Lore

Able Baker Challenge

Illegal Activity · Sports · Human

The Able Baker Challenge is an unofficial spacecraft racing event held in the Baker system. It makes use of system-specific obstacles to hamper the pilots' efforts in reaching the finish line. Though the use of weapons is allowed during most legs of the race, shooting to kill is…

Ferron IV

Planets

Ferron IV is a dense gas giant that is located farthest from the sun of the Ferron system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Because it has an especially active electrical field, ships with sensitive avionics are advised not to fly too close to it, lest it cause their systems to…

Corel VI

Planets

Corel VI is a protoplanet located in the outskirts of the Corel system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). In contrast to its sister planets, Corel VI's 12 degree orbital inclination puts it far off from the system's elliptical plane. Outlaw groups attempted to utilize the…

Elysium I

Planets

Elysium I is the closest planet to the sun of the Elysium system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Tidally locked to its star, the gas giant completes an orbit every six Standard Earth Days (SED). Its highly-diffuse, superheated atmosphere contains clouds of silicates.…

Kins Belt Beta

Space

The Kins belt beta is the second asteroid belt in the Kins system, Banu Protectorate. The outermost point in the system, it has traditionally been used as a convenient location to dump unfixable equipment and other types of large waste by spacecraft passing in and out of nearby…

Oso VI

Planets

Oso VI is a dwarf planet in the Oso system, and is the last planet from its star. Uniform in appearance, its surface is coated in tholin, a hydrocarbon sludge that colors the world dark red and covers up deep layers of methane and water ice. Like neighboring planet Oso V, it is…

Idris I

Planets

Idris I is a terrestrial planet in the Idris system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Closest in orbit to its system's sun, heat and radiation have eroded the planet's crust and mantle down to its solid iron core. Its surface is covered in extensive mare-like plains and heavy…

Centauri V

Planets

Centauri V is a red and yellow super-Jupiter in the Centauri system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Enormous, violent storms that almost encircle the entire planet occasionally develop near the equator, while its north and south poles are encircled by systems of permanent…

Hades IV

Planets

Hades IV is a former planet in the Hades system. Once a sizable terrestrial world, it is split into two large pieces. The leading theory as to the cause of the planet's bifurcation is that it was likely impacted by a weapon of mass destruction during the ancient war that…

Elysium II

Planets

Elysium II is an uninhabited planet in the Elysium system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Second from its sun, it sits inside the system's green band and has a fragile atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Thousands of impact craters litter its surface. The largest of these is speculated…

Lago (Nexus IV)

Planets · Human

Lago (Nexus IV) is a terraformed planet in the Nexus system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Formerly host to the largest concentration of outlaws in the system, it is now the center of a resettlement campaign run by the UEE government to establish lasting order. Most of the new…

Aero (Terra I)

Planets

Aero is a mesoplanet in the Terra system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Orbiting closest to the system's sun, its surface is too dangerous for any Humans to venture upon for any great lengths of time under the limits of current technology. Many attempts have been made by…

Tyrol I

Planets

Tyrol I is the first planet from the two suns of the unclaimed Tyrol system. In close orbit around the barycenter of the binary stars, its proximity to them has led to a dangerously hot environment. Nevertheless, the surface is home to an ever-shifting group of squatters who…

Kiel V

Planets

Kiel V is a gas giant with prominent rings in the Kiel system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Known for its beauty, its hydrogen and helium atmosphere is banded with shades of white, orange, yellow, reddish-brown, and pale green. Starting in the early 2920s, it became a trend for…

Vuur (Pyro 5f)

Moons

Vuur is the sixth moon from the gas giant Pyro V, Pyro system. Thanks to an increased greenhouse effect in its dense carbon dioxide atmosphere, it is unusually warm for a moon so distant from its sun. Its carbon-rich soil supports forms of vegetation that utilize crystalline…

Gainey (Odin 1a)

Moons

Gainey (Odin 1a) is the former moon of Odin I, Odin system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). After Odin I was destroyed, it slipped into a stable orbit around the system's sun close to its parent planet's remains. It has a breathable atmosphere, and was the home of many fracking…

Banshee II

Planets

Banshee II is a terrestrial planet in the Banshee system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). The second planet out from the system's sun, much of the planet's surface has been worn away due to solar radiation, partially exposing the iron core. Additionally, large sections of the…

Hadrian III

Planets

Hadrian III is an ice giant in the Hadrian system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Located in the outer reaches of the system, it has no well-defined solid surface, and instead harbors an ammonia, water, and methane mantle. Its pale green, nearly white atmosphere is broken up by…

Kallis II

Planets

Kallis II is a terrestrial planet in the developing Kallis system. While it shares an orbit with Kallis III, it passes slightly closer to its sun during perihelion and has thus been designated as the system's second planet. As it pulls in material from the nearby asteroid belts,…

S.ap'uāng (La'uo IV)

Planets · Xi'an

S.ap'uāng (La'uo IV) is the fourth planet from the sun of the La'uo system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). A gas giant with an orange, white, and brown-belted atmosphere it is the brightest natural object in the La'uo system. Violent storms rage along the borders of its latitudinal…

Tyrol V

Planets

Tyrol V is a terrestrial planet in the unclaimed Tyrol system. Fifth position from its two suns, it was once partially covered in a thick layer of water ice that melted when the F-type star entered its subgiant phase and forced the green band outward. This created thousands of…

Kyu'ām (La'uo III)

Planets · Xi'an

Kyu'ām (La'uo III) is the third planet from the sun of the La'uo system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). A smog planet, it is enveloped in layers of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and sulfur dioxide. In the distant past, its surface was too dangerous to land a ship on due to the…

Garron IV

Planets

Garron IV is the fourth and final planet from the sun of the Garron system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). A cold, barren, and rocky, it is largely undeveloped save for a memorial entitled The Sentinel that was erected by the UEE in memory of the lost civilization on Garron II.…

Neptune (Sol VIII)

Planets

Neptune (Sol VIII) is the eighth planet from the sun of the Sol system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). The densest of the Sol system's gas and ice giant planets, its atmosphere contains high proportions of ice and traces of hydrocarbons. Roughly every two-and-a-half centuries…