Fathar Solar-system

System Specs:

  • Stellar Mass:  0.33 Sol Masses
  • Stellar Class:  M
  • Luminosity:  N/A Sol
  • Planets:  3
  • Moons:  0
  • Asteroid Belts:  0
  • Asteroids:  0
  • Objects:  0

Fathar is a red dwarf star with three terrestrial worlds, two of which are habitable. Its two habitable worlds are rich in platinum, while the lifeless one has good amounts of iridium.

Terminus warlords frequent the system for prey, and they have been most successful in demoralizing the miners of Korar: anybody expecting a child moves out of there due to a slave raid in 2047 CE that targeted all of the world’s children. However, they have been less successful in taking Lorek from the batarians who in turn stole the planet from the asari in 1913 CE.

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Lorek
  2. Korar
  3. Dorgal

 

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Lorek:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.2 AU
  • Orbital Period:  59.6 Earth-days
  • Keplerian Ratio:  N/A
  • Radius:  6,754 km
  • Day Length:  N/A Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.4 atm
  • Surface Temp:  40 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.6 g
  • Mass:  0.668 Earth-masses
  • Colony:  Batarian
    Capital:  Jalnor, founded 1764, population 4,700,000

Lorek is an extremely rare example of a habitable world circling a red dwarf star. Originally an independent asari colony named Esan, it was annexed by the Batarian Hegemony in 1913, causing a minor galactic incident. Despite several attempts, the local Terminus warlords have never been able to take Lorek for themselves.

Lorek is a low-density world composed of rock, light metals, and a water-based crust. It is tidally locked to Fathar with a sunward “hot pole” and shadowed “cold pole”. Water on the sunward side evaporates quickly, traveling over the islands of the habitable terminator zone in the form of massive fast-moving thunderstorms and finally settling as snow on the frozen dark side. There are fears that the buildup of ice cap mass on the far side may cause axial reorientation over the course of several million years, but batarian officials dismiss the idea as an irresponsible theory disseminated by counter-hegemonist subversives.

 

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Korar:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.32 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.3 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.364
  • Radius:  1,919 km
  • Day Length:  N/A Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  Trace atm
  • Surface Temp:  −40 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.19 g
  • Mass:  0.017 Earth-masses
  • Colony:  population 2,400

Korar is a small, lifeless rock blessed with significant deposits of thorium, which is used in radiation shielding and the manufacture of spaceframe alloys. A few miners eke out an existence on the surface, selling their ore at Lorek and praying that the intermittent raids by the Terminus pirate clans will pass their homestead by. There have been no children born on Korar since the infamous pirate raid of 2047, when every child on the planet was rounded up and taken as a slave. Any couple finding themselves pregnant preemptively moves off-world.

 

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Dorgal:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.54 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.7 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.321
  • Radius:  3,521 km
  • Day Length:  51.4 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.43 atm
  • Surface Temp:  −88 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.44 g
  • Mass:  0.133 Earth-masses

The surface of Dorgal is an ethane-soaked mush. The planet hovers near the boiling point of the hydrocarbon and supports a diverse if simple and slow-moving carbon-based ecology. The planet’s gravity is strong enough to retain an atmosphere of molecular nitrogen and carbon monoxide, but the methane that dominated billions of years ago has long since been lost.

 

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