Val Marin (world)

Val Marin/Loran (Halcyon 2013)
Classic Era (1116)	B886755-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 7 Moderate (30 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G2 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	2

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Val Marin is a rich, agricultural garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the High Senate in the Loran Subsector of Halcyon Sector, which is part of the Distant Fringe.

• This world-system hosts a Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces, which may be located on or off-world.

Astrography and Planetology

This star system is detailed using the Fringian Variant System Description.

• The Val Marin system is a part of the Afkhar Cluster.

Monostellar System

Val Marin Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Val Marin G2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	4	1	6

System Data

Aquara-Val Marin System

The primary is Aquara, an ordinary yellow main sequence star. It has a luminosity of 0.994 Sols, a mass of 1 Sol, and a diameter of 1.366 million km. The inner system consists of (I) a vacuum worldlet, (II) a trace atmosphere inner world, and (III) a corrosive atmosphere inferno world. (IV) Val Marin orbits within the habitable zone and is designated the mainworld. (V) an exotic atmosphere bigworld, (VI) a sparse rocky planetoid belt, (VII) a large gas giant, (VIII) a ringed small gas giant, and (IX) a vacuum iceworld form the outer system. Many of the worlds retain satellites.

Mainworld Data

(IV) Val Marin

(IV) Val Marin is designated the mainworld. It orbits Aquara at a mean distance of 1.12 AU (167.6 million km), within the habitable zone. It has an orbital period of 1 year 68 days and a rotation period of 21 hours. The axial tilt is 23 degrees. Val Marin has a diameter 13125 km, a density of 5.89 g/cm³, and a surface gravity of 1.23 G. The world is geologically active. Its atmosphere is rated as Dense, with a mean surface pressure of 2.12 bar and a composition of 77% nitrogen, 22% oxygen, and 1% argon, water vapour, carbon dioxide, neon and other trace gases. Approximately 62% of the surface is covered in seas of liquid water: average tidal ranges exceed 0.75m. Mean surface temperature: 19°C. The atmosphere is dynamic and strong weather systems driven by the star and the oceans scour the surface. The climate is seasonal.

Satellites

Val Marin retains two natural satellites, a very thin atmosphere hospitable world named Ordain and a cratered ice-capped vacuum worldlet named Salek:

(IVa) Ordain (UWP G434565-9, orbiting Val Marin at 30 Diameters/394,000 km)

(IVb) Salek (UWP Y301000-0, orbiting Val Marin at 45 Diameters/591,000 km)

Mainworld Geography and Topography

Total surface area: 541 million km², Water surface area: 335 million km², Land surface area: 206 million km².

Native Lifeforms

Val Marin, the mainworld, has extensive, abundant native life, with complex organisms inhabiting every ecological niche. Their metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

• Ordain, Val Marin's temperate, hospitable inner moon, has extensive native life, consisting of minute multicellular organisms that can be found in most ecological niches. Their metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

World starport

Val Marin has a Class B Starport, a good quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World technology level

Val Marin 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

Val Marin 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

No information yet available.

World economy

No information yet available.

Trade data

A number of important companies have their headquarters at Val Marin:

• Verteidigungsprodukte AG

World demographics

No information yet available.

World culture

No information yet available.

Historical data

• A former member of the Second Confederation.
• A former member of the Halcyonic New Republic.
• A former member of the Grand Ascendency.
• A former member of the Scybrian Polyarchy.

World timeline

No information yet available.

UWP listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors / Sources

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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