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Avignon System (HM+31 3323)
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System Catalogue: HM+31 3323 (Avignon)
Stars in System: 1
Distance from Gateway: 4.02 parsecs (13.11 light years)
Total System Population: 22,090
Primary Allegiance: Fabrique-Quebecois/ETE Consortium
System Summary: The HM+31 3323 System is a single star system with a main sequence yellow dwarf of spectral type G4 orbited by seven worlds and three asteroid belts. A single garden planet with a mature compatible biosphere is present.
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Primary Star: HM+31 3323
Spectral Type: G4V
Mass: 0.96 Sol
Radius: 0.9679 Sol
Luminosity: 0.616 Sol
Absolute Magnitude: +5.30
System Age: 4.7 GY
Number of Worlds: 10; 3 Asteroid Belts, 1 Planetoid (The Motherlode), 6 Rocky Planets
Avignon (HM+31 3323 IV)
Orbital Number: 4
Orbital Semi-Major Axis: 86,599,226 km (0.577 AU)
Orbital Eccentricity: 0.062
Orbital Inclination: 3.7º
Orbital Period: 164.07 Terran Days, 146.82 Local Days
Orbital Velocity in Low Orbit: 8.464 km/sec
Orbital ΔV Required for Low Orbit: 16.28 km/sec (33 Fuel Points)
Axial Tilt: 12.6º
Rotation: 32.95 hours
Satellites: 1; 1 Space Station (Avignon Above)
World Type: Metallic Core Rocky Planet
Climate Type: Garden Planet
Biosphere: Mature, 0.93 Compatibility Index (1.00 = Earth)
Diameter: 6,500 km
Density: 6.072 g/cm3 (1.1 Earth)
Surface Gravity: 1.12 G (10.976 m/sec2)
Atmospheric Pressure (Sea Level): 0.93 Bar (13.524 PSIA)
Atmospheric Contents (Partial Pressures): Nitrogen 0.679 Bar, Oxygen 0.214 Bar, Argon 0.033 Bar, Carbon-Dioxide 0.00465 Bar, Trace amounts of Water Vapor
Hydrography: 40.43%
Mean Surface Temperature: 293ºK (20ºC)
Population: 21,709 (est.)
Colony Rating: Agricultural – B, Industrial – D, Technical – C, Resource – C
Imports: Wet Bionano, Dry Bionano, Hand and Power Tools, Machine Tools, Fabrication Plants, Fabrication Templates, Photovoltaic Arrays, Wind Turbines, Geothermal Power Generators, Electronics, Computers, Cement, Rebar, Steel, Building Ceramic, Diamondoid, Silksteel, Advanced Medicines, Entertainment
Exports: Water, Grain Flour and Meal, Irradiated Fruits and Vegetables, Canned Fruits and Vegetables, Fruit and Vegetable Concentrate, Beans and Dried Edible Seeds, Coffee, Canned Aquaculture, Cheese, Beer, Wine, NuPigs, Prepared Foods, Finished Textiles, Basic and Intermediate Medicines
Avignon was settled by a joint Fabrique-Quebecois/ETE consortium of Canadian, French, Senegalese, and Portuguese colonists as a colony with a primary interest in supporting the mining operations on Motherlode, and was immediately successful in this endeavor. Most of the miners' families enjoy a relatively easy life on Avignon thanks to the balmy climate and one of the most compatible biospheres outside of Fury in the Sagittarius spiral arm. The availability of nearby abundant foodstuffs and volatiles also helps keep overhead at the Motherlode low and profits high, even for the smallest wildcat operation. Life on Avignon is pleasant, with a very compatible Biosphere and enough axial tilt to create mild seasonal variations. The minimal ecological footprint development standards of the founding Fabrique-Quebecois/Exo-Total-Elf corporation have created a fairly high-tech colony that exists in harmony with the native life forms. The price for living in such lush environs is steep, and those colonists who could not front the $500,000 Solarian dollars for their share of the venture (plus interstellar traveling expenses) paid their way by signing iron-clad long term employment contracts with FQ/ETE that many have criticized as nothing short of indentured servitude. Most of the miners working the Motherlode and their families are living in the system under such an arrangement, though the SDC at Gavin Aurimas' insistence has persuaded the corporation to extend Land Grants and accompanying shares in the colony to its citizens in exchange for an SDC charter.
The Motherlode
Orbital Number: 2
Orbital Semi-Major Axis: 39,200,180 km (0.261 AU)
Orbital Eccentricity: 0.084
Orbital Inclination: 9.8º
Orbital Period: 49.97 Terran Days
Orbital Velocity: 0.846 km/sec
Orbital ΔV: 1.01 km/sec
Axial Tilt: 21º
Rotation: None, The Motherlode is tidally locked to HM+31 3323
Satellites: None
World Type: M-Type Planetoid
Climate Type: None
Biosphere: None
Diameter: 1,020 km
Density: 8.17 g/cm3 (1.48 Earth)
Surface Gravity: 0.13 G (1.28 m/sec2)
Atmospheric Pressure (Sea Level): None
Atmospheric Contents (Partial Pressures): None
Hydrography: None
Mean Surface Temperature: 310ºK (37ºC)
Population: 299 (est.)
Colony Rating: Agricultural – G, Industrial – G, Technical – F, Resource – B
Imports: Water, Processed and Semi-processed Foodstuffs, Hand and Power Tools, Machine Tools, Mining Equipment, Heavy Machinery, Robots, Power Production Equipment, Electronics, Computers, Finished Textiles, Medicine, Small Fabricators, Wet Bionano, Life Support Equipment, Algae Culture, Alcoholic Beverages, Entertainment
Exports: Iron, Nickel, Chromium, Titanium, Hafnium, Europium, Niobium, Ruthenium, Scandium, Silicon, Oxygen
The Motherlode planetoid consists of nearly pure metal - mostly iron and nickel - but also significant veins of chromium, titanium, and rare earth metals embedded in a silicate crust. The planetoid is being carved up as fast as the metals can be separated and shipped out of system. Even though Motherlode has only about 0.1% of Earth's mass, there will still be plenty of the world for prospectors to exploit a century from now. Avignon receives very little of the produced metals, as it lacks the industrial base to utilize these resources. Ceres Metals Corporation purchases the bulk of the metals produced on the Motherlode for resale on Fury, Aquilla, and elsewhere, though it does so through FQ/ETE intermediaries in orbit around Avignon in order to accrue trade credit for Avignon's vital agricultural products needed to feed its population in the nearby Tartarus system.