Blue Giant:Campaign Sector Star Index
STAR INDEX
Star | Planet | Settlements | Notes |
Damocles | Damocles 1 | Damocles 1 research station | Red Giant at the heart of the Damocles cluster |
Dionysius | -- | -- | Black hole companion to Damocles |
Gunners Grave | Li-Bos | Reunion | -- |
Zophos | Langdon | Gordonshome, Churchill | -- |
Osada III | Porter | Bradley | -- |
-- | Redhall | Knatch, Terrace City | -- |
Webb-Taylor | Bossa Nova | Kinghorn | -- |
Marino | Poon Tang | Thackery City | Never name your planet by public lottery |
Osada IX | San Leone | Heretic City | Named after its savior |
-- | Munro | -- | -- |
Iron Content | Newland | Newland City | -- |
Durge | Morrow | Slough Research Station | It's like a swamp, only wetter |
Gladstone | Utopia 7 | Utopia 7 | Come to Utopia 7, we've got golf, and real swans! |
Titfield | Utopia 6 | Utopia 6 | A paradise awaits outside your mansion. |
Osada V | Ko-Loy | Sorathia HQ | Former Grand Imperial Fleet HQ |
Osada XXII | Intersector | Midway | Crossroads between the Federation and Empire. |
Koyama | Tatara | Tatara Base | You there, let's see some ID. |
Laura's Smile | 3K | ? | -- |
Baker Star | Hangover | Town | The whole planet looks hung over. |
Newstar | Breda | -- | -- |
Cesity Star | Cesity Too | Canyon Town | Our planet? It's called Cesity too. |
Daniv | Daniv 1 Alpha | Daniv 1 Research Station. | The Blue Giant. Fourth brightest star in the galaxy. |
No Go | Bone-Ring | Bone-Ring | Hum-ans are not welc-ome here. |
Petros Major | Petros 1 | Gifted City | Five moons and a green sun. |
Petros Minor | Magnifico! | Magnifico's Throne | I am Petros Magnifico! Welcome to my worlds. |
STARS
Damocles and Dionysius
Damocles is a Red Giant that has an eccentric orbit around a fairly average black hole called Dionysius. 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 binary system has a lone satelite caled Damocles 1 which is the iron core remnant of a planet which orbited Damocles when Dionysius went super-nova and collapsed one hundred and fifty years ago. 'Damocles 1 is discussed further in the scenario Kong Tiki.
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.
The shell of the Dionysius 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.