Caestus Solar-system

System Specs:

  • Stellar Mass:  0.98 Sol Masses
  • Stellar Class:  G
  • Luminosity:  N/A Sol
  • Planets:  2
  • Moons:  0
  • Asteroid Belts:  0
  • Asteroids:  0
  • Objects:  0

Caestus only has two planets but both are rich in resources. Turians have settled here, although the main world Invictus is used as a hideout by criminals from the Terminus Systems.

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Invictus
  2. Temerarus

 

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Invictus:

  • Orbital Distance:  1.3 AU
  • Orbital Period:  1.5 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.976
  • Radius:  7,260 km
  • Day Length:  31.6 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  1.15 atm
  • Surface Temp:  30 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  1.5 g
  • Mass:  1.929 Earth-masses
  • Colony:  Turian
    Capital:  Shastinasio, founded 1939, population 320,535,000 (est. 640,000,000 with illegals)

Home to dextro-amino-acid-based life, Invictus’ temperate zones were settled by a turian population that initially fell prey to a bewildering number of diseases. Two decades after its first colony was founded, its population had reduced by half due to fatalities and a large colonist exodus. But when the Primarchs considered ceding the planet to robo-mining interests, the turian statesman Shastina Emperus ambitiously declared that she would start her own colony and double its population within five years.

This effort succeeded, largely due to the colonies’ location in deserts with a minimal number of pest species. The image of Shastina’s triumph in the frontier made for good political theater, and the turian population poured in. The planet’s tropical belt still remains largely unexplored, as its aggressive organic life still wreaks havoc on turian biology. A “house in an Invictus jungle” is a modern turian phrase for an idea that seems like a good idea, but only to the one who came up with it.

Invictus’ atmosphere is primarily nitrogen and oxygen, and its surface crust varies but has high concentrations of alumina and silver. Because it can support life easily, criminals from throughout the Terminus Systems hide out on Invictus. Its official population is estimated to be half the number of sapients that are actually on the planet.

 

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Temerarus:

  • Orbital Distance:  3.4 AU
  • Orbital Period:  6.3 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.99
  • Radius:  3,321 km
  • Day Length:  66.4 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  15.86 atm
  • Surface Temp:  131 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.2 g
  • Mass:  0.054 Earth-masses

Visible in Invictus’ night sky is Temerarus, a planet named for the turian spirit said to have inspired the crew of their first manned moon launch. A boiling hot rock planet, Temerarus is much hotter than its temperate neighbor due to a thick atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide and helium. Its hot surface is largely composed of boron. Surrounded by a thick dust cloud, Temerarus is often struck by small meteors, making exploration dangerous.

 

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