System Specs:
- Stellar Mass: 0.96 Sol Masses
- Stellar Class: G
- Luminosity: N/A Sol
- Planets: 7
- Moons: 0
- Asteroid Belts: 1
- Asteroids: 0
- Objects: 0
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Planets Directory:
- Quarem
- Daratar
- Tunfigel
- Nephros
- Alingon
- Wenrum
- asteroid belt
- Antictra
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Quarem:
- Orbital Distance: 0.2 AU
- Orbital Period: 0.1 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.8
- Radius: 3,137 km
- Day Length: 53.1 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 2.22 atm
- Surface Temp: 558 °C
- Surface Gravity: 3.5 g
- Mass: 0.84 Earth-masses
A scorchingly hot planet close to its parent star, Quarem was bombarded by comets and asteroids during its earliest geological periods. As the solar system stabilized, these occurrences leveled off until the planet became geologically inactive. Its nitrogen and helium atmosphere is extremely thick due to heavy metals making the planet’s core very dense. Unfortunately, these metals are deep below the crust making mining impractical.
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Daratar:
- Orbital Distance: 0.9 AU
- Orbital Period: 0.9 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.9
- Radius: 3,937 km
- Day Length: 62.8 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 0.49 atm
- Surface Temp: −66 °C
- Surface Gravity: 0.5 g
- Mass: 0.189 Earth-masses
- Satellites: 1
Though ancient riverbeds crisscross the plains of Daratar, photodissociation has long since dried up the world. There are indications of ancient mining operations, but any structures have long since been buried or worn away by the planet’s seasonal dust storms.
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Tunfigel:
- Orbital Distance: 1.8 AU
- Orbital Period: 2.4 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 1.013
- Radius: 10,772 km
- Day Length: 35.5 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 0.03 atm
- Surface Temp: −31 °C
- Surface Gravity: 5.1 g
- Mass: 14.44 Earth-masses
First charted by the salarians, Tunfigel (which means “hard heart”) is noted for its platinum and uranium deposits, making robo-mining a lucrative activity. While the surface temperature is well within the range of a comfortable EVA excursion, the extremely dense Tunfigel generates a dangerous gravitational pull five times that of Earth. The salarian miners exploiting the planet derisively nickname planets such as these “elcor tourist traps”.
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Nephros:
- Orbital Distance: 7.5 AU
- Orbital Period: 20.6 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.994
- Radius: 44,750 km
- Day Length: 11.9 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: N/A atm
- Surface Temp: N/A °C
- Surface Gravity: N/A g
- Mass: N/A Earth-masses
Nephros (which means “restless sleep”) is a relatively small hydrogen-nitrogen gas giant. Its atmosphere is home to spectacular winds of up to 350 kilometers/hour and electrical systems up to 700 times the power of those on Earth, which indicate that its hydrogen clouds contain moderate amounts of water vapor.
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Alingon:
- Orbital Distance: 10.1 AU
- Orbital Period: 31.7 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 1.025
- Radius: 3,085 km
- Day Length: 56.3 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 0.04 atm
- Surface Temp: −166 °C
- Surface Gravity: 0.5 g
- Mass: 0.116 Earth-masses
Alingon (which means “deceptive”) was so named by salarian scouts because as their probes landed on the planet their instruments started going awry. This turned out to be due to the high concentration of magnetically active periclase (magnesia) in the core and crust of the planet. This interferes with scans and broadcasts, which has given rise to countless spacer stories of pirates lying in wait in Alingon’s magnetosphere or crashed ships with untold fortunes stranded on the surface. In reality, any pirates would have a hard time locating prey amid all the interference and would live lives cut off from the rest of the galaxy because the magnetosphere kills extraplanetary communication.
Alingon’s other natural features are a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide, spectacular dry ice formations, and xenon gas, which can be skimmed from the upper atmosphere and used in ion thrusters.
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Wenrum:
- Orbital Distance: 11.8 AU
- Orbital Period: 40.6 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.997
- Radius: 1,574 km
- Day Length: 59.3 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 0.00 atm
- Surface Temp: −178 °C
- Surface Gravity: 0.1 g
- Mass: 0.006 Earth-masses
Wenrum (“white knight”) takes its name from a salarian story in the Romantic period of a knight who refused all temptation to riches, carnality, and even flavorful food until justice was served to the poor and oppressed. The planet is named because of its white, highly reflective surface, composed mainly of titanium dioxide and ice and no atmosphere to speak of to dim its albedo.
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Antictra:
- Orbital Distance: 12.3 AU
- Orbital Period: 43.3 Earth-years
- Keplerian Ratio: 0.993
- Radius: 5,658 km
- Day Length: 21.1 Earth-hours
- Atmospheric Pressure: 0.00 atm
- Surface Temp: −180 °C
- Surface Gravity: 0.8 g
- Mass: 0.625 Earth-masses
Antictra (which means “fused metal”) is so named because of its spectacular craters. A planet high in various grades of iron oxide, Antictra is regularly pummeled by loose asteroids in the nearby belt between it and Wenrum. The iron melted and fused by the incoming meteors makes for spectacular landscape shots that look alien no matter what part of the galaxy you may be from. However, due to frequent meteor impacts, exploration is considered highly dangerous even to those with advanced kinetic barriers.
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