Lenal Solar-system

System Specs:

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

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Laconix
  2. Triginta Petra
  3. Choitadix
  4. Nutus

 

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Laconix:

  • Orbital Distance:  2.5 AU
  • Orbital Period:  3.6 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  1.206
  • Radius:  9,973 km
  • Day Length:  22.1 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  Trace atm
  • Surface Temp:  73 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  1.89 g
  • Mass:  4.587 Earth-masses

Laconix is far enough from its F-class star that its temperatures are almost tolerable to sapient life, but its extremely thin atmosphere makes it almost as hostile as a vacuum. As such, the planet was uninhabited. Mining drones, piloted from orbital stations, would brave the high gravity to extract iridium, osmium, and other valuable heavy metals.

The Reapers did not overlook Laconix in their sweep of the system, and the orbital stations are now destroyed.

 

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Triginta Petra:

  • Orbital Distance:  4.8 AU
  • Orbital Period:  9.6 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  1.2
  • Radius:  8,287 km
  • Day Length:  28.8 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.41 atm
  • Surface Temp:  20 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.88 g
  • Mass:  1.475 Earth-masses
  • Colony:  Turian
    Capital:  Licitron, founded 2120, population 35,500 (pre-invasion; before The Reapers)

A low-density planet in comparison to Earth, Triginta Petra is also drier, with wide land masses that are largely desert. Its dextro-chirality native life has yet to make it out of the oceans, primarily producing cyanobacteria which provide a limited amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.

A handful of turians colonized the planet and attempted to introduce land plants. Their chief hurdle was the lack of good topsoil, which required imports and sophisticated farming practices to overcome. The farmer’s maxim on Triginta Petra was “if you can last five seasons, you officially know what you’re doing.”

Preliminary scans of Triginta Petra suggest that the Reapers judged its population too low to harvest and struck its colonies with kinetic impactors. They then moved on, trusting that the destruction of the food supply’s main arteries would finish off the inhabitants of such a biota-poor world.

 

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Choitadix:

  • Orbital Distance:  9.3 AU
  • Orbital Period:  26.0 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  1.19
  • Radius:  1,260 km
  • Day Length:  62.0 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  Trace atm
  • Surface Temp:  −88 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses
  • Satellites:  >1

A dwarf planet, Choitadix is notable for gold deposited by an asteroid strike that, geologically speaking, happened fairly recently. Surveyors suspected Choitadix was once larger but was reduced in size by the strike, which knocked enough material out of the planet to create misshapen moonlets. Its name, which means “gap-toothed” in a common turian language, was retroactively added once scientists confirmed this hypothesis.

It appears the pulverized orbital stations here were abandoned as a preemptive move before the Reapers reached the cluster. The fate of the refugees is unknown. If they fled to Triginta Petra, the outlook is particularly poor.

 

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Nutus:

  • Orbital Distance:  17.4 AU
  • Orbital Period:  66.5 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  1.191
  • Radius:  50,752 km
  • Day Length:  13.4 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  N/A atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses
  • Satellites:  >1
  • Colony:  Turian

Nutus is a hydrogen-helium gas giant with high nitrogen content. It had several colonized moons.

Nutus’s moon Etrat was home to the small-time Terminus Systems warlord, Rashtek Chass, who extracted tribute from the colonists on Triginta Petra and any travelers stopping by to refuel on helium-3. Rashtek’s small navy appears to have fled to safer pastures in advance of the Reaper invasion.

 

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