Yma Star System
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The Yma Star System is dominated by the Persean League, with a pirate presence in Warawara.
Yma, Yellow Star
| A G2 type primary sequence star, estimated age is five billion years. Surface temperature is only about six thousand degrees, while core temperature could well exceed fifteen million degrees. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Center of the Yma Star System
Huascar (Yma 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 | ||
Ultrarich Rare Ore Deposits: The transplutonic deposits glimmering with unbelievable density on the sensor-grid evoke portents of a power which could forge mighty war-fleets to burn worlds to ash -- or an eon of splendor and wealth for a polity of crystal towers as existed in the pre-collapse cycles of the Domain. +3 transplutonic ore production (Mining).
- Orbits Yma
Hanan Pacha (Yma II), Irradiated World
| A crematory world laid to waste by a planet-killer weapon, the ashes of the millions of dead are still suspended in the atmosphere by planet-wide storms fed by anthropogenic volcanism. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| Hanan Pacha was razed by a planet-killer weapon during the Second AI War (which did not, of course, itself involve AI as the First AI War did, but rather concerned the right to perform inspections into alleged development of AI). A proper investigation into the details of the atrocity was dropped due to concessions made during the peace arrangement. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Orbits Yma
Killa (Yma II-A), Barren-Bombarded World
| This moon still bears the scars of war. The domes of its major metropolitan center are ripped open, the ejecta of debris still scattered in radiating patterns laid bare to hard vacuum. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| Vague IR readings from otherwise unremarkable terrain hint at camouflaged habitation beneath the regolith. There are definitely survivors hiding inside Killa, though no organized polity maintains open relations with the greater Sector. And if the slagged hulls of tramp freighters are any indication, the locals aren't very welcoming. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Orbits Hanan Pacha
Chupi Orco (Yma 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 dwarf star. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Yma
Abandoned Siphon Station
| Once a giant industrial machine that manipulated the magnetosphere of Chupi Orco to pull volatiles into space from the highest reaches of an artificial storm-system, the coils, generators, and tanks are now gutted, the habitats run-through by energy lances. A few hangars and access tunnels still show minimal life-support function, pitifully lingering until inevitable gas leakage and solar cell fouling leaves the station as cold and dead as the tomb it is. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Chupi Orco
- One of the three free storage spaces in the Core Worlds
Viscacha (Yma III-A), Toxic World
| A captured body from the outer system with a thick, toxic atmosphere, this moon is named both for its quick orbit and an amusingly shaped basin in the southern hemisphere. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Chupi Orco
Salamanca (Yma III-B), Toxic World
| A thick nitrogen smog rains hydrocarbons on withered mountains of water-ice that stud Salamanca. At their feet, the stained hab domes disperse armoured workers herding robot-drones which maintain the organics extractors and refineries. All industry here is ruled - from behind appropriate fronts - by an ousted Mazalotian regime/criminal cartel. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| What began as a megacorp-backed resource-extraction settlement was forcefully overthrown by a small fleet loyal to a regime ousted from Mazalot. They have sought to regain legitimacy by re-entering the Persean League, but are deeply connected to criminal networks and mistrusted even - especially - amongst their League allies. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Persean League Market
- Organics Mining Complex
- 10^5 Population
- Orbits Chupi Orco
| 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 Chupi Orco
Viscacha Jump-point
- Inner system jump-point
- Orbits Yma as Chupi Orco's L4 trojan
- resides in an asteroid field
Yma Gate (Inactive Gate)
| A solid ring of adamantine material, derelict of a former age. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Yma as Chupi Orco's L5 trojan
- Resides in an asteroid field
Warawara (Yma 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. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Yma
Qaras (Yma B I), Tundra World
| A habitable if cold world terraformed post-Collapse by stranded elements of the Eridani-Utopia Corporation using in-place infrastructure and stockpiles. The appeal of Qaras never quite matched the radiance of Hanan Pacha until the latter was shockingly razed during the Second AI War. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| During the early colonial era of the Sector, Qaras and its orbital bases were a major volatiles/organics collection and processing center operated by Eridani-Utopia. After the Second AI War the entire Yma binary system was declared a demilitarized zone. Qaras, which managed to avoid devastation, was promptly seized by a shaky alliance of rogue mercenaries and brigands. It's not quite been worth the logistical and legal conflicts for the Hegemony to mount a repossession effort. Yet. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Pirate Market
- Military Base
- Spaceport
- Hydroponics Complex
- 10^5 Population
- Orbits Warawara
Qaras 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 Warawara as Qaras' L5 trojan
Yma B Jump-point
- Outer system jump-point
- Orbits Yma as Warawara's L4 trojan
- Resides in an asteroid field
Fringe jump-point
- Orbits Yma
Trivia
- Huascar was the 13th Inca and older brother of Atahualpa, the last ruling Inca.
- Hanan Pacha is the firmament in Incan cosmology.
- Killa means "moon" in Quechua.
- Chupi Orco means " center mountain" in Quechua and i the name of several mountains in Peru and Bolivia.
- Viscacha is the name of a rodent related to the chinchilla.
- Salamanca is a city and province in western Spain.
- Warawara means "star" in Aymara and is the name of three lakes in Bolivia.
- Qaras is a mountain in the Peruvian Andes.
| The Core Worlds | |
|---|---|
| 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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