System Specs:
- Stellar Mass: 0.96 Sol Masses
- Stellar Class: G
- Luminosity: N/A Sol
- Planets: 6
- Moons: 0
- Asteroid Belts: 1
- Asteroids: 0
- Objects: 2
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Planets Directory:
- Beregale
- Illium
- Ponolus
- Teukria
- asteroid belt
- fuel depot
- Thail
- Naxell
- Mass Relay
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Beregale:
- Orbital Distance: 0.6 AU
- Orbital Period: 0.5 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.864
- Radius: 10,640 km
- Day Length: 45.7 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 2.0 atm
- Surface Temp: 232 °C
- Surface Gravity: 2.1 g
- Mass: 5.801 Earth-masses
While not a classical “hothouse” world like Venus, Beregalae [sic] is scarcely more hospitable. In addition to being closest to the star Tasale, its core contains many radioactives and other heavy elements. These increase the heat of the planets [sic] and drive volcanism.
Beregale’s crust is too rigid for plate tectonics to function, and the planet will go through cycles in which the pressure builds to a massive super volcanic eruption. These spew ejecta over thousands of kilometers, leave caldera a hundred kilometers across, and spew enough molten material to repave entire continents. The last such event was 812,000 years ago; the current rate of outgassing from volcanic hotspots suggests another will occur within the next ten millennia.
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Illium:
- Orbital Distance: 1.3 AU
- Orbital Period: 1.5 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.976
- Radius: 7,431 km
- Day Length: 25 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 1.15 atm
- Surface Temp: 63 °C
- Surface Gravity: 1.2 g
- Mass: 1.617 Earth-masses
- Colony: Asari
Capital: Nos Astra, founded 1617, population 84,900,000 (2185) and 84,950,000 (2186)
L4 station: population 80,300 (2185)
L5 station: population 80,500 (2186)
Illium is a classic garden world, developed to serve as entrepot between the Terminus Systems and the Asari Republics. To abet this trade, the normally stringent customs laws of Council space on product safety, proscribed materials, and sapient trafficking are relaxed. Officially Illium is not an asari world; it is colonized and operated by asari corporate interests. This gives it the same legal latitude enjoyed by the human corporate research enclaves of Noveria.
Illium is one of the youngest asari colonies settled during the 7th Expansion Wave. The first child born on the world is only now reaching her middle-age. The world is hot and massive; ground settlement is only possible at the higher polar latitudes. In more equatorial locations, the population is housed in arcology skyscrapers to escape the heat of the surface.
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Illium is a classic garden world, an entrepot between the Terminus Systems and the Asari Republics. To abet this trade, the normally stringent customs laws of Council space on product safety, proscribed materials, and sapient trafficking are relaxed. The world is hot and massive; ground settlement is only possible at the higher polar latitudes. In more equatorial locations, the population is housed in arcology skyscrapers to escape the heat of the surface.
Reaper forces met a surprising amount of resistance at Illium. Its leaders were paranoid about keeping their fortunes, and were influential in both Terminus and Citadel space. They acquired a large defense fleet and a high number of fission weapons, and in the brief space battle, used them on the Reaper fleet’s troop transports rather than their near-impervious capital ships. As a result, the inevitable ground invasion has been slowed to a crawl as the Reapers manufacture more troops.
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A regional hub of asari commerce awash in riches, Illium is infamous for its abusive labor practices and legalization of nearly everything except murder. As such, Illium is the preferred production site for weapons and pharmaceuticals that would be illegal nearly everywhere else, made even more lucrative by legal indentured servitude. Among the biotics-related pharmaceutical producers is the Dantius Corporation, a rising star in galactic commerce.
Despite the dangers of its products, Illium is renowned for glamor, luxury, and safety (provided by near-total surveillance), making it a favored tourist destination. Countless celebrities maintain palatial estates on Illium and in its capital, Nos Astra. The sole obstacle to business on Illium is its extensive bureaucracy, tolerated only for its provision of security.
Regardless of the character of its economy, Illium’s self-congratulatory media exalts its own society with the provincial arrogance of “new money,” glorifying in “sexiest CEOs” and “ten richest residents” lists.
Additional Information
The Nos Astra Exchange trading floor
Illium is a commerce planet, and sees many new cultures and goods due to its proximity to the Terminus Systems. New visitors are advised to avoid signing anything due to the world’s lax legal regulations, necessary in order to stay competitive with the Terminus Systems. As such, drugs are legal as long as they are labeled properly, and one can buy any kind of weapon, technology, or even indentured servants. At the same time, it is still an asari world and far from lawless. Very few quarians visit Illium, as it does not allow the Migrant Fleet to enter the star system.
Known locales on Illium other than Nos Astra include the Manjoros Plaza and Saefos Valley.
The skald fish, which is available for purchase at Citadel Souvenirs, is native to this world.
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Ponolus:
- Orbital Distance: 2.08 AU
- Orbital Period: 3.0 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 1
- Radius: 5,489 km
- Day Length: 36.2 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 96.6 atm
- Surface Temp: 539 °C
- Surface Gravity: 0.78 g
- Mass: 0.573 Earth-masses
A fairly typical Venusian “hothouse,” Ponolus seems almost tame compared to the violent volcanic outbursts of the inner world, Beregale. In contrast, Ponolus is nearly inert, with no active volcanoes or plate tectonics. The most dramatic event in the last million years was the foundering of the asari aerostat research platform Alviusic in 2092, which fell after being holed by an improbably unlucky meteor. Most of the crew successfully reached escape capsules, but six were lost. The crushed wreck of the platform now lies on the Kriusite Plain in the southern hemisphere.
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Teukria:
- Orbital Distance: 3.05 AU
- Orbital Period: 5.33 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.999
- Radius: 1,120 km
- Day Length: 17.3 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: Trace atm
- Surface Temp: −91 °C
- Surface Gravity: 0.157 g
- Mass: 0.005 Earth-masses
Named for a legendary asari archer from Thessia’s Iron Age, Teukria is an asteroid large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet or, as some term it, a “meso-planet.” Its gravity is sufficient to give it a spherical shape. Developed for nickel and iron mining, Teukria was abandoned before the Reapers reached the system. Its facilities are now dark and cold.
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Thail:
- Orbital Distance: 4.46 AU
- Orbital Period: 9.4 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 1.004
- Radius: 55,263 km
- Day Length: 15.5 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: N/A atm
- Surface Temp: N/A °C
- Surface Gravity: N/A g
- Mass: N/A Earth-masses
Thail is a typical hydrogen-helium gas giant. Its complex system of rings is unstable, dating back only a few million years. They are thought to be the shattered remains of a comet.
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Naxell:
- Orbital Distance: 9.37 AU
- Orbital Period: 28.8 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.992
- Radius: 22,981 km
- Day Length: 10.1 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: N/A atm
- Surface Temp: N/A °C
- Surface Gravity: N/A g
- Mass: N/A Earth-masses
- Colony: human
Capital: EAE Krafla, population 6,700
Naxell is an ammonia-methane ice giant. Several smaller energy corporations shut out of the big market in the Faia gateway system are attempting to develop a local helium-3 fuel mining infrastructure to service Illium. The leading investor is the human corporation Eldfell-Ashland Energy (EAE). Their efforts have been hampered by the extralegal pressure the “H-3 Cartels” in Faia system can bring to bear, from simple price undercuts to bureaucratic obstructions (denied permits and constant “health and safety” inspections).
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