Asalars VIII
A large, cold gas giant planet in the Asalars System, which is owned by the Grand Artanat Empire.
Asalars VIII features a single, very large asteroid ring and comparitively few planetoids orbiting it. The asteroids are constantly mined and used to defend the planet (as well as used by rebels to conceal them), however, most of the value of the planet comes in the form of a large megastructure the Grand Artanat Empire constructed to make the gas giant habitable. This was constructed at a layer where the gravitation is roughly equal to that of the Ukztlakat homeworld, Runagat. It resembles a large shell, and, similmar to Delta Antilae VII, uses the extremely dense metallic hydrogen below itself as a structural support. This shell-like megastructure houses lives on its exterior.
It has a population of several billion and the various cities on the shell can collect gas from the upper atmosphere without the use of gas collection stations, giving them much cheaper access to starship and reactor fuel. This is one of the key benefits of the megastructure such as this. Over time, the upper atmosphere gets thinner as they use more of it. This has increased the surface gravitation of the planet so they have also taken a measure of liquid metallic hydrogen from the layer below in order to keep gravity constant. It is also in this lower layer that they perform many high pressure low temperature experiments. Eventually, the upper atmosphere is removed entirely and the planet relies on its plasma window to keep te habitable atmosphere within it and keep it habitable.
The GAE holds a large multi species population on the world. However, as the environment was mostly designed with the Ukztlakat in mind, they have had to upgrade many sections to have more conveinent structures that account for alien anatomy. This has been a difficult challenge for them, due to the diversity of alien needs and materials required.
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