Iron (world)

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Iron/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 1626)
Classic Era (1116)
E529000-0
StarportE Frontier - no facilities
Size5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g)
Atmosphere2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted)
Hydrographics9 Wet World 90%
Population0 Barren (0)
Government0 No Government structure
Law0 No Law
Tech Level0 Pre-Industrial (primitive)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary F0 V
Planetoid Belts 1
Gas Giants 4

Iron is a high-population world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

Description (Planetology)

The planet is mostly covered by steaming oceans and is virtually uninhabited. Iron has a hot climate and a very thin oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere with a rapidly disappearing taint of volcanic gas (sulfur compound).

Iron orbits its primary, CN4335686, at a distance of 2.40 AU. Iron has one large moon.

History & Background (Dossier)

Iron is a barren Sword Worlds Confederation world, one of the Metal Worlds in the Sword Worlds Subsector of the Spinward Marches.

Era: Milieu 1116

During the Fifth Frontier War Iron was invaded and occupied by Imperial forces. The Imperium annexed Iron along with the rest of the Metal Worlds.

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