Quarin (world)

Quarin/Sena (Halcyon 1023)
Classic Era (1116)	D797775-1 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 7 Moderate (70 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level 1 Pre-Industrial (bronze, iron)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F0 V M3 D
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	4

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A world in Halcyon Sector in the Distant Fringe. The homeworld of the Oquo. It lies within the Esaran Cultural Area.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

The system primary is Rastar, an ordinary white main sequence star. It has a distant red dwarf companion, Haille, which orbits at 3000AU and retains a single small gas giant in a close orbit. Rastar has a family of five rocky planets (including Quarin), three gas giants, and a single planetoid belt. Most of the worlds in the system retain satellites. Quarin orbits the primary at a mean distance of 2.6 AU. It retains two moons, one large and distant with a complex atmosphere, large seas, and native life, the other small and close and little more than a cratered ball of rock.

Quarin’s atmosphere is rated as dense, with a typical surface pressure of 2 bar. It is composed of nitrogen and oxygen, with significant traces of argon, carbon dioxide, and ozone. Oxygen levels within the atmosphere are low enough (around 10%) for the atmosphere to be rated as tainted by human standards: breathing the air without artificial assistance will result in hypoxia and nitrogen narcosis.

Oceans of liquid water cover a little less than seventy percent of the planet’s surface. There are two major continental groupings, the smaller in the northern hemisphere and the larger straddling the equator and extending far into the southern hemisphere. Large islands and extensive archipelagos dot the oceans. The climate is generally temperate, with a mean surface temperature of around 18ºC. Weather patterns tend to be powerful and violent, with spectacular electrical storms. Extensive icecaps cover the polar regions.