NationStates Jolt Archive

Status of the Galaxy Exploration Command

Under the guidance of my predecessor, Advisor Al Rijil, the Triumvirate of Yut began its exploration and expansion into interstellar space under the precepts of the GEC. While never the most funded agency of the Triumvirate, given continued military and political situations in the Solar System, we have still achieved much.

Fleet
The GEC currently has a fleet of five vessels, all currently on deep-space survey missions. We have four Beagle-class research cruisers, Beagle, Drake, Magellan, and Vespucci; and one vessel from the Cetagandan fleet, IEV Isaac Asimov. An additional four Beagle-class cruisers, Armstrong, Goddard, Endeavour, and Cook, are planned for construction and deployment over time.

Colonial Authority
The GEC also maintains the Triumvirate's colonial affairs, ensuring that our colonies have a voice in Triumvirate affairs. While most of our 'colonies' are merely robotic mining facilities of some sort or another, with the successful colonization of Bright Morning habitat-colonies will become increasingly common as we find more inhabitable planets.

Systems
BESS-1 (Waning Sun) System, 40 LY out:
Noble-Gas Mining Array 1, planet I (Gentle Giant)
Asteroid Resource Collection Array 1, planet II (Pebble)
Population: ...tire

BESS-2 (White Light) System, 73 LY out:
Zirconium Mining Station, planet I (Poison)
Iodine Mining Array, planet II (Green Bottle)
Mining Stations on planets III (Filament), IV (Silicon Streams), and VIII (Outrigger)
White Light Resource Collection Center, planet VIII [inhabited]
Population: 500 on rotation at the WLR2C

BESS-3 (Rime or Reason) System, 125 LY out:
Water Mining Station, planet IX (Rime)
K'rakthul Research Station, planet IX (Rime) [inhabited]
Hydrogen Mining Array, planet I (Gas Station)
Mining Stations on planets IV (Deathwater), VI (Bright One), and VIII (Tiny Rock)
Rime or Reason Resource Collection Center, planet VIII [inhabited]
Population: 50 at the KRS, 500 on rotation at the 3R2C

BESS-4 (Lode) System, 153 LY out:
Hydrocarbon Research Station, planet I (Sludge) [inhabited]
Mining Stations on planets I and throughout extensive asteroid fields
Lode Resource Collection Center, planet I [inhabited]
Population: 50 at the HRS, 500 on rotation at the LR2C

BESS-5 (Middleage) System, 181 LY out:
Fissionable Mining Stations on planet I (Buglight)
Middleage Resource Collection Station, planet I orbit [inhabited]
Population: 500 on rotation at the MR2C

BESS-7 (Second Home) System, 316 LY out:
Daedalus colony on planet I (Bright Morning) [inhabited]
[i]Huíría Lírtéoma colony on planet I [inhabited]
Population: 100,000 in Daedalus; 5,000 in Huíría Lírtéoma

Total extrasolar population: 107,100 (pending more data from Cetaganda)

Defense
Defense is organized through the TYCS with Combined Fleets patrolling in rotation along our systems of greatest interest (Lode, Rime or Reason, and Second Home) and Roving Cruiser Squadrons maintaining a rotating through them all. Any true colony system (such as Second Home) will have a Sky Marshal-class SDF assigned to it; TYWS-SDF O'Neill is on station in Bright Morning orbit.

Mission
Finally, to close with the mission of the GEC. Our goal is to expand our vision and reach into the unknown, to learn what we can and find new resource sources for the Triumvirate. If we come across life, we wish to learn from it as well and treat it as any life deserves to be treated. If we come across intelligence, then we shall learn from and hopefully befriend it. That's what we do.

http://www.weirdozone.0catch.com/projects/nationstates/scolopendra/jon_hertzfeldt.gifAdvisor Jon Hertzfeldt
Director, Galaxy Exploration Command
Triumvirate of Yut

[edit: Eniqciri information added]

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Commander Nnoromele, CO TYRS-RCR Beagle
SJ: BESS-8 System Report

We've been out here for a while, so we've come up with a new format. It provides information at a glance, with deeper analysis afterwards. I hope it assists in your planning, Director Hertzfeldt.

SYSTEM: Beagle Exploration Survey System (BESS) 8

DISTANCE: 22 LY

STELLAR CLASS: A6II white bright giant (40,211 Mm in radius)
SISTER STAR: A3III white giant (20,120 Mm in radius, 7.291 Tm from parent)

NEBULA BELT
EQUIVALENT: 1 62.48 Mm radius gas giant and 1 0.760 Mm radius rocky
ATMOSPHERE: Chlorine, Carbon, Hydrogen
LITHOSPHERE: Sodium, Antimony, Germanium, Zinc, Phosphorus, Iron
It appears that this nebula--spun out into a toroid in the same fashion as an asteroid belt--is the result of the mutual destruction of a gas giant and a rocky planet, making it nonstellar in nature. Diatomic chlorine and hydrogen are common in a gaseous form, as well as carbon tetrachloride. Its mineral-rich rocky bodies are, like most asteroids, easy to mine except that they exist in such a reactive medium. The sodium-ore asteroids appear to be covered in a fine layer of table salt (sodium chloride) and the continued threat of exothermic sodium/chlorine reactions kept us from examining further.

PLANET 1: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 10 / 97.19
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 1 / 0.766
ATMOSPHERE: Carbon, Fluorine, Hydrogen
HYDROSPHERE: Nitrogen, Chlorine, Hydrogen
LITHOSPHERE: Beryllium, Cobalt, Iron
A tiny planet with a tenuous atmosphere consisting primarily of carbon tetrafluoride and a sludge-like 'hydrosphere' of ammonia and nitrogen trichloride, this planet is relatively metal-poor but what metals it has do have some use. Extremely low gravity would aid mining, and from mining projects on other BESS systems, we are learning how to work in hostile environments.

PLANET 2: Gas Giant
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 15 / 823.467
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 7 / 36.723
ATMOSPHERE: Helium, Bromine, Neon
HYDROSPHERE: Carbon, Chlorine
LITHOSPHERE: Cesium, Cobalt, Silver
A ball of helium with trace amounts of other noble gases and diatomic bromine, this planet has several liquid layers of carbon compounds and a highly radioactive rocky core of cesium.

PLANET 3: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): ERRATIC
-APOGEE: 896.74 Gm
-PERIGEE: 312.03 Gm
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 5/12.54
ATMOSPHERE: Chlorine, Krypton, Helium
HYDROSPHERE: Oxygen, Arsenic, Bromine
LITHOSPHERE: Beryllium, Boron, Chromium
A mineral-poor planet coated in a blanket of reactive diatomic chlorine, this world offers nothing of potential save a chance for astronomers to examine the effects of highly erratic orbits on rocky bodies.

RECOMMENDATIONS: The first planet looks useful for mining, but that's about it.

STATUS: We are doing well. There have been a few morale-based incidents as of late, but after the crew exchange back home, it's just the neophytes settling into deep-spacer life.

Commander Nnoromele
CO, TYRS-RCR Beagle
Galaxy Exploration Command

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Commander Nnoromele, CO TYRS-RCR Beagle
SJ: BESS-9 System Report

SYSTEM: Beagle Exploration Survey System (BESS) 9

DISTANCE: 39 LY

STELLAR CLASS: A7IV white subgiant (40,211 Mm in radius)

PLANET 1: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 7 / 25.45
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 5 / 9.739
ATMOSPHERE: Fluorine, Helium, Nitrogen
HYDROSPHERE: Hydrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine
LITHOSPHERE: Calcium, Manganese, Iron
With an atmosphere primarily of nitrogen tetrafluoride and oceans of water with quite a bit of hydroiodic acid contamination, this planet is certainly too dangerous for any sort of unprotected habitation. The atmosphere can be mined for a simple hypergolic fuel component while mining stations can exploit the few patches of mineral richness.

PLANET 2: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 10 / 103.25
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 4 / 6.87
ATMOSPHERE: Carbon, Oxygen, Iodine
HYDROSPHERE: Mercury, Chlorine, Hydrogen
LITHOSPHERE: Nickel, Potassium, Beryllium
Coated in a thick blanket of carbon dioxide with some traces of carbon tetraiodide, this planet is notable for its hydrochloric acid and mercury seas. Its ore deposits are so inaccessale as to be practically useless.

PLANET 3: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 11 / 113.93
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 2 / 1.784
ATMOSPHERE: Chlorine, Argon, Helium
HYDROSPHERE: Hydrogen, Carbon
LITHOSPHERE: Zinc, Vanadium, Iridium
A very thin atmosphere of diatomic chlorine over a thick hydrocarbon sludge, it looks like this planet is more a collection of carbonaceous and mineral asteroids than a real planet. Due to the thinness of the atmosphere, the reactivity of the chlorine should pose only a minimal threat to any extraction and refinement operations.

PLANET 4: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): ERRATIC
-APOGEE: 337.67 Gm
-PERIGEE: 185.16 Gm
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 4 / 5.213
ATMOSPHERE: Oxygen, Fluorine, Bromine
HYDROSPHERE: Nitrogen, Mercury
LITHOSPHERE: Germanium, Potassium, Magnesium
With a primarily oxygen atmosphere with trace amounts of halogen compounds, this planet is a definite firehazard. Add to that complex nitrogen-oxygen-hydrogen and magnesium compounds, and you have bomb just waiting to go off. Thank goodness this planet is completely dead when it comes to vulcanology.

Would be fun to watch, at least.

NEBULA BELT
DISTANCE: 546 to 673 Gm
EQUIVALENT: 1 12.35 Mm rocky, 1 3.528 Mm rocky, 1 63.09 Gm gas giant
ATMOSPHERE: Hydrogen, Chlorine, Argon
LITHOSPHERE: Copper, Beryllium, Osmium, Manganese, Titanium, Iridium, Technetium, Carbon, Phosphorus
A massive toroidal hydrochloric acid cloud with chunks of metal inside, this asteroid-cloud belt is the result of what must have been a massive collision. Mineral rich with many useful shipbuilding resources, this is a definite target for exploration.

PLANET 5: Gas Giant
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 15 / 970.22
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 8 / 109.0
ATMOSPHERE: Bromine, Hydrogen
HYDROSPHERE: Hydrogen, Bromine
LITHOSPHERE: Lithium, Magnesium, Tungsten
A remarkable homogenous hydrobromic acid gas-giant with something resembling a well-corroded metal core with constant minor explosions from lithium and magnesium reactions.

