Dranek Solar-system

System Specs:

  • Stellar Mass:  0.3 Sol Masses
  • Stellar Class:  M
  • Luminosity:  N/A Sol
  • Planets:  4
  • Moons:  0
  • Asteroid Belts:  0
  • Asteroids:  0
  • Objects:  0

Dranek was also mined out during the Krogan Rebellions, although in recent times it still has moderate to rich amounts of resources in largely unexplored regions. Element zero deposits can be found in the infamous planetoid Rothla.

As with most of the Krogan DMZ, the CDEM enforces the strict prohibition against arming krogan starships here. They have also quarantined Rothla, citing previous mishaps around the area.

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Kelim
  2. Dor
  3. Sazgoth
  4. Rothla

 

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Kelim:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.2 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.2 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.2
  • Radius:  5,580 km
  • Day Length:  28.3 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.5 atm
  • Surface Temp:  42 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.52 g
  • Mass:  0.395 Earth-masses

Kelim is a tectonically inert rock with an atmosphere of krypton, xenon, and argon. There are a few valuable lodes of light metals scattered across its surface, but these are difficult to find; most were mined out in the years leading up to the Krogan Rebellions.

 

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Dor:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.36 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.4 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.292
  • Radius:  25,588 km
  • Day Length:  18.4 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  N/A atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses
  • Colony:  population 7,300

Dor is a conventional methane-ammonia ice giant. It is the main fueling port in the Dranek cluster gateway system. Pildea Station, the headquarters for patrol ships of the Council Demilitarization Enforcement Mission (CDEM), lies at the trailing Lagrange point of Dor.

The CDEM logs all ships passing through the Krogan Demilitarized Zone, and has the right to board and search them for contraband at any time and for any reason. There are no exceptions; at points over the last two centuries, diplomatic incidents have been caused when the patrol frigates boarded an asari hospital ship, a batarian diplomatic courier, and privately-owned human “tramp” freighters.

These measures are provided for under the terms of the krogan armistice. While the krogan were allowed to retain their government and personal weapons, any attempt to provide starship-mounted weapons to the clans on Tuchanka is punishable by law. Nearly a millennia [sic] after the war ended, the official penalty for smuggling proscribed weapons is still death by spacing.

 

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Sazgoth:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.58 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.8 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.305
  • Radius:  3,349 km
  • Day Length:  27.1 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.19 atm
  • Surface Temp:  −99 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.18 g
  • Mass:  0.049 Earth-masses

Sazgoth is a small ice dwarf with an eccentric orbit. During perigee, portions of its icy surface sublimate into a thin atmosphere of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, which quickly freeze again as it recedes into the outer reaches of the Dranek system.

 

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Rothla:

  • Orbital Distance:  1.15 AU
  • Orbital Period:  2.3 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.288
  • Radius:  4,263 km
  • Day Length:  64.2 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.14 atm
  • Surface Temp:  −153 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses

Once Rothla was a large ice dwarf with the statistics listed below. In the waning years of the Krogan Rebellions it was shattered into field of debris by what is assumed to have been the test of an exotic weapons system. In the wake of “the event,” the planetoid was reduced to a relatively contained field of thousands of tiny moonlets rotating around one another, colliding and ricocheting.

The method used to destroy the planetoid has never been deduced. The krogan clan who performed the experiment apparently all died in the event. Ships that have traveled to the edge of the event’s light cone observed a moment of extreme gravitational lensing around Rothla immediately before its break up, but no other clues.

A popular extranet meme put forward by asari author Delsae Orthysa insists that the turians are covering up the existence of a krogan “super biotic” breed that was genetically engineered within Rothla. The CDEM enforces quarantine around the Rothla Field, citing cases of amateur investigators whose ships came to grief in the debris field.

 

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