Batalla Solar-system

System Specs:

  • Stellar Mass:  0.8 Sol Masses
  • Stellar Class:  K
  • Luminosity:  N/A Sol
  • Planets:  3
  • Moons:  >1
  • Asteroid Belts:  0
  • Asteroids:  0
  • Objects:  0

Batalla is colonized by batarians and elcor. While its worlds only have a moderate to good resource rating, it is one of few systems that host multiple extractable element zero deposits: Nearog’s moons was once a home to a pirate warlord, and Thunawanuro’s denizens are surprisingly productive considering their interstellar neighborhood.

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Logasiri
  2. Thunawanuro
  3. Nearog

 

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Logasiri:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.6 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.5 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.864
  • Radius:  5,014 km
  • Day Length:  49.7 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  Trace atm
  • Surface Temp:  56 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.5 g
  • Mass:  0.307 Earth-masses
  • Colony:  Batarian

A step above a carbonaceous asteroid, Logasiri is a planet with a carbon-heavy crust and a trace atmosphere of CO2 and helium. Its surface is cool enough to have liquid water, but it is rapidly drying out as it has lost the critical mass to have a self-sustaining hydrologic cycle.

Nevertheless, the batarians have colonized the world, forcing slaves to work in their mines and agri-habitats. The labor is hot, endless, and backbreaking, even in the low-G environment. Every horror story told by slaves elsewhere in the cluster seems to be topped by one from Logasiri. The most famous is that of the slaver Silparon, who worked to death 420 slaves over the course of a galactic standard year and ground up their bodies for compost in his greenhouses. He was eventually poisoned by his wife, but his shadow – and his business model – still hangs over this miserable planet.

 

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Thunawanuro:

  • Orbital Distance:  1.1 AU
  • Orbital Period:  1.3 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.788
  • Radius:  11,993 km
  • Day Length:  51.7 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  2.86 atm
  • Surface Temp:  32 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  6.7 g
  • Mass:  23.514 Earth-masses
  • Colony:  Elcor
    Capital:  Nurhemathun, founded 2035, population 3,769,400 (2185), population 3,800,000 (2186)

A strange island of peace in the lawless Terminus Systems, Thunawanuro is a planet of crushing gravity but abundant life. As its ponderous name indicates, it was colonized by the elcor, who have several booming industries on the planet. Hydroelectric dams and biofuels from tough woody algae provide much of the planet’s energy. Mines export uranium, thorium, and gold taken to space with generous use of mass effect fields. Of course, pirates target the elcor’s shipping as soon as it leaves orbit, but the elcor’s deals with mercenary companies keep away all but the most foolhardy of attackers.

 

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Nearog:

  • Orbital Distance:  4.8 AU
  • Orbital Period:  11.8 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.794
  • Radius:  19,976 km
  • Day Length:  16.5 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  N/A atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses
  • Satellites:  >1

Nearog is a hydrogen-methane gas giant whose moons were once home to Essul, a batarian warlord who terrorized the Terminus Systems. Attempting to unite a pirate army under his banner, he successfully conducted a rapid blitz against 11 habitable worlds.

Fortunately for the rest of the galaxy, Essul’s crimes caught the attention of the Spectres, who deduced his hidden location and assassinated him. Essul’s empire, built on a hyperextended army, soon came crashing down. His lost stockpiles of element zero have become something of a legend, and foolish spacers have spent countless amounts of time and money searching the Batalla system, convinced they will be the ones that finally strike it rich.

 

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