Primary:
Vanadarr, spectral class G4V. ICN S4K0509G4V. Mass 0.96 standard. Stellar
diameter 0.94 standard. Luminosity 0.778 standard.
Planetary
System:
Five major bodies. One inhabited world (Sarrad, II). Three gas giants, two
planetoid belts in
system.
II
Sarrad: Mean orbital radius, 75.0 million kilometers (0.5 AU). Period,
131.80 days ... No satellites ... Diameter, 14,003 kilometers. Density, 0.96.
Mass, 0.96 standard. Mean surface gravity, 0.96 G. Rotation period: 25 hours, 51
minutes, 13 seconds. Axial Inclination, 8°18'6.6" Albedo, .45 ... Surface
atmospheric pressure, 2.2atm; composition, standard oxygen-nitrogen mix,
breathable without artificial assistance. Hydrographic percentage, 99%;
composition, liquid water (ice at poles). Mean surface temperature, 40°C.
Remarks:
Sarrad is a waterworld long a part of the Carrillian
Assembly. Up until 1108, the colony there supported a population of over
three million in a vast complex of undersea structures grouped around Starport
Island, with a scattering of outposts lying farther out to oversee mariculture
and other pelagic exploitation.
Then,
in a tragic catastrophe, the colony domes inexplicably failed. Safety interlocks
apparently were inadequate, and the entire population was wiped out as sea water
flooded into the colony domes under great pressure.
A
few thousand people survived the horrific deluge, mostly starport workers,
outpost personnel, and a few lucky individuals who managed to reach secure parts
of the domes which were not flooded out entirely. But the magnitude of the
disaster was overwhelming.
No
one has any solid evidence as to the cause of the Sarrad disaster. Official
stories are citing a failure of computer-monitored fail-safes on the main
submarine lock, but this is large speculation based on survivors' stories and
computer simulations aimed at seeing just how so massive a failure could have
come about; no hard evidence exists.
More
fanciful stories have been circulating as well. The colony was destroyed by
terrorists inn sympathy with the Ildrissaran resistance (unlikely - the
Ildrissaran resistance wasn't particularly well organized six years ago). The
colony was destroyed by a hostile, intelligent, aquatic. life form (unlikely -
no other evidence of such a life form has yet been uncovered on Sarrad). The
colony was destroyed at the orders of High Justice Daldreem for some obscure
purpose of his own (probably the result of Ildrissaran propaganda - Daldreem is
generally conceded to be a megalomaniac and a tyrant, but no plausible purpose
can be offered for such a blatant and apparently senseless order).
After
the destruction of the colony, the Assembly moved to resettle Sarrad;
preparations for this are almost complete. The Dakaar
Corporation has offered to assist the assembly in the new construction and
colonization effort in exchange for rights to operate a fleet of seagoing
mineral extraction and processing vessels out of the rebuilt colony. This offer
was been accepted, and work has begun on new colony domes.