RECOMMENDATIONS: [i]The hydrocarbon planet and the nebula belt are definitely options for exploitation. There is little to no lasting colony potential in this system.

STATUS: The crew is rested and all staff seem to be getting along well enough. There was talk among the defense staff of opening fire on the bomb-planet just to see what would happen, but I talked them out of it.

Commander Nnoromele
CO, TYRS-RCR Beagle
Galaxy Exploration Command

[i]THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

Total extrasolar population: 102,100 (pending more data from Cetaganda and Eniqcir)
5,000 inhabitants of Huíría Lírtéoma (Bright Morning Colony), more incoming.

4 Legend-class exploration vessels under construction to add to the fleet. Tentative names are Dagda, Uther, Morgain d'Avalon, and Ensign.

Observation colonies planned for Harvest and various other von Neumann worlds.

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Commander Nnoromele, CO TYRS-RCR Beagle
SJ: BESS-10 System Report

SYSTEM: Beagle Exploration Survey System (BESS) 10

DISTANCE: 116 LY

STELLAR CLASS: G5I supergiant, 221,143 Mm in radius

PLANET 1: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 14 / 626.90
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 1 / 0.5569
ATMOSPHERE: Oxygen, Chlorine, Carbon
HYDROSPHERE: Fluorine, Chlorine, Sulfur
LITHOSPHERE: Osmium, Germanium, Titanium
A highly tenuous atmosphere consisting primarily of ions, this rock seems to have been a moon of a previous planet, thrown off before the star ate it. The term 'hydrosphere' is used tenatively, as the liquids on this world look nothing like water; but, despite its small size, the planet is surprisingly dense due to its osmium-rich core.

PLANET 2: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 15 / 1010.7
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 4 / 7.846
ATMOSPHERE: Hydrogen, Carbon
HYDROSPHERE: Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen
LITHOSPHERE: Iron, Vanadium, Manganese
Somewhat larger than Earth, this planet is quite similar to a pre-terraforming Titan except with the beneficial addition of water oceans. Unlike Bright Morning, this world has nitrogen and may have primitive life on it somewhere, but that nitrogen is primarily in the form of ammonia dissolved in the water. It has a thick atmosphere consisting almost entirely of methane and thus its surface temperature is quite a bit higher than it should be. Our astronomy staff theorizes that with a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere like Earth's or Titan's it would be a decent temperature for habitation. Moderate deposits of heavy metals make this a definite priority world.

PLANET 3: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 16 / 1659.9
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 2 / 1.595
ATMOSPHERE: Fluorine, Carbon, Oxygen
HYDROSPHERE: Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen
LITHOSPHERE: Boron, Rhodium, Zirconium
About fifty percent wider than Pluto, this planet also has limited ammonia-water oceans blanketed by an atmosphere of carbon tetraflouride and water vapor. While certainly less inhabitable than BESS-10 II, this world could still turn out to be a good source for water, organic chemical resources and, to a lesser degree, mineral resources.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Begin initial terraformation of BESS-10 II immediately.

STATUS: We are staying here for an extra few weeks on behest of the crew in an attempt to find life near thermal vents on BESS-10 II. It is what we're here for, after all.

Commander Nnoromele
CO, TYRS-RCR Beagle
Galaxy Exploration Command

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

The captain of Elrandir stared at the BESS-9 report... geeeez, this was just too amusing to pass up. He reached for his comm. "Ilmarë, have you seen this GEC report on BESS-9?"

"Yes, sir... what about it? Seems like it'd be a fun place to fire some ordinance."

"Exactly my thought. You're hereby authorized to take Elrandir Minë out immediately. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to drop a single incendiary weapon onto the surface of BESS-9 IV. Inquiring Elven minds, after all, do want to know."

"Yes, milord."

"Oh, and one more thing..."

"Yes?"

"Be sure to get it on holo."

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A probe (actually, little more than an advanced sensor suite stuck onto a reactor and a THPG) left in the BESS-9 system picks up the Elrandir Minë jumping in. Orienting itself, it lets off an THPG handshake signal to Titan.

"Odd," Advisor Hertzfeldt wonders aloud as he leans over his desk, "I wonder what they're up to." He leans back, relaxes... then blinks. "Menelmacari and a planet-sized bomb. Oh hell." Jumping back forward, he quickly taps a code into the communicator panel inset in his desk. Pausing for a moment, he realizes that there's nothing he can do about it and so lets it drop.

The starfield was clean, a million points of light the result of the respective journeys of millions of years by individual photons. Suddenly, a flicker, a warping like a pebble dropped into a pond, the ripples going in all directions left and right, up and down. From infinity in all directions--no matter which direction you viewed it from--Beagle slides in from the distance with unimaginable speed, its distinctive double-saucer structure gleaming dully with the light of its new sun.

All this in a blink of an eye; first there's nothing and suddenly there's a ship.

"Tesseract jump complete, ma'am," Lieutenant Smith Dobbs looks over his shoulder from his console momentarily, then looks back. "Getting a read from astrogation now..." Looking up at the fuzzy strategic situation indicator display, it blinks into clarity. "Confirmed. We are in target system, BESS-Ten at zenith point."

"Sensors, run a sweep of the system." Commander Nnoromele leans back in her chair, black braids swaying gently from the motion. A pattern, the same with each new system... but, while monotonous, a sort of comfort.

"Confirming astronomy reports of an K4III-class orange giant," Sensors Officer Lieutenant Commander Ryom Ok-myung reports from her console, icons blinking into recognition on the strategic board. "Five planets... three gas giants and two rockies... and a nebula ring. We're seeing a lot of those... as of late." She pauses for a moment. "Hrm."

"What's up, Ok?" Nnoromele chuckles, broad lips turning up in a smile at the small inside joke.

"Mass isn't accounted for in the system... something of stellar mass... one moment while I look closer at BESS-10, ma'am." The characteristic snap of metal switches fills the quietly humming command room as technicians in the back go about their work. "Holy... shit." Ryom pauses, then pushes buttons rapidly.

"What is it?" The commander leans forward in her seat unconsciously, brown eyes intently scanning the Korean features of her science officer.

"Telescope array Alpha is on BESS-10. Screen one has X-ray, screen two has thermal. I'm tracking the biggest damned solar flare I've ever seen with array Bravo, it's on screen three and should be updating on the Big Board." Screens mounted around the spherical holodisplay flipped from status monitors to pictures of the writhing star... with a bulge slowly entering into it, the equator of it wobbling.

"What the hell is going on, Ok?"

The short woman shrugs, looking up with a look of complete confusion. "Looks like there's a collision going on. Er..."--she looks back down at her beeping console--"computer reports an L10V infrared dwarf just a tad smaller than Sol slamming into it, ma'am. Checking on that flare... it's not a flare, it's a plasma arc."

"What?"

"Look at it." The glowing crescent of the 'solar flare' passes through one of the icons representing an inner gas giant; Screen Three records the death of a world as its atmosphere is stripped away and its core fractured by the intense heat. "It's a self-sustaining fusion reaction plasma, ma'am. Star-stuff being ejected, not just ions..." She pauses again, then gulps. "Wait... we're getting a radiation burst."

"Look!" Dobbs points to the screens, with the star seeming to become larger, more convoluted, brighter in the center. "The star's growing... going nova?" He makes no attempt to hide the fear in her voice.

"Not nova..." Ryom looks down at her console again...

An enlisted rating in the technician gallery turns around with a snap, nearly hopping out of his chair. "Plasma inbound!"

"Helm, evasive! Weapons, shields!" Commander Nnoromele grabs her crash harness and slashes it across her. "SHIELDS!"

To be continued... (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2437198#2437198)

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: TYRS-RCR Beagle
SJ: EMERGENCY

There's been an accident. Two stars colliding in this system caused... I dunno... a plasma storm of some sort and we've been hit and are in a bad way. I'm just the messenger, but from the look of the chief engineer it's not looking good. I know the helmsman's dead--he's still here in the bridge--and I know from internal reports that we've suffered around twenty-three percent casualties across the board.

Lieutenant Keith Richter
Communications Officer
TYRS-RCR Beagle

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Commander Crighton, CO TYRS-RCR Drake
SJ: BESS-11 System Report

SYSTEM: Drake Exploration Survey System (DESS) 1

DISTANCE: 65 LY

STELLAR CLASS: T7O Dwarf, 1,556 Km in radius

PLANET 1: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 3 / 2.5722
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 1 / 1.658
ATMOSPHERE: Flourine, Oxygen, Nitrogen
HYDROSPHERE: Flourine, Iodine, Iodine
LITHOSPHERE: Iron, Rhodium, Magnesium
The atmosphere contains Flourine with traces of Flouric acid and nitrogen.
The hydrosphere is a thin mixture of flourine and iodine. The lithosphere provides the most interest, containing large amounts of Iron, with pockets of Rhodium and magnesium.

PLANET 2: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 4 / 5.0901
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 6 / 6.683
ATMOSPHERE: Nitrogen, Helium, Carbon
HYDROSPHERE: Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus
LITHOSPHERE: Magnesium, Aluminum, Iron
Approximately the size of Earth. The atmosphere is largely unreactive and poses little threat. The hydrosphere is largely Ammonia, with some phosphorus dissolved in. The lithosphere contains large amounts of magnesium and aluminum, with pockets of iron.

PLANET 3: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 20 / 423.15, 1289.06
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 12 / 12.421
ATMOSPHERE: Flourine
HYDROSPHERE: Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen
LITHOSPHERE: Lithium, Silicon, Uranium
Much larger than Earth, the planet has two small satellites and a ring of debris (probably ex-satellites) of similar composition as the lithosphere.
It has a dense flourine atmosphere, and a hydrosphere consisting of mostly carbonic acid with dissolved minerals.
Recommend mining, starting with the satellites and debris ring, and eventually moving to the planet itself.

RECOMMENDATIONS: The system is rich in resources, mine it.

STATUS: Dropping off the needed beacons, then jumping to the next system withing 24 hours.

