Hybrasil Star System

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Hybrasil is the main Tri-Tachyon system with its capital, Eochu Bres with minor Independent and pirate presence.

Hybrasil, White Dwarf

Hybrasil
The beginning of the end for most stars, the white dwarf was once a red giant not massive enough to fuse carbon. Extremely dense and slowly radiating away its heat as it no longer undergoes fusion reactions, its volume is supported against gravitational collapse only by electron degeneracy pressure.

–In-Game Description

  • Center of the Hybrasil Star System


Culann (Hybrasil I), Barren World, Tri-Tachyon

Hybrasil I: Culann
The oldest of the famous mines of Culann were converted suspiciously shortly after the Collapse into a major Tri-Tachyon military base which projects power throughout the inner Hybrasil system and into neighboring systems. The deepest arsenals are said to contain fabulous weapons based on arcane technology revealed by incomprehensible AI-epiphany, though after two wars a Hegemony inspector has yet to set foot inside to confirm these rumors.

–In-Game Description

Trains of high-tech ship gantries parade in glittering arcs above Culann, following Culann Starforge like a swarm of offspring. The planet is heavily bunkered and emplaced with anti-starship batteries. Tri-Tachyon marketing manages to project an image of business-friendly welcome into the receiving bays and galleries that only hints at the potency of the dread weaponry held beneath surface and hanging in orbit.

–Secondary Description

  • Planetary Conditions
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Population: Culann is home to hundreds of thousands of people.


Culann Starforge

Culann Starforge
Culann Starforge was founded as a major center of zero-G refining and metallurgy several hundred years ago by an enterprise whose strength lay in a portfolio of ingenious energy conversion and storage technologies which enabled efficient harnessing of Hybrasil's nearby primary. This firm, its property, and Culann itself were rapidly acquired by the Tri-Tachyon Corporation which has traditionally dominated the energy conversion, generation, and projection industries.

–In-Game Description

Holos in the commercial reception lounge cheerfully display the glittering, de-cohering product resulting from the wrong end of Tri-Tachyon designed and manufactured weapon systems. Refreshments are complimentary for visiting starship captains, you soon learn from an insistent sales-persona.

–Secondary Description

  • Extension of the Culann Market
  • Orbits Culann

Elada (Hybrasil II), Gas Giant

Hybrasil II: Elada
Primarily composed of hydrogen and helium gasses. The temperature and pressure at the core are extreme, but not enough to sustain deuterium fusion that would turn the planet into a brown dwarf star.

–In-Game Description

  • Planetary Conditions
    • Note that as an uninhabited world, Elada will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
    • As a Gas Giant, it will always contains a randomly generated amount of volatiles.
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      Hot: +25% hazard rating.
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      High Gravity: +50% hazard rating & -10% accessibility.
    • Hazard Rating: 175%+
  • Orbits Hybrasil


Eochu Bres (Hybrasil II-A), Tundra World, Tri-Tachyon

Hybrasil II-A: Eochu Bres
Terraformed late in the colonization of the Sector, Eochu Bres is a world of peaks and fjords torn by violent, rapidly changing weather. It is still colder than Terran-optimal in spite of an orbital mirror array completed shortly before the Collapse.

–In-Game Description

Shining Tri-Tachyon company arcologies tower over riotous sprawl of shantytown conurbation. The salariat are born, live, and die protected by security drones in the high city of Xanadu while a desperate class of contract laborers dwell in the low city where anything at all can be bought or sold, including the law, over which company money reigns supreme.

–Secondary Description

Ogma (Hybrasil II-B), Rocky Metallic World

Hybrasil II-B: Ogma
A rocky-metallic husk-world, its shattered landscape is a record of a violent history. Kilometers-deep chasms rive the surface and craters pit lava-fields beneath inert volcanoes that dwarf any of those on Old Earth. Planets like this are valued for mining operations. There is no significant ecology and only trace atmosphere.

