Doris System
VNY's notes:
Its nearest Freeworlds Territory neighbors are ore mining systems, but habitable planet Doris is a water world whose income mostly comes from a nice gas giant in-system. I think at one point, someone was mining the gas giant for helium-3, but I do not know if that is still going on.
Geography
The system primary is Pane, a G6 V Yellow Main Sequence star.
Sarisia (the gas giant in this system) really is huge, and it's the closest orbit to the primary -- actually, Pane and Sarisia sort of orbit each other, though the focal point is definitely inside Pane's surface. This has some complicated effects on sunspot activity in the primary. Mentats who are into astrocartography tell me that someday Sarisia and Pane will probably fall into each other and the results will be bad for a long ways around. They also say that "someday" is a good thirty thousand standard years in the future, so I don't know why all this doom and gloom has to be announced.
Anyway, by that time maybe someone will have mined enough of Sarisia away that the problem will be solved. I don't know, it could happen! Why do I keep getting that expression thrown at me, yes that one right there, every time I point it out? Go invent something to solve the hazard, you're smart enough for it.
Sarisia has three large moons, each of which is used as a base for multiple gas-processing and shipping facilities by the miners. Those moons have to have names, I should look that up and add it to this later.
Doris is the next world out, orbiting far enough away to get sunlight even when Sarisia is between Doris and Pane. Doris has got two moons which help keep everything stable. Bring a spare rebreather at minimum if you're going outside any domes. Actually, bring a spare rebreather regardless.
The third planet in orbit is Goloka. It's a rock planet with two moons and no atmosphere. There's no valuable ore deposits here, so Goloka mostly gets left alone. I guess at one point the Galactic Empire started to build an observation station in orbit around Goloka, but quickly realized the expense and trouble was not ever going to be worth anything they could learn, so they dismantled the construction frame and hared off to Dorella System. And got robbed.
The fourth and outermost planet of this system is Vogar, a quiet little ice planet just going along without bothering anybody. Its orbital plane is off-kilter enough that Vogar is either a captured rogue planet, or else got smacked pretty good by something that passed by early in the system's formation. Anybody who has navigational data less than twenty years old should not have to worry about smacking into Vogar.
Outside most of Vogar's orbit is an asteroid belt. It is pretty sparse, from what I am told, and most system entry data from hyperspace will arrive well within the orbit of the asteroid belt. I would not put it past some really dumb pirates to operate from way out there, because they are going to think "oho! now we are behind everybody who shows up!", but they are also going to spend more resources on basic survival and on fuel than they are likely to get from any lucky targets.
Natural Resources
Sarisia is the primary source of income for this system: gas mining contracts get handed down from one generation to the next. No one is getting filthy rich but the locals do all right for themselves. Helium is the primary gas mined from the atmosphere of Sarisia.
Doris is a water world with more CO2 and sulfur dioxide than humans generally find comfortable. Some groups are developing an agricultural system to filter more of the dangerous stuff out of the system but without endangering the health of the native species, which is an excrutiatingly fine line to tread. If they can get it to work, though, a lot of sustainable agriculture suddenly becomes profitable on Doris.
- database entry updated Datunda
Shelova Week
12727
Shelova Week
12727
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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.
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