Planet Amidha

 

Amidha

Single Star System. White Main Sequence type F

System Features: Volatile gas Pockets and Ion Storms

9 orbiting planets

1: Rocky Planet - Barren - Giant - 15 Moons

2: Rocky Planet - Barren - Large - 4 Moons

3: Rocky Planet - Barren - Small - 0 Moons

4: Amidha - Rocky Planet - Swamp - Medium - 2 Moons

5: Gas Giant - 24 moons

6: Ice Giant  - 22 moons

7: Dwarf Planet

8: Ice Giant - 26 moons

9: Ice Giant - 20 moons

Planet Amidha

Size: 5 

Atmosphere: 6 Standard

Hydrographics: 8

Population: 8 100 000 000

Government: 7 Balkanisation No central authority exists; rival governments compete for control. Law level refers to the government nearest the starport.

Law Level: All weapons and all armour are banned. 

Starport: D Unrefined Fuel and limited repair. Birthing Cost 50 Creds.
Tech Level: 8

Bases: No.

Trade Codes: Ri, 

These entries are all very dry so far. At some point I want to go back over these and add in some illustrations and mood boards and some more cultural concepts to try and give each planet a bit more flavour than just forest, desert, snow etc. I think it might have been better to do that to begin with but I feel like this is the initial brain-fart stage and going back over them and fleshing them out is for later. Plus a lot of details will develop through play. It’s also possible that I’ll try and make them a bit more alien and a bit more whimsical than just analogous to Earth biomes.

So, Amidha is my Dagobah, I guess. A gloomy swamp world. Louisiana and Indonesia on a planetary scale. Not that I would describe either of those places as gloomy. I’m thinking more of Dagobah in that sense, I think. Gnarled trees and dense foliage alive with fauna. Mud huts and half-submerged ancient stone temples. Once again a white, main sequence star which we shall pretend is harmless. It is a planet with a variety of polities and very strict gun control. Maybe there have been terrorist incidents and the Starport has been forced to crack down.  Its trade code is simply ‘Rich’ which feels odd. I’m not sure that that works with how I see the planet. What could it export other than brackish water and alligators? I imagine that it might be heavily agricultural with an abundance of swamp flora and fauna to export. It doesn’t fit with the trade table but I think Agr is a better fit than Ri in this case. Maybe that’s the reason for the strict gun control. Maybe there have been organised crime issues with the planet able to mass produce a controlled substance and the various political bodies seek to control it for themselves. You might have a Dune situation where the substance grows only in a particular region (we begin to see the short-comings of the single biome planet trope) and it is an impoverished region constantly being fought over by the various political bodies like South America. Or maybe, it’s an incredibly wealthy region like Saudi Arabia is with its oil. That would explain the Ri code. I guess the difference being whether the substance produced is deemed illegal or not.