The Story of Human Exploration and Discovery Beyond the Orion Arm
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Sagittarius Colonial Atlas
Ahriman (HM+31 0938 B)
Amethyst (HB+32 3331 B)
Angelique (HM-50 2602 B)
Apollonia/Phyrigia (HD+35 2475 A)
Aquilla (SAG+56 0107)
Arkhangelsk (HM+41 2746)
Atlantis (HM+52 0225)
Aurora (HM+47 2620 A)
Avignon (HM+31 3323)
Baker's End (SAG-36 0528)
Bellarmine (HM+36 1662 A)
Bellissimo (HM+40 2827)
Beowulf (HM+39 5516 A)
Bounty (HB+38 0524 A)
Buran (HD+32 1678)
Cauldron (SAG+47 1522)
Charybdis (HB+56 0404 B)
Concordia (HM+00 2422 A)
Cora's World (HM-40 2634)
Daedelus (SAG+45 4907 A)
Demeter (HM+31 3563)
Destiny (HD+47 0309)
Dustbowl/New Deseret (SAG-42 4503 B)
Frontiera (HD+40 1336)
Frostpile (SAG+43 2208)
Fury (HM+53 0102 A)
Gateway (HM+00 0000)
Goldrush (SAG+33 2643)
Gulag (HD+40 4019)
Hecate's Hate (HM+32 3972)
Hyperborea (SAG+44 1855 B)
Ice Station Mike (HD+42 3267)
Ice Station Oscar (HD+42 5807)
Inshallah (HM+53 0608)
Jena (HB-33 4139 A)
Jewel/Sulfur Flats (HM+41 0955 A & B)
Jin Xian (HM-45 4415)
Jove/Fuzhou (SAG+49 2911 A & B)
Libertad (HD-46 2312)
Marino (HD-31 4687)
Midgard/Muspellheim (HD+54 1018)
Mirabilis (HM-45 1718)
Neu Bavaria (HM+31 7329)
New Anchorage (HD+35 3455 A)
New Ares (HM+57 0405 A)
New Havana (HM+55 1217)
New Tanstaafl (HM+43 3626 A)
New Taranto (HB+31 2685 A)
New Zion (HD+47 0954)
Paydirt (HM+36 2309)
Porto Fria (HM-52 2716 A)
Pu'huonua (HM+35 2017)
Research Station Victor (HB+55 1522)
Sakura (HM-31 0629)
Sandovar (HM+34 0139 A)
Santa Clara (SAG+31 0179 B)
Scherzo (SAG+55 2007 B)
Sheba's World/Neu Bayer (HD-51 1306 A)
Tanner's World (HB-32 1052)
Tartarus (HM+31 5806)
The Alamo (HM+34 0552 B)
Tortuga (HD-37 4529)
Toulon (SAG+55 0823 A)
Valhalla (HD+31 1168)
Viracocha (HM+31 1175 A)
Waypoint November (HM+31 1969 A)
Waypoint Omega (HM-06 1121 A)
Waypoint Tango (HD+41 4528 A)
Waypoint X-Ray (HD-66 1619)
Waypoint Yankee (HD+10 1721)
Waystation Alfa (HM+34 1207)
Xiamen (HM+48 2891 B)
Zhengzhou (HM-27 9791 B)
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| System Catalogue: HM+41 0955
A & B (Jewel / Sulfur Flats) Stars in System: 2 Distance from Gateway: 7.23 parsecs (23.57 light years) System Age: 4.2 GY Total System Population: 52,214 Primary Allegiance: Sagittarius Development Corporation Primary Star: HM+41 0955 A Spectral Type: G3V Mass: 0.991 Sol Radius: 0.992 Sol Luminosity: 1.176 Sol Absolute Magnitude: +4.59 Number of Worlds: 3; 1 Asteroid Belt, 1 Rocky Planet, 1 Gas Giant Notable Worlds: Sulfur Flats (3rd moon of gas giant Tigre Verde) Companion Star: HM+41 0955 B Spectral Type: K3V Mass: 0.825 Sol Radius: 0.8574 Sol Luminosity: 0.51 Sol Absolute Magnitude: +5.50 Number of Worlds: 5; 4 Rocky Planets, 1 Planetoid Notable Worlds: Jewel |
System
Summary: The HM+41 0955 System is a close binary star
system
composed of one main sequence yellow dwarf primary of spectral type G3
and a K3 dwarf companion orbiting each other with a
semi-major axis of 4.3 AU. The relatively close orbiting stars
make it possible for spacecraft to transit to either planetary system
in a reasonable time frame of weeks, but no stable short jump points
between them are known to exist. The 'B' star holds the primary
world of the system, Jewel, which was settled by the SDC for its employees and their
families, and has seen a great deal of outside immigration in spite of
the complications caused by its biosphere. |
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HM+41 0955 A
