean-covered moon of Dranen

Bekenstein (Serpent Nebula, Boltzmann System)

 * Founded in 2158 CE
 * Population: 5,425,000
 * Capital: Milgrom
 * Homeworld of Diana Allers
 * Conceived as humanity's first off-planet manufacturing base
 * Destroyed by the Reapers in 2186 CE

Benning (Arcturus Stream, Euler System)

 * Founded in 2153 CE
 * Population: 2.25 million (pre-invasion estimate)
 * Capital: Joughlin
 * Primary source of food for Arcturus Station
 * Attacked by Reapers in 2186 CE, then preyed upon by Cerberus

Chasca (Maroon Sea, Matano System)

 * Founded in 2183 CE
 * Population: 150
 * Former Cerberus base
 * Tidally locked with Matano; only the terminator region is habitable
 * Notable for its ring of synthetic material, which captures and refracts sunlight to create picturesque vistas that are only visible from the ground

Cuervo

 * Briefly mentioned as being near the Migrant Fleet's location in 2183 CE

Cyrene (Idmon System)

 * The seventh Alliance colony to be hit by Collectors in 2183 CE
 * Transit station between the Titan Nebula and the Terminus Systems

Demeter

 * Founded in 2152 CE
 * First extra-solar Alliance colony

Dobrovalski (Hades Nexus, Pamyat System)

 * Home of Altai Mineral Works
 * Large source of aluminum

Drasta

 * Founded in 2185 CE
 * Experimental human colony which has rejected the credit system in favor of a barter-based economy.

Eden Prime (Exodus Cluster, Utopia System)

 * Founded in 2152 CE
 * Capital: Constant
 * Population: 4.2 million
 * Garden world
 * Attacked by geth forces led by Saren Arterius in 2183 CE. Later occupied by Cerberus in 2186 CE.

Elysium (Petra Nebula, Vetus System)

 * Founded in 2160 CE
 * Capital: Illyria
 * Population: 8.3 Million (plus 223, 500 living in orbital stations)
 * Site of the Skyllian Blitz in 2176 CE.

Ferris Fields

 * Former posting of Lt. Steve Cortez and his husband Robert.
 * Attacked by the Collectors in 2185 CE

Horizon (Shadow Sea, Iera System)

 * Founded in 2168 CE
 * Capital: Discovery
 * Major Cities: Sanctuary
 * Population: 800,000 - 1.5 million
 * Homeworld of Specialist Samantha Traynor

Luna

 * Founded in 2069 CE
 * Capital: Armstrong
 * Population: 4.1 million

Mars

 * Founded in 2103 CE
 * Capital: Lowell City
 * Site of humanity's discovery of Prothean ruins in 2148 CE

Mindoir

 * Founded sometime prior to 2154 CE
 * Attacked by batarian raiders in 2170 CE, resulting in hundreds of deaths

New Canton

 * Attacked by the Collectors in 2185 CE

Noveria

 * Founded in 2163 CE
 * Capital: Port Hanshan

Olor

 * Colony notable for its dichotomy of wealthy salarians and poor humans
 * Site of riots in 2185 CE after the municipal water company declined to build pipes to provide more running water to human residents

Proteus (Artemis Tau Cluster, Athens System)

 * Founded in 2179 CE
 * Capital: Ithaka
 * Population: 12,470
 * Hot, humid, and wracked by constant storms.

Sanctum (Sigurd's Cradle, Decoris System)

 * Founded in 2169 CE
 * Capital: Vulpes
 * Population: 257,300
 * Freezing "garden world" mainly colonized as a source of platinum, palladium, and boron.

Sathur

 * Alliance colony devoted to the growing of ossilbir, a high-nutrition vine that is a staple of Alliance military rations.

Shanxi

 * Alliance colony known for being the center of the First Contact War.
 * First world to be occupied by an Alien race.

Sirona

 * Founded prior to 2158 CE
 * Homeworld of Ashley Williams

Terra Nova (Exodus Cluster, Asgard System)

 * Founded in 2152 CE

Tiptree

 * Founded sometime prior to 2155 CE
 * Homeworld of Flight Lieutenant Jeff Moreau
 * Invaded by the Reapers in 2186 CE.

Yamm

 * Founded 2170 CE
 * Capital: New Karnak

Yandoa

 * Founded sometime prior to 2170 CE
 * Homeworld of Gillian Grayson
 * Site of a major industrial accident, orchestrated by Cerberus, that resulted in thousands being exposed to dust-form Element Zero.