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The Zagan Star System is dominated by the Persean League, with an additional Independent world. It is also the "northern" most system of the Core Worlds
Zagan, 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 | ||
- Center of the Zagan System
Geburah (Zagan 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, Geburah will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- As a Volcanic world, it will have at least Tectonic Activity & Hot and likely have Extreme Heat and significant Ore & Transplutonic Ore deposits.
- Hazard Rating: 150%+
- Orbits Zagan
Shoals of Perdition (Asteroid Belt)
- Orbits Zagan between Geburah and Mazalot
Mazalot (Zagan II), Arid World, Persean League
| Civic centre of the Zagan system, Mazalot is nonetheless a poor and unstable polity known for a series of authoritarian governments that alternately pander to and oppress the majority Luddic population. The planet itself is a story of successful terraforming, albeit water poor. Emplacing and sustaining orbital infrastructure is inconvenient due to an exceptionally strong magnetic field, which has done little to stabilize the independent-minded populace. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| Although a locus of population in the Zagan system, and indeed demographically significant in the Sector as a whole, Mazalot is a weak link among the worlds of the Persean League, often the site of coups and proxy-wars. Occasionally a benevolent regime comes to power but it is just as soon thrown down by some outside force in the long game between the League and other major factions. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Population: Mazalot is a world of tens of millions.
- Adequate Farmland: No bonuses or penalties to food production (Farming).
- Hot: +25% hazard rating.
- Habitable: -25% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 100%
- Persean League Market
- Notes
- Despite the world description explicitly stating that it has a Luddic majority, it actually doesn't appears as a market condition.
- Mazalot is significantly more greener than typical Arid worlds, presumably due the cultivated plant life from many, many cycles of farming by its Luddic inhabitants.
- Orbits Zagan
Tiferet (Zagan II-A), Barren-Bombarded World
| 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, Tiferet will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- No Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 150%+
- Orbits Mazalot
Mazalot Gate (Inactive Gate)
| A solid ring of adamantine material, derelict of a former age. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
- Orbits Zagan as Mazalot's L4 trojan
Mazalot 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 Zagan as Mazalot's L5 trojan
Melikah (Zagan III), Gas Giant
| 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, Melikah 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.
- Toxic Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Cold: +25% hazard rating.
- High Gravity: +50% hazard rating & -10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 225%+
- Orbits Zagan
Hikmah (Zagan III-A), Toxic World
| 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, Hikmah will have a range of market conditions that changes between playthroughs.
- Toxic Atmosphere: +50% hazard rating.
- Extreme Cold: +50% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 200%+
- Orbits Melikah
Ilm (Zagan III-B), Cryovolcanic World, Independent
| No matter who rules Mazalot, there is money to be made on Ilm in the factories and on the ice-fields whose exports feed capital into this poor system. The youth of Mazalot come here to work, and to send their paychecks home, and many stray from the path of Ludd. In spite of this, Ilm manages to avoid purges and war because no matter who rules on Mazalot, there is money to be made on Ilm. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| More than a company town, this is a company polity from the string of orbital security platforms to the teleoperated mines that rip resources from the fractured crust. Ilm is ruled by a semi-militarized corporate board; the identity of investors is not a matter of public information, but the least paranoid speculation favors a mix of Persean League and Tri-Tachyon capital. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Population: Ilm is home to hundreds of thousands of people.
- Plentiful Volatiles: +2 volatiles production (Mining).
- Thin Atmosphere: +25% hazard rating.
- Tectonic Activity: +25% hazard rating.
- Cold: +25% hazard rating.
- Hazard Rating: 175%+
- Independent Market
- Orbits Melikah
| 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 Zagan as Melikah's L5 trojan
Yesod (Zagan IV), Rocky Ice World, Persean League
| This cold, quiet world of stony plateaus riven by sleeping glaciers has been fortified by the Persean League to protect its AM-fuel facility. Production was never brought to full capacity however due to lack of capital investment post-Collapse. A policy of free trade was instituted to appease civilian operators despite objections by whatever the latest government of Mazalot happens to be. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
| On the matter of Yesod, the major League gens only agree that Tri-Tachyon should not gain a foothold on the world - or, at least, it is important to appear to support this anti-Tri-Tachyon policy in public. Gridlocked by competing interests with effective veto-power, the full potential of Yesod remains to be tapped. | ||
–Secondary Description | ||
- Planetary Conditions
- Population: Yesod is home to hundreds of thousands of people.
- Cold: +25% hazard rating.
- Low Gravity: +25% hazard rating & +10% accessibility.
- Hazard Rating: 175%+
- Persean League Market
- Orbits Zagan
Yesod Jump-point
- Orbits Zagan as Yesod's L4 trojan
Trivia
- Zagan is a King of Hell in the Ars Goetia.
- Geburah, Tiferet, and Yesod are nodes on the kabbalistic Sefirot.
- Mazalot is the Biblical Hebrew word that probably refers to the zodiac.
- Hikmah is the Islamic term for wisdom, while Ilm is the Islamic term for knowledge.
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