Penelope's Star

Penelope's Star is a large, uninhabited system in the Core Worlds; it was apparently in the process of being developed by the Domain prior to the Collapse. The planetary conditions of its worlds are procedurally generated according to their respective planet types. It is claimed by the Luddic Church.

Penelope's Star, Red Giant

Penelope's Star

	A low-to-medium mass star in a late phase of stellar evolution, a red giant has exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core and switched to hydrogen fusion a shell around the now helium core instead. While the star itself is huge, the outer envelope has a lower temperature, giving the star its characteristic hue.
–In-Game Description

• Center of the Penelope's Star System

Asteroid Belt I

• Orbits Penelope's Star

Thrinakia (Penelope's Star I), Volcanic World

Penelope's Star I: Thrinakia

	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, Thrinakia will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
  • 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: 150%+
• Orbits Penelope's Star

Ithaca (Penelope's Star II), Desert World

Penelope's Star II: Ithaca

	An old, dry world with little magnetic field to speak of, Ithaca was nonetheless judged a good candidate by the Eridani-Utopia Terraforming Corporation. Quiet for billions of years, Penelope's Star became a hive of activity to fuel the transformation of Ithaca and its sibling world Ogygia, only to be thrown into complete chaos by the Collapse.
–In-Game Description

	A surface scan reveals a smattering of temporary emplacements, presumably planetology labs, geological survey sites, and a few strip mines. Tiny robotic weather stations occasionally emit a feeble, useless radio blip; the instruments have been degraded to uselessness by dust storms.
–Secondary Description

• Planetary Conditions
  • Note that as an uninhabited world, Ithaca will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
  • 
    Hot: +25% hazard rating.
  • 
    Extreme Weather: +25% hazard rating.
  • 
    Habitable: -25% hazard rating.
  • Hazard Rating: 125%+
• Notes
  • Notable as being the only guaranteed and uncolonized habitable world in the core worlds.
• Orbits Penelope's Star

Ogygia (Penelope's Star III), Barren-Bombarded World

Penelope's Star III: Ogygia

	A smallish, barren world whose surface bears the mark of a truly catastrophic and relatively recent impact event, Ogygia was nonetheless considered a worthwhile secondary terraforming candidate due to the system-wide infrastructure being assembled for its sibling-world of Ithaca. The Collapse put an end to these plans.
–In-Game Description

	A major impact event has left much of an entire hemisphere of Ogygia a cold lava-sea sunken some tens of kilometers below the mean elevation. Little remains of human visitation except stripped foundations and, oddly, half of a rad-hot Onslaught-class battleship hull at the bottom of a fracture-canyon.
–Secondary Description

• Planetary Conditions
  • Note that as an uninhabited world, Ogygia will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
  • 
    Hot: +25% hazard rating.
  • 
    No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
  • Hazard Rating: 175%+
• Orbits Penelope's Star

Calypso (Penelope's Star III-A), Barren-Bombarded World

Penelope's Star III-A: Calypso

	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, Calypso 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 Ogygia

Penelope's Inner Jump-point

• Orbits Penelope's Star as Ogygia's L₄ trojan

Aeolus (Penelope's Star IV), Gas Giant

Penelope's Star IV: Aeolus

	Primarily composed of hydrogen and helium gasses. 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 dwarf star.
–In-Game Description

• Planetary Conditions
  • Note that as an uninhabited world, Aeolus 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 Penelope's Star

Dorus (Penelope's Star IV-A), Barren World

Penelope's Star IV-A: Dorus

	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 lifeforms.
–In-Game Description

• Planetary Conditions
  • Note that as an uninhabited world, Dorus will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
  • 
    No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
  • Hazard Rating: 150%+
• Orbits Aeolus

Xuthus (Penelope's Star IV-B), Toxic World

Penelope's Star IV-B: Xuthus

	A frozen world enveloped by a thick nitrogen smog dappled with ethane and methane clouds. The surface is formed of eroded water-ice, wind-swept dunes of organic compounds, and hydrocarbon seas. Liquid water erupts bubbling with methane from cryovolcanos driven by tidal heating and decaying radioactive elements deep within the mantle.
–In-Game Description

• Planetary Conditions
  • Note that as an uninhabited world, Xuthus will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
  • 
    Toxic Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
  • Hazard Rating: 150%+
• Orbits Aeolus

Telepylus (Penelope's Star V), Gas Giant

Penelope's Star V: Telepylus

	Primarily composed of hydrogen and helium gasses. 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 dwarf star.
–In-Game Description

• Planetary Conditions
  • Note that as an uninhabited world, Telepylus 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 Penelope's Star

Telepylus Station (Derelict Sporeship Station)

Telepylus Station

	A vast orbital station built around the core of an old Expansion-era Sporeship buried under a forest of modular hangars, industrial pods, and hab rings. This station was once the staging area for asteroid-tenders and mobile refineries trawling the outer system. It is now completely dead.
–In-Game Description

	The primary reactors and all valuable industrial components have been stripped - and hastily, judging by the extensive secondary damage. Passive back-up systems were crippled by the process and the station too far from the primary to receive enough energy to maintain life support. A minor warning blip on your nav computer informs you that the orbit of the station is decaying and that it will burn up in the atmosphere of Telepylus within five hundred cycles. Docking with the station is not advisable.
–Secondary Description

• Orbits Telepylus

Penelope's Outer Jump-point

• Orbits Penelope's Star as Telepylus' L₅ trojan

The Cyclopeans (Asteroid Belt II)

• Orbits Penelope's Star between Telepylus and Ismara

Ismara (Penelope's Star VI), Cryovolcanic World

Penelope's Star VI: Ismara

	A cold ice-ball of a world, Ismara was the perfect location to install mines and mass-driver facilities to launch mega-tonne slabs of graphene-encased water and nitrogen packages toward the inner system to nurture the terrestrial worlds of Penelope's Star.
–In-Game Description

	From orbit, the scars of linear mass-driver tracks are easily visible, though a closer scan reveals that all that remains are marching lines of warped support columns sprouting from regocrete; the superconducting coils and other valuable hardware have long been looted. Likewise the domes of fusion plants and factories have been broken open to the thin atmosphere and the sprawl of dead habitat grids grow obscured each passing cycle by methane drifts.
–Secondary Description

• Planetary Conditions
  • Note that as an uninhabited world, Ismara will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
  • 
    Extreme Cold: +50% hazard rating.
  • As a Cryovolcanic world, it will have at least Tectonic Activity and likely have significant Ore, Transplutonic Ore & Volatiles deposits.
  • Hazard Rating: 175%+
• Orbits Penelope's Star

Notes

The planet composition of Penelope's Star all but guarantees every commodity except for Food and Organics. The former has a decent chance to spawn on Ithaca, the desert planet; the latter has a small chance to spawn on the toxic Xuthus. Therefore it is unlikely, but possible, for Penelope's Star to provide every commodity in a single system right next to the Core Worlds.

Trivia

• Penelope is the wife of Odysseus in the Odyssey.
• Thrinakia is an island where the cattle of the sun god Helios are kept in Greek mythology.
• Ithaca is an island in western Greece and the home of Odysseus.
• Calypso is a nymph in the Odyssey who captures Odysseus in the island of Ogygia.
• Aeolus is the keeper of the winds in the Odyssey who gives Odysseus a bag of winds in order to return home.
• Dorus and Xuthus are the brothers of Aeolus.
• Telepylus is a city of man-eating giants in the Odyssey.
• Ismara is the city of the Ciconians in the Odyssey.

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