#solarballs lore

in the show it is seen the solar system has its own cultural and sort of politics(?) when viewed in a certain way

it has its own caste system we have not seen in others in the show (tbf we have not seen other systems like it), you could make an ok guess that the hierarchy the solar system has may not exist in others

its general culture made with the hierarchy being a big part it is also interesting to see

like for example, in the solar system it seems to be hyper aware of how the sun can literally end their existence if they do even the slightest thing wrong this is seen in one of the early episodes when Saturn gets out of his orbit to visit Uranus and have their little adventure when Uranus sees Saturn out of his orbit, he freaks out a bit and when Saturn gets loud about wanting to spend time with his icy friend, Uranus tells him to keep quiet or else the sun will hear him

there is also seen in another episode when the sun gets mad at some of the rocky planets (specifically mars and mercury) for being a bit rude to who is basically their father/protector/god, his extreme anger to them is very clearly threatening

as he can literally just bast them to bits if he wanted to

the sun has made a situation for himself and his planets where the planets are always keeping secrets from him and each other, there is a culture in the solar system were pretending and lying is constantly encouraged or the only thing a celestial body can do if they don't want to face the suns wrath

it reminds me of the phrase "strict parents only make sneaky kids" as in the solar system lying to the sun is one of the only ways you can save yourself from being murdered, the sun is clearly insane for this btw

so when you compare the solar system and the rouge empire going on with SIMP as the leader, the size of the solar system is fucking nothing in numbers when compared to the empire that much is clear

but the empire does not seem to have that kind of lying issue (at least of what we know off so far), in fact since everyone in the rouge planet empire has (somewhat) of the same thing in mind, saving planets from their stars, this encourages information to go around and serve as a place for planets to talk about their trauma due to the neglect, death, or active aggression from their unstable stars

since simp is much calmer and more thoughtful about her actions, she does not have violet outbursts where she cartoonishly goes and threatens planets smaller than her

there are punishments if you really piss her off yes, like seen in the episode where x laughs at SIMP's name, cus like...yk and she threatens to crush him with her gravity

besides that, rouge planets do consider banishment to be a decent punishment, but that only seems to be used if a planet wants to leave with the policy of the rouge planets being "you can't come back if you leave"

the solar system and the rouge planet empire are still pretty bad, the empire just seems to be a bit better as they (on the surface) have the goal to free every planet from their stars

best way I can put it rn is,

solar system = abusive and controlling but still somewhat loving family sharing one big house

rouge planet empire = an organization that protects and frees people that can't do that themselves (also turns out they are a cult but the show can go a lot of ways with those implied things)