Star System Diagram Epoch: 2361  HM+41 0955 B Star System Diagram Epoch: 2361  |
| Systems
within Short Jump Range |
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| Apollonia/Phyrigia |
HD+18 5412 | SAG+41 0966 |
| The Alamo |
HD+43 1752 | SAG+42 0872 |
| Bellarmine |
HD+45 1637 | SAG+51
0734 |
| HB+32
1960 |
HD+46 2351 | XR+38
2950 (Pulsar) |
| HB+37 1350 | ||
| Jewel
(HM+42 0955 B V) Orbital Number: 5 Orbital Semi-Major Axis: 80,294,449 km (0.535 AU) Orbital Eccentricity: 0.0023 Orbital Inclination: 0.6º Orbital Period: 25.59 Earth Days, 13.05 Local Days Orbital Velocity: 5.135 km/sec Orbital ΔV: 8.5 km/sec Axial Tilt: 18.3º Rotation: 54.4 hours Satellites: 3; 1 Ring, 1 small asteroidal body (Typhon), 1 space station (Jewel Highport) World Type: Metallic Core Rocky Planet Climate Type: Garden Planet Biosphere: Mature, 0.72 Compatibility Index (1.00 = Earth) Diameter: 9,290 km Density: 4.64 g/cm3 (0.84 Earth) Surface Gravity: 0.61 G (6.09 m/sec2) Atmospheric Pressure (Sea Level): 0.60 Bar (8.7 PSIA) Atmospheric Contents (Partial Pressures): Nitrogen 0.424 Bar, Oxygen 0.156 Bar, Argon 0.018 Bar, Trace amounts of Carbon-Dioxide, Water Vapor Hydrography: 42.3% Mean Surface Temperature: 290ºK (17ºC) Population: 49,513 (est.) Colony Rating: Agricultural – C, Industrial – C, Technical – C, Resource – D Imports: Heavy Equipment, Mining Equipment, Fabrication Plants, Fabrication Templates, Machine Tools, Paydirt, Advanced Chemicals, Advanced Medicines, Deuterium, Helium-3, Enriched Uranium (10 to 50%, as Uranium-Carbide pellets), Silksteel, Diamondoid, Luxury Goods, Luxury Foods, Art, Entertainment, Antimatter Exports: Wet Bionano, Dry Bionano, Basic Chemicals, Intermediate Chemicals, Basic Medicines, Intermediate Medicines, Hand and Power Tools, Life Support Equipment, Algae Culture, Ground Vehicles, Electronics, Petroleum Distillates, Finished Textiles, Household Goods, Heart of Gold Oak Lumber, Grain Flour and Meal, Irradiated Fruits and Vegetables, Canned Fruits and Vegetables, Fruit and Vegetable Concentrate, Fruit and Vegetable Juices, Live Aquaculture, Canned Aquaculture, Prepared Foodstuffs, Beer, Various Liquors, Mutton, Poultry, NuPigs |
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The planet Jewel serves as one of the SDC's largest colonies outside of Fury in Sagittarius. The planet enjoys a Mature Near-Compatible biosphere with a thin but breathable atmosphere, but whereas Sulfur Flats has the pervasive taint of sulfur compounds to deal with, Jewel's biosphere has the rather surprising incorporation of both left and right handed chirality in its amino acid groups. Native life can utilize both types effectively, but earth-based life can only utilize left-handed chirality. The problem has created a need for protein and amino acid supplements and enzyme treatments to allow the colonists to effectively live off the land, and at the moment serves as the primary drain on profits for the SDC's development of the system. A long term solution for genemodding the colonists for adaptability is also being pursued. In the meantime, huge tracts of land around Diadem have been sterilized, roofed over in massive greenhouses, and reseeded with paydirt imported from Earth for crops and livestock. An export unique to Jewel is a semi-tropical hardwood known as Heart of Gold Oak. Heart of Gold Oak is prized for its rich golden wood with a densely patterned grain, which often requires nothing more than a clear lacquer for finishing.
