Kumari Kandam Star System
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The Kumari Kandam system is dominated by the Luddic Path, with Persean League and pirate markets as well.
Kumari Kandam, Red Dwarf
| A class M main sequence star, small and exceedingly common. These relatively cool stars often mass only a fraction of Old Earth's sun. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- The center of the Kumari Kandam Star System
Kumari Aru (Kumari Kandam I), Gas Giant
| Kumari Aru is a rare specimen - a gas giant which hosts xenolife in its bottomless ocean of clouds. Of only academic interest to early Domain surveyors, early research was poorly funded and managed to only describe the bare fundamentals of Kumarian life's biochemistry. As post-collapse Luddic influence waxed, the Luddic believers who consider this planet to be a holy site now only allow limited, passive study. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- As a Gas Giant, it will always contains a randomly generated amount of volatiles.
- Extreme Weather: +25% hazard rating.
- Dense Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Hot: +25% hazard rating.
- High Gravity: +50% hazard rating & -10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 250%
- Orbits Kumari Kandam
Beholder Station, Luddic Church
| Originally a research platform established by the Domain Explorarium, funding was only ever a trickle in light of little hope for practical knowledge to be gained from study of Kumarian xenolife. Post-collapse administration was usurped by a particularly inspired Luddic Curate and the station turned into a site of holy pilgrimage for Luddic believers. Only a handful of approved scholars are allowed aboard now, though there are few enough of those in this troubled age. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Notes
- A site of a Luddic shrine that's routinely visited by Luddics pilgrims as part of the The Pilgrim's Path.
- The player can also make a donation of 10 supplies every few months, which will increase reputation with the Luddic Church up to a certain point.
- Orbits Kumari Aru
Makal (Kumari Kandam I-A), Barren World
| Radiation from the nearby star ravages the surface of this world due to the lack of an atmospheric ozone layer. No significant geological activity, no indigenous life forms. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Makal will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Hot: +25% hazard rating.
- Low Gravity: +25% hazard rating & +10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 200%+
- Orbits Kumari Aru
Kulantai (Kumari Kandam I-B), Barren-Bombarded World
| A lifeless rocky world, the battered surface tells an aeons-long story of intermittent meteor bombardment. What atmosphere there is clings to the scarred crust in near-vacuum. There is no significant magnetic field or tectonic activity. Deep regolith prevails, crossed by lava channels and spotted by ancient lava seas formed by especially large impacts. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Kulantai will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Hot: +25% hazard rating.
- Low Gravity: +25% hazard rating & +10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 200%+
- Orbits Kumari Aru
Makeshift Comm Relay
| An imitation of the Domain-era counterpart, constructed using what passes for the state of the art in the Sector. Nonetheless, a makeshift comm relay is capable of facilitating faster-than-light comms between star systems, even if the transmission speeds are less than ideal and the occasional phantom comm streams picked up give nightmares to even the most seasoned operators. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Kumari Kandam as Kumari Aru's L5 trojan
Chalcedon (Kumari Kandam II), Terran Eccentric World, Luddic Path
| Seeded with Earth life by an early sporeship, Chalcedon bloomed green for the first human arrivals, but soon proved itself a harsh home. Primitive native xenolife - theorized to descend from impact-diaspora from Kumari Aru, or vice versa - persists in curious unicellular-equivalent forms in obscure ecological niches. The surface is regularly pounded by massive storm cells on an endless seasonal rampage. This churn provides a rich medium for plant growth, but only that flora which grows rapidly in the calm between storms can survive outside of the rare zone protected by quirks of topology; Human colonists are ever huddled in awe and fear. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| Human settlement on Chalcedon has adapted to the violent storms. When not buried underground, local architecture trends toward a sort of aerodynamic cyclopeanism at odds with the cheap prefabs that dominate poor worlds elsewhere in the Sector. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Population: Chalcedon is home to hundreds of thousands of people.
- Luddic Majority: Negated.
- Scattered Ruins
- Poor Farmland: -1 food production (Farming).
- Moderate Rare Ore Deposits: No bonuses or penalties to transplutonic ore production (Mining).
- Trace Organics: -1 organics production (Mining).
- Extreme Weather: +25% hazard rating.
