Altair in fiction
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Altair (Alpha Aquilae) is a bright white star in the constellation Aquila that features in science fiction:
- The homeworld of Harlan, an artificial lifeform in Stargate SG-1
- The homeworld of the Ancients, an extinct civilization annihilated by the Shivans eight thousand years ago, in the space-combat simulation game, FreeSpace 2.
- The homeworld of the Alkari, one of the alien races in the Master of Orion computer game series.
- In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the common currency is the Altairian Dollar.
- In the novel Sunstorm, a gas giant fifteen times the mass of Jupiter was launched by the Firstborn alien race from the Altair star system on a collision course with Earth's Sun in order to trigger a devastating solar flare that would completely sterilize the Earth.
- Altair is the home of Ahrian in Leigh Brackett's The Woman from Altair.
- Altair is the first town visited and home of the rebels in Final Fantasy 2.
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- The Third Planet from Altair (Choose Your Own Adventure #7, by Edward Packard (author) and Paul Granger (illustrator)) describes in multiple scenarios an expedition to the planet of the namesake to investigate the source of transmitted signals received by Earth.
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- The planet Altair IV is the main setting of the book and film Forbidden Planet
- In Star Trek, Altair IV, the location of a prestigious hospital in the ST:DS9 episode ' Prophet Motive ', and a planet recovering from war with neighbouring Altair VI, in the ST:TOS episode ' Amok Time '.
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- Altair V is the planet of origin for Rafael Argus in the ' 70s Buck Rogers episode "Plot to Kill A City"
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- Altair VI is a planet in The Winds of Altair by Ben Bova, a science fiction novel about the colonization and terraforming of this planet, which is home to a race as intelligent as man.
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