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- Ra and Ratérplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigRa and Ratér
Ra (RAH) and Ratér (rah-TAIR) are mutually-orbiting binary planets in the Cronox System. The two are both marginal for human life but were settled many millennia ago. Rivalry and conflict between the two throughout their history laid the foundation for a series of accords for mutual co-operation, which was the foundation for the - d heat and magnetism in their rocky cores. Ratér has earthquakes but little volcanic activity, whereas Ra, the smaller, has more volcanic eruptions and numerous geysers due ... ber of small landlocked seas. The modern surface has extensive sedimentary rock formations, contorted ... was much wetter, but over aeons of time the water has gradually leached away by solar activity, and by
- Bandar (non-humanoid species)plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBandar (non-humanoid species)
The bandar are a highly advanced non-humanoid civilisation native to the heavy gravity world, Bantmitual. Though gregarious amongst their own kind and having advanced technological abilities, few bandar leave their world of birth, and no bandar has ever left their home system. They give their name to the - bandar leave their world of birth, and no bandar has ever left their home system. They give their name... the forebody where it connects to the thorax, and has hand-like flexible mouth parts, enabling them to ... focus for racial bigotry amongst Bandar, but this has largely been relegated to history. Their brain ... gy by force of will, though this takes time. This has allowed them to overcome biological limitations,
- Ahtreyplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAhtrey
Ahtrey is a small terrestrial world, second planet of the star Cordes in the Cronox System.
The surface is mottled green-brown, pocked with crater lakes and shallow, mineral-rich seas thick with mats of simple protozoa. The seas are transient, depending on season and seismic activity. - inge. Although inhospitable to human life Ahtrey has many sealed settlements, prospering from mining and manufacturing. ===== Dantor ===== Ahtrey has a large airless moon, Dantor. It is a neutral ce... legal body that regulates the systems. The moon has the most active spaceport in the system, with man
- Nomezplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigNomez
Nomez [NOM-ez] is a heavy, dense planet orbiting closest to the sun Cordes, in the Cronox System.
Its surface is molten and constantly active, almost half of its surface being a sea of liquid sulphur and mineral salts. It has a toxic atmosphere of gaseous chlorine, bromine, sulphur, and phosphorus belched from the ever-active volcanoes, with clouds of light metals like lead and arsenic. This atmosphere is constantly eroded away by solar wind, leaving a glowing, flare-like trail in … - ing a sea of liquid sulphur and mineral salts. It has a toxic atmosphere of gaseous chlorine, bromine, ... a glowing, flare-like trail in its orbit. Nomez has a sulphur cycle resembling a water cycle on a ter
- Kwato'orplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigKwato'or
Kwato’or (KWAT-oh-oor) is the six planet of Cordes in the Cronox System.
It is a gas supergiant, violent and beautiful, with titanic eternal storm systems coloured white and all shades from pale lilac to deep purple. It is a true giant, approximately 2.4 Jovian masses, so big that it causes the - e). ===== Tides ===== Kwato'or is so massive it has significant gravitational effects on the inner an... of coastal regions. ===== Moons ===== Kwato'or has twenty-five attendant moons and a sparse ring sys
- Bandar Systemplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBandar System
The Bandar system is an isolated solar system in the midst of the Bandar Gulf, an empty region of space approximately 40 LY across. Its single star is an orange subgiant.
Astrography of the Gamma Delta Quadrant
This is in a series of articles about stars, planets, civilisations and technologies of the wider - rtificial structures. Virtually the entire system has been reshaped and remodelled by bandar technology. Consequently the system has only no comets or asteroid fields, and only two p
- Do'ahplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigDo'ah
Do’ah (DOE-ah) is a small, lilac-white gas giant, the eighth planet of the star Cordes in the Cronox System. It is much smaller than its huge and tempestuous brother Kwato'or (0.26 Jovian-masses).
Do'ah is most likely the only survivor of a number of medium-sized gas world that once circled Cordes, the others having been sucked into the hungry maw of Kwato’or. The planet has storm belts, but since Do'ah is relatively cool, they are simple convection storms coloured blue, red and purple… - cked into the hungry maw of Kwato’or. The planet has storm belts, but since Do'ah is relatively cool, ... vection storms coloured blue, red and purple. It has a double-ring system, the inner being separated f
- Cronoxi Syndicateplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCronoxi Syndicate
The Cronoxi Syndicate is political and trade alliance of various worlds and polities in the Gamma Delta quadrant. Worlds within the syndicate are sovereign and self-governing, but agree to standards of peace and liberty, open trade and mutual defence. - e planets in Cronox and neighbouring systems, and has now embraced many other polities throughout the q
- Bantmitual (planet)plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBantmitual (planet)
Bantmitual, also called Bandar Prime, is the principle inhabited planet of the Bandar System. It is the homeworld of the bandar, a highly advanced yet retiring tetrapodal species who are spacefaring, but have never ventured much beyond their home system. - sands of years of bandar civilisation, Bantmitual has almost few continental wilderness areas, although
- Meseriond crystalplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMeseriond crystal
Meseriond is a synthetic crystal with almost total internal refraction, used to store information. They are particularly used to transport highly sensitive information which must not be intercepted.
During final processing of the crystal, a stream of data is injected, whilst simulataneously finalising the properties of the crystal so that it infinitely refracts within the crystal structure. The data is held within the crystal as a static stream. The data can only be retrieved… - ntact, the recipient can be absolutely certain it has not been seen by anyone else. Various encryption
- Cronox Systemplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCronox System
Planets of the Cronox-Cordes system
Terrestrial planets of Cordes, to scale
Position of Cronox in Syndicate space
Cronox [CRON-ox] is a S-type detached-binary star system consisting of the stars 1GD.Pa-Cordes and 1GD.Pb-Arjos. The two orbit a common barycenter at a sufficient distance for each to have its own independent planetary system. The two stars' orbital planes are at 83 degree angle from each other, which suggests that the two stars originally formed independently o… - it each other early in their history. The system has numerous spacefaring societies, planets, moons an
- Hyperdriveplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHyperdrive
Most modern interstellar space travel is achieved using variations on the tachyon transference drive (TTD), variously called the tachyon drive or hyperdrive. This circumvents the laws of mass and energy by “flipping” a vessel travelling at speeds approaching the speed of light into tachyonic particles. These particles have no mass in the convention sense, as they are incapable of interacting with sub-luminal matter. They also travel at the speed of light within their own point of … - quired. ===== Problems ===== The tachyon drive has a number of issues which limit its range. Firstl