Planet Aksu

 

Aksu

Binary star system. Aksu A: Red Supergiant Type L. Aksu B: Orange Main Sequence type K

System Features: Solar Winds and Funnel Clouds

6 Orbiting Panets

1: Rocky Planet - Barren - Large - 3 Moons

2: Moth Rocky Planet - Terrestrial - constant rain - Medium - 2 Moons

3: Rocky Planet - Barren - Giant - 27 moons

4: Rocky Planet - Swamp - Medium - 3 moons

5: Gas Giant - 27 moons

6: Gas Giant - 21 moons

Planet Moth

Size: 4

Atmosphere: 6 Standard

Hydrographics: 8

Population: 8 100 000 000

Government:6 Captive Government. Government by an imposed leadership answerable to an outside group. A colony or conquered area.

Law Level: No weapons except shotguns. No open carry.

Starport: C Unrefined Fuel, reasonable repair facilities. No bases. Birthing Cost: 300 Creds
Tech Level: 6

Bases: No

Trade Codes: Ri

Aksu is a binary system with a red supergiant and an orange main sequence star. Moth, itself is lifted wholesale from Alan Dean Foster’s For Love of Mother Not a pip and Flinx prequel. It’s a drab, grey, ringed world but the ring has a sizable gap either side, dividing the ring into two separate fans making it look like delicate wings and the whole planet like a Moth, hence its name. The surface of Moth is Earth-like but the region we see in the book and the defining feature for my setting is that it is constantly grey, gloomy and raining. It has a standard, earth-like atmosphere and I imagine it to be a planet of markets. Vast sprawling hives of market stalls and traders and back alleys. Maybe this is the place for the setting where anything can be bought for the right price. Its tech level is 6, which suits the ramshackle nature of the place that I imagine. In the book, Moth has a monarchy but according to my dice rolls, Moth here has a captive government. I’m not sure what to make of that. Obviously a local polity has installed a puppet leader (no reason that can’t be a king as well) but who and why? It’s on the edge of the map so maybe another world off the page has invaded, perhaps a small, expansionist pocket empire. Not sure. It’s not likely to have a huge impact on the setting so I’ll leave it for now. It’s more interesting than every planet being a free and fair democracy. The Starport is C which, given the population and the fact that it’s a trade hub, if off the main route, that sounds okay. Trade code is simply, ‘Rich’. Not sure what to make of that either. Perhaps that’s the reason for the puppet government. Previous governments were fragile, volatile and simply bad for business. Perhaps it’s Moth’s own guild masters who have installed the puppet government in order to keep the economy safe. 

The fact that I’ve given Moth a different name from its parent star, Aksu, makes me think that I should do it with all the primary planets.

The system features here are Solar Winds and Funnel Clouds. Not sure what to make of the Funnel Clouds. Perhaps they are a feature of Moth.