Don System II

VNY's notes:

Don System I and Don System II were registered, explored, and catalogued by -- according to the Official History that I found in a museum at Mrlsst Trade and Science Academy -- a multigenerational family that decided to go hyperspace exploring before certain legal troubles could catch up with them in the Sefon System. Everything got named after individual family members. They apparently did fairly well for themselves in the long run. I don't understand the story of how Don wound up naming the systems and the easiest-to-colonize planets, but it has to have something to do with how the family wound up in this dead-end back eddy of hyperspace in the first place.

The only way to get here is to hit the Shapani Bypass until you arrive at Mrlsst. Then go to Lusk System. Then decide you're not off in the astrocartographical weeds far enough but you maybe need to head coreward, maybe aiming for the Rimma Trade Route and parts outside the Tapani Sector completely, possibly in order to throw off pursuit.

You are not going to make it out of the sector. There are some messy black holes in the way. But by Shey, some people really would try it anyway to see how far they can get -- only it turns out that some reckless soul already did it and seeded navbuoys to boot.

And now you're in Don System II.

Well, the drinks are safer for careless consumption, if you can afford them!

And if your name is Morty, and you decided to pay for what drinks you could get with an expectation of funding other needs like a place to sleep via back corridor muggings, then you have once again made some very unfortunate life choices.

- database entry updated Natunda
Expansion Week
12728

Geography

The system primary is Lias, an A6 V White Main Sequence star.

Unlike Don System I, this system has no asteroid belts at all. It also does not have any gas giants to sweep erratically moving bodies into a more stable orbit, but this system seems to be doing better in terms of not getting smacked by substellar collisions.

Rabbie is the innermost orbiting planet, and it has a single moon named Brecht. They seem to be unusually high in silicone -- they reflect a lot of Lias' light for such solid bodies.

Donella is, in comparison, a matte whitish planet with hardly any atmosphere. What it does have is not just toxic to most sentient life, but in fact is severely abrasive: Donella is heavy on the aluminum silicate compounds, which would be great for mining purposes if only that did not mean teeny tiny particles of Al₂O₃ scrubbing across absolutely everything.

Don II is next out. It's a lush jungle planet slightly larger than Allandor System. The planet rotates very slowly on its axis, causing long hot days and cold nights. A relatively small axial tilt makes for a stable, predictable climate. More than half of the system's residents live here. Any business that brings carbon and nitrogen in to the biosphere is relatively tax- and regulation-free; any business, including eating, that is likely to take carbon and nitrogen out of the world will be slapped with some impressive markups.

Shona is the fourth planet of the system. More aluminum and less silicone, this world is discussed affectionately in every context I can find. No atmosphere here, and it's getting pretty cold at this range from the primary.

The last two worlds are both ice planets. Amadi has a moon, Ekene, and both are referred to with masculine pronouns. Branca has no natural moon and (in most languages) feminine pronouns. Most commercial deliveries of cargo are made to starports made for that purpose, in orbit around the two ice planets.

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- database entry updated Productivity Day
12727

Type

Star System

Location under

Freeworlds Territory

Owning Organization

Tapani Imperium

Contested By

• United Confederation of Peacekeepers

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Thanks to donjon's Star Wars d6 System Generator for the heavenly bodies in this star system and SciFi Ideas' Planet Generator for some fill-in details about the worlds here..