Lore

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.…

Ui'r.a'ang (Kai'pua I)

Planets · Xi'an

Ui'r.a'ang (Kai'pua I) is the first planet from the sun of the Kai'pua system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). Composed mainly of carbon, it is a terrestrial planet with black, brown, and red hued atmosphere. The temperatures and pressure in the planet's interior may have caused the…

Nyx III

Planets

Nyx III, an ice giant, is the most distant planet from the sun of the Nyx system. Its stormy atmosphere is composed mainly of ammonia and water vapor, and an ocean of supercritical water surrounds the planet's rocky core. High, dangerous winds make it difficult for pilots to fly…

Gliese I

Planets

Gliese I is the first planet from the sun of the Gliese system Banu Protectorate. An iron planet with a superheated ferromagnetic core that is partially exposed to vacuum, its intensely hot conditions make landing on its surface nearly impossible without specialized technology.…

Venus (Sol II)

Planets

Venus is the second planet from the sun of the Sol system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). A smog planet with a dense, high-pressure atmosphere, it has never been successfully terraformed although Humans have made countless attempts since they first began terraforming other…

Adir (Pyro 5c)

Moons

Adir is the third moon from the gas giant Pyro V, Pyro system. Jagged mountains and rocky hills dominate its crater-ridden landscape. Because it lacks a protective atmosphere that would otherwise break apart most approaching celestial objects, its surface sees frequent impacts.…

Odin III

Planets

Odin III is a planet in the Odin system, United Empire of Earth (UEE), and is the second closest planet to its sun. In SEY 2943, hiker Akeno Ashraf discovered fossils of ancient animals near the planet's equator during a 25 kilometer trek. These fossils prove that Odin III…

RyiXy'an (Hyoton III)

Planets · Xi'an

RyiXy'an (Hyoton III) is the third planet from the sun of the Hyoton system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an), and is the homeworld of the Xi'an people. Once a lush world teeming with life, its atmosphere was accidentally tainted with poison by House Kl.ō during an assassination attempt…

Charon II

Planets

Charon II is a smog planet in the Charon system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Positioned just inside the green band, its surface temperature and high-pressure atmosphere make landing on the planet dangerous. Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are the two most prevalent gasses…

Pluto (Sol IX)

Planets

Pluto (Sol XI) is a dwarf planet and one of the farthest celestial bodies from the sun of the Sol system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Not the most distant object, it is included as an honorary ninth planet in star charts due to its relative proximity to the Croshaw-Sol jump…

Iapetus (Sol 6e)

Moons

Iapetus (Sol 6e) is a moon of Saturn (Sol VI), United Empire of Earth (UEE). Tidally locked to Saturn, the leading hemisphere of the moon is much darker than that of the trailing hemisphere, giving it a striking two-tone coloration. Dust that has fallen from Saturn's rings over…

Caliban I

Planets

Caliban I is the first planet from the sun of the Caliban system in Vanduul territory. A small coreless world, it was rich in valuable resources that Humans extracted to aid in the development of Crion (Caliban II). Now completely strip-mined, it is ignored by the Vanduul who…

Fuego (Pyro 5e)

Moons

Fuego is the fifth moon from the gas giant Pyro V, Pyro system. Relatively temperate but still cold, it has a mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere with small percentages of nitrogen, sulfur dioxide, and oxygen. High amounts of iron-sulfide in its soil gives its surface a yellow and…

Kilian X

Planets

Kilian X is a dwarf planet in the Kilian system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Tiny and frigid, nitrogen and methane ice coats the planet's surface, peppered with craters and cracks. Since SEY 2941, mineral rights to Kilian X have been tied up in UEE courts, so no industries…

Ferron I

Planets

Ferron I is a small mesoplanet that orbits closest to the sun of the Ferron system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). While it appears to be spheroid to the naked eye, recent measurements of its surface confirm that it is misshapen enough to possibly fit the definition of a…

Nul I

Planets

Nul I is a mesoplanet in the unclaimed Nul system, and is the closest planet to its star. In 2510, a research team funded by the University of Persei established a research base at the bottom of one of its deepest craters in order to study how the planet's environment was…

Caliban V

Planets

Caliban V is the outermost planet from the sun of the Caliban system in Vanduul territory. A protoplanet with a craggy surface, it was considered of little value to the United Empire of Earth(UEE) and was therefore largely ignored. After the Vanduul took the system in SEY 2884,…

Judecca (Ellis XII)

Planets

Judecca (Ellis XII) is a terrestrial ice planet located in the Ellis system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Covered in kilometers of water ice, Judecca is profoundly cold, and has a tenuous atmosphere made of hydrogen and oxygen. The planet is occasionally used for ice-mining…

Rhea (Sol 6b)

Moons

Rhea (Sol 6b) is a moon of Saturn (Sol VI), United Empire of Earth (UEE). Composed of water ice and rock, it has numerous high-albedo ice cliffs that appear as streaks on the surface when viewed from space with the naked eye. Although it does experience some endogenic activity…

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…

Umbriel (Sol 7c)

Moons

Umbriel (Sol 7c) is a moon of Uranus (Sol VII), United Empire of Earth (UEE). One of the darkest in color of the moons of Uranus, one of its larger craters has a ring of reflective material on its floor, making Umbriel appear as if it has a single small eye. Visual artist Tamsa…

Helios IV

Planets

Helios IV is the outermost planet from the sun of the Helios system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Although it is covered in thick sheets of ice and lacks a substantial atmosphere, the UEE military operates a network of outposts on Helios IV, located deep underground. The…

Lyria (Stanton 3a)

Moons · Human

Lyria is a natural satellite of ArcCorp (Stanton III) that orbits more closely to the planet than its sister moon, Wala (Stanton 3b). Water ice geysers and cryo-volcanoes force water vapor into Lyria's oxygen and ammonia atmosphere when they erupt. Although the air is too thin…

Lorona (Banshee III)

Planets · Human

Lorona is the third planet from the sun in the Banshee system, United Empire of Earth (UEE). Although the pulsar Banshee has made surface-level terraforming impossible, Lorona is home to a series of stable, populated underground cities supported by a mining-focused economy.…