Home is a planet orbiting the star Epsilon Indi. An Earth-like human colony world[1] one of Earth's most distant colonies.
The planet has remarkable similarity to Earth. Its surface gravity is 1.08g and its day is only fifty minutes shorter than Earth's.[2] Oceans, mean global temperature, seasons, and moon were also similar. It has slightly higher tectonic activity giving the air a trace of smog.[2] The first colonists originally wanted to call their world "Flatland" as a sort of perverse joke, but eventually decided on the name "Home" out of sentimentality.
In the 24th century, the inhabitants were mysteriously wiped out by an unknown phenomenon.[1] Jack Brennan calculated that the destruction was necessary to create an army of childless human Protectors to battle an invading Pak fleet and released a genetically modified Tree-of-Life virus to transform everyone between ages 40 and 60 into a protector, and killing the remaining millions of colonists. Once he realised his plans, Roy Truesdale killed Brennan but after he is transformed into a protector, Truesdale personally completed Brennan's plan.
It has since been repopulated.[1] In 2558[3] an asteroid was towed into a geosynchronous orbit around Home creating a new moonlet and a base for incoming ships called Home Base.[4]
Despite Home being the ideal off-world colony for flatphobes due to its similarity to Earth it does not allow flatphobes to legally migrate.[2]
Home's sun is called Apollo and people from Home are called Homers. The system has a thin asteroid belt. The planet's authority is called Home Rule.[4]