Satent Solar-system

System Specs:

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

Development in Satent is spurred by Boro being bootstrapped as a volus colony world. Terminus Systems pirates attempt to take advantage, though the volus counter this with turian military response.

The terrestrial worlds are particularly rich in resources, and two out of the three even have element zero deposits.

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Rescel
  2. Raisaris
  3. Anedia
  4. Boro
  5. Nataisa

 

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Rescel:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.02 AU
  • Orbital Period:  4.56 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  N/A
  • Radius:  69,155 km
  • Day Length:  4.56 Earth-days
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  N/A atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses

Rescel is a massive “hot Jupiter” gas giant that whips around the star Satent once every four and a half days. Like most planets of its type, it migrated inwards from its initial position in the system (thought to be around 0.3 AU).

Rescel is one of the few close-orbiting gas giants to show a marked temperature difference in its sun-facing and dark-side hemispheres. The atmosphere absorbs and re-radiates Satent’s heat too quickly for winds to carry the heat to the dark side. There is a temperature difference of over 1,000 degrees between the gas giant’s “hot” and “cold” poles.

 

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Raisaris:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.6 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.5 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.864
  • Radius:  3,790 km
  • Day Length:  66.3 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  Trace atm
  • Surface Temp:  56 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.24 g
  • Mass:  0.084 Earth-masses

An airless rock of mixed light ores, Raisaris is only of note for the Teryinu impact crater. A relatively recent asteroid strike (within the last million years), the core of the object was partly composed of element zero. It struck at a low enough velocity that the eezo remained near the surface. Over the years, many pirates and “wildcat” miners have attempted to extract the ore.

It is believed that the Teryinu debris originated in the pulsar system AAP34211+19. The supernova that formed the pulsar also created the red emission nebula that human spacers have unofficially named the Sakura Nebula.

 

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Anedia:

  • Orbital Distance:  1.14 AU
  • Orbital Period:  1.4 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.756
  • Radius:  2,949 km
  • Day Length:  38.6 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  Trace atm
  • Surface Temp:  −41 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.19 g
  • Mass:  0.04 Earth-masses

Anedia is a small ice body with very low density; its mass is only 4% that of Earth. It appears to be composed mainly of carbon and water ice, but over the millennia it has accrued a trace atmosphere of krypton and xenon. While Anedia’s gravity is weak enough that a cruiser could land on it safely, there is no particular reason one would want to.

Pirates have been known to land to recover ice for cracking into hydrogen and oxygen. One area in the southern hemisphere, the so-called “Anedian Scrapes,” is so frequently used for this purpose that higher-albedo raw ice can be easily seen from orbit.

 

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Boro:

  • Orbital Distance:  2.1 AU
  • Orbital Period:  3.4Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.801
  • Radius:  10,573 km
  • Day Length:  31.0 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  1.6 atm
  • Surface Temp:  −57 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  1.66 g
  • Mass:  4.528 Earth-masses
  • Colony:  Volus
    Capital:  Yila, founded 2180, population 1,617

Boro is a young volus colony world, settled in defiance of a threat by Terminus pirate groups. The pirates, who can’t use the world themselves, have “suggested” that the volus “hire” them to protect the colony. The volus responded by requesting military protection from their turian allies.

Although uncomfortably hot by volus standards, Boro has the rare combination of high pressure and ammonia ecology volus require. Development of the colony is proceeding rapidly.

 

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Nataisa:

  • Orbital Distance:  4.1 AU
  • Orbital Period:  8.3 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  1
  • Radius:  23,623 km
  • Day Length:  8.9 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  N/A atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses

An unremarkable methane-ammonia gas giant, Nataisa would be of no consequence if it weren’t the only approachable gas giant in the Satent system. Boro’s volus colony has set up a few automated ice cracking stations around the planet and Narhu Combine has been contracted to set up a helium-3 extraction facility. Construction has lagged due to the CEO’s arrest in a kickback scandal that reaches to the highest levels of the Vol Ministry of the Frontier.

 

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