–In-Game Description

Elada Relay

Elada 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 Hybrasil as Elada's L5 trojan

Crom Cruach (Hybrasil III), Barren-Bombarded World

Hybrasil III: Crom Cruach
This world is barren and unremarkable but for prevalence of otherwise unusual sulphur compounds of little economic value. During the colonization of the Hybrasil system mining combines established extensive works to extract ore for the hungry furnaces of Culann. The Collapse however saw Crom Cruach's civil administration implode in the battles, both political and literal, to exert influence over this strategic point near the best jump-point to the inner system.

–In-Game Description


Hybrasil Inner System Jump-point

  • Orbits Crom Cruach

Makeshift Sensor Array

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 Hybrasil as Crom Cruach's L4 trojan


Balar (Hybrasil IV), Ice Giant

Hybrasil IV: Balar
Balar is an ice giant composed mostly of water, ammonia and methane. The icy cloud-cover whorls almost placidly but for a single great dark storm over the southern pole. Little effort has been put toward investigating this anomaly.

–In-Game Description


Ena (Hybrasil IV-A), Rocky Ice World

Hybrasil IV-A: Ena
Oddly dense and rocky among its sibling moons, Ena's surface is crisscrossed by trails of frozen gases which erupt from numerous geysers heated by tidal stress. A thin but visible atmosphere feeds the torus of charged particles caught in Balar's powerful magnetosphere.

–In-Game Description


Cethlenn (Hybrasil IV-B), Cryovolcanic World, Independent

Hybrasil IV-B: Cethlenn
A frozen world of ammonia rivers, plateaus of water ice, and methane glaciers. Charged particles caught in Balar's magnetic field create fantastic aurora in the thin atmosphere of Cethlenn. Seasonally occupied organics extraction rigs are served by the sole permanent settlement of Cethlenn, a city built upon a unique arc of erratic rocky promontories.

–In-Game Description

Tri-Tachyon influence is obvious in this nominally independent polity. Ad holos and TT products are ubiquitous - as are credits laundered through local business and industry from the "arrangements" considered illegitimate by Persean Sector commerce agreements.

–Secondary Description

Birog (Hybrasil IV-C), Frozen World

Hybrasil IV-C: Birog
Water or ammonia ice is the primary surface feature of this world. Below the surface, there may be a liquid ocean or a rocky crust.

–In-Game Description


Cian (Hybrasil IV-D), Barren-Bombarded World

Hybrasil IV-D: Ciann
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

Makeshift Nav Buoy

Makeshift Nav Buoy
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 Hybrasil as Balar's L4 trojan


Donn (Hybrasil V), Barren World, Pirates

Hybrasil V: Donn
A lonely, ancient world which early robot probes of the Sector quickly determined was not formed in the Hybrasil system, but rather captured by Hybrasil some hundreds of millions of years ago. Donn was flagged as low-to-moderate interest due to easily accessible concentrations of heavy metals.

–In-Game Description

Occasionally bombarded by Tri-Tachyon patrols as a show of force to reassure investors, Donn nonetheless proves to be an ideal recruiting or dumping ground for the bloody-minded mercenaries Tri-Tachyon requires in times of war - and discards in times of peace.

–Secondary Description

Fringe Jump-point

  • Orbits Hybrasil


System Defense Fleet

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Tri-Tachyon's system defense fleet is located here, providing the system additional defense against Pirates or a hostile player.

It consists of:

Some of the warship have an officer, and all have at least 2-3 S-mods.

Trivia

  • Hybrasil is a mythical island to the west of Ireland, said to be shrouded in mist except for one day every seven years.
  • Culann is a smith in Irish mythology and onetime master of the hero Cuchulainn.
  • Elada is a king and the father of Eochu Bres & Ogma.
  • Eochu Bres is a king of the Tuatha De Danann in Irish mythology.
  • Ogma is a god in Irish mythology said to have invented the writing system Ogham.
  • Crom Cruach is a fertility god in Irish mythology and the namesake of Conan's god Crom.
  • Balar is a Fomorian warrior and personification of drought in Irish mythology.
  • Ena is the daughter of Balar.
  • Cethlenn is Balar's wife.
  • Birog is a druidess of the Tuatha De Danann in Irish mythology.
  • Cian is the father of the god Lugh in Irish mythology.
  • Donn is the ancestor of the Gaelic people in Irish mythology.



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