Commander Crighton
CO, TYRS-RCR Drake
Galaxy Exploration Command

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Commander Crighton, CO TYRS-RCR Drake
SJ: BESS-12 System Report

SYSTEM: Drake Exploration Survey System (DESS) 2

DISTANCE: 125 LY

STELLAR CLASS: F8II BrightG, 10,020 Km in radius

PLANET 1: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 11 /121.099
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 3 / 2.5259
ATMOSPHERE: Oxygen, Carbon, Helium,
HYDROSPHERE: Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon
LITHOSPHERE: Vanadium, Silicon, Tin
The atmosphere is a breathable mix of O2, CO2 and Helium, albeit some what high-piched. It has one large ocean of water and carbonic acid covering most of the northern and southern hemispheres. A small continent circles the globe, roughly equatorial. While the rest of the land masses are island chains dotting the oceans. Habitable but pretty damn warm.

PLANET 2: Rocky Planet
ORBIT CLASS/DISTANCE (Gm): 15 / 1103.05
SIZE CLASS/RADIUS (Mm): 5 / 12.365
ATMOSPHERE: Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Flourine
HYDROSPHERE: Chlorine, Nitrogen
LITHOSPHERE: Cesium, Rhodium, Uranium
Much larger than Earth. Otherwise rather bland.

RECOMMENDATIONS: The first planet is worth further study. The second is just sorta worthless.

STATUS: Dropping off the needed beacons, then jumping to the next system withing 48 hours.

Commander Crighton
CO, TYRS-RCR Drake
Galaxy Exploration Command

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

Situation Report - Bright Morning

Following a rather... unconventional landing, the colonists have settled in well. Hydroponics and nitrogen-enriched fields are producing in excess, introduction of plant life appears to be doing well in nitrogen-enriched areas, and we have moved from prefabricated structures to more permanent housing. Daedalus has been almost entirely cannibalized for resources and we now proudly house three wings of Viper militia aerospace fighters... of course, we can't field them, lacking personnel.

To fix that, I am ordering Daedalus-2 to reactivate, take on full colonization stores, and join us on Bright Morning. It will bring us the professional military personnel we need to train a militia as well as other specializations not absolutely 'necessary' for survival but vital for any growing society. They will be able to utilize both our used prefabricated housing and the prefabs they bring along.

http://www.weirdozone.0catch.com/projects/nationstates/scolopendra/al_rijil.gifAdvisor Al Rijil
Governor, BESS-7 I Colony
Galaxy Exploration Command
Triumvirate of Yut

GEC Operations Report

With Bright Morning firmly established, we are prepared to start our second colony world. It will be primarily Scolopendran (in order to maintain parity with our Triumvirate allies) but, true to form, sections will be open to Triumvirate allies as well.

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The target will be the second world of the BESS-10 system; planet slightly larger than Earth with a radius of 7,846 kilometers. Surface acceleration due to gravity is about 11.56 meters per second squared. Methane composes its atmosphere, and a large percentage of its surface is covered in water. Due to its resemblance to pre-terraformation Titan, we are calling this world "Si'lat," a feminine name for pre-Islamic Arabian jinn. While not identical in concept to Greek Titans, they are analogous in that they are powerful predecessors to humanity... but I digress.

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We have already identified six major landmass groups and four oceans. Nolar--short for North Polar--ocean covers most of the northern hemisphere. Along the equator are the Meridian Masses, a long major archipelago; the Mantas (West, East, and South), connected by subsurface ridges; and Gobi, which is essentially a singular landmass seperated by shallow channels. The southern hemisphere consists of The Bell, a continent made of three smaller subcontinental islands; Paci, much similar but with two submasses; and the Pentagon Islands, essentially a huge rocky atoll. Southern oceans are the Triside Ocean, bordered by Paci, Manta, and the Pentagon Islands; Westisle Ocean, to the west of a minor island archipelago; and the Meridian Ocean, set appropriately along the arbitrary Prime Meridian.

Our new colony will be established along the northern shore of East Manta where the wide, shallow continental shelves can be used for kelp farming while we establish nitrogen-fixing bacteria. We will follow the Titan plan: Colonize underground, pump enough oxygen taken from BESS-10 I into the atmosphere, and ignite the methane... being left with water vapor and carbon dioxide, we can then use genetically-engineered aquatic and terrestrial plants to oxygenate the atmosphere. This is part of the reason we will allocate 50,000 volunteers to the effort.

http://www.weirdozone.0catch.com/projects/nationstates/scolopendra/jon_hertzfeldt.gifAdvisor Jon Hertzfeldt
Director, Galaxy Exploration Command
Triumvirate of Yut

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The TYRS-RCR Beagle, in drydock for the past year to repair extensive damage received from the stellar collision in the BESS-11 system, now returns to active service with the Galaxy Exploration Command. Redesigned from its core systems out, the Mark II of Beagle now sets the standard for GEC vessels; all Beagle-class vessels currently in operation (Drake, Magellan, and Vespucchi) will be refit to the Mark II; those cruisers being planned or under construction (Armstrong, Goddard, and Cook) will be produced as Mark II models.

This second-generation research cruiser has improved survivability in case of accidents and better compartmentalization. The drive core has been completely redesigned for superior durability and all subsystems have been hardened.

In addition, GEC has determined that research cruisers are assets too valuable to risk in initial system contacts, as shown by this incident. We will still use them to their full potential, but they--having laboratory space and dedicated researchers--will make up the bulk of follow-up exploration and exploitation surveys. The vanguard of the GEC probing the unknown will be handed off to the new Endeavour-class scoutship.

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Barely larger than a Sleipnir-class dropship, it is the smallest vessel yet to carry a "Spacedy Ant" tesseract jump drive. Fully atmosphere and landing-capable, it is easily capable of avoiding danger with superior mobility and logging systems of interest for future study. The first ship of this class, the Triumvirate of Yut Research Ship scout Endeavour, will launch within the week and begin exploring star systems coreward of Sol.

http://www.weirdozone.0catch.com/projects/nationstates/scolopendra/jon_hertzfeldt.gifAdvisor Jon Hertzfeldt
Director, Galaxy Exploration Command
Triumvirate of Yut

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Captain Nnoromele shakes her head while looking down with a wry smile, braided hair brushing softly against her cheeks. "'Too valuable to risk,' sir? This doesn't sound like the 'outward and forward' GEC I know."

Hertzfeldt nods, then looks out the window of the repair yards office down at the sphere of Titan. "It's actually true, given our situation." He taps the glass lightly, finger pointing towards the terraformed satellite. "There's a hole where Liberty was, and so you're going to see dedication to Combined Services spending skyrocket. It's taken everything I can to keep the Exploration Command from just becoming an advanced scouting group for the military, trying to find the Unknown Menace." He sighs. "People want to feel safe again, and because of that they want warships, not research vessels. The exploitation aspect of our mission is going to become more and more pronounced as time progresses."

Behind him, the newly-promoted captain nods. "Unfortunately, sir, that's the legacy of Governor Rijil. He wanted an organization that would continue to support Saturn and the Sol-side Triumvirate with resources."

"It's past that now." Hertzfeldt turns around again, staring dolefully at Nnoromele. "I've been told by the Council of Yut that, essentially, we are a 'last, best hope' for the Triumvirate. If we are not safe in Fortress Saturn, then we need outposts where we will continue to survive in case of the worst. Like Ares and Shiva to Sunset, we are turning Bright Morning and Si'lat into contingencies. Our mission is to find more colonizable worlds so we can survive if Metus or the Unknown Menace gets out of hand. We're reinforcing both colonies with quiet launches of more of our colonization fleet because a few ten thousand are not going to cut it. We're building plans to expand the colonies to a hundred thousand each within the year and to a million each within five years."

"Yes, but the situation is still relatively secure. Engagement reports with Ardan vessels from the last conflict distinctly show that they are undergunned and underpowered compared to our front-line vessels. Even if the 'mission kill' ratio was nearly equal, the total loss ratio stands completely in our favor. It's our policy to draw ships back before they are completely destroyed."

"It doesn't matter what the reality is," the lanky man says as he sits back down in his chair with unusual heaviness, "the fact is that people believe themselves to be at risk and are thusly scared. The Trium doesn't scare easily, and when it gets scared, it pours funding into weapons and contingency plans. 'Meet the problem head-on,' as it were. Right now, security is the biggest issue so the TYCS are going to get the most apportionments. Us? We get more pressure to do the mission when we simply don't have enough to do what they want."

"So that's the purpose of Endeavour," Nnoromele says slowly.

"Yes. By building a lot of relatively inexpensive and relatively disposable scoutships, we can single out more useful systems to be investigated in greater detail later by the bigger cruisers than if we had cruisers alone. You know the Endeavour-class' sensor suite."

"Atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere." Captain Nnoromele ticks them off perfunctorialy.

"Exactly. Bare basics. If it has oxygen in the atmosphere, we're interested. Water in the hydrosphere, interested. Valuable metals in the soil, interested. If not, discard and find one that does. No deeper looks, no true exploration, the desire to just find..." Hertzfeldt sighs and scratches idly at the top of the desk with a finger. "And still. Armstrong will be completed soon but we have two cruisers that are essentially keels and concepts because of lack of funds. We're pouring the resources that would be in them into eight planned SCTs. We hardly even have one squadron of a Combined Fleet and yet they want us to explore the bloody galaxy."

Nnoromele suddenly turns very quiet, eyes flashing. "Maybe we don't have to."
"Pardon?"

"We don't have to do it alone... look at your history. They want us to explore to exploit, right? How was it done in the past? Governments wouldn't build explorer corps, they'd hire private citizens who already had a bit of cash and tell them to go out and make more."

"And then you got imperialism, slavery, genocide, and some of the worst offenses of unrestricted capitalism you'd care to name," Jon frowns. "The first spacefaring governments had explorer corps..."

"Which fell apart due to a loss of will and lack of funding. We don't have a loss of will, sir, but we do lack funding. Greed can be a powerful motivator, and we'll still pull in idealists with the chance to explore without having to qualify for Triumvirate service. The GEC can remain the elite, the place where it's at, but private enterprise would be an option."

"There's a problem with that. Both of our instantaneous FTL drives are restricted technology. Sure, we don't use Black Knight anymore, but we're restrictive even with gravydrive dispersal. Also, how can we be sure if some corp or private space cowboy makes first contact with a primitive people they don't go into slave labor, eh? Nationalize it?"

