Magec Star System
Magec is predominantly Tri-Tachyon and Independent with a small pirate force and station in system. There are two stars: Magec, the center of the system, and Achaman. The system is known for its chaotic and violent post-Collapse history.
Located in the edge of the Cathedral Nebula, between the Luddic Church and the Hegemony's territories, Magec was once considered a promising candidate for colonization by the Domain. Tri-Tachyon showed special interests in the developing world of Maxios, which was being terraformed at the time and in the Guayota Disk due to their rich resources. Sadly, the Collapse ruined those plans.
Without the Gates, Maxios' terraforming failed around 5 cycles later, leading to the collapse of the Maxios Charter and most of its population fled to the Guayota Disk, resettled a major station in the belt and reformed into Nova Maxios. Around the same time, a Domain logistics officer called Jorien Kanta went rogue and took over one of the Disk's habitats by force with the help of pirates. The habitat became Kanta's Den, the base of operations from which Kanta would become an infamous warlord that still haunts Magec to this day.
Nearly 150 cycles later, Magec became the place in which former Domain fleet commander-turned-pirate warlord Onesimos Loke was defeated and killed by the young Philip Andrada in the Battle of Maxios, in which Andrada rose to fame for his deeds. While at first on Loke's side, Kanta quickly turned on his forces after his death, killing his loyalists and taking what remained of his fleet for herself.
Magec, 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 released from the star's raging fusion heat erupt in powerful stellar winds that will strip the atmosphere from closely orbiting planets - and the hull of any starships that linger nearby. | ||
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- Center of the Magec System
Chaxiraxi (Magec I), Gas Giant
| A hot gas giant world in close orbit of Magec; composed mostly of hydrogen and helium gasses, the temperature and pressure at the core are extreme. Due to proximity to its primary, the outer layers of Chaxiraxi are continually heated and stripped away in long plumes of shimmering ionized particles. Gas-skimmers occasionally deploy the airy wings of magfield collectors to harvest these light volatiles. | ||
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- Planetary Conditions
- Note that as an uninhabited world, Chaxiraxi 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.
- High Gravity: +50% hazard rating & -10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 150%+
- Orbits Magec
Maxios (Magec II), Barren World
| A small terrestrial planet, Maxios was once the cosmopolitan hub of the system. Now spotted with ruins and impacts both ancient and fresh, the crumbling orbital defense system provides only intermittent coverage. The polity has effectively collapsed and the current population is unknown. Looters and survivors clash occasionally, the weapons-blink and electromagnetic noise of low-level combat sputtering like a gas giant's electrical storms. | ||
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- Planetary Conditions
- Decivilized: +25% hazard rating.
- Extensive Ruins
- Sparse Rare Ore Deposits: -1 transplutonic ore production (Mining).
- Moderate Ore Deposits: No bonuses or penalties to ore production (Mining).
- Meteor Impacts: +50% hazard rating.
- Thin Atmosphere: +25% hazard rating.
- Hot: +25% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 225%+
- Notes
- One of the 4 Decivilized Worlds in the Core Worlds.
- Orbits Magec
Maxios Jump Point
- Orbits Maxios
Guayota's Disk (Stellar Ring)
- Orbits Magec
- Contains two asteroid belts
Nova Maxios, Independent
| Once a major hub of harvesting operations in the Disk, the station was swarmed by refugees from the Maxios collapse and this hub of processing facilities was turned into a civilian habitat. Through desperate tenacity and hard-earned know-how, the refugees built not only a new civil society but an orbital works supporting scattered asteroid mines and independent surveyors. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| Too small to force major factions to recognize its claim over the entire Disk, Nova Maxios nonetheless considers itself the successor-polity to the Maxios Charter.
Traffic control enforced by the small militia-navy is firm but polite. Independent spacers are welcomed as cousins in the admittedly crude hulls and concourses of Nova Maxios. |
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–Secondary Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Population: Nova Maxios is home to hundreds of thousands of people.
- Moderate Ore Deposits: No bonuses or penalties to ore production (Mining)
- Hazard Rating: 100%
- Independent Market
- Population & Infrastructure
- Spaceport
- Mining
- Orbital Works
- Corrupted Nanoforge: Increases ship production quality by 20%. Increases production by 1 unit.
- Commerce
- Orbital Station - Low Tech
- Ground Defenses
- Notes
- Nova Maxios can be easily approached without much harassment from local authority, and under normal circumstances ~800 Supplies can be purchased well below the market price from the Black Market.
- Orbits Magec inside Guayota's Disk
Guayota 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. | ||
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- Orbits Magec inside Guayota's Disk
Kanta's Den, Pirates
| This asteroid habitat was taken by a wildly ambitious Domain logistics officer, Colonel Kanta, during the collapse of the Maxios Charter polity not long after the fall of the Gates. She subsequently joined with the Domain successor-state Hegemony only to betray them to cut a deal with the Warlord Onesimos Loke during his invasion of the Persean Sector. After Loke was defeated, Kanta took the title of warlord for herself.
