Primary:
Elsol,
spectral
class F0V. ICN S4G0108F0V. Mass 1.7 standard. Stellar diameter 1.7 standard.
Luminosity 8.1 standard.
Planetary
System: Thirteen
major bodies. Two inhabited worlds (Linda, IV; Santiago, VI). No gas giants in
system. Two planetoid belts in system.
IV
Linda: Mean
orbital radius, 203.46 million kilometers (1.36 AU). Period 443.3 days. Three
satellites. Diameter, 9819 kilometers. Density, 1.03 standard. Mass, .435
standard. Mean surface gravity, .77G. Rotation period, 35 hours, 42 minutes, 27
seconds. Axial inclination 19°7'18.5". Albedo, .46. Surface atmospheric
pressure, .5 atm. Composition, standard oxygen-nitrogen mix, breathable without
artificial assistance. Hydrographic percentage, 71 %; composition, water and
frozen water-ice. Mean surface temperature, 34°C.
Remarks:
This
star system contains two worlds which have fairly sizable populations, Linda and
Santiago. What is most unusual about the situation is the fact that the two
worlds are unrelated and, in fact, mutually hostile.
Linda was settled after Caledonian explorers discovered rich veins of
lanthanum ore on the hothouse world. A corporate venture was organized to
exploit the find, and the planet was duly claimed by Arbuthnot Minerals and
Resources Ltd., which company financed a mining colony on Linda. The colony was
quite successful, continued to attract colonists, and remained under corporate
ownership and control. The inhabitants of Santiago were just beginning to get
into space again when the new colony was settled. They attempted to press claims
of prior rights to the world, for their own world was poor in lanthanum and hard-pressed
to produce jump drive grids (which require lanthanum). This was the start of bad
relations between the two worlds. Recently, these bad relations flared into
outright conflict when raiders from Santiago attempted to illegally mine
lanthanum on Linda. The Santiagans were destroyed by a company police patrol,
and a wave of recriminations and counter-recriminations has escalated into an
open interplanetary war between Santiago and the Company.