How does Ender's Game relate to the solar system?
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I don't really know what you mean. But, there are several areas or bodies in our solar system that are mentioned in Ender's Game, for instance the asteroid Eros. Eros is one of the largest Near Earth Asteroids, measuring 13×13×33 km.
From Wikipedia: "Eros was formerly an outpost for the aliens known as Formics who installed artificial gravity but was taken over by humans and a Command School was built there. This is where Ender was sent after he graduated from Battle School."
Ender's Game also mentions that the Battle School is in the asteroid belt - meaning the belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
The buggers lived outside our solar system and many light years away in another part of the galaxy.
After the first Bugger wars and the Xenocide of the Buggers, humans migrated and spread beyond the solar system. The general idea was that if we spread ourselves out in space, we could probably avoid the extinction of our species. So, if you look at our solar system as our previous habitat, the Buggers put evolutionary pressure on us.
This theme is further developed in the next 3 books that follow.
MORE: Humans managed to use the Bugger's propulsion system inter-galactic travel. Also, they got their ansible instantaneous communication device from the Buggers (like Dirac in Asimov's Foundation series).
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