Miranda, moon

Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five major moons.

It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on February 16, 1948 at McDonald Observatory. It was named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest by Kuiper in his report of the discovery. The adjectival form of the name is Mirandan. It is also designated Uranus V.

Miranda is a Union World in the Sol System with a population of 50,000. Represented via the Kuiper Belt Association.

Main Settlement is Kuiper Town and main industry is manufacturing. Officially it is called machine manufacturing but Miranda is one of the Translocator Cannon manufacturing sites and access is highly restricted. It is also a Translocator Weapon System Development Site. It was here the Sniper TL's were developed.

It was changed in 5029 and a new Translocator system, based on the Weapon System of the Mini Terrans is intensivley researched and developed.

