Burnham is a protostar in the Blue Sun system (Burnham quadrant). Discovered in 2020, P/2020(Blue Sun)01 is orbited by the planet Miranda.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Stat’s
- Planet and Moon
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Introduction:
It was the first brown dwarf in the ‘Verse to be helioformed. It was determined that Burnham was the best candidate for this very experimental and dangerous procedure due to its distance from the more populous Central planets and its small size. After the process was refined at Burnham, it was then applied to the other six brown dwarfs in the ‘Verse.
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Stat’s:
- Stellar ID: 34 Tauri (2020) _
- Class: __
- Radius: _._ sol
- Mass: _._ sol
- Luminosity: _._ sol
- Temperature: _ °K (_ °F)
- Distance: _ AU
- Planets: 1
- Moons: 1
- Asteroid Belts: 0
- Planetoids: 0
- Comets: 0
| Burnham | |
|---|---|
| Protostar information | |
| Stellar ID | P/2020(Blue Sun)01 |
| Planets | 1 |
| Moons | 1 |
| Date helioformed | 2253 |
| Radius (brown dwarf) | 0.30 Sol |
| Radius (protostar) | 0.18 Sol |
| Mass | 0.30 Sol |
| Orbit | 3,440,751,010 km (23 AU) |
| Period (years) | 110.30 |
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Miranda
- Caliban
| Miranda | |
|---|---|
| Planet information | |
| Sun orbited | Burnham[1] |
| Moons | Caliban[1] |
| Date terraformed | 2433[1] |
| Diameter | 11,023 km[1] |
| Mass | 4.473×1021 tonnes[1] |
| Gravity | 1.0001 gn[1] |
| Orbital position | 1st from primary[1] |
| Orbital distance | 56,666,530 km (0.379 AU)[1] |
| Orbital periods | 3.41 years 1,247 days[1] |
| Region | Burnham quadrant |
| Population | ~5,200+ (Reavers)[1] |
| Affiliation | Reavers Union of Allied Planets(formerly) |
The farthest out planet in the system, Miranda is right at the edge of the Burnham quadrant of the Blue Sun system, embedded deep into Reaver space, and is the sole planet of the protostar Burnham.
S/2038(Burnham)01 was discovered in 2038.
Overview
Once thought only to be fictional, Miranda in fact was an experimental colony where the Alliance tried to chemically modify its populace to be peaceful. This worked too well; it eliminated violence, but in the process it had a fatal side effect. The inhabitants lost all ambition; they stopped doing any work, stopped talking to each other, stopped reproducing and eventually stopped even feeding. For 0.1% of the population it had the opposite effect and caused extremely violent behavior, beyond mere psychosis but animalism. The “survivors” of Miranda were the Reavers who started to menace the Rim planets.
The Alliance managed to cover up their mess fairly well, erasing all official records of the planet. Those who had heard talk of Miranda heard false tales that terraforming was attempted but ultimately failed, and that the planet was an uninhabitable Blackrock. Of course, being in the heart of what was to become Reaver space, not many people made the trip to see if it was true or not.
River Tam had knowledge of Miranda through gleaning it from the mind of one of Alliance Parliament officials who surveyed her during her training, which was one of the reasons the Alliance sent the Operative to retrieve her. When the Alliance recording was discovered, it became the perfect example of what would happen if the Alliance sought to interfere with self-determination. At risk of their lives from both the Reavers and the Operative, the crew of Serenity used Mr. Universe‘s broadwave equipment to transmit a recording of what the Alliance did on Miranda to every planet and moon in the system.
| Caliban | |
|---|---|
| Moon information | |
| Lunar ID | S/2190(Meridian)01 |
| Planet orbited | Miranda |
| Date terraformed | On hold |
| Diameter | 1,025 km |
| Mass | 3.004×1020 tonnes |
| Gravity | 0.9637 gn |
| Orbit | 88,412 km |
| Period (days) | 6.28 |
| Population | 0 |
| Affiliation | Reavers Union of Allied Planets(formerly) |
Caliban is the sole moon of Miranda in the Blue Sun system. S/2190(Miranda)01 was discovered in 2190.
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