Zaherin Solar-system

System Specs:

  • Stellar Mass:  0.795 Sol Masses
  • Stellar Class:   K
  • Luminosity:  N/A Sol
  • Planets:  4
  • Moons:  0
  • Asteroid Belts:  0
  • Asteroids:  0
  • Objects:  0

The asari (and their domesticated vorcha) have staked claims in Zaherin, although its worlds turned out to have little resources worth studying or exploiting. The vorcha have been left to their own devices in Namakli after an economic downturn.

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Ehstag
  2. Namakli
  3. Azrahas
  4. Rotesk

 

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Ehstag:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.5 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.4 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.781
  • Radius:  6,773 km
  • Day Length:  63.6 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.56 atm
  • Surface Temp:  115 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.62 g
  • Mass:  0.694 Earth-masses

Ehstag was discovered by a joint asari-vorcha exploration team and abandoned shortly thereafter. The planet’s light atmosphere of nitrogen and krypton is not overtly hostile to vorcha, but its heat makes it uninhabitable except in expensive habitats. Its low density precludes the presence of many valuable minerals, and so settling the planet was deemed not worth the effort.

 

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Namakli:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.8 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.8 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.8
  • Radius:  10,133 km
  • Day Length:  23.8 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.87 atm
  • Surface Temp:  41 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  1.26 g
  • Mass:  3.157 Earth-masses

An arid but habitable planet, Namakli was briefly colonized by the Pyrena Corporation, a consortium of asari colonists and socialized vorcha laborers. After an economic downturn, however, many asari left the planet, and the vorcha population kept growing to the point where they bred faster than could be educated. Soon they turned violent and uncontrollable, and the colonies essentially self-destructed.

Today, Namakli is a wasteland with little population, but vorcha packs are scattered across the deserts. Settlers frequently run into these packs, discouraging recolonization. The lack of complex biota and scarcity of profitable metals drove the last few proverbial nails into Namakli’s coffin; no one has stepped forth in the past few years with the will, the funding, or the firepower to establish a permanent colony.

 

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Azrahas:

  • Orbital Distance:  1.45 AU
  • Orbital Period:  1.95 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.802
  • Radius:  4,715 km
  • Day Length:  36.1 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  57.28 atm
  • Surface Temp:  274 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.57 g
  • Mass:  0.309 Earth-masses

Azrahas is a hothouse planet rich in nitrogen, methane, and ethane. Similar to Namakli, it is metal-poor. Additionally, it is suspected that few asteroid impacts have struck it over the millennia, precluding accessible deposits of common precious metals in the crust. Decrepit asari orbital stations from scientific expeditions long ago circle the planet. None display signs of occupation.

 

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Rotesk:

  • Orbital Distance:  6.1 AU
  • Orbital Period:  16.9 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.795
  • Radius:  19,174 km
  • Day Length:  10.8 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  N/A atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses

A methane-soaked gas giant, Rotesk featured helium-3 collection machinery serving the colonists of Namakli, but it appears their kinetic barriers failed long ago due to neglect. The apparatus was destroyed by meteorites, probably originating in Rotesk’s rings, creating one more hurdle for anyone trying to settle on Namakli.

 

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