Harsa Solar-system

System Specs:

  • Stellar Mass:  1.016 Sol Masses
  • Stellar Class:  G
  • Luminosity:  N/A Sol
  • Planets:  5
  • Moons:  >1
  • Asteroid Belts:  1
  • Asteroids:  0
  • Objects:  1

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Dezda
  2. Khar’shan
  3. asteroid belt
  4. Verush
  5. Ilem
  6. Spekilas
  7. Mass Relay

 

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Dezda:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.8 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.7 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  1.045
  • Radius:  1,528 km
  • Day Length:  68.6 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  16.28 atm
  • Surface Temp:  322 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  .28 g
  • Mass:  0.016 Earth-masses

A dwarf planet, Dezda was explored in the beginnings of the batarian space age and mined for its unusual occurrences of uranium, which was rare on Khar’shan. Whether the planet has been completely mined out is unclear–accurate data on the planet was lost after a power struggle within the batarian government. The Reaper attack has further worsened the information flow.

 

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Khar’shan:

  • Orbital Distance:  1.45 AU
  • Orbital Period:  1.7 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  1.055
  • Radius:  5,222 km
  • Day Length:  18.5 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.62 atm
  • Surface Temp:  33 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.96 g
  • Mass:  0.639 Earth-masses
  • Homeworld:  Batarian (species)

Khar’shan, the batarian homeworld, is wrapped less in mystery than in outright lies. Batarian propaganda claims the world has 15 billion inhabitants and an economy that rivals the asari. Although the legal slave trade does boost the batarians’ profits somewhat, Citadel sanctions have left a paper tiger of an empire, one that fights rivals through deniable terrorist actions rather than the wars of its heyday centuries ago.

The Reapers will likely be the death blow to that empire. Almost no information has escaped Khar’shan since the Reapers destroyed the comm buoys, but batarian refugees say that resistance has created a bond among the commoners. If a new government can rise from the ashes, that bond may sustain a new batarian society.

 

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Verush:

  • Orbital Distance:  5.4 AU
  • Orbital Period:  12.6 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.992
  • Radius:  53,150 km
  • Day Length:  11.4 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  N/A atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses
  • Satellites:  >1

Verush is a hydrogen-helium gas giant named for an ancient batarian monarch whose empire spanned continents. He had such a penchant for mating that 0.6 percent of modern batarians claim to trace their lineage to him.

The planet’s moons are named after his many recognized wives. The largest, Bira, concealed Prothean ruins that helped the batarians develop FTL travel. It is a batarian point of pride that, since the ruins were damaged by earthquakes, they had less information to go on than other spacefaring species.

The Reapers have destroyed all obvious military outposts in Verush’s orbit. The batarians’ notorious secrecy, however, may have allowed concealed subterranean facilities on Verush’s moons to survive.

 

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Ilem:

  • Orbital Distance:  11.3 AU
  • Orbital Period:  38.1 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.994
  • Radius:  2,179 km
  • Day Length:  42.9 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  Trace atm
  • Surface Temp:  −176 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.06 g
  • Mass:  0.007 Earth-masses

A tiny rock and ice planet that is now missing much of its ice, Ilem was part of a grand project by a Hegemony dictator known as Grebosht the Mad. His aim was to drop enormous chunks of Ilem’s ice on the surfaces of otherwise uninhabitable desert planets in the hopes of creating sustainable lakes and seas. Wiser heads than he pointed out that diverting a comet was more plausible, but Grebosht executed those who disagreed with him. Grebosht’s career was surprisingly long given his loose grip on reality, mostly because his projects employed large numbers of batarians.

Today, Ilem lies abandoned. Hegemony spy drones still orbit the planet, but it is doubtful anyone on Khar’shan is paying attention to what data they send back.

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Spekilas:

  • Orbital Distance:  21 AU
  • Orbital Period:  96.5 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.994
  • Radius:  7,594 km
  • Day Length:  49.9 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  Trace atm
  • Surface Temp:  −194 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  1.18 g
  • Mass:  1.66 Earth-masses

Spekilas is a relatively large rock and ice planet known for its deposits of magnetically active periclase, which interferes with some starship scans. Conspiracy theories and pulp adventure claim that secret fortresses are concealed under the ice. The Reaper invasion force appears to have passed the planet by, which is likely the only insight that organics will ever have into the Reapers’ literary taste.

 

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