Isirah Star System
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The Isirah Star System is unusual for a Core Worlds system in that it has no inhabited planets, but rather populated stations controlled by the Persean League and Pirates.
Isirah, Blue Giant
| A very high temperature and luminosity O-type star. Although extraordinarily massive this star is short-lived due to the hellish rate at which it fuses its constituent elements. It will quickly, for a star, explode as a supernova which may briefly outshine entire galaxies before transforming into a black hole or neutron star. The energies unleashed from the star's raging fusion heart e | ||
–leupt in powerful stellar winds that will strip the atmosphere from closely orbiting planets - and the hull from any starships that linger nearby., In-Game Description | ||
- Center of the Isirah Star System
Surtr (Isirah I), Volcanic World
| A geologically unstable planet without a permanently formed crust. Glowing fissures and active volcanoes litter the surface, the magma they spew forth combining to form flows that travel hundreds of kilometers across the charred surface. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Surtr will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- Toxic Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Extreme Tectonic Activity: +50% hazard rating.
- Extreme Heat: +50% hazard rating.
- High Gravity: +50% hazard rating & -10% accessibility.
- As a Volcanic world, it will have significant Ore & Transplutonic Ore deposits.
- Hazard Rating: 300%+
- Orbits Isirah
Gilling (Isirah II), Volcanic World
| A geologically unstable planet without a permanently formed crust. Glowing fissures and active volcanoes litter the surface, the magma they spew forth combining to form flows that travel hundreds of kilometers across the charred surface. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Gilling will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- Toxic Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Extreme Tectonic Activity: +50% hazard rating.
- Extreme Heat: +50% hazard rating.
- As a Volcanic world, it will have significant Ore & Transplutonic Ore deposits.
- Hazard Rating: 250%+
- Orbits Isirah
Fjalar (Isirah II-A), Volcanic World
| A geologically unstable planet without a permanently formed crust. Glowing fissures and active volcanoes litter the surface, the magma they spew forth combining to form flows that travel hundreds of kilometers across the charred surface. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Fjalar will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- Thin Atmosphere: +25% hazard rating.
- As a Volcanic world, it will have at least Tectonic Activity, will be at least Hot though will likely have Extreme Heat instead, and have significant Ore & Transplutonic Ore deposits.
- Hazard Rating: 175%+
- Orbits Gilling
Galar (Isirah II-B), Barren World
| Radiation from the nearby star ravages the surface of this world due to the lack of an atmospheric ozone layer. No significant activity. No indigenous life forms. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Galar will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Extreme Heat: +50% hazard rating.
- Low Gravity: +25% hazard rating & +10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 225%+
- Orbits Gilling
Utgarda's Wall (Asteroid Belt)
- Orbits Isirah
Corb (Isirah III), Volcanic World
| A geologically unstable planet without a permanently formed crust. Glowing fissures and active volcanoes litter the surface, the magma they spew forth combining to form flows that travel hundreds of kilometers across the charred surface. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Corb will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- Thin Atmosphere: +25% hazard rating.
- As a Volcanic world, it will have at least Tectonic Activity, will be at least Hot though will likely have Extreme Heat instead, and have significant Ore & Transplutonic Ore deposits.
- Hazard Rating: 175%+
- Orbits Isirah in an asteroid belt between Ugarda's Wall and the Disk of Vosud
Corb Accretion Swarm (Asteroid Field)
- Trails Corb
Kapteyn Starworks, Pirates
| This sprawling zero-g industrial station was built to-spec to serve the needs of the Eridani-Utopia Corporation and modified heavily in the cycles since. The station was taken by the warlord Leonis in the blazing conquests of cycle 47 and has remained in the hands of one or another pirate leader for much of recent history. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| Less hospitable, less agreeable, and less easily dominated from Kazeron than Laicaille, Kapteyn Station was passed over by League expansion efforts and largely, intentionally, forgotten as relations between the League and Church stabilized. The Kapteyn pirates have a longstanding unofficial arrangement with their law-abiding neighbors which results in more trade and fewer raids and counter-raids than one might expect. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Station Conditions
- Population: Tens of thousands of people live on Kapteyn Starworks.
- Free Port: -3 stability, +25 accessibility, +10 colony growth & no illegal commodities.
- Hazard Rating: 100%
- Pirate Market
- Shares its orbit with Corb
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 | ||
- Shares its orbit with Corb
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 | ||
- Shares its orbit with Corb
Isirah Gate (Inactive Gate)
| A solid ring of adamantine material, derelict of a former age. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Shares its orbit with Corb
Laicaille Habitat, Persean League
| Just another space habitat in the path of Warlord Leonis' conquests, Laicaille was seen, conquered, then left in the grip of a loyal lieutenant. That short-lived rule was overturned by an admitted less fearsome pirate king with backing from the Armada of Kazeron during a Persean League border conflict with the Luddic Church. This king was brought into the Persean League and Laicaille rapidly legitimized to justify League presence in-system. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| Laicaille Habitat was originally built to service a small group of asteroid-prospecting companies but is now dominated by Kazeronian gens-owned military shipyard combines. Laicaille Habitat's nightlife has something of a reputation harkening to its days as a pirate outpost. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Station Conditions
- Population: Tens of thousands of people live on Laicaille Habitat.
- Abundant Ore Deposits: +1 ore production (Mining).
- Hazard Rating: 100%
- Persean League Market
- Shares its orbit with Corb
Disk of Vosud (Stellar Ring)
- Orbits Isirah
Norvia (Isirah IV), Frozen World
| 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 | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Norvia will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- Extreme Cold: +50% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 150%+
- Orbits Isirah
Nott (Isirah IV-A), Frozen World
| 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 | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Nott will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- Extreme Cold: +50% hazard rating.
- Low Gravity: +25% hazard rating & +10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 175%+
- Orbits Norvia
Groombridge Habitat
| Swept up by the warlord Leonis in the conquests of cycle 47, the fantastically corrupt lieutenant left in place made a habit of throwing aggrieved local leaders out the airlock. Within three cycles, anyone with exceptional wealth, skill, or sense had left, and major station systems were failing entirely. Groombridge Habitat was since stripped of anything of value that could be put in a cargo hold, then abandoned. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| This station's primary reactor has become stuck in the dirtiest possible failure mode. Considering standard safety mechanisms, this can only be the result of intentional sabotage. Your rad counter ticks away impatiently. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Orbits Isirah
Fringe Jump-point
- Orbits Isirah
Trivia
- Surtr is a jotun of Muspelheim in Norse mythology, who is fated to consume the world in fire at Ragnarok.
- Gilling is a jotun in Norse Mythology.
- Fjalar and Galar are dwarven brothers in Norse mythology, who murder Gilling.
- Utgarda-Loki is a jotun in Norse mythology, who challenges Thor, Loki, and Thor's two companions to a series of impossible feats in order to earn his hospitality.
- Corb is a Fomorian, a race of giants in Irish mythology.
- Vosud is a jotun in Norse Mythology.
- Nott is the personification of night in Norse Mythology, whose father is Narvi.
- Kapteyn is referencing the Dutch astronomer.
- Laicaille is referencing the French astronomer.
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