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.
VI
Santiago: Mean
orbital radius, 403.92 million kilometers (2.7 AU). Period 1242.8 days (3.4
years). Two satellites. Diameter, 8859 kilometers. Density, .99 standard. Mass,
.242 standard. Mean surface gravity, .62G. Rotation period, 27 hours, 8 minutes,
40 seconds. Axial inclination 25°21'4". Albedo, .33. Surface atmospheric
pressure, 1.3 atm. Composition, oxygen-nitrogen mix tainted with industrial by
products. Filter mask may be required to breathe atmosphere. Hydrographic
percentage, 56%; composition, liquid water and water-ice. Mean surface
temperature, 10°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.
Santiago was settled during the Long Night by a Reaver band; the colony quickly
lost the capability to travel in space, and lapsed into a state of near
barbarism. The inhabitants of Santiago were just beginning to get into
space again when the Linda was settled. They attempted to press claims of prior
rights to the world, for their own world was poor in lanthanum
(Linda as settled due to the rich veins of 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 an Arbuthnot Minerals and
Resources Ltd. police
patrol, and a wave of recriminations and counter-recriminations has escalated
into an open interplanetary war between Santiago and the Company.