- Habitable: -25% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 100%
- Luddic Path Market
- Orbits Kumari Kandam
| Built using the best technology available in the Sector, a nav buoy monitors the in-system hyperfield and is capable of transmitting its findings to friendly fleets in-system. The data is often somewhat unreliable but still useful in making on-the-fly drive field adjustments. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Kumari Kundam as Chalcedon's L3 trojan
Rama's Bridge
- Inner system jump-point
- Orbits Kumari Kundam as Chalcedon's L4 trojan
Kumarian Gate (Inactive Gate)
| A solid ring of adamantine material, derelict of a former age. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Kumari Kundam as Chalcedon's L5 trojan
Abandoned Spacedock
| An abandoned shipyard. Its skeletal assembly docks lie empty. Judging by the recent markings of light weapons fire on tactically insignificant hull sections, the station appears to have been used for target practice. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Trails Chalcedon
- Resides in a debris field
Kaykos (Kumari Kandam III), Barren-Bombarded World
| A lifeless rocky world, the battered surface tells an aeons-long story of intermittent meteor bombardment. What atmosphere there is clings to the scarred crust in near-vacuum. There is no significant magnetic field or tectonic activity. Deep regolith prevails, crossed by lava channels and spotted by ancient seas formed by especially large impacts. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Kaykos will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 150%+
- Orbits Kumari Kandam
Crocodile (Kumari Kandam III-A), Barren World
| Radiation from the nearby star ravages the surface of this world due to the lack of an atmospheric ozone layer. No significant geological activity. No indigenous life forms. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Crocodile will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Low Gravity: +25% hazard rating & +10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 175%+
- Orbits Kaykos
The Mullam (Asteroid Belt)
- Orbits Kumari Kandam between Kaykos and Olinadu
Olinadu (Kumari Kandam IV), Cryovolcanic World, Persean League
| An abortive liberation movement saw the wisdom of aligning the local polity with the Persean League after the example of Beholder Station, thus Olinadu finds itself a leading producer of volatiles for the League markets despite its small population. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| Olinaduins' love of vibrant, amateur personal expression in all forms is now considered an unsophisticated cultural throwback, though the ruling police corporation - backed by the Kazeron Gens - still encourages regular charitable cultural events. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Population: Tens of thousands of people live on Olinadu.
- Abundant Volatiles: +1 volatiles production (Mining).
- Trace Organics: -1 organics production (Mining).
- Thin Atmosphere: +25% hazard rating.
- Cold: +25% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 150%
- Persean League Market
- Orbits Kumari Kandam
Kanni (Kumari Kandam V), Barren World, Pirates
| An underpaid mercenary company decided to exploit the political chaos following the Second AI war by taking control of Kanni, a megacorp resource-extraction outfit on a harsh and remote world. This mining outpost turned pirate base has been controlled by a revolving committee of brigands ever since. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| The official request to the Hegemony to repossess the expropriated facilities and equipment has languished in a minor military court for many scores of cycles, to the dubious gain of the ruling warlord. The mines of Kanni are not particularly rich, and the population available to work them not particularly large. Wealth and glory are won by those who go pirating, not those who stay to dig. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Population: Thousands of people call Kanni home.
- Moderate Rare Ore Deposits: No bonuses or penalties to transplutonic ore production (Mining).
- Moderate Ore Deposits: No bonuses or penalties to ore production (Mining).
- Poor Light: +25% hazard rating.
- No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Cold: +25% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 200%
- Pirate Market
- Orbits Kumari Kandam
Makeshift Sensor Array
| Built using the best technology available in the Sector, a makeshft sensor array is nonetheless capable of passively monitoring the entire star system and has a transmitter capable of real-time, faster-than-light data transmission to friendly fleets within. The data is useful to supplement the regular sensor readings made by fleets. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Kumari Kandam as Kanni's L4 trojan
Notes
- Chalcedon's market runs near-constant deficits for supplies, fuel, marines, and heavy armaments and surpluses of domestic goods and transplutonic ore, making it a lucrative trade stop for those willing to brave the Pather patrols, not that it's much of a challenge as they're typically small.
- Chalcedon's bar regularly has people willing to sell you food (the "weather-beaten" person) and domestic goods (the "tough-looking" person) duty-free and below market price.
Trivia
- Kumari Kandam is a Tamil adaptation of the mythical lost continent of Lemuria.
- Chalcedon was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Bosphorus, now part of Istanbul.
- Rama is a legendary Indian king, who is considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu.
- Olinadu is a legendary land associated with the Kumari Kandam legend, located somewhere south of the Equator.
- Kanni is the Tamil word for "pure," and is the mane of a breed of dog from southeast India.
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