Lore

Caliban 3a

Moons

Caliban 3a is the first moon from the surface of Caliban III, Caliban system, located in Vanduul territory. Large and lumpy in appearance, astronomers speculate that it is the leftover nucleus of a planet that failed to coalesce into a planet. The Vanduul have been observed…

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…

Caliban 2a

Moons

Caliban 2a is the sole moon of Crion (Caliban II), located in the Caliban system in Vanduul territory. Its yellowish surface is covered in unusual craters which were the subject of a long-term study to determine their origin before the Vanduul overtook the Caliban system in SEY…

Caliban 4b

Moons

Caliban 4b is the second moon from the gas giant Caliban IV, Caliban system, located in Vanduul territory. Enveloped by a weak magnetosphere, it is encircled by a pair of auroral belts that generate shimmering red light shows when the moon's magnetic field interacts with that of…

Caliban 3b

Moons

Caliban 3b is the second moon from the surface of Caliban III, Caliban system, located in Vanduul territory. Much smaller than its companion moon, it is porous, ovoid, and low in mass. It was most likely captured from the nearby Caliban belt alpha sometime before it was…

Caliban 4a

Moons

Caliban 4a is the first moon from the gas giant Caliban IV, Caliban system, located in Vanduul territory. Iron-rich and very dense, studies conducted on the moon have shown that it is likely older than any other celestial body in the system. Astronomers hypothesize that it is…

Caliban 4e

Moons

Caliban 4e is the fifth moon from the gas giant Caliban IV, Caliban system, located in Vanduul territory. Frigidly cold, it has a surface that is coated in mostly frozen nitrogen mixed with some water ice. It is geologically active, and is covered with cryovolcanoes that spew…

Caliban III

Planets

Caliban III is the third planet from the sun of the Caliban system in Vanduul territory. When it was first discovered in SEY 2341, it was deemed a non-viable terraforming candidate and left alone in favor of settling Crion (Caliban II). However, by the mid-29th century, there…

Caliban 4f

Moons

Caliban 4f is the sixth moon from the gas giant Caliban IV, Caliban system, located in Vanduul territory. Rich in carbon, it is dark in color, and reflects very little light from its distant sun. Copious tholins caused by millenia of ultraviolet radiation cast a reddish tint on…

Caliban 4d

Moons

Caliban 4d is the fourth moon from the gas giant Caliban IV, Caliban system, located in Vanduul territory. Composed of silicate rock, it has a water-ice crust with a very smooth surface that completely covers a moon-wide ocean of liquid salt water. The ice is laced with dark…

Caliban 4c

Moons

Caliban 4c is the third moon from the gas giant Caliban IV, Caliban system, located in Vanduul territory. Small and dark, its reddish-brown surface is dusted with iron oxide. The abundant presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes any iron in the dust to oxidize and…

Fall of Caliban

History · Military · Human · Vanduul

FALL OF CALIBAN On 7 July 2884 SEY, a Vanduul Clan led by a Kingship launched a surprise attack on the moderately-populated planet Crion (Caliban II). The 89th UEE Navy Logistic Support Squadron were the only military forces in system at the time of the attack. They managed to…

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,…

Caliban IV

Planets

Caliban IV is the fourth planet from the sun of the Caliban system in Vanduul territory. A gas giant, its atmosphere is banded with voluminous clouds of silicate and iron that give the world its gray-green color. It is orbited by the wreckage of automated hydrogen harvesting…

Crion (Caliban II)

Planets

Crion (Caliban II) is the second planet from the sun of the Caliban system in Vanduul territory. Located in the green band, it was terraformed by Humans shortly after it was discovered in SEY 2341 and turned into a thriving, populous colony. In 2884, the Vanduul invaded the…

Caliban Belt Alpha

Space

The Caliban belt alpha is an asteroid belt in the Caliban system, located in Vanduul territory. When the Caliban system was possessed by the United Empire of Earth(UEE), the belt was a hub for miners, haulers, and salvagers, and was dotted with rest stops in service of…

Caliban System

Planetary Systems · Vanduul

The Caliban system is a planetary system in Vanduul territory, formerly of the United Empire of Earth(UEE). Officially purchased from hauler Ashley Ghan in SEY 2341, a Human-made shelter was found on Caliban 4f during the surveying process, indicating that someone had discovered…

Erna (Virgil 3a)

Moons

Erna (Virgil 3a) is the first moon from Virgil III, Virgil system, located in Vanduul territory. Partially coated in water ice, the parts of its surface that are uncovered are rife with deep craters and long, steep, and deep chasmata. Some of its cliffs reveal dark layers…

Aemelia (Kiel 3a)

Moons

Aemelia (Kiel 3a) is the moon of Severus (Kiel III), United Empire of Earth (UEE). Before the anti-Messer revolution in 2792, the UEE Army utilized its wide icy plains as training grounds for land warfare. There are many long, straight scars left by tank treads across Aemelia's…

Eda (Terra 3a)

Moons · Human

Eda (Terra 3a) is the only natural satellite of Terra (Terra III), United Empire of Earth (UEE). Because it is nearly identical in size to the moon of Earth (Sol III), its presence in Terra's skies was seen as a sign by early settlers that Terra was meant for Human habitation.…

Luna (Sol 3a)

Moons

Luna (Sol 3a) is the moon of Earth (Sol III), United Empire of Earth (UEE). Tidally locked to Earth, it has long been a subject of fascination for Humans, and became the first celestial body they visited in SEY 1969. In the 22nd century, Humans began to experiment with sealed…

Touvoni/Aiya (Charon 3a)

Moons

Touvoni (Charon 3a) is the moon of Charon III, United Empire of Earth (UEE), known as Aiya in Dellin. After Tarquin Klast was elected governor of Dellin in 2944, he passed a popular decree renaming the moon to differentiate the values of Dellin from the other states on Charon…

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…

Crion Security Legion

Organizations · Human

The Crion Security Legion was a privately-owned security group that was based out of Crion (Caliban II). It was one of many groups stationed in the Caliban system to supplement the thinly-spread patrols of the 89th Squadron. During the Fall of Caliban, members of the Crion…