Enoch Solar-system – Austin Bunton Designs

System Specs:

Stellar Mass: 0.97 Sol Masses
Stellar Class: G
Luminosity: N/A Sol
Planets: 4
Moons: 2
Asteroid Belts: 0
Asteroids: 0
Objects: 2

Enoch is a gateway system. Its worlds were once developed by a pre-Citadel spacefaring civilization until some targeted cataclysm destroyed them, leaving only scattered debris, element zero deposits, and other telltale evidence.

Enoch’s planets rate moderate to rich in resources, particularly iridium.

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Planets Directory:

Laban
Mizraim
Joab
fuel depot
Goliath
Mass Relay

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Laban:

Orbital Distance: 0.6 AU
Orbital Period: 0.5 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 0.864
Radius: 7,658 km
Day Length: 24.3 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: 14.91 atm
Surface Temp: 384 °C
Surface Gravity: 1.8 g
Mass: 2.576 Earth-masses

Laban is a desert world with sea upon sea of scorching hot iron oxide wearing away marbleized cliffs. Its atmosphere is thick and layered with significant levels of oxygen trapped under an upper helium layer. Initially, surveyors detected traces of iridium from orbit, only to find a surprising archaeological discovery – the iridium came from bunkers on the surface that were blown apart by a dreadnought-class weapon. The logical conclusion was that the civilization on Joab had reached Laban and its outposts here were destroyed to make their extermination complete.

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Mizraim:

Orbital Distance: 1.2 AU
Orbital Period: 1.3 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 1.022
Radius: 17,932 km
Day Length: 10.9 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: 1.9 atm
Surface Temp: _ 1,157 °C
Surface Gravity: _ 0.66 g
Mass: _ 0.78 Earth-masses

A small gas giant, Mizraim is primarily hydrogen and methane around a rocky core. There is no remaining trace of the civilization from Joab on Mizraim itself, but debris orbiting the planet indicates that artificial satellites were once in place before being destroyed.

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Joab:

Orbital Distance: 2.3 AU
Orbital Period: 3.5 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 0.993
Radius: 6,709 km
Day Length: 25.6 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: 2.18 atm
Surface Temp: 14 °C
Surface Gravity: 1.2 g
Mass: 1.318 Earth-masses
Satellites: 2
Colony: human
Capital: New Jericho, founded 2171, population 21,553,000

Joab is a two-mooned habitable planet that is most well known for its mass extinction event. Thousands of years ago, Joab was home to a primate-like spacefaring civilization as well as abundant flora and fauna. However, this can only be deduced from time capsules put into the ground well outside habitation centers — all cities and detectable dwellings were targeted in a massive orbital bombardment that turned them into vapor. The resulting dust shroud killed all photosynthetic life and all fauna dependent on it.

Today, humans have recolonized the planet and are rapidly introducing their own species, beginning with cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria to bring a suitable level of oxygen and nitrogen for respiration.

TRAVEL ADVISORY: Atmospheric pressure at sea level on Joab is double that of Earth. Visitors with upper respiratory infections, emphysema [sic], cancer or a history of thoracic surgery should consult their physician before landing on Joab.

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Goliath:

Orbital Distance: 4.8 AU
Orbital Period: 10.5 Earth-years
Keplerian Ratio: 1.003
Radius: 74,985 km
Day Length: 14.1 Earth-hours
Atmospheric Pressure: N/A atm
Surface Temp: N/A °C
Surface Gravity: N/A g
Mass: N/A Earth-masses

A hydrogen-helium gas giant, Goliath’s orbit takes it near the system’s mass relay, a useful event for drive core discharges and automated helium-3 refueling platforms. Unfortunately, its orbit is currently taking it away from the relay, and it will continue this inconvenience for the next three galactic standard years.