Samarra Star System
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The Samarra star system is mostly controlled by the Hegemony, with one Independent world.
Samarra, Orange Star
Slightly cooler and smaller than Old Earth's sun, this class K star most resembles Alpha Centauri B. It is particularly stable, burning on the lower end of the main sequence for tens of billions of years and thus considered a likely host to life-bearing and terraformable planets. | ||
–In-Game Description |
- Center of the Samarra Star System
Eridu (Samarra I), 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 |
- Orbits Samarra inside the Tigra Belt
Tigra Belt (Asteroid Belt)
- Orbits Samarra
Tigra City
It was only shortly after humans arrived in the Sector that mining operations were established in the Tigra Ring. Successive waves of extraction have seen miner strikes and rebellion through a rotation of megacorps given the Tigra license. | ||
–In-Game Description |
The Descendants of those first miners have turned to spinning low G space farm and repair yards in the depleted ore-bodies and old prospecting rigs embedded now in the station’s rings. The population retains the recalcitrance of their ancestors, through the fights that break out between locals and navy crew are generally the result of drunken posturing rather than ideological resistance. | ||
–Secondary Description |
- Hegemony Market
- Dissident Population
- Orbital Station
- 10^4 Population
- Orbits Samarra inside the Tigra Belt
Eventide (Samarra II), Terran Eccentric World
Eventide is a nearly tidally-locked world that was found to otherwise be an ideal candidate for terraforming. Just one day passes on Eventide per year, or near enough, leading to extreme winter-night and summer-day with mild twilight periods between. Judicious employment of stellar mirrors and shades allows ideal conditions to prevail in large pockets of carefully maintained territory where the majority of the population is settled in leased urban cantons surrounded by vast aristocratic estate-plantations. | ||
–In-Game Description |
Leading families of Eventide sponsor the solar mirrors and shades which maintain islands of habitability. The disgraced and poor, meanwhile live in the twilight peripheries where the harsh climate shifts of the slow summer-day/winter-night seasonal cycle must be endured in full force. Culturally conservative, planetary media concerns itself mostly with the social rituals and machinations of leading families. The prevailing ethos of Eventide lends itself to providing a disproportionate number of officers to the Hegemony military. | ||
–Secondary Description |
- Hegemony Market
- Regional Capital
- Spaceport (has Fullerene Spool)
- Light Industrial Complex
- 10^7 Population
- Orbits Samarra
Eventide Stellar Mirrors (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon)
- Geostationary orbit on Eventide's dark side
Eventide Stellar Shades (Chi, Psi, and Omega)
- Geostationary orbit on Eventide's light side
Lumen (Samarra II-A), 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 |
- Orbits Eventide
Samarra Gate (Inactive Gate)
A solid ring of adamantine material, derelict of a former age. | ||
–In-Game Description |
- Orbits Samarra as Eventide's L3 trojan
Samarra Jump-point
- Orbits Samarra as Eventide's L4 trojan
Samarra Relay
A Domain-era technology used primarily on the frontier, this is a hyperwave communications array which transmits and receives data between star systems at faster-than-light speeds. The rapidly pulsing hyperwaves suitable for FTL data transmission have been shown to damage DNA so these relays are always stationed away from habitats. | ||
–In-Game Description |
- Orbits Samarra as Eventide's L5 trojan
Typhon (Samarra III), Gas Giant
Primarily composed of hydrogen and helium gases. The temperature and pressure at the core are extreme, but not enough to sustain the deuterium fusion that would turn the planet into a brown star. | ||
–In-Game Description |
- Orbits Samarra
Chimera (Samarra III-A), Toxic World
Carbon and sulfur dioxide gases dominate the atmosphere of this world, making it toxic to all known life. In addition, the gases create a runaway greenhouse effect that increases surface temperature and atmospheric pressures to extremely high levels. | ||
–In-Game Description |
- Orbits Typhon
Ladon (Samarra III-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 seas formed by especially large impacts. | ||
–In-Game Description |
- Orbits Typhon
Orthrus (Samarra III-C), Rocky Ice World
Mountains of water-ice erupt from a surface covered in methane glaciers dusted by nitrogen snow. A handful of erratic silicate plateaus offer poor mining opportunities. Never a prosperous world, Orthrus' extraction industry as a whole has been supported for generations by contracts out of Hegemony space | ||
–In-Game Description |
Ruled by a council of small family companies backed by outside investors, the Hegemony phoenix never saw fit to shelter Orthrus under its fiery wing. The reserves of resources too poor, the strategic value overshadowed by the militarized moon of Sphinx, and the polity too useful as a symbol of the Hegemony's alleged respect for independent worlds to integrate fully. | ||
–Secondary Description |
- Independent Market
- Volatiles Mining Complex
- 10^4 Population
- Orbits Typhon
Orthrus Relay
A Domain-era technology used primarily on the frontier, this is a hyperwave communications array which transmits and receives data between star systems at faster-than-light speeds. The rapidly pulsing hyperwaves suitable for FTL data transmission have been shown to damage DNA so these relays are always stationed away from habitats. | ||
–In-Game Description |
- Orbits Typhon
Sphinx (Samarra III-D), Barren World
Founded as a Domain fleet logistics center during initial colonization of the Persean Sector, a small AM-fuel production facility was built deep under the surface of Sphinx to provide the Domain Armada with an uninterrupted supply of fuel in case of local rebellion. The Hegemony has inherited this strategic outlook. | ||
–In-Game Description |
Traffic control is strict and all incoming vessels are tagged and tracked by anti-warship batteries The militarization extends to the civilian infrastructure: checkpoint facilities though inactive at present, are nonetheless emplaced at major passage and transit hubs. | ||
–Secondary Description |
- Hegemony Market
- Antimatter Fuel Production Facility
- Military Base
- Spaceport
- Outpost
- 10^5 Population
- Orbits Typhon
Sensor Array
A Domain-era technology, this is a super-high-resolution passive monitoring array with a transmitter capable of real-time, faster-than-light data transmission within the star system. The data is useful to supplement the regular sensor readings made by fleets. | ||
–In-Game Description |
- Shares its orbit with Typhon
The Core Worlds | |
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Star Systems | |
Uninhabited | |
Hegemony | Ancyra • Chicomoztoc • Citadel Arcadia • Coatl • Eventide • Jangala • Nachiketa • Raesvelg • Ragnar Complex • Sphinx • Tigra City • Yama |
Luddic Church | |
Luddic Path | |
Persean League | |
Sindrian Diktat | |
Tri-Tachyon | |
Independent | |
Pirates | Donn • Garnir • Kanta's Den • Kanni • Kapteyn Starworks • Lost Astropolis • Qaras • Thulian Raider Base • Umbra |
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