The Cyclopedia Of Worlds

HANAKO STARSHA was a picture maker, born on planet Dakka, who captured some of the most famous early images of extra-solar worlds in the Late Expansion Years.

Much of her early work was done in the employ of Blue Agency financiers seeking to promote further expansion. Her images are often praised for their balance of aesthetic appeal and useful scientific information. Her son, Jokichi Starsha, was also an artist – specializing in microbiological still lifes.

Though she has been dead for four centuries, Hanako Starsha has been a key contributor to the Cyclopedia Of Worlds. Her images appear throughout the Cyclopedia. Her pictures, as dazzling today as they were 400 years ago, have inspired generations of landscape artists to this day.

Some of her images are still used as the standard pictorial representations of some worlds.

Image of planet Shuttleworth by H. Starsha, commissioned
near the end of her life by the world’s development board