Alpha Centauri System

Overview
Alpha Centauri is often regarded to many as a home away from home for many within the FPE. With three naturally habitable planets and two marginally habitable, the system is considered somewhat of a paradise. In just over a century of habitation, the system has made great strides in becoming the cultural captial of the federation.

History
While the system is famously noted in Cladius Ptolemaeus' 2nd century book entitled Almagest, more details of the illusive system were uncovered slowly over several centuries. It wasn't until 1689 that the binary nature of Alpha Centauri A and B was recognised by astronomer Jean Richaud and it took another 300 years for the discover of Proxima Centauri by Robert T. A. Innes in 1915. The closet exoplanet to Earth, Proxima b (Atlas) was discovered in 2016 by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory.

Subsequent ground and space-based observations (by the likes of the James Webb Telescope) of the system identifed terrestrial and gaseous planets in the circumstellar habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A and B throughout the 2020's to 2040's. At the same time, efforts of the James Webb Telescope confirmed the presence of breathable atmospheres, spurring on Project Far Star which would launch in late 2063 to survey the system from up close.

However, the planets of Alpha Centauri would remain untouched for over another century, jewels in the abyss beconing us to the heavens, until the maiden flight of the FPSV Voyager in 2200.