Relic Solar-system – Austin Bunton Designs

System Specs:

Stellar Mass: 0.88 Sol Masses
Stellar Class: G
Luminosity: N/A Sol
Planets: 7
Moons: 0
Asteroid Belts: 1
Asteroids: 0
Objects: 0

Relic’s worlds are mostly translated from the original hanar designations for them. The abundance of resources has caused a mining boom: hanar and drell robo-miners compete with krogan and vorcha manual labor, which sometimes spark race riots.

First Land serves as a home-base and discharge station for the numerous hanar and drell miners in the system. Starships often disappear at Preying Mouth while discharging static buildup, leading to travel advisories recommending berthing at First Land instead.

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Planets Directory:

Murky Water
Fitful Current
First Land
Island Wind
Rough Tide
asteroid belt
Preying Mouth

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Murky Water:

Orbital Distance: 0.7 AU
Orbital Period: 0.7 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 0.7
Radius: 10,551 km
Day Length: 53.9 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: 19.46 atm
Surface Temp: 225 °C
Surface Gravity: 4.6 g
Mass: 12.495 Earth-masses

Despite the name, Murky Water has yet to show any signs of having water whatsoever. Its name is a literal translation from the original hanar, who consider murky water a sign of danger. Murky Water has a hazy, crushing atmosphere of carbon dioxide and methane which brings the surface heat to boiling levels. It remains unexploited, its gravity and temperature too high to bother.

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Fitful Current:

Orbital Distance: 1.2 AU
Orbital Period: 1.5 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 0.768
Radius: 9,260 km
Day Length: 41.9 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: Trace atm
Surface Temp: −47 °C
Surface Gravity: 3.1 g
Mass: 6.486 Earth-masses

Fitful Current was so named because it orbits in retrograde, indicating that it may have been an extrasolar planet that was captured by the Relic System’s gravity well. Large for a rock planet, Fitful Current has only traces of hydrogen in its extremely thin atmosphere. Hanar robo-miners have recovered some uranium and thorium deposits from its depths.

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First Land:

Orbital Distance: 2.1 AU
Orbital Period: 3.4 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 0.801
Radius: 53,826 km
Day Length: 10.9 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: N/A atm
Surface Temp: N/A °C
Surface Gravity: N/A g
Mass: N/A Earth-masses
Colony: Hanar

A hydrogen-helium gas giant believed to be an extrasolar capture, First Land is home to many space stations supporting the ubiquitous refueling platforms. A thriving community of drell and hanar make their homes in orbit here, giving the solar system’s robo-miners somewhere to go when the 50-hour days and nights are driving them mad.

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Island Wind:

Orbital Distance: 3.9 AU
Orbital Period: 7.7 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 1
Radius: 73,088 km
Day Length: 17.0 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: N/A atm
Surface Temp: N/A °C
Surface Gravity: N/A g
Mass: N/A Earth-masses

A large hydrogen-nitrogen gas giant, Island Wind is named for the sweet-smelling land breezes that come off of the archipelagos of Kahje in the evening. As tumultuous as any other Jovian giant, Island Wind has cyclones that span tens of thousands of kilometers.

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Rough Tide:

Orbital Distance: 7.8 AU
Orbital Period: 21.8 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 0.999
Radius: 2,125 km
Day Length: 67.7 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: 7.89 atm
Surface Temp: 1 °C
Surface Gravity: 0.1 g
Mass: 0.011 Earth-masses

A dwarf planet with a shroud of carbon monoxide and dioxide that keeps it warm, Rough Tide was so named when large veins of platinum and palladium were struck and miners from all over the cluster came in to stake their claims. Hanar police and their drell enforcers clashed with krogan and vorcha in an ugly series of race riots in the late 2170s, and the planet has only grudgingly kept a shaky peace since then.

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Preying Mouth:

Orbital Distance: 16.0 AU
Orbital Period: 64.2 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 0.994
Radius: 40,775 km
Day Length: 11.7 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: N/A atm
Surface Temp: N/A °C
Surface Gravity: N/A g
Mass: N/A Earth-masses

A hydrogen-helium gas giant, Preying Mouth is a ship-killing enigma, the Bermuda Triangle of the Terminus Systems. There are many theories why ships never return from there: undetectable space debris; old disruptor torpedoes and magnetic mines from a long-forgotten war; even miniature black holes. But what is clear is that too many ships have been lost there for it to be happenstance.

TRAVEL ADVISORY: Due to the large number of ships lost when attempting to discharge their drive cores in Preying Mouth, the Relic system highly recommends using First Land’s complimentary discharge stations instead.

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Beach Thunder:

Orbital Distance: 33.0 AU
Orbital Period: 190.2 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 0.993
Radius: 8,058 km
Day Length: 54.1 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: 1.25 atm
Surface Temp: −157 °C
Surface Gravity: 2.1 g
Mass: 3.327 Earth-masses

Beach Thunder lives and dies on the price of titanium, the metal being the only reason to come to this frozen rock. A best-selling e-novel, “The Hard Stuff”, has popularized the story of the miners on the planet. It follows the hanar and drell robo-miners competing with krogan and vorcha who simply put on environment suits and lase the titanium out more or less by hand. As the novel’s promotional screed says, “accidents are frequent, rivalry is fierce, and vengeance served up fast.”