Nnoromele shrugs. "I honestly don't know, sir. I just think there are more options here than you'd care to admit. I'm sure you can work it out."

Hertzfeldt nods slowly, the gears turning in his mind. "Probably..."

GALAXY EXPLORATION COMMAND INTERNAL MEMORANDUM

STAR SYSTEM CODE REASSIGNMENT
To new Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System Standard
BESS-1 = GECSS 1
BESS-2 = GECSS 2
BESS-3 = GECSS 3
BESS-4 = GECSS 4
AESS-1 = GECSS 5
BESS-5 = GECSS 6
AESS-2 = GECSS 7
BESS-6 = GECSS 8
AESS-3 = GECSS 9
BESS-7 = GECSS 10 (Bright Morning)
BESS-8 = GECSS 11
BESS-9 = GECSS 12
BESS-10 = GECSS 13 (Si'lat)
BESS-11 = GECSS 14 (presumed destroyed)
DESS-1 = GECSS 15
DESS-2 = GECSS 16
YESS-5 = GECSS 17

* - * - *

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Lieutenant Commander Norman MacDonald, CO TYRS-SCT Endeavour
SJ: Shakedown Report

We've run through our first sweep of two star systems; I think we've found some things that might be worthy of a research-cruiser run.

SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 18
DISTANCE: 129 LY
STAR DATA: K2III red-orange giant 8,816.8 Mm in radius, surface temperature 4837K, violent stellar activity

PLANET 1: Rocky
Distance: Class 05, 9.5520E+00 Gm
Radius: Class 03, 1.5016E+04 km
Mass: 5.8124E+25 kg
Density: 4.098 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.753 G, 17.202 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Radon (44%), Oxygen (40%), Hydrogen (16%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (57%), Hydrogen (43%)
Lithosphere: Selenium (very poor), Chromium (poor), Tin (poor)
Satellites: none

PLANET 2: Gaseous
Distance: Class 08, 2.9827E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 2.2368E+04 km
Mass: 5.4601E+25 kg
Density: 1.165 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.742 G, 7.283 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (95%), Helium (5%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (41%), Helium (30%), Hydrogen (29%)
Lithosphere: Yttrium (poor), Radium (average), Scandium (very poor)
Satellites: 1 large, 15 captured

PLANET 3: Gaseous
Distance: Class 09, 6.5133E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 1.6078E+04 km
Mass: 1.9380E+25 kg
Density: 1.113 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.510 G, 5.003 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Nitrogen (87%), Hydrogen (13%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (48%), Oxygen (26%), Helium (26%)
Lithosphere: Zinc (average), Magnesium (average), Copper (very poor)
Satellites: 4 large

PLANET 4: Gaseous
Distance: Class 10, 1.0850E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 3.0123E+04 km
Mass: 1.3752E+26 kg
Density: 1.201 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.031 G, 10.114 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (100%)
Hydrosphere: Mercury (34%), Hydrogen (33%), Helium (33%)
Lithosphere: Aluminum (average), Sulfur (average), Cesium (average)
Satellites: 4 captured

PLANET 5: Rocky
Distance: Class 15, 1.0789E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 06, 1.1496E+05 km
Mass: 2.3907E+28 kg
Density: 3.756 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 12.304 G, 120.704 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (53%), Helium (27%), Radon (20%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (53%), Nitrogen (30%), Hydrogen (17%)
Lithosphere: Aluminum (average), Ytterbium (average), Boron (very rich)
Satellites: 5 moderate, 10 captured

PLANET 6: Rocky
Distance: Class 16, 1.1641E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 01, 3.7251E+03 km
Mass: 1.1456E+24 kg
Density: 5.291 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.562 G, 5.509 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Nitrogen (81%), Hydrogen (19%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (81%), Nitrogen (19%)
Lithosphere: Aluminum (poor), Scandium (rich), Potassium (very poor)
Satellites: 2 captured

PLANET 7: Gaseous
Distance: Class 20, Eccentric Orbit
Radius: Class 04, 1.7536E+04 km
Mass: 2.7314E+25 kg
Density: 1.209 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.604 G, 5.928 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Carbon (51%), Hydrogen (34%), Helium (15%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (58%), Hydrogen (42%)
Lithosphere: Carbon (very rich), Ytterbium (very rich), Chromium (poor)
Satellites: 2 moderate, 8 captured


SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 18
DISTANCE: 195 LY
STAR DATA: A9V white dwarf; 1,267.1 Mm in radius; surface temperature 9238K; average stability

PLANET 1: Gaseous
Distance: Class 06, 1.4409E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 1.6264E+04 km
Mass: 2.0062E+25 kg
Density: 1.113 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.516 G, 5.061 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (46%), Nitrogen (39%), Hydrogen (15%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (53%), Helium (47%)
Lithosphere: Niobium (average), Rubidium (average), Carbon (average)
Satellites: 24 captured

PLANET 2: Gaseous
Distance: Class 14, 5.0500E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 06, 6.4634E+04 km
Mass: 2.0110E+27 kg
Density: 1.778 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 3.274 G, 32.122 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Helium (41%), Hydrogen (13%), Hydrogen (46%)
Hydrosphere: Arsenic (49%), Hydrogen (17%), Helium (34%)
Lithosphere: Sulfur (rich), Astatine (rich), Selenium (rich)
Satellites: 30 captured

PLANET 3: Rocky
Distance: Class 18, 3.8743E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 01, 2.2769E+03 km
Mass: 2.7199E+23 kg
Density: 5.501 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.357 G, 3.501 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Sulfur (50%), Oxygen (40%), Fluorine (10%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (87%), Oxygen (13%)
Lithosphere: Boron (very poor), Potassium (very rich), Nickel (poor)
Satellites: 1 captured

RECOMMENDATIONS: System 17 is really only worth maybe a few robot probes and mining expeditions; all the planets seem too heavy or tainted--radon atmospheres are not fun--for human occupation. System 18 is worth a closer look because of the breathable air gas giant.

STATUS: For a brand new ship, she's flying pretty well. We had some trouble calibrating the new sensors (http://www.weirdozone.0catch.com/projects/nationstates/randomplanet.xls) but now that we've got them worked out, we're technically getting better front-line data than even the Beagle Mk.I-class ships.

Lieutenant Commander MacDonald
CO, TYRS-SCT Endeavour
Galaxy Exploration Command

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

Taghaír walked onto the bridge, and stopped. He clapped his hands, rubbed them together, and then clasped them tightly.
"Sweet. I accept my vessel, and call it Armstrong! Right, well, captain on the bridge! Hello all you helping-people. I have no idea what you all do, but I'm sure it's all pretty important, so I'll just let you do it, as long as it gets this ship where I want it to go. Well, no use stayin' around here 'till we actually leave, so I'll just go meet the rest of the crew. Cheerio!"
And he spun on his heels and left.

The new captain was causing quite a stir. Among the conversations to be overheard onboard were a few hydroponics specialists and engineers saying things like "He wants a what?"
"A, uh, termite colony."
"Why?"
"Fresh produce. Says if we can get vegetables, we can have termites too. And cacao trees."
"Ew."

And, just down the hall- "He wants what? Dang, at this rate, it'll be another month before we get out of dock!"
"Uh, no, definitely not, deadline is next monday."
"Lemme get this straight- Traveler wants the gravity turned off in 'non-essential' areas, because it wastes power?"
Quite coincidentally, the captain walked by at just that moment, and made a comment while doing so. "Dang straight. And call me Tag, not Traveller. Half the Eniqciri in port have that surname."

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Captain Taghaír Traveller, CO, TYRS-RCR Armstrong
SJ: JHerschel5173 System Report

In order to maximize the possibility of finding habitable systems, I have determined to begin a series of follow-up missions to promising systems identified by the von Neumann Probe network. If we're lucky, we might run into one of the probes somewhere along the way; that would provide a massive amount of new data. Our first stop is JHerschel.

SYSTEM: JHerschel5173

DISTANCE: 19.7 LY

STELLAR CLASS: K3 V orange dwarf & M3.8V red dwarf

PLANET 1: Rocky
ORBIT DISTANCE (Gm): 62.831160
SIZE RADIUS (Mm): 6.502
ATMOSPHERE: Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon [CO2], Krypton, Argon
HYDROSPHERE: Hydrogen, Oxygen [Water], Cesium, Chlorine
LITHOSPHERE: Oxygen, Silicon, Calcium, Nickel, Silver
This planet has a comfortable surface pressure of .92 bars. Though it is tidelocked and temperatures range from 355K on dayside to 225K on nightside, the average temperature near the terminator is around 290K. The constant winds are a potential source of energy for a colony, and the atmosphere appears near perfect for habitation by Gaian plants.

PLANET 2: Rocky
ORBIT DISTANCE (Gm): 224.397
SIZE RADIUS (Mm): 5.82
ATMOSPHERE: Nitrogen, Xenon, Oxygen, Carbon [CO2], Hydrogen [Ammonia]
HYDROSPHERE: Nitrogen, Hydrogen [Ammonia], Rubidium, Chlorine
LITHOSPHERE: Oxygen, Silicon, Technetium, Iron, Molybdenum
This planet does have sufficient water to support a large colony locked up in massive polar icecaps, but why anyone would want to live here is beyond me. The planetologists have noted a few surface anomalies they'd like to study, though.

ASTEROID BELT:
ORBIT DISTANCE (Gm): 116.68644

PLANET 3: Rocky
ORBIT DISTANCE (Gm): 4.039146
SIZE RADIUS (Mm): 6.04
ATMOSPHERE: Argon, Oxygen, Carbon [CO2], Nitrogen, Krypton, Hydrogen [Ammonia]
HYDROSPHERE: Nitrogen, Hydrogen [Ammonia], Cesium, Chlorine
LITHOSPHERE: Oxygen, Silicon, Nickel, Iron, Potassium
This planet does, though close enough to its rather dim star for surface temperatures to hover around terrestrial normals, has a heavy atmosphere with a surface pressure of approximately 10 bars, enough to keep huge oceans of ammonia liquid. It is also tidelocked.

