System Specs:
- Stellar Mass: 1.00 Sol Masses
- Stellar Class: G
- Luminosity: N/A Sol
- Planets: 4
- Moons: 0
- Asteroid Belts: 1
- Asteroids: 0
- Objects: 0
Prerequisite: Star Chart from Baria Frontiers store or Project Firewalker: Volcano Station (Mass Effect 2)
Prerequisite: Priority: Rannoch (Mass Effect 3)
Pamyat used to be a hotbed of small-scale pirate activity preying on whatever meager resources miners eked out of the system. By late-2184 to early 2185 pirates have apparently been cleansed from the system, an improbable incident likened by spacer Cora Harper to “trying to pick the fleas off a dog with tweezers.”
Despite its poor reputation, the system rates highly in terms of resources needed by the Normandy SR-2, as the starship has the tools to reach deposits other miners can’t. Iridium is found here in noteworthy amounts.
Conflicting information exists whether the asari or the hanar charted Pamyat first, but the system was decisively first colonized by humans. The hanar were unable to establish ownership when they landed on a planetoid for repairs back in 1879 CE, meaning the Systems Alliance managed to stake a legal claim on the system in 2156 CE. None of its worlds are livable: Dobrovolski’s aluminum abundance and other supplies from Sheol ensures no shortage of raw materials for the fabricators that churn out habitats.
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Planets Directory:
- Komarov
- Dobrovolski
- Patsayev
- asteroid belt
- Volkov
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Komarov:
- Orbital Distance: 1.0 AU
- Orbital Period: 1.0 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 1
- Radius: 6,861 km
- Day Length: 39.6 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: Trace atm
- Surface Temp: 55 °C
- Surface Gravity: 1.3 g
- Mass: 1.493 Earth-masses
First charted by the asari but colonized by humans, the Pamyat system is home to Komarov, an Earth-sized body near the star. It has little atmosphere to speak of, but this has not stopped exploration by robo-miners, who have recovered iridium from the planet’s crust.
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Dobrovolski:
- Orbital Distance: 2.3 AU
- Orbital Period: 3.5 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.993
- Radius: 6,972 km
- Day Length: 59.1 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 0.21 atm
- Surface Temp: −46 °C
- Surface Gravity: 0.9 g
- Mass: 1.067 Earth-masses
- Colony: human
Another near-Earth-sized rock planet without much atmosphere to speak of, Dobrovolski is home to Altai Mineral Works, a local extraction company noted for its success in eezo refining. The planet itself provides aluminum for local fabricators, which are churning out habitats at an astonishing rate for a system that has no garden planets. With its ore supply coming all the way from the Sheol system, Dobrovolski is held up as the proof of the miner’s cliché: “Where there’s eezo, there’s an economy.”
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Patsayev:
- Orbital Distance: 4.2 AU
- Orbital Period: 8.6 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 1.002
- Radius: 6,351 km
- Day Length: 18.9 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: Trace atm
- Surface Temp: −118 °C
- Surface Gravity: 1.0 g
- Mass: 0.984 Earth-masses
A rock planet encased in frozen oceans, Patsayev is notable for the largest written message ever created by a human being. Andrei Kobzar, a disgruntled miner whose fortunes were spent prospecting for eezo, used the mass accelerator cannon of a local mercenary group’s A-61 Mantis gunship to carve a 208-kilometer long message in the ice saying “Zdes’ nichego net,” Russian for “There’s nothing here.”
The message can easily be seen from space. Ironically, the message itself, intended to discourage future colonists, now draws small tourist crowds.
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A rock planet encased in frozen oceans, Patsayev was notable for the largest written message ever created by a human being. Andrei Kobzar, a disgruntled miner whose fortunes were spent prospecting for eezo, used the mass accelerator cannon of a local mercenary group’s A-61 Mantis gunship to carve a 208-kilometer long message in the ice saying “Zdes’ nichego net,” Russian for “There’s nothing here.”
The message used to be visible from low orbit. Ironically, the message itself appears to have been melted away by another determined individual with heavy equipment, and now, truly, there is nothing here.
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Volkov:
- Orbital Distance: 8.5 AU
- Orbital Period: 24.8 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.999
- Radius: 1,705 km
- Day Length: 68.2 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 3.75 atm
- Surface Temp: −59 °C
- Surface Gravity: 0.1 g
- Mass: 0.007 Earth-masses
- Satellites: 2
- Colony: human, population 3,800
A dwarf planet, Volkov has a thick atmosphere of nitrogen and krypton. Home to a thriving iridium mining community, Volkov’s reputation is summed up as “rich but dangerous.” Pirates often lurk behind Volkov’s two moonlets, Zenevieva and Alena, and cripple freighters leaving the atmosphere. To make matters worse, Volkov sits in the Chazov Belt, a field of asteroids and other small bodies, which leads to frequent meteor strikes on the planet. Meteor-related casualties remain rare, but on Volkov, the chances of such a death are high enough that they are factored into insurance premiums.
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