The Sun
The sun, like most stars, is extremely dense and incredibly hot, and its geography is not fixed. Its gravitational forces can easily crush most starships. The fusion reactions that take place in the sun's core emit such powerful energies that it regularly rips portals to the Positive Energy Plane and Plane of Fire.
When a starship approaches the appropriate area on the sun's surface, a narrow tunnel of reduced solar energy opens, which leads to the Burning Archipelago, a set of bubbles containing cities or large platforms, protected by transparent spheres and connected by magical tethers. Unknown mechanisms, believed magical, keep the bubbles habitable and shield them from the sun's radiation and blinding brightness.
Deeper within the sun float other bubble-cities, their inhabitants ignorant of or uninterested in outsiders.
Fauna & Flora
The sun's plasma is home to fire-immune immigrants from the Plane of Fire and strange creatures adapted to the heat and pressure. The majority of Pact Worlds citizens are restricted to the Burning Archipelago, a melting pot of peoples from across the entire system. Aside from the Sarenites, who use sunskimmers to bottle nuclear fire and maintain the Burning Archipelago's power stations, the sun also attracts corporations to its orbit for robotic experiments in algae-based energy capture, or build solar-powered robotics plants and deploy organic jungle boxes to produce rare chemicals.
Natural Resources
The sun's extreme energy, combined with the mutations to plants in NatuReal Compounds jungle boxes, has led to at least two instances of the formation sentient and carnivorous plant creatures — to fatal effect in the instances where the boxes were not fully automated.
- Type: G2V Main Sequence (Yellow Dwarf)
- Diameter: 865,370 mi / 100x Golarion diameter/ 1 Stellar Diameter
- Mass: 280,000x Mass of Golarion (MG) / 1 Solar Mass
- Gravity: 28 x Gravity of Golarion (GG)
- Luminosity: 3.828x1026 W / 1 Lsol
- Temperature: 5,772 K
- Distance from Absalom Station: 1 AU
Alternative Name(s)
Mataras (Burning Mother in Lashunta)
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Star
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