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===The Valer System===

Valer System has seven worlds:
*Valer I – III are nothing more than a series of rocky, burnt out hulks, ranging from the dwarf planet of Valer I through the larger bodies of Valer II and III; none of which have atmosphere. Despite this, Valer III has indications of mineable, useful metals; mining would be a small trick, as it is tidally locked to the stellar primary, and averages about 470 Kelvin, or 200 Celsius.

*Valer IV is just barely on the boundary between inhospitable and hospitable, the atmosphere is thin, though relatively high winds scour the otherwise rocky and dusty-covered surface. It is close to Terra in size, but still resembles Mars in all other respects. 

*Valer V is the Class M world, with light population clustered around a half-dozen cities and numerous agricultural facilities. 

*Valer VI is a classed J-type gas giant, a dingy brown and otherwise unremarkable subgiant, barely worthy of the title and utterly inert, with less than normal radiant EM activity radiating as normally found from such planetary giants; USS Remegan has partial removal of normal torpedo load, which is replaced with deep space sensor probes for research of the reported EM anomalies reported by Valer V.

*Valer VII is a sub-giant world with an erratic orbit and a half-dozen moons, not unlike Uranus.

The Arteline sector was part of the cede to the Federation that concluded the Romulan war a century previous. At one time, Valor VI, a gas-giant, supported an orbital Romulan forward outpost and supply station, abandoned by the Romulans in accordance with the applicable NZ treaty and subsequently destroyed by the Romulans upon abandonment.

The Federation has a thriving series of mining colonies and early-warning sensor station coordination center on Valor V.