The station is protected by a cloud of stealth-mines and crude firebases. Kanta herself, now rumored to be nearly two hundred years old in waking time, heads a minor pirate dynasty and still holds tight personal control over 'the family business'. |
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–In-Game Description | ||
| Traffic control seems to spend its time trading crude jokes with pirate raiders when not trying to bully bribes out of docking vessels. An artful arrangement of gutted starship hulls festoons the station, and closer examination reveals vacuum-desiccated remains attached using asteroid-miners' pitons. The messaging is unambiguous. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Population: Tens of thousands of people live on Kanta's Den.
- Hazard Rating: 100%
- Pirate Market
- Notes
- The combination of a Free Port + Light Industry + Pirates' naturally low accessibility (due to being hostile with basically all other factions) means that Recreational Drugs are almost certainly in excess stockpiles, purchasable well below the market price on the Black Market.
- This haul of Recreational Drugs can then be sold to another market for a pretty penny, typically the nearby Epiphany, as this Luddic Path world can be easily approached with Transponder off for simple access to the Black Market and suffers also from low accessibility (for the same reason as Pirates), making it so that they would typically be buying for above the market price.
- Orbits Magec inside Guayota's Disk opposite of Guayota Relay
Magec Gate (Inactive Gate)
| A solid ring of adamantine material, derelict of a former age. | ||
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- Orbits Magec opposite to Achaman
Achaman (Magec B), White Dwarf
| 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. | ||
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- Orbits Magec
Tibicena (Magec B I), Rocky Metallic World, Tri-Tachyon
| A planetary strip-mine, the tortured crust of Tibicena is strewn with huge examples of mining equipment, a veritable open-vacuum museum documenting the adaptation of Persean industry to the limitations of the local Sector supply chains. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| The surface of Tibicena is populated only by mobile work-camps which follow the gargantuan mining machines ripping through belts of valuable ore. The miners work in dismal conditions, saving their wages to boost into orbit and enjoy the glittering pleasures of Achaman Enterprise Station. Efficiently and thoroughly drained of credits, and indeed, on average, heavily indebted, they will soon find their way back into "The Pit" of Tibicena. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Population: Tibicena is home to hundreds of thousands of people.
- Free Port: -3 stability, +25 accessibility, +10 colony growth & no illegal commodities.
- Rich Rare Ore Deposits: +2 transplutonic ore production (Mining).
- Rich Ore Deposits: +2 ore production (Mining).
- No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Tectonic Activity: +25% hazard rating.
- High Gravity: +50% hazard rating & -10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 225%
- Tri-Tachyon Market
- Orbits Achaman
Achaman Enterprise Station
| The value of Achaman Station is as a relatively safe port of call for the various inhabitants of Guayota's Disk to interact with traders from the Sector at-large, who otherwise rarely risk the pirates and difficult navigation of the Disk. The Tri-Tachyon Corporation, as 'caretaker' of the station, is well-situated to exploit its value handily - and do. It is often said that everything is for sale at Achaman Station. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| Gleaming transports bring Tri-Tach executives here to swindle metals and raw chemicals from the locals who receive, in turn, the usual suite of recreational and performance-enhancing 'medicines'.
The Tri-Tachyon Quality Guarantee is law here - so long as you ensure prompt subscription payment on the gadgets, goods, tools, and life support provided by the Tri-Tachyon Corporation, you can count on receiving 'Top Treatment, The Tri-Tachyon Way!'. |
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–Secondary Description | ||
- Orbits Tibicena
- Extension of Tibicena base
Achaman Relay
| A Domain-era technology, a nav buoy monitors the in-system hyperfield and is capable of transmitting its findings to friendly fleets in-system. The data readings are pristine and of great use in configuring drive fields. | ||
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- Orbits Magec as Achaman's L4 trojan
Fringe Jump-point
- Orbits Magec
Trivia
- Magec is a deity in ancient Berber mythology.
- Chaxiraxi is the Sun goddess of the Guanche aboriginals of the Canary Islands, note that the Guanche are thought to have originated from the Berbers.
- Maxios were benevolent minor gods / genies in Guanche mythology, they were thought to be mediators between humans and Chaxiraxi.
- Guayota is the primary belligerent god & Achaman's foe in Guanche mythology.
- Achaman is the father & creator god in Guanche mythology.
- Tibicena are mythical creatures in Guanche culture, imagined to be demons / genies in the form of giant black dogs with red eyes.
Additionally, the Magec Star System might spawn the following procedurally generated planets:
- Achuguayo is the Moon god of the Guanche of Tenerife.
- Teide a sacred mountain for the aboriginal Guanche.
- Gara & Jonay named after the Guanche mythological lovers Gara & Jonay. Spawns as Moons of Teide.
- Chijoraji is the name the Guanche people gave to Jesus Christ.
- Achuhucanac Rain god of the Guanche people.
- Ganigo refers to a clay vessel used in marriage rituals by Guanche aboriginals. Spawns as a Moon of Achuhucanac.
- Tagoror In the Guanche language of Tenerife, Tagoror refers to a meeting place of communal leaders. Spawns as an asteroid field.
- Goro Guanche word meaning "Stone Corral". Spawns as an asteroid belt or ring system.
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Version History
- The Magec system was revealed as one of four new star systems in the Fleet Creation Blog.
- Added in the 0.65a Update.