Newton Solar-system

System Specs:

  • Stellar Mass:  N/A Sol Masses
  • Stellar Class:  N/A
  • Luminosity:  N/A Sol
  • Planets:  4
  • Moons:  0
  • Asteroid Belts:  0
  • Asteroids:  0
  • Objects:  1

It is apparently named for the polymath astronomer Sir Isaac Newton.

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Ontarom
  2. Klencory
  3. Juncro
  4. Sesmose
  5. Mass Relay

 

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Ontarom:

  • Orbital Distance:  1.1 AU
  • Orbital Period:  1.2 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.924
  • Radius:  6,443 km
  • Day Length:  39.1 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.79 atm
  • Surface Temp:  58 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.82 g
  • Mass:  0.831 Earth-masses
  • Colony:  human
  • Satellites:  2

Though Ontarom’s surface is uncomfortably hot, its nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere and abundant, shallow seas make it an ideal candidate for habitation by most known species.

Unfortunately, the orbit of the moon Thonal has been slowly decaying since the system coalesced. Its proximity is beginning to have tidal effects, and its dynamo-like revolution through Ontarom’s magnetic field is generating increasing powerful electrical storms.

While some have suggested emplacement of mass effect drives in an attempt to lighten the moon and correct its orbit, the scale of such a project – tens of thousands of drives, costing enough to bankrupt the governments of all the Citadel races – make it a pipe dream. A multi-racial effort is underway to catalogue and preserve the unique genetic diversity of Ontarom’s vibrant young biosphere. ExoGeni Corp. and Heyuan Genomics represent the Alliance’s share of the effort.

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This habitable world had been living in the shadow of disaster long before the Reaper war–its moon’s orbit is decaying, causing tidal disruptions and electrical storms before its eventual collision.

When humans settled on Ontarom, the asari derided it as foolish, but today the humans look prescient. The communications hub they set up on the planet has hundreds of quantum communicators, whose information is spread through broadcast on the planet and beamed out via comm buoy. While Ontarom has yet to be attacked by Reaper forces, it is likely just a matter of time.

Codex Entry
Sixteen years ago, the Systems Alliance established the first dish field on Ontarom, defying the tidal disruptions and electrical storms that periodically sweep across the planet. The facility has since grown into a crucial communications hub for the Alliance.

Trade between the Alliance base and nearby human settlements sustains planetary unity. The Alliance also trains and hires colonists to maintain the quantum communicators, further strengthening the bond between locals and the military forces that use the comm stations.

Although most of the communication relays serve the military, a coalition of Ontarom’s businesses has begun construction on a civilian broadcast hub. The local Alliance commander has offered the help of the military’s technical experts, making Ontarom a symbol of civilian and military cooperation.

 

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Klencory:

  • Orbital Distance:  7.5 AU
  • Orbital Period:  20.6 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.994
  • Radius:  7,677 km
  • Day Length:  18.3 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  1.01 atm
  • Surface Temp:  −109 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.82 g
  • Mass:  1.179 Earth-masses

Klencory is a rock and ice planet with an atmosphere composed of chlorine and argon. The frozen surface is mainly composed of potassium with deposits of Iron.

Klencory is famously claimed by the eccentric volus billionaire Kumun Shol. He claims that a vision of a higher being told him to seek on Klencory the “lost crypts of beings of light”. These entities were supposedly created at the dawn of time to protect organic life from synthetic “machine devils.”

Shol has been excavating on Klencory’s toxic surface for two decades, at great expense. No government has valued the world enough to evict his small army of mercenaries.

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Klencory is a rock and ice planet with an atmosphere composed of chlorine and argon. The frozen surface is mainly composed of potassium with deposits of iron.

Klencory is famously claimed by the eccentric volus billionaire Kumun Shol. His once-ridiculed visions of “beings of light” protecting organic life from synthetic “machine devils” don’t seem quite so far-fetched now. His private army of mercenaries are well-established on the planet, waiting for husks to come knocking on their door. In all likelihood, they will be obliterated by the molten metal of a Reaper orbital bombardment, on its way to somewhere important.

Survey Text
“Scans of the planet Klencory revealed the cockpit of a volus trading vessel. There are no signs of the rest of the ship, but the salvage team discovered one of Matriarch Dilinaga’s writings in the ship’s systems.”

 

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Juncro:

  • Orbital Distance:  15.3 AU
  • Orbital Period:  60.0 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.995
  • Radius:  66,642 km
  • Day Length:  16.8 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  N/A atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses

Juncro is a hydrogen-helium gas giant with traces of chlorine and sodium in its upper atmosphere. Like Uranus is [sic] the Sol system, it is “tipped on its side,” its north pole facing the star Newton.

 

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Sesmose:

  • Orbital Distance:  41.9 AU
  • Orbital Period:  272.2 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.993
  • Radius:  3,111 km
  • Day Length:  23.9 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.00 atm
  • Surface Temp:  −188 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.09 g
  • Mass:  0.021 Earth-masses

Sesmose is an ice dwarf world, its surface composed almost entirely of frozen water. Normally a planetoid this small would not rate inclusion on the system’s charts, but Sesmose’s unusually large and beautiful ring of ice crystals has made it a popular subject for visual artists.

The ring is the result of a glancing equatorial impact, which left a large “trench,” and threw a great deal of melted water into the atmosphere. The rings are a temporary feature that will completely decay in a few thousand years.

 

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