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== Astrography and Planetology == | == Astrography and Planetology == | ||
| − | + | This star system is detailed using the [[Fringian Variant System Description]]. | |
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| − | === System | + | |
| − | The | + | === System Data === |
| + | ==== Ceredon-Varsas System ==== | ||
| + | The primary is Ceredon, an ordinary red main sequence [[star]]. (I) Sussus, a [[small gas giant]], orbits in the habitable zone: (Ia) Varsas is its only major satellite and is designated the [[mainworld]]. (II) a [[vacuum]] [[worldlet]], (III) a [[vacuum]] [[worldlet]], (IV) a [[ring]]ed [[large gas giant]], (V) a [[small gas giant]], (VI) a [[trace atmosphere]] [[iceworld]], and (VII) a sparse icy [[planetoid belt]] form the outer system. Many of the worlds retain satellites. | ||
==== (I) Sussus ==== | ==== (I) Sussus ==== | ||
| − | (I) Sussus is a | + | (I) Sussus is a [[small gas giant]] that orbits Ceredon at a mean distance of 0.2 AU, within the habitable zone, and has an orbital period of 41 days 17 hours. It has a diameter of 38,000 km and is a mottled blue colour. It retains a single large satellite, (Ia) Varsas, designated the [[mainworld]]. Large dark spots – the so-called Eyes of Sussus – well up from the interior of the huge planet and remain visible around the equator for many months. |
| − | === (Ia) Varsas === | + | === Mainworld Data === |
| − | (Ia) Varsas is designated the mainworld. It orbits | + | ==== (Ia) Varsas ==== |
| + | (Ia) Varsas is the only major moon of (I) Sussus and is designated the [[mainworld]]. It orbits its parent world at a mean distance of 8 diameters (304,000 km), with an orbital period of 24 days 2 hours: it is [[tidally locked]] to Sussus. It has an axial tilt of 9 degrees. Varsas has a diameter of 4,726 km, a density of 5.43 g/cm³ and a surface gravity of 0.36 G. Tidal stresses caused by the gravitational pull of Sussus cause frequent geological activity. It retains an atmosphere rated as [[Very thin atmosphere|Very Thin]], [[Tainted atmosphere|Tainted]], with a mean surface pressure of 0.35 bar and a composition of 86% nitrogen (N<sub><small>2</small></sub>), 11% largely abiotic oxygen (O<sub><small>2</small></sub>), 1% carbon dioxide (CO<sub><small>2</small></sub>), and 1% argon (Ar), water vapor (H<sub><small>2</small></sub>O), neon (Ne) and other trace gases. The atmospheric [[Tainted atmosphere|taint]] is caused by high levels of radiation originating from both the star and the gas giant: emission rates in some regions can exceed 10 rads per hour. Approximately 37% of the surface is covered in seas of liquid water and water-ice: average tidal ranges exceed 0.25m. Mean surface temperature: -14°C. The atmosphere is sluggish and weak weather systems driven by the star crawl across the globe. The climate is static. | ||
==== Mainworld geography and topography ==== | ==== Mainworld geography and topography ==== | ||
| − | The Sea of Misery and the Sea of Despair, two huge ovoid bodies of brackish water, each covering nearly a fifth of the surface of the world, lie to the north and to the south of the equator respectively, and are linked by a series of long narrow lakes. They are surrounded by the mineral-rich Gemcrust Highlands and the broken Plateau Lands, which eventually give way to stony wastes and barren polar deserts. | + | Total surface area: 70 million km², Land surface area: 43 million km², Water surface area: 27 million km². The Sea of Misery and the Sea of Despair, two huge ovoid bodies of brackish water, each covering nearly a fifth of the surface of the world, lie to the north and to the south of the equator respectively, and are linked by a series of long narrow lakes. They are surrounded by the mineral-rich Gemcrust Highlands and the broken Plateau Lands, which eventually give way to stony cold wastes and barren polar deserts. Oxygen contained deep within the world's interior is released by geological activity and serves to renew the atmosphere: it continuously reacts with surface materials and other atmospheric gases, reducing the percentage of oxygen in the air. |
| + | * The oxygen in the atmosphere is largely abiotic in origin, produced by the photocatalytic reaction between the high levels of UV energy radiating from the star and titanium dioxide (TiO<sub><small>2</small></sub>), which is found in surface minerals such as ilmenite. The introduced microscopic lifeforms are increasing the oxygen content of the atmosphere. | ||
| − | === Native | + | === Native Lifeforms === |
