A globular cluster in the constellation Hermes with a diameter of 15 light-years, visible to the naked eye from Viridia Segunda, the Hermes Cluster is home to the Tomorrow Hive, who claim that the Cluster is just 100 million light-years younger than the universe itself, and thus contains 100 million stars. Their original home on the blue straggler Wanwan Xing’s system uninhabitable, the Hive is now spread out across the cluster, having integrated other native species on other stars long ago. It is surmised that Wanwan Xing is also the source of Aleworms, and the original slogan in their advertisements read “A hundred million voices as one!”

Used in early xenomathematics to calculate the cosmic distance ladder, some argued that parallax measures could be used to calculate distance to the cluster with main-sequence fitting, a risk that Captain Logomere took in order to mount an extremely risky expedition. From his success scientists deduced that a great migration could take place to globular clusters using parallax, a central factor of the Parallax Urgency.

—Maie-Knoumane