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|align="center" |Black hole companion to Damocles | |align="center" |Black hole companion to Damocles | ||
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− | |align="center" | | + | |align="center" |Li-Bos |
− | |align="center" | + | |align="center" |Reunion |
|align="center" |Gordon-Cedar | |align="center" |Gordon-Cedar | ||
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− | |align="center" | | + | |align="center" |Durge |
− | |align="center" | + | |align="center" |Morrow |
− | |align="center" | + | |align="center" |Slough Research Station |
|align="center" |N/A | |align="center" |N/A | ||
|align="center" |''It's like a swamp, only wetter.'' | |align="center" |''It's like a swamp, only wetter.'' | ||
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− | |align="center" | | + | |align="center" |Baker Star |
− | |align="center" | | + | |align="center" |Hangover |
− | |align="center" | + | |align="center" |Town |
|align="center" |Independent | |align="center" |Independent | ||
|align="center" |''The whole planet looks hung over.'' | |align="center" |''The whole planet looks hung over.'' | ||
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===BAKER STAR=== | ===BAKER STAR=== | ||
− | Baker Star is a | + | Baker Star is a large orange star situated just a few light years off the central plane of the Milky Way. There is nothing particularly remarkable about it, except for the high death rate of rocky inner planets in the inner solar system. There are six distinct asteroid belts surrounding the star, all rich in unexploited metal wealth and only one small gas giant in an orbit too far out to disturb the orbit of the rocks in the inner solar system. |
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====Hangover==== | ====Hangover==== | ||
− | Hangover is | + | Hangover is the only inner planet to have survived to adulthood, but it didn't survive unscathed. Sometime in the planets recent history, a huge object, possibly a small moonlet, struck the planet punching a crater in the surface covering a thirtieth of the planets surface. From space the crater looks like a huge black circular continent, surrounded by a moat of red lava. Canyons of lava radiate out through fractures in the massive crater wall and the whole region is surrounded by a thin blue sea. To the settlers it resembled nothing more than a single huge bloodshot eye, floating in space. |
− | The rest of the planet consists of forty separate continents that fit together like crazy paving, separated by deep and stormy water filled channels between one and sixty kilometres wide. It is slightly heavier than Earth at 1.1g and richer in heavy metals. The cataclysm warmed the surface of the planet enough to make comfortable life possible, and completely wiped out the larger indigenous animal life, although some of the local plant life survived. Almost nothing is known of the previous conditions of the planet as the | + | The rest of the planet consists of forty separate continents that fit together like crazy paving, separated by deep and stormy water filled channels between one and sixty kilometres wide. It is slightly heavier than Earth at 1.1g and richer in heavy metals. The cataclysm warmed the surface of the planet enough to make comfortable life possible, and completely wiped out the larger indigenous animal life, although some of the local plant life survived. Almost nothing is known of the previous conditions of the planet as the seventy two settlers who live there do not have the luxury time required to investigate. |
'''Town''' | '''Town''' | ||
− | The town was founded by settlers who crashed there | + | The town was founded by settlers who crashed there twenty years ago. Most of the settlers live within a days travel of the town, with a few scattered by choice or necessity onto neighbouring continents. The town and the crash are developed further in the [[Blue_Giant:Scenario_Hangover|Hangover scenario]]. |
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− | ===CESITY=== | + | ===CESITY STAR=== |
− | Cesity is a | + | Cesity is a typical star in the Damocles cluster in that is is a main sequence orange star in the prime of life. It has one inner planet - Cesity Too which has one large moon and two outer gas giants Cesity B and Cesity C. They have the usual menagerie of small moons. |
====Cesity Too==== | ====Cesity Too==== | ||
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===DAMOCLES AND DIONYSUS=== | ===DAMOCLES AND DIONYSUS=== | ||
+ | Damocles is a Red Giant that has an eccentric orbit around a fairly average black hole called Dionysus. The black hole is drawing matter from the star at an irregular rate depending on how close the two objects are to each other. As a result Damocles pulses and bulges alarmingly and unpredictably. Astronomers cannot predict exactly when Damocles will go super-nova and guesses range from three hundred to three hundred thousand years. 'Not in our lifetime.' they say with confidence before leaving on the next ship out. | ||
− | + | The shell of the Dionysus super-nova is now one hundred and fifty light years in radius and not only makes for a very pretty backdrop to the inhabited planets night sky, but a surprisingly bumpy ride for any spaceship passing through it for the first time. | |
− | Damocles | + | ====Damocles 1==== |
+ | The binary system has a lone satellite called Damocles 1 which is the iron core remnant of a planet which orbited Damocles when Dionysus went super-nova and collapsed one hundred and fifty years ago. Damocles 1 is discussed further in the scenario [[Blue_Giant:Scenario_Kong_Tiki|Kong Tiki]]. | ||
− | Damocles | + | ====Damocles Cluster==== |
+ | The Damocles binary is at the centre of a cluster of main sequence orange stars which suspiciously all have earth-like inhabitable worlds orbiting them. This is known as the Damocles Cluster. | ||
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===DANIV=== | ===DANIV=== | ||