| − | + | No [[world]] in the Varsas [[system]] has native life. Single-celled cyanobacteria-parallels have colonised the world within the last three millennia and grow in such profusion around the shores of the seas and around volcanic vents that their metabolic processes have begun to radically alter the composition of the atmosphere. | |
== History & Background (Dossier) == | == History & Background (Dossier) == | ||
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=== World economy === | === World economy === | ||
| − | + | * Resources: A (Abundant) | |
| + | * Labor: 5 (Hundreds of thousands) | ||
| + | * Infrastructure: 1 (Extremely limited) | ||
| + | * Efficiency: +3 (Improved) | ||
==== Trade data ==== | ==== Trade data ==== | ||
| − | + | The world imports most of its needs, including foodstuffs, basic supplies and commodities, machinery, and technological items. | |
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| + | The world is a net exporter of valuable processed minerals. | ||
=== World demographics === | === World demographics === | ||
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==== Urbanization ==== | ==== Urbanization ==== | ||
| − | The entire population live in three huge cities, Pheet, Hoop, and Chartay, plasma-tunneled into sheer cliffs overlooking the northern shores of the Sea of Despair. The dense layers of rock enclosing the cities offer protection from the high levels of radiation. Each tunnel-city covers hundreds of square kilometers, though only a percentage of the tunneled space within each is currently utilised. | + | The entire population live in three huge cities, Pheet, Hoop, and Chartay, plasma-tunneled into sheer cliffs overlooking the northern shores of the Sea of Despair. The dense layers of rock enclosing the cities offer protection from the high levels of radiation. The interior of each city is sealed and maintained at a pleasant temperature and air pressure, with a normal percentage of atmospheric oxygen, all paid for by annual public taxes. The cities are linked by a privately operated hyperloop network. |
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| + | Each tunnel-city covers hundreds of square kilometers, though only a percentage of the tunneled space within each is currently utilised. The cities are built in multiple layers, with the lower levels managing functions such as power generation and waste processing and the upper levels offering luxurious apartments with spectacular views. An individual's social status broadly corresponds to their residential altitude within the city. Public spaces are bright and clean and well maintained. | ||
=== World culture === | === World culture === | ||
| − | + | * Homogeneity: 7 (Discordant) | |
| + | * Acceptance: 6 (Aloof) | ||
| + | * Strangeness: 7 | ||
| + | * Symbols: 8 | ||
=== Historical data === | === Historical data === | ||
Latest revision as of 11:08, 14 April 2021
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| Classic Era (1116) | C324558-A
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | M0 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Varsas is a nonindustrial world, that requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
- In a technological universe, societies without industrial capability generally suffer as nearly all manufactured and high tech goods must be brought in at significant cost.
- As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Stanter Subsector of Halcyon Sector.
Astrography and Planetology[edit]
This star system is detailed using the Fringian Variant System Description.
Monostellar System[edit]
Varsas Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Varsas M0 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.57 3770 - 3850 0.13982 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0027 0.031 0.39 - 0.74 0.27 2.7 Orbit # * * 2 0 5
System Data[edit]
Ceredon-Varsas System[edit]
The primary is Ceredon, an ordinary red main sequence star. (I) Sussus, a small gas giant, orbits in the habitable zone: (Ia) Varsas is its only major satellite and is designated the mainworld. (II) a vacuum worldlet, (III) a vacuum worldlet, (IV) a ringed large gas giant, (V) a small gas giant, (VI) a trace atmosphere iceworld, and (VII) a sparse icy planetoid belt form the outer system. Many of the worlds retain satellites.
(I) Sussus[edit]
(I) Sussus is a small gas giant that orbits Ceredon at a mean distance of 0.2 AU, within the habitable zone, and has an orbital period of 41 days 17 hours. It has a diameter of 38,000 km and is a mottled blue colour. It retains a single large satellite, (Ia) Varsas, designated the mainworld. Large dark spots – the so-called Eyes of Sussus – well up from the interior of the huge planet and remain visible around the equator for many months.
