Vaar Solar-system

System Specs:

  • Stellar Mass:  _ Sol-masses
  • Stellar Class:  _
  • Luminosity:  _ Sol
  • Planets:  5
  • Moons:  0
  • Asteroid Belts:  0
  • Asteroids:  0
  • Objects:  1

Kallo Jath deems Vaar as one of those “dicey” systems, enough to warn Dr. Suvi Anwar on keeping extra vigilant tabs on the Tempest‘s sensors.

Shuttle 

DATA:

  • Ship ID: Unknown
  • Ship name: Local Boy
  • Crew Complement: 14
  • Status: N/A

ANALYSIS:
This shuttle appears to have limped away from a battle. Logs indicate the crew, now deceased, came to Vaar to raid an Outcast mining camp. The attempt must have ended badly.

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Planets Directory:

  1. Mae Shesa
  2. Margoth
  3. H-171
  4. H-173
  5. H-174

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Mae Shesa:

  • Orbital Distance:  4.2 AU
  • Orbital Period:  4.9 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  3.086
  • Radius:  8,666 km
  • Day Length:  _ Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.04 atm
  • Surface Temp:  319 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  _ g
  • Mass:  _ Earth-masses

An Outcast mineral mining camp has been recently demolished here. A fragmentary distress call describes the attackers as other exiles. There are no survivors.

Anomaly 

Graphite 

DATA:
Graphite

ANALYSIS:
This graphite mineral deposit should prove useful to the Initiative for manufacturing.

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Margoth:

  • Orbital Distance:  6.9 AU
  • Orbital Period:  10.2 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  3.158
  • Radius:  11,925 km
  • Day Length:  _ Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  87.45 atm
  • Surface Temp:  1,179 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  _ g
  • Mass:  _ Earth-masses

Margoth’s extraordinarily dangerous surface is of less interest than its ring system. Its inner ring is primarily dust and rock; the outer ring is composed of large chunks of water ice.

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H-171:

  • Orbital Distance:  17.4 AU
  • Orbital Period:  41.3 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  3.089
  • Radius:  11,407 km
  • Day Length:  _ Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.00 atm
  • Surface Temp:  -79 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  _ g
  • Mass:  _ Earth-masses

H-171 is sheltered from the heat of Vaar‘s sun by large dust clouds in the inner solar system. The result is a glittering orb of frozen ammonia and tin.

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H-173:

  • Orbital Distance:  28.2 AU
  • Orbital Period:  85.3 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  3.082
  • Radius:  11,407 km
  • Day Length:  _ Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.01 atm
  • Surface Temp:  -142 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  _ g
  • Mass:  _ Earth-masses

Great oceans of ethane and thin sheets of water ice cover the surface of H-173. Ice mining might be possible here, but there are surely richer sources on more agreeable worlds.

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H-174:

  • Orbital Distance:  144.1 AU
  • Orbital Period:  986.9 Earth-years
  • Keplerian Ratio:  3.072
  • Radius:  7,141 km
  • Day Length:  _ Earth-hours
  • Atmospheric Pressure:  0.01 atm
  • Surface Temp:  -197 °C
  • Surface Gravity:  _ g
  • Mass:  _ Earth-masses

Frozen ethane covers H-174, the ice sheets interrupted only by low mountains and shallow craters. Thanks to dust clouds in the inner system, little sunlight reaches this world.

Anomaly 

Starship Wreckage 

DATA:

  • Ship ID: Gord-01
  • Ship name: Unknown
  • Crew complement: 1
  • Status: N/A

ANALYSIS:
The deceased Outcast inhabitant of this escape pod appears to have fled a battle at Mae Shesa, in the inner system.

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