Micah Solar-system

System Specs:

  • Stellar Mass:  N/A Sol Masses
  • Stellar Class:  G
  • Luminosity:  N/A Sol
  • Planets:  2
  • Moons:  0
  • Asteroid Belts:  2
  • Asteroids:  3
  • Objects:  0

Micah’s gas giants are believed to be extrasolar captures. Three of its asteroids are named the “eezo trio” as they all formed around an eezo core and have significant amounts of the substance. Iridium is also found in this system in abundance.

The quarians have mining operations here in 2185. Elohi is believed to be a piracy hotbed due to a large number of distress signals emanating from its vicinity.

 

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Planets Directory:

  1. Elohi
  2. Dumah
  3. asteroid belt
  4. Farlas
  5. Kakabel
  6. asteroid belt
  7. Israfil

 

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Elohi:

  • Orbital Distance:  0.6 AU
  • Orbital Period:  0.5 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  0.864
  • Radius:  38,119 km
  • Day Length:  11.8 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0 atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses

A small hydrogen-helium gas giant formed around a metallic hydrogen core, Elohi will be the site of a rare astronomical event later this year. The comet Asaro will come in on its orbit of 70 galactic standard years and travel so close to the giant that it is predicted to be captured as a moon. Dozens of space probes from around the galaxy have been launched into the Raheel system to record this moment.

Elohi is within the “frost line” of its parent star, where gas giants do not usually form. For this reason, it is believed to be an extrasolar capture.

TRAVEL ADVISORY:  A statistically significant number of distress signals have come from the one-million kilometer mark around Elohi. Pirates are believed to be working the area. In-person tourism is not advised.

 

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Dumah:

  • Orbital Distance:  1.6 AU
  • Orbital Period:  2.0 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  1.024
  • Radius:  59,152 km
  • Day Length:  10.0 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  1.05 atm
  • Surface Temp:  N/A °C
  • Surface Gravity:  N/A g
  • Mass:  N/A Earth-masses
  • Satellites:  51

Home to 51 moons, including the prebiotic moon Anafiel, Dumah is a standard hydrogen-helium gas giant with violent surface winds exceeding 1,900 kph. Like its sister planet Elohi, it is believed to be an extrasolar capture.

 

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Farlas:

  • Orbital Distance:  4.1 AU
  • Orbital Period:  8.3 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  N/A
  • Radius:  540 km
  • Day Length:  24.1 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.0 atm
  • Surface Temp:  −116 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.1 g
  • Mass:  0.001 Earth-masses

One of a trio of asteroids formed around an element zero core, Farlas is the easiest to mine for low-yield eezo. A carbonaceous asteroid, Farlas has a trace of water-bearing minerals and organic carbon in the form of kerogen. Currently, the asteroid is surrounded by quarian mining ships extracting fuel for the flotilla.

 

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Kakabel:

  • Orbital Distance:  4.2 AU
  • Orbital Period:  8.6 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  N/A
  • Radius:  470 km
  • Day Length:  68.3 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.0 atm
  • Surface Temp:  −118 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.1 g
  • Mass:  0.001 Earth-masses

The second asteroid in the system formed around an element zero core, Kakabel is another carbonaceous asteroid, with a surface made of hydrated minerals such as carbonates and clays. Beneath its icy surface is liquid water, with some amino acids. The surface of Kakabel is pitted and scarred with strip-mining stations, where the quarians took as much eezo as possible before moving on.

 

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Israfil:

  • Orbital Distance:  4.3 AU
  • Orbital Period:  8.9 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  N/A
  • Radius:  905 km
  • Day Length:  68.6 Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  Trace atm
  • Surface Temp:  −100 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  0.3 g
  • Mass:  0.006 Earth-masses
  • Colony:  1,006 population

Largest of the “eezo trio,” Israfil is a silicate-heavy carbonaceous asteroid. It is home to approximately 40 species of microorganisms in its liquid water, and was blamed as the source of the prion-based biowarfare agent EHE (exotic humanoid encephalopathy) used by the terrorist group Totenkopf in their attack on Gagarin Station in 2184.

While many in the scientific community protested that Israfil did not have sufficient atmosphere or evolutionary history to sustain life on the prion level, the asteroid and its eezo miners were nevertheless quarantined to reassure the public that the Systems Alliance was taking action. Though no evidence has yet been found that EHE originated from Israfil or was even synthesized in a local lab, The SSV Manila and a team of epidemiologists maintain watch over the asteroid’s ship traffic for now.

 

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