Jewel has one primary colony town, Diadem, with some scattered settlements surrounding it. The government is corporate administration through the SDC. The Bank of Sol maintains a branch office on Jewel in cooperation with the SDC. Settlers and their descendents aged 21 and older are entitled to Land Grants of 100 hectares, and receive one share of stock in the colonial development corporation formed for Jewel. Like most Colonial Development Corporations, stock ownership grants the bearer one vote per share of stock during annual referendums on colonial development, and only stock holders may be officers of the local corporation, hold public office, or serve as planetary law enforcement. Law enforcement is currently limited to a Sheriff appointed by the SDC plus 6 deputies and 2 non-sworn staff.
Jewel Highport
A Waystation class space station is currently serving as the terminus for a beanstalk under construction by the SDC to link Diadem to orbit. Ring material is being assembled to serve as the beanstalk and the anchor, but there are concerns about the beanstalk's longterm viability with the moon of Typhon's weak but nontrivial gravity creating tidal forces.
Jewel
Orbital Map
| Tigre Verde (HM+41 0955 A II) Orbital Number: 2 Orbital Semi-Major Axis: 79,012,369 km (0.527 AU) Orbital Eccentricity: 0.021 Orbital Inclination: 3º Orbital Period: 140.79 Earth Days, 6.17 Local Days for parent Gas Giant Orbital Velocity: 26.04 km/sec Axial Tilt: 6º Rotation: 547.64 hours Satellites: 11; 2 Rings, 9 Rocky Moons including Sulfur Flats World Type: Metallic Core Gas Giant Climate Type: Warm Jovian Biosphere: None Diameter: 79,256 km Density: 1.55 g/cm3 (0.28 Earth) Surface Gravity: 1.74 G (17.37 m/sec2) Atmospheric Pressure: 84 Bar Atmospheric Contents (by %): Hydrogen 87%, Methane 11%, Helium 2%, Trace Ammonia, Hydrocarbons, Water (as ice crystals in upper atmosphere) Hydrography: None Mean Surface Temperature: 297ºK (24ºC) Population: N/A |
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Tigre Verde is a relatively small gas giant about one-fifth the mass of Jupiter. It is notable for the presence of a habitable moon, Sulfur Flats, and for its relatively high concentration of Methane. It is speculated that the two parent stars of the system consumed the bulk of dust and gas that could have allowed Tigre Verde to grow in size.
Sulfur Flats is a world with a harsh ecosystem rated as Mature Near-Compatible, with a thin oxygen-rich atmosphere tainted by sulfur dioxide spewed from rings of volcanoes that continue shedding internal heat generated by both radioactives in the world's metal core and by intense tidal forces from the parent jovian. The chief difficulty encountered by the colonists are the sulfur compounds in the atmosphere, the seas tainted with weak sulfuric acid, and of course, the sulfur compounds utilized by the native flora and fauna for their biochemistry. What has made Sulfur Flats viable as a colony, apart from the hundred strong SDC research station dedicated to studying the native biosphere, has been the abundant mineral wealth of the moon, with its vulcanism bringing up rich lodes of heavy and rare earth metals and radioactives from deep within the mantle.
Sulfur Flats is administered by the SDC from the nearby planet Jewel, which orbits the orange dwarf consort of the system primary, and trips for its employees and their families to Jewel are used as popular incentives for meeting productivity goals. Given the harsh nature of Sulfur Flats, it is hardly surprising that the chief aspiration for those who live and work here is to earn enough money to settle permanently on Jewel, and many of the SDC's employees have chosen to work the mines and smelters while their loved ones live in an entirely different system in order to accrue the wealth to bring them to Jewel.
Surface
Map