Mainworld Data[edit]
(Ia) Varsas[edit]
(Ia) Varsas is the only major moon of (I) Sussus and is designated the mainworld. It orbits its parent world at a mean distance of 8 diameters (304,000 km), with an orbital period of 24 days 2 hours: it is tidally locked to Sussus. It has an axial tilt of 9 degrees. Varsas has a diameter of 4,726 km, a density of 5.43 g/cm³ and a surface gravity of 0.36 G. Tidal stresses caused by the gravitational pull of Sussus cause frequent geological activity. It retains an atmosphere rated as Very Thin, Tainted, with a mean surface pressure of 0.35 bar and a composition of 86% nitrogen (N2), 11% largely abiotic oxygen (O2), 1% carbon dioxide (CO2), and 1% argon (Ar), water vapor (H2O), neon (Ne) and other trace gases. The atmospheric taint is caused by high levels of radiation originating from both the star and the gas giant: emission rates in some regions can exceed 10 rads per hour. Approximately 37% of the surface is covered in seas of liquid water and water-ice: average tidal ranges exceed 0.25m. Mean surface temperature: -14°C. The atmosphere is sluggish and weak weather systems driven by the star crawl across the globe. The climate is static.
Mainworld geography and topography[edit]
Total surface area: 70 million km², Land surface area: 43 million km², Water surface area: 27 million km². The Sea of Misery and the Sea of Despair, two huge ovoid bodies of brackish water, each covering nearly a fifth of the surface of the world, lie to the north and to the south of the equator respectively, and are linked by a series of long narrow lakes. They are surrounded by the mineral-rich Gemcrust Highlands and the broken Plateau Lands, which eventually give way to stony cold wastes and barren polar deserts. Oxygen contained deep within the world's interior is released by geological activity and serves to renew the atmosphere: it continuously reacts with surface materials and other atmospheric gases, reducing the percentage of oxygen in the air.
- The oxygen in the atmosphere is largely abiotic in origin, produced by the photocatalytic reaction between the high levels of UV energy radiating from the star and titanium dioxide (TiO2), which is found in surface minerals such as ilmenite. The introduced microscopic lifeforms are increasing the oxygen content of the atmosphere.
Native Lifeforms[edit]
No world in the Varsas system has native life. Single-celled cyanobacteria-parallels have colonised the world within the last three millennia and grow in such profusion around the shores of the seas and around volcanic vents that their metabolic processes have begun to radically alter the composition of the atmosphere.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
No information yet available.
World starport[edit]
Varsas has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which includes amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.
World technology level[edit]
Varsas possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land & Water: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
- Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
- Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
- FTL: Jump Drive-1.
World government[edit]
Varsas is governed by a Feudal Technocracy. Society divides itself based on the technical requirements of the society. Each of these functions are granted as a fief to an individual or group. Leadership of these fiefs determines the head of the government.
World military[edit]
No information yet available.
World economy[edit]
- Resources: A (Abundant)
- Labor: 5 (Hundreds of thousands)
- Infrastructure: 1 (Extremely limited)
- Efficiency: +3 (Improved)
Trade data[edit]
The world imports most of its needs, including foodstuffs, basic supplies and commodities, machinery, and technological items.
The world is a net exporter of valuable processed minerals.
World demographics[edit]
Population: 300,000
Urbanization[edit]
The entire population live in three huge cities, Pheet, Hoop, and Chartay, plasma-tunneled into sheer cliffs overlooking the northern shores of the Sea of Despair. The dense layers of rock enclosing the cities offer protection from the high levels of radiation. The interior of each city is sealed and maintained at a pleasant temperature and air pressure, with a normal percentage of atmospheric oxygen, all paid for by annual public taxes. The cities are linked by a privately operated hyperloop network.
Each tunnel-city covers hundreds of square kilometers, though only a percentage of the tunneled space within each is currently utilised. The cities are built in multiple layers, with the lower levels managing functions such as power generation and waste processing and the upper levels offering luxurious apartments with spectacular views. An individual's social status broadly corresponds to their residential altitude within the city. Public spaces are bright and clean and well maintained.
World culture[edit]
- Homogeneity: 7 (Discordant)
- Acceptance: 6 (Aloof)
- Strangeness: 7
- Symbols: 8
Historical data[edit]
No information yet available.
World timeline[edit]
No information yet available.
UWP listing[edit]
No information yet available.
References & Contributors / Sources[edit]
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com