− | + | Daviv is the fourth largest and brightest star in the galaxy. It is a luminous blue hypergiant in the first million years of its life. It is 125 solar masses, three million times brighter than the sun and has a radius 500 times greater than that of the sun. Needless to say, it is hot. | |
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====Daniv 1 Alpha==== | ====Daniv 1 Alpha==== | ||
− | + | Daniv 1 Alpha is a crazy mixed up kid of a planet that foolishly chose to orbit Daviv. Or it could just be a rogue planet caught in its gravity. It orbits Daniv at a range of 1.8 billion KM (further than Saturn from the Sun) and Daniv still fills up half the sky. The planet has a clear nitrogen atmosphere, the nitrogen is produced by the respiration of the plants on the planet. The oceans of the planet resemble water but consist of superheated long chain polymer molecules. The oceans maintain a balmy 500 degrees centigrade whereas the atmosphere varies from 590 degrees C at midday (190 in the shade) to 90 degrees C at midnight. The planet has a twenty hour day and a one hundred day year. The planet consists of two main continents, one takes up most of the northern hemisphere and the other lies in a crescent around the south pole. | |
The life forms on Daniv 1 Alpha are highly energetic creatures made of metal, heat resistant ceramics and highly volatile liquid chemicals. They are usually highly polished or have a very thick crust of blackened plastic skin, which looks white anyway because of the amount of light. Napalm, thermite, plasma and nitrogen-based explosives are typical defence mechanisms. | The life forms on Daniv 1 Alpha are highly energetic creatures made of metal, heat resistant ceramics and highly volatile liquid chemicals. They are usually highly polished or have a very thick crust of blackened plastic skin, which looks white anyway because of the amount of light. Napalm, thermite, plasma and nitrogen-based explosives are typical defence mechanisms. | ||
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It is a wide park-like planet. Every building surrounded by clear open verdant ground. Cities are vast and usually about 30 km across with populations of about 50,000 people. Roads are frequented by automatic ground cars and open sided tram-like vehicles. Monorails link cities as does an underground heavy transport network. Everything is designed to be perfect. Ponds, parklands and open savannah describe it best. | It is a wide park-like planet. Every building surrounded by clear open verdant ground. Cities are vast and usually about 30 km across with populations of about 50,000 people. Roads are frequented by automatic ground cars and open sided tram-like vehicles. Monorails link cities as does an underground heavy transport network. Everything is designed to be perfect. Ponds, parklands and open savannah describe it best. | ||
− | Utopia 7 has the best hospitals in the sector. Gene technology is a given, resurrection is possible as long as the brain is intact (or recently scanned) and dead less than a couple of weeks. The planet has some extremely high tech but not much heavy industry. There is quite a tourist industry especially from | + | Utopia 7 has the best hospitals in the sector. Gene technology is a given, resurrection is possible as long as the brain is intact (or recently scanned) and dead less than a couple of weeks. The planet has some extremely high tech but not much heavy industry. There is quite a tourist industry especially from imperial officers who used the planet for shore leave during the war. It has the best golf courses in the treaty zone. |
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'''Welcome''' | '''Welcome''' | ||
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The spaceport is a nice glass building surrounded by trees, in the tourist city of Welcome, only a short distance from a major hospital complex (which has a lake with real swans in it). The nearby town hall is a château and the main street is, according to the locals 'a bit cramped and squalid' with small mansions every hundred meters or so. The catfish club is a bar in the middle of the lake in the centre of Welcome. It's where offworlders go for crowds and to bitch about the locals. There are a few other places on the same small island, a mall, garage, restaurant and boat shop. | The spaceport is a nice glass building surrounded by trees, in the tourist city of Welcome, only a short distance from a major hospital complex (which has a lake with real swans in it). The nearby town hall is a château and the main street is, according to the locals 'a bit cramped and squalid' with small mansions every hundred meters or so. The catfish club is a bar in the middle of the lake in the centre of Welcome. It's where offworlders go for crowds and to bitch about the locals. There are a few other places on the same small island, a mall, garage, restaurant and boat shop. | ||
+ | The Utopians are utter pacifists who regard negative emotions as 'probably quite healthy but not really for us'. The greatest political crisis they suffered in recent years was when the councillors of the southern continent got a bit huffy with the northerners on account of not having enough pool digging robots to keep up with the water park fad which was sweeping the planet. They even stopped answering their calls for a day or two. It took a good few friendly visits and coffee mornings to sort that one out I can tell you. | ||
===GUNNERS GRAVE=== | ===GUNNERS GRAVE=== | ||
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====Li-Bos==== | ====Li-Bos==== | ||
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===IRON CONTENT=== | ===IRON CONTENT=== | ||
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===PETROS MINOR=== | ===PETROS MINOR=== | ||
− | ====Magnifico!==== | + | ====Magnifico!==== |
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'''Magnifico's Throne''' | '''Magnifico's Throne''' | ||
+ | '''The Flying Cities''' | ||
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===SHIAWASE=== | ===SHIAWASE=== |