PLANET 4: Gaseous
ORBIT DISTANCE (Gm): 164.5578
SIZE RADIUS (Mm): 69.364
ATMOSPHERE: Hydrogen, Helium, Argon, Nitrogen [Ammonia], Carbon [Methane]
HYDROSPHERE: Hydrogen, Nitrogen [Ammonia]
LITHOSPHERE: Oxygen, Silicon, Carbon, Cesium


RECOMMENDATIONS: Planet 1 (JHerschel5173Aa) appears nearly perfect for a new colony, and the two ammonia-worlds should provide a long-term playground for the planetologists. The asteroid belt contains quite a bit of protoplanetary detritus and cometary bodies that should provide huge stores of raw material.

STATUS: The crew seems somewhat bored as we've basically done nothing more than confirm what the Probe told us. We're looking at something more exciting for our next jump- possibly one of the habitable gas giant systems.

Captain Taghaír Traveller
CO, TYRS-RCR Armstrong
Galaxy Exploration Command

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

{Internal Triumvirate Memo}
x Exploration, Evaluation, and Colonization Division; Cetagandan Space Service
o Galactic Exploration Command

Current Cetagandan Extrasolar Colonies

At current, there are two systems that have a permanent Cetagandan population. The first is Bright Morning, where a small group of Cetagandan nationals are mixed with other triumvirate nationals. The second is GECSS 9, now renamed the Shiuan system. At present, most Cetagandan extrasolar colonization activities are focused here, as its easily accessable resources make it an excellent position for a shipyard. Current plans place expansion of Fargone Station to a population of 250,000 within the next five years, and to 500,000 within fifteen.
Also present outside the system is the General Systems Vessel Finity's End, which is currently assisting in exploration efforts by deploying a spread of FTL probes pending further need of its extensive construction and passenger-carrying abilities in colonization efforts.

Statistics

Second Home System (GECSS-10): 10,000
Bright Morning: 10,000

Shiuan System (GECSS-9): 66,900

Fargone (Shiuan 1): 61,000
Fargone Station (orbital station): 60,000
Fargone Downside (planetside research): 1,000
Goibniu Yards: population resides on Farside Station

Mariner (Shiuan 2, 4 moons): 5,300
Mariner Station (orbits Mariner B): 5,000
Mariner Fuel Station (orbital refinery: 300

Shiuan Belt (various research/mining vessels): 600

Finity's End (roving): 6,000

Current Total Extrasolar Population: 82,000

{Secure Black Crystal Comms RELAY 1COMM -> GEC; m9 Security Protocols}
x Exploration Department, GSV Finity's End (Frontier Fleet, CSS, IUoCetaganda)
o Galactic Exploration Command

We recently released several dozen probes in our general vicinity to assist in exploration efforts. We've already heard back from a couple, and expect more to report over the next few weeks. Attached is the data from the first two probes.

SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 19
DISTANCE: 187 LY
STAR DATA: M9III; 2,631.9 Mm in radius; surface temperature 3077K; calm stability

Planet 1: Rocky

Distance: Class 09, 4.514E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 00, 1.8347E+03 km
Mass: 1.4402E+23 kg
Density: 5.567 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.219 G :: 2.855 m/s^2

Atmosphere
Helium 40%
Hydrogen 33%
Hydrogen 27%
Hydrosphere
Fluorine 52%
Hydrogen 32%
Nitrogen 16%
Lithosphere
Iron very poor
Molybdenum poor
Silver poor

Satellites: 0

SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 20
DISTANCE: 194 LY

Star 1: F0V, Radius 2,405.2 Mm, Surface Temp 6589K, calm
Star 2: A8V, Radius 1,106.7 Mm, Surface Temp 7481 K, calm

Planet 1: Rocky

Distance: Class 08: 2.8365E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 00: 1.9038E+03 km
Mass 1.6061E+23 kg
Density: 5.557 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.301 G :: 2.957 m/s^2
Atmosphere
Krypton 49%
Hydrogen 38%
Helium 13%
Hydrosphere
Hydrogen 36%
Oxygen 33%
Oxygen 31%
Lithosphere
Polonium rich
Titanium rich
Antimony very rich


Planet 2: Gaseous

Distance: Class 10: 8.9408E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 05: 3.8785E+04 km
Mass: 2.8951E+26 kg
Density: 1.185 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.309 G :: 12.842 m/s^2
Atmosphere
Hydrogen 44%
Helium 21%
Helium 35%
Hydrosphere
Oxygen 59%
Helium 17%
Iodine 24%
Lithosphere
Silicon average
Lithium average
Iron average
Satellites: 10

Planet 3: Rocky

Distance: Class 11: 1.3567E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 06: 8.3317E+04 km
Mass: 6.4057E+27 kg
Density; 2.644 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 6.277 G :: 61.578 m/s^2
Atmosphere
Nitrogen 53%
Helium 29%
Hydrogen 18%
Hydrosphere
Nitrogen 25%
Hydrogen 13%
Mercury 62%
Lithosphere
Lead poor
Calcium very rich
Zinc average
Satellites: 2

Planet 4: Rocky

Distance: Class 17: 2.4150E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 06: 1.2187E+05 km
Mass: 3.0405E+28 kg
Density: 4.010 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 13.925 G :: 136.603 m/s^2
Atmosphere
Hydrogen 49%
Chlorine 18%
Radon 33%
Hydrosphere
Hydrogen 33%
Carbon 28%
Oxygen 39%
Lithosphere
Actinium average
Nickel rich
Lanthanum very poor
Satellites: 4

Planet 5: Rocky

Distance: Class 20: 1.5921E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 00: 1.0225E+03 km
Mass: 2.5496E+22 kg
Density: 5.693 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.166 G :: 1.627 m/s^2
Atmosphere
Hydrogen 42%
Helium 19%
Hydrogen 39%
Hydrosphere
Nitrogen 23%
Hydrogen 34%
Oxygen 43%
Lithosphere
Aluminum average
Tellurium average
Sulfur rich
Satellites: 0



RECOMMENDATIONS: System 19 is next to worthless. System 20 is worth looking at for robotic mining or a starstation, but none of the planets are suitable for habitation, even with drastic terraforming.

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Lieutenant Commander Norman MacDonald, CO TYRS-SCT Endeavour
SJ: Exploration Report END-####

We've had our first extrasolar first-contact situation, and I don't think we did too poorly. Despite some trouble at the beginning, we made successful contact with one faction and established permanent communications before continuing on our sweep.

SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 21
LOCAL NAME: Aurora System
DISTANCE: 200 LY

PLANET 1: "Aurora D?sölatå"
Rocky, small, barren - uninhabitable
Controlled by the Imperial Dragonate

PLANET 2: "Aurora Prima"
Terrestrial, primarily wetland biomes - inhabited
Balkanized (major players: Imperial Dragonate, Shogunate)

PLANET 3: "Aurora Inferis"
Rocky, extremely hot - uninhabitable
Extremely resource-rich ring system
Control status unknown

NEBULA DATA: "N-A1"
Controlled by the Imperial Dragonate


SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 22
DISTANCE: 212 LY
STAR DATA: K1II red-orange bright giant, 1209.0 Mm radius, 4303 K, serene stability

PLANET 1: Rocky
Distance: Class 07, 2.5660E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 00, 1.1661E+03 km
Mass: 3.7660E+22 kg
Density: 5.670 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.188 G, 1.848 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (43%), Neon (39%), Sulfur (18%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (83%), Nitrogen (17%)
Lithosphere: Potassium (very rich), Beryllium (average)
Satellites: none

PLANET 2: Rocky
Distance: Class 09, 4.8569E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 06, 1.1971E+05 km
Mass: 3.0783E+28 kg
Density: 4.283 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 14.611 G, 143.332 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Helium (55%), Hydrogen (45%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (37%), Mercury (36%), Chlorine (27%)
Lithosphere: Iron (very poor), Cobalt (rich), Tantalum (average)
Satellites: 3 small

PLANET 3: Gaseous
Distance: Class 11, 1.6142E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 3.1524E+04 km
Mass: 1.5222E+26 kg
Density: 1.160 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.042 G, 10.222 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (59%), Nitrogen (37%), Oxygen (7%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (72%), Helium (28%)
Lithosphere: Sulfur (rich), Gallium (poor), Nickel (poor)
Satellites: 2 moderate, 3 small

PLANET 4: Rocky
Distance: Class 12, 2.3240E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 01, 3.0255E+03 km
Mass: 6.2536E+23 kg
Density: 5.391 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.465 G, 4.559 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (41%), Argon (30%), Fluorine (29%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (51%), Hydrogen(33), Chlorine (16%)
Lithosphere: Iron (rich), Neodymium (very poor), Phosphorus (poor)
Satellites: 5 captured

PLANET 5: Rocky
Distance: Class 15, 9.6091E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 00, 1.7180E+03 km
Mass: 1.1862E+23 kg
Density: 5.585 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.273 G, 2.682 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (62%), Carbon (38%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (58%), Hydrogen (30), Nitrogen (12%)
Lithosphere: Titanium (very rich), Sodium (poor), Molybdenum (very poor)
Satellites: none

PLANET 6: Gas Giant
Distance: Class 20, Erratic
Radius: Class 05, 5.4487E+04 km
Mass: 9.7925E+26 kg
Density: 1.445 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 2.244 G, 22.011 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Helium (47%), Oxygen (31%), Nitrogen (22%)
Hydrosphere: Fluorine (69%), Helium (31%)
Lithosphere: Phosphorus (poor), Technetium (poor), Zinc (average)
Satellites: 2 small, 6 captured

RECOMMENDATIONS: We should maintain contact with the Cyberutopian splinter colony of Aurora and try to get the two back in touch; that's a job for the Diplomatic Corps, though. The area is hot militarily and so I don't think it'd be wise to move Triumvirate assets into the area.

System 22 shows promise with several worlds rich in shipbuilding materials. I feel that we should most definitely launch several mining expeditions pending further study.

STATUS: We took fire from Aurora, but it got scattered by the shielding. Ship's handling fine, even in the atmosphere like she was designed. It's a good ship.

Lieutenant Commander MacDonald
CO, TYRS-SCT Endeavour
Galaxy Exploration Command

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

(OOC WARNING: I know this idea is completely and utterly unfeasible. However, I think it's totally cool. So I invoke the Holy Rite of the Plot Device.)

"This is a silly idea, you know?" mutters a technician in Olympic's control room.

Colonel Patricia Cowan shrugs. "What else are we going to do? It's not like Hillary has any land for us to establish something on. We would just scrap the colony ship anyway, so we're still scrapping it... and expansions and such are already planned."

Hillary, the first planet in GECSS 18, looms on both the strategic situation indicator and most of the control room's information screens. A breathable-air gas giant, it shines brightly with the reflected light of its white-dwarf parent star, its high albedo granted it by its layers upon layers of white water-vapor clouds. Technically, it got its name from the crew concerning Director Hertzfeldt's reasoning behind the 'brilliant idea' that the converted colony ship Olympus represented--Sir Edmund Hillary's "because it's there" schpiel--and that's the reason that's planned to go into the history books.

The name's significance to bloated balls of hot air is neatly glossed over.

Ducking lazily into the atmosphere over the poles, the four kilometer long ship idles its drives, letting itself sink until buoyancy takes over, settling in at an ambient pressure of a nice one-hundred-one kilopascals. "We're in the habitable range, ma'am."

"Pop the top, and inform Rhea we're in position." Captain Cowan sighs. "Thank goodness there's a real rocky planet to get resources from not too far away."

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A short, undefinably ugly man glances at the summary report on file and grins.

A breathable-air gas giant. Der Angst builds EM platforms, and Scolopendra builds a bloody zeppelin. Isn't there some sort of physical law preventing something so much fun from becoming a reality? Hmm...

A thought occurs to him, and he types out a quick letter.

TSMIT Broadcaster
Encryption: NDA Standard
Broadcast type: Diplomatic / Official
To: Advisor Jon Hertzfeldt - Director, Galaxy Exploration Command
Return transmission band: Open
IDENT: Devon Treznor - Treznor

Advisor Hertzfeldt,

We're watching the progress of this "Hillary" colony with some interest. The technological and engineering aspects are fascinating to say the least, but even more than that I'm interested in possible commercial aspects. I would like to have my Ministry of Tourism coordinate with you to set up a travel package. There can't be many more awe-inspiring or attractive sights in the universe than seeing a gas giant from the inside.

I hope you'll agree that this is a truly unique opportunity that could benefit both our nations. I look forward to your response.

Devon Treznor
Emperor

<end transmission>

He reads it over, nods and sends it. Then he sits back and sips a cup of coffee. A natural born tourist trap if I ever heard one. I've got to make a reservation for Nath and I.

--<Transmission Type: GEC Private Transmission>--
-<Sender: Director Jon Hertzfeldt, GEC>-
-<Destination: Emperor Devon Treznor, EoT>-
--<Subject: Olympus Colony, Hillary>--

That's an interesting idea. I talked to Advisor Spoilsport on this end--as it's a Scolopendran colony--and he'd be glad to arrange something. Razak likes the idea as 'mostly harmless' but there is the definite problem of needing civilian FTL capability, perhaps in a liner format or something. Then again, the whole Black Knight program should work out.

I talked to Olympus' governor and she seems a little leery about having a bunch of people traipsing about the colony at first. Give them a little time to settle, and then everything should be fine, especially once they start constructing and deploying secondary structures. She does think it'd be a good source of revenue for the colony, though, so that's good.

Looking forward to working with you,

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Galaxy Exploration Command
Triumvirate of Yut

--<End Transmission>--

Open YutLink: Encryption(Standard)
Destination: Scolopendra:Govt:GEC:Director Jon Hertzfeldt
Originating: Sunset:Govt:SEC:Admiral Small
Subject: Hillary:Colony Proposal

I've been looking over the various GEC/SEC planets with an eye towards interesting colony proposals and Hillary has stood out for both me and my staff as the most interesting. One of my staff came to me with the following idea - what I'd like to do is establish a test platform there to see if the concept works and then begin construction on a full sized version. I'm thinking we would start with a version built around 10 people or so, then scale it to 100 to see how that works. If that idea doesn't pop we can go with a full 100,000 person version.

Admiral Small, SEC,
Sunset

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<Communications to Galaxy Exploration Command>
{
<< While I am interested in sharing the GEC-discovered colony worlds with my allies, there is a small but growing subset of my population desiring somewhere completely out of organic contact. They are a product of our history, I'm afraid.

<< To this end, I deployed several self-sustaining and self-multiplying robot drones and have discovered a system which should be suitable to meet the requirements of being overly... extreme for most organics.

<< I have classified this system as Zero-One Colony-Exploitable System 1, and will insert it into the GEC archives as GECSS 23 in a show of goodwill... and as a statement to the aforementioned segment, which would prefer this remain secret.

<Communications to QACFHQ>
{
<< SYSTEM: 01B9C2
<< DISTANCE: 198 LY
<< STAR DATA: BIII blue bright giant, 2597.8 Mm radius, 11401 K, violent stability
<< SECONDARY STAR: KIII red bright giant, 1694.8 Mm radius, 4235 K, violent stability
<<PLANET 1: Rocky
Distance: Class 04, 5.3642E+00 Gm
Radius: Class 06, 8.2376E+04 km
Mass: 6.6819E+27 kg
Density: 2.854 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 6.698 G, 65.709 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (44%), Radon (31%), Carbon (25%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (65%), Carbon (35%)
Lithosphere: Tin (very rich), Calcium (very poor), Cobalt (rich)
<< PLANET 2: Rocky
Distance: Class 06, 1.0720E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 01, 2.4254E+03 km
Mass: 3.2742E+23 kg
Density: 5.478 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.379 G, 3.714 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Nitrogen (59%), Helium (36%), Hydrogen (5%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (56%), Oxygen (22%), Nitrogen (22%)
Lithosphere: Phosphorus (average), Selenium (very rich), Silver (average)
Satellites: 1 captured
<< PLANET 3: Rocky
Distance: Class 11, 1.5179E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 06, 8.6271E+04 km
Mass: 6.9970E+27 kg
Density: 2.602 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 6.395 G, 62.735 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Nitrogen (53%), Fluorine (47%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (60%), Nitrogen (40%)
Lithosphere: Silicon (rich), Technetium (rich), Nickel (poor)
Satellites: 1 planet-like
<< SATELLITE DATA
Radius: Class 01, 3.0251E+03 km
Mass: 6.2509E+23 kg
Density: 5.391 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.465 G, 4.558 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (80%), Carbon (20%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (96%), Hydrogen (4%)
Lithosphere: Cobalt (rich), Titanium (very rich), Cadmium (average)
<< PLANET 4: Rocky
Distance: Class 12, 2.7671E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 02, 5.1323E+03 km
Mass: 2.8880E+24 kg
Density: 5.100 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.746 G, 7.316 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Helium (47%), Hydrogen (37%), Fluorine (16%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (72%), Carbon (28%)
Lithosphere: Terbium (average), Antimony (rich), Zinc (poor)
Satellites: 2 large
<< PLANET 5: Gas Giant
Distance: Class 13, 3.3600E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 05, 3.3582E+04 km
Mass: 1.8002E+26 kg
Density: 1.135 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.086 G, 10.652 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Carbon (88%), Helium (12%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (75%), Nitrogen (25%)
Satellites: 20 captured
<< I very much doubt a system of six-gravity toxic worlds around two violent stars is of inordinate use to the Galaxy Exploration Command, but I do believe in keeping my allies informed. Copies of my data, including the location of this system, will be transferred to the GEC.
}

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Cetagandan Duchess of Marilac

{Secure Black Crystal Comms RELAY 1Comm -> GEC; m6 Security Protocols}
x Lieutenant Commander Susan Bridget (Captain, IEV Issac Asimov)
o Galactic Exploration Command


Star System: GECSS 24

Star: GECSS 24a (Ivrel)
Class: G5 III
Radius: 7.5448E+06 km
Temperature: 5699 K
Stability: Serene

Planet 1: Hestia
Distance: Class 8 - 3.4339E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 6 - 1.0607E+05 km
Mass: 1.8563 E+28 kg
Density: 3.713 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 110.092 m/s^2 = 11.222 g
Atmosphere: Hydrogen 58%, Nitrogen 25%, Radon 17%
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen 21%, Hydrogen 31%, Iodine 48%
Lithosphere: Silicon - Average, Ytterbium - Rich, Gadolinium - Rich
Satellites: 1 large moon

Planet 2: Pell
Distance: Class 11 - 1.35 E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 02 - 5.884 E+03 km
Mass: 4.2688 E+24 kg
Density: 5.003 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 8.228 m/s^2 = 0.839 G
Atmosphere: Oxygen 22%, Nitrogen 78% + trace elements
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen 55%, Oxygen 26%, 19% Carbon
Lithosphere: Silicon - Average, Molybdenum - Avergage, Sulfur - Very Poor
Satellites: 2 medium-sized moons

Planet 3: Amefel
Distance: Class 13 - 4.3544E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 6 - 6.5626E+04 km
Mass: 2.1232E+27 kg
Density: 1.793 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 32.898 m/s^2 = 3.354 G
Atmosphere: Hydrogen 88%, Helium 12 %,
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen 9%, Oxygen 38%, Carbon 53%
Lithosphere: Zirconium - average, Boron - rich, Titanium - poor
Satellites: Numerous


Planet 4: Thule
Distance: Class 16 - 1.3219E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 2 - 5.0806E+03 km
Mass: 2.8053E+24 kg
Density: 5.107 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 7.252 m/s^2 = 0.739 G
Atmosphere: Neon 46%, Oxygen 15%, Hydrogen 39%
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen 78%, Oxygen 22%
Lithosphere: Iron - Rich, Barium - average, Manganese - very poor
Satellites: 1 small

Planet 5: Mitclan
Distance: Class 20 - Eccentric Orbit
Radius: Class 00 - 1.2001E+03 km
Mass: 4.1020E+22 kg
Density: 5.665 kg/m^2
Surface Gravity: 1.900 m/s^2 = 0.194 G
Atmosphere: Florine 43%, Hydrogen 37%, Nitrogen 20%
Hydrosphere: Oxygen 38%, Carbon 36%, Nitrogen 26%
Lithosphere: Lithium - average, Iron - poor, calcium - very poor
Satellites: None

Recommendation: Ivrel II (Pell) is suitable for colonization - suggest a GSV be dispatched for additional surveys and preparation towards this end. Ivrel I (Hestia), while resource rich, has such intense gravity that it will be difficult to exploit, even with robotic workers. Ivrel III (Amefel) could make an excellent source of fuel for fusion-powered spacecraft. The other two planets are unremarkable. There are no major asteroid belts, with the exception of material at the Trojan points of the two largest planets.

Captain Susan Bridget
Officer Commanding, IEV Issac Asimov
GEC Squadron, Frontier Fleet, Cetagandan Space Service
{File Ends}

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Lieutenant Commander Norman MacDonald, CO TYRS-SCT Endeavour
SJ: Exploration Report END-####



SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 25
DISTANCE: 440 LY
STAR DATA: BV blue dwarf, 1534.6 Mm radius, 22593 K, turbulent stability

PLANET 1: Rocky
Distance: Class 08, 3.2171E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 00, 1.3652E+03 km
Mass: 6.0100E+22 kg
Density: 5.639 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.219 G, 2.152 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (55%), Sulfur (45%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (62%), Oxygen (38%)
Lithosphere: Molybdenum (average), Manganese (poor), Cobalt (poor)
Satellites: None

PLANET 2: Rocky
Distance: Class 13, 4.1369E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 03, 1.0327E+04 km
Mass: 2.0762E+25 kg
Density: 4.501 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.324 G, 12.991 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (44%), Helium (41%), Hydrogen (15%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (47%), Oxygen (33%), Hydrogen (20%)
Lithosphere: Potassium (rich), Molybdenum (average), Iron (Average)
Satellites: None

PLANET 4: Rocky
Distance: Class 14, 7.1158E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 03, 1.3834E+04 km
Mass: 4.6437E+25 kg
Density: 4.188 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.651 G, 16.193 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Radon (53%), Hydrogen (39%), Nitrogen (8%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (51%), Hydrogen (26%), Oxygen (23%)
Lithosphere: Gallium (average), Vanadium (poor), Magnesium (very poor)
Satellites: 2 large

PLANET 4: Rocky
Distance: Class 15, 8.1829E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 02, 4.3231E+03 km
Mass: 1.7627E+24 kg
Density: 5.208 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.642 G, 6.294 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Radon (54%), Oxygen (25%), Chlorine (21%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (40%), Nitrogen (33%), Hydrogen (27%)
Lithosphere: Antimony (rich), Phosphorus (average), Manganese (poor)
Satellites: 1 medium

PLANET 5: Rocky
Distance: Class 17, 2.7373E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 03, 8.2052E+03 km
Mass: 1.0935E+25 kg
Density: 4.726 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.105 G, 10.838 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (58%), Helium (48%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (50%), Oxygen (31%), Nitrogen (19%)
Lithosphere: Potassium (very rich), Scandium (average), Antimony (average)
Satellites: 3 large, 1 medium, 2 captured

PLANET 6: Rocky
Distance: Class 18, 4.6693E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 00, 1.1297E+03 km
Mass: 3.4275E+22 kg
Density: 5.676 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.183 G, 1.792 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (56%), Carbon (44%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (100%)
Lithosphere: Cobalt (average), Lutetium (poor), Manganese (very poor)
Satellites: none

PLANET 7: Rocky
Distance: Class 18, 3.9787E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 03, 1.5920E+04 km
Mass: 6.8197E+25 kg
Density: 4.035 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.830 G, 17.957 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Carbon (58%), Chlorine (30%), Hydrogen (12%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (73%), Oxygen (27%)
Lithosphere: Rubidium (very rich), Chromium (average), Silicon (average)
Satellite Points: 1 small, 2 captured

PLANET 8: Gaseous
Distance: Class 19, 4.9704E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 05, 4.5468E+04 km
Mass: 4.9201E+26 kg
Density: 1.250 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.619 G, 15.881 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (100%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (48%), Iodine (37%), Hydrogen (15%)
Lithosphere: Manganese (average), Copper (average), Bismuth (average)
Satellite Points: 3 small, 9 captured

RECOMMENDATIONS: The fifth planet in the system has 'colonize me' written all over it. A [i]Beagle should be sent to examine the extant flora and fauna further, but our own initial field tests show it to be not be immediately toxic to Terrestrial organisms, at least.

STATUS: Doin' dandy.

Lieutenant Commander MacDonald
CO, TYRS-SCT Endeavour
Galaxy Exploration Command

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

Aiming tesseract hyperpulse generator at home co-ordinates...
Initializing THPG... -= contact made =-
Handshake confirmed...
Beginning broadcast, encoded GEC-STANDARD...
Repeating on tachyon backup...

MESSAGE BEGINS

TO: Galaxy Exploration Command HQ, Titan
FR: Captain Nnoromele, CO TYRS-RCR Beagle
SJ: GECSS-25 System Survey

The system is colonizable, certainly, but it will be a bit trickier than Commander MacDonald originally thought.

First indication is the stability (or relative lack thereof) of the star. It is about two to three times as active as Sol, meaning that major flare events happen two to three times as often. This creates a sort of dead space insystem that I for one don't recommend staying in for extended periods of time without serious amounts of EMP hardening... and by 'serious amounts' I recommend almost no electrical systems whatsoever over the complexity of copper grounding cables and vacuum tubes. Tahar Joblis may be a good source for information on that.

The first planet, tenatively named 'Tarball,' looks to be a good source of CHO compounds. Its low gravity makes mining and distribution a relatively simple affair, and its atmosphere is so tenuous it is only noticeable in how it contributes elements to the hydro- and lithospheres. It is not metal-rich by any means, but molybdenum is a useful element for hull materials and so should be exploited.

The second planet, Jadiid Sahara, is nominally inhabitable except that it lies rather close to the parent star and is thus quite a bit hotter--a desert planet, essentially. All water on the planet is either trapped in atmospheric water vapor or, according to gravimetric density scans, in a cavernous underground water table or cistern of some sort. While carbon does not appear to be a major hydrosphere component; there are indications of subterranean oil pockets, which suggest that there may have been life on this planet. There are further indications that this was not this planet's original orbit, and that it is moving towards its parent star at approximately fifty meters a solar year, which can only be expected to increase... acceleration currently seems to be about one centimeter per year per year. This is possibly indicative of tampering, as there is no indication of any catastrophic collision event that would have changed the orbit of this planet appreciably. It is, however, a good source of hull materials and thus exploitation and colonization is recommended.

The third planet, Geiger, is just nasty. Somehow the atmosphere consists primarily of radioactive radon gas and thus is extremely unsafe without heavy radiation protection gear. Background radiation levels are understandably high, although it is a favorite debate among our science crew on whether those levels stem primarily from the atmosphere or from the large sheets of greenish glass that most closely resembles the Gobi Desert Glass of southwestern Egypt. We've gone down in exploration Lokis, but the average surface radiation absorption rate of 15 grays (1,500 rads) a second will kill an unshielded human within ten seconds, and given that most of it is gamma radiation, dense armor is required to protect against it (our Mobile Infantry contingent has had some luck in that manner, being able to reduce absorption rate to about 1 gray (100 rads) an hour, which is still dangerous). Given that radon has a half-life of only four days and the atmospheric levels are nearly constant, this suggests large deposits of heavy fissionables close to the surface in levels never before seen and, my geologists say, so unlikely to occur naturally that they may as well be impossible. It's a fascinating puzzle, but no one can live down there long enough to work it out in any detail. Its lack of readily useful minerals probably means that Geiger will remain a mere curiosity. I would recommend research bases on one of its two large moons--if nothing else, this will give us an excuse to develop extremely radiation-resistant armors.

The fourth planet, Curie, is just as bad and surprisingly similar. It also has what would otherwise be colonizable surface conditions except that it is coated in radon in a nearly perpetual manner. Its rich antimony reserves would be useful in componds and various metallurgical uses, however, so perhaps the aforementioned research base's products could be used to exploit this world.

The fifth planet, which Commander MacDonald was so excited about, has too much oxygen. Our Cetagandan contingent suggested 'Cinder,' so this planet is tenatively named "Tinder" or, alternately, "Cinderella." Continent-wide fires sparked by electrical storms are common, and the flora there have adapted to it. The dominant land plant kingdom is a scraggly low ground cover similar to creosote except more moist. It photosynthesizes oxygen from carbon dioxide at an astonishing rate and respires almost equally quickly to grow at a tremendous pace. It's hard seed pods are, like certain kinds of Terrestrial trees, only capable of opening after being heat-treated by a large-scale burn. These plants maintain the very high oxygen rate. The most advanced land animal is an arthropod similar to an insect, dubbed a "dragon beetle" by our biologists. It averages about six centimeters long and has a heavily armored shell that is almost like a chitinous ceramic; it can pull its head and legs inside of its shell like a tortoise. They operate in small social groups, more like families than hives, and collect bits of the plants inside their deep underground burrows. When there is another inevitable burn, they escape (triggered by changes in ambient light frequencies due to light absorption by smoke) to their underground burrows, gorge themselves with food, then hide inside their shells for most of the rest of the burn, emerging once the ground has cooled to a decent temperature. There are other arthropod species as there are other plant species; these two are simply the most effective. Cinderella's oceans, on the other hand, are teeming with complex life up to mammalians simply because the oceans do not burn. While this planet is colonizable, it should be done with caution--we lost three exploration teams who got caught in a lightning storm.

The sixth planet, Redeye, is more of a planetoid sporting a tenuous propane atmosphere. It appears to be a captured KBO-type body more than a planet, but how it ended up so far insystem is unknown.

The seventh planet, Skuma, is approximately Terrestrial-sized with an atmosphere of methane, carbon tetrachloride, and hydrochloric acid over shallow seas of a thick tarlike soup. It appears that a very large number of carbonaceous bodies went into the formation of Skuma. It is highly toxic but our previous experience with toxic and reactive atmospheres should limit any ill effects greatly. Its mineral wealth will be quite useful for the Triumvirate.

The eighth planet is a very simple and generally ordinary gas giant we have named 'Bloaty' due to an unfortunate resurgence in cartoon watching in the rec rooms. Bloaty is made of hydrogen, so I recommend we do what we always do with hydrogen gas giants--mine them.

We will remain insystem to continue our survey.

Captain Nnoromele
CO, TYRS-RCR Beagle
Galaxy Exploration Command

THPG sequence complete...
Closing link...
Deactivating THPG...
Systems back to standard operation.

Colonization Update

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Scolopendran Terra-Engineers successfully flash-terraformed Si'lat in the GECSS 13 system using models similar to those used to terraform Titan. It is currently in the balance phase of operations, requiring additional flora and fauna transplant to stabilize the ecosystem, but the planet is fully capable of supporting most Triumvirate life on the surface in a shirtsleeves environment. What few Daedalus-class colony ships we have refitted for mass-transit now have Si'lat as a priority destination for Scolopendran colonists from the Ring.

Updated Colony Numbers

Titan: 1 billion with a +-200 million engineering margin.
The Ring: 2.5 billion, give or take.
Bright Morning: 20 million
(ETC for terraformation: 14 JUN 2005)
Si'lat: 200 million
(Terraformed 27 SEP 2004)
Hillary: 1 million
Cinder: 20,000 (not to be increased until terraformation complete)
Jadiid Sahara: 1,000 (permanent research staff)

http://www.weirdozone.0catch.com/projects/nationstates/scolopendra/jon_hertzfeldt.gifAdvisor Jon Hertzfeldt
Director, Galaxy Exploration Command
Triumvirate of Yut

Executive Summary, New SCT-Scanned Systems

GECSS-26

Primary Star DataClass: B
Subclass: 0
Size: III (OC 4-7)
Radius: 2.2771E+07 km
Temperature: 30790 K
Stability: violent
Secondary Star DataClass: A
Subclass: 6
Size: V (OC 1)
Radius: 1.5921E+06 km
Temperature: 8544 K
Stability: serene
The violent activity of the primary star demands that caution be taken in any future operations in this system. While radiation effects are not overly concerning given our experience with radiation belts, there are indications that the primary star occasionally ejects very large self-sustaining prominences which could threaten any future activity.

Planet 1 Data: RockyDistance: Class 08, 4.2459E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 03, 9.0114E+03 km
Mass: 1.4213E+25 kg
Density: 4.637 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.191 G, 11.680 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (58%), Nitrogen (25%), Helium (17%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (52%), Oxygen (48%)
Lithosphere: Palladium (rich), Yttrium (rich), Antimony (very poor)
Satellites: 1 medium
Another hyperoxygenated world, somewhat like Tinder in the GECSS-25 system, but with equal possibility for exploitation. It does already have a vibrant aquatic ecology, as it has only a small amount of land and the water has surprisingly high concentrations of oxygen dissolved into it. Continental-shelf habitats are probably the safest plan for colonization, pending analysis by a Beagle-class research cruiser.

Planet 2 Data: GaseousDistance: Class 10, 7.0451E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 3.1028E+04 km
Mass: 1.3778E+26 kg
Density: 1.101 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.973 G, 9.550 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Carbon (54%), Helium (33%), Oxygen (13%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (59%), Carbon (38%), Nitrogen (3%)
Lithosphere: Boron (very rich), Aluminum (rich), Technetium (rich)
Satellites: 6 small
With an atmosphere of primarily carbon monoxide, this gas giant does not offer much opportunity for useful gas mining. However, its mineral-rich core does offer potential for testing out our new linegun-based mining systems. We can build one on one of the nearer moons and use it to gravitically extract minerals from the surface--at a very high cost in energy, but this should at least allow us to prove the concept.

Planet 3 Data: Rocky Distance: Class 14, 4.9966E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 00, 1.1809E+03 km
Mass: 3.9099E+22 kg
Density: 5.668 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.191 G, 1.871 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (73%), Chlorine (27%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (51%), Oxygen (49%)
Lithosphere: Sulfur (very rich), Niobium (poor)
Satellites: 0
This appears to be most probably ejecta from the catastrophe that created this system's asteroid belt, given its unusually high concentration of sulfur. Its atmosphere and hydrosphere are extremely tenuous, but if we ever need sulfur in extremely large quantities, a mining outpost should be sent here.

Asteroid/Nebula Belt:Distance: Class 12, 2.2218E+02 to 2.5003E+02 Gm
Total Mass: 1.9658E+26 kg
Nebula contents: Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Neon, Carbon, Helium
Asteroid contents: Tungsten, Tin, Rubidium, Nickel, Water Ice, Beryllium, Germanium
Apparently created by the collision of a rocky planet with a gas giant, this mineral-rich belt has large quantities of heavy metals and lighter construction metals, liberally interspersed with water-ice asteroids. Any future exploitation of the system can use these readily-available materials for quick expansion.

Planet 4 Data: GaseousDistance: Class 20, 1.4113E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 2.0279E+04 km
Mass: 4.3209E+25 kg
Density: 1.237 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.715 G, 7.011 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Sulfur (49%), Helium (40%), Carbon (11%)
Hydrosphere: Chlorine (58%), Mercury (25%), Nitrogen (17%)
Lithosphere: Carbon (very rich), Selenium (very rich), Tin (rich)
Satellites: 2 large, 5 medium, 7 small, numerous captured
Another sulfur-rich planet with a rich core.

GECSS-27

Primary Star DataClass: F
Subclass: 8
Size: V (OC 1)
Radius: 1.3403E+06 km
Temperature: 7089 K
Stability: turbulent

Planet 1 Data: RockyDistance: Class 13, 3.2514E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 03, 1.2865E+04 km
Mass: 3.8056E+25 kg
Density: 4.267 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.564 G, 15.344 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Sulfur (43%), Chlorine (29%), Hydrogen (28%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (54%), Carbon (46%)
Lithosphere: Nickel (rich), Lithium (average), Sulfur (average)
Satellites: 1 medium
The thick atmosphere of sulfuric and chloric acids makes this planet unsuitable for further conventional operations. It has no resources worth taking the additional risk of a corrosive atmosphere to obtain.

Planet 2 Data: GaseousDistance: Class 15, 8.4674E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 05, 6.0579E+04 km
Mass: 1.5278E+27 kg
Density: 1.641 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 2.832 G, 27.780 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (41%), Carbon (33%), Helium (26%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (63%), Carbon (37%)
Lithosphere: Palladium (very rich), Boron (rich), Chromium (poor)
Satellites: 4 small, 7 captured
Another potential candidate for linegun mining--palladium is a rare and relatively precious metal which is vital for hydrogen purification and storage. If linegun mining is a viable technique, then this planet could become extremely important to our interests as our civilian economy is greatly dependent upon hydrogen fusion power.

Planet 3 Data: Rocky Distance: Class 15, 9.2415E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 03, 8.7714E+03 km
Mass: 1.3181E+25 kg
Density: 4.663 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.165 G, 11.432 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Carbon (56%), Chlorine (28%), Hydrogen (16%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (37%), Hydrogen (33%), Nitrogen (30%)
Lithosphere: Gadolinium (rich), Germanium (average), Carbon (very poor)
Satellites: 0
A potential resource for gadolinium, which is useful in superconductive, metalurgical, and heat-sensitive magnetic applications. The atmosphere is primarily methane and carbon tetrachloride, highly toxic but not especially reactive. Liquid water on the surface is badly tainted by ammonia. No colonization potential beyond mining and smelting facilities.

GECSS-28

Primary Star DataClass: B
Subclass: 7
Size: III (OC 4-7)
Radius: 2.0282E+07 km
Temperature: 11026 K
Stability: violent
Secondary Star DataClass: F
Subclass: 3
Size: V (OC 1)
Radius: 1.1227E+05 km
Temperature: 6085 K
Stability: turbulent
The violent natures of these stars make any operations in this system extremely dangerous. Moving any further insystem than the gas giant in the first orbital position is proverbially unwise.

Planet 1 Data: Gaseous Distance: Class 13, 4.2237E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 1.6039E+04 km
Mass: 2.2330E+25 kg
Density: 1.292 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.590 G, 5.793 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Helium (54%), Nitrogen (29%), Hydrogen (17%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (47%), Hydrogen (36%), Oxygen (17%)
Lithosphere: Magnesium (rich), Potassium (poor), Lead (very poor)
Satellites: 20 captured
With a high concentration of helium and ammonia in its atmosphere, this planet is not exactly as useful as could be hoped. Magnesium exists in greater quantities elsewhere that are easier to extract.

Planet 2 Data: Rocky Distance: Class 19, 7.5463E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 02, 6.6772E+03 km
Mass: 6.1159E+24 kg
Density: 4.904 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.933 G, 9.154 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (69%), Krypton (31%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (67%), Oxygen (33%)
Lithosphere: Zinc (rich), Mercury (average), Titanium (poor)
Satellites: 2 medium
This planet is most notable for the high levels of the noble gas krypton in its atmosphere and for its marginally lower escape velocity, which will make it less expensive to mine.

GECSS-29

Primary Star DataClass: K
Subclass: 4
Size: III (OC 4-7)
Radius: 1.6037E+07 km
Temperature: 4498 K
Stability: calm
Secondary Star DataClass: K
Subclass: 5
Size: V (OC 1)
Radius: 5.4555E+05 km
Temperature: 5093 K
Stability: serene
This star system is unusually calm. Any platforms that have extremely low tolerances for electromagnetic or radiative interference would be optimal here.

Planet 1 Data: Rocky Distance: Class 07, 2.0582E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 00, 1.1980E+03 km
Mass: 4.0803E+22 kg
Density: 5.665 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.193 G, 1.897 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Carbon (44%), Oxygen (36%), Hydrogen (20%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (85%), Hydrogen (15%)
Lithosphere: Iron (very rich), Gadolinium (rich), Zinc (average)
Satellites: 0
A perfect world for mining, complete with a thin veneer of water ice on the dark side.

Planet 2 Data: Rocky Distance: Class 14, 4.5567E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 01, 2.7835E+03 km
Mass: 4.9014E+23 kg
Density: 5.426 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.430 G, 4.221 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (61%), Helium (39%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (55%), Hydrogen (24%), Mercury (21%)
Lithosphere: Lithium (rich), Sodium (average), Lithium (rich)
Satellites: 1 large
Also good for mining, with a tenuous and unreactive atmosphere and tar-like hydrocarbon deposits on the surface.

Planet 3 Data: GaseousDistance: Class 14, 6.6050E+02 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 2.6417E+04 km
Mass: 8.0728E+25 kg
Density: 1.045 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.787 G, 7.719 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (53%), Carbon (47%)
Hydrosphere: Chlorine (35%), Hydrogen (34%), Oxygen (31%)
Lithosphere: Copper (average), Hydrogen (average), Sodium (average)
Satellites: 6 small
This methane gas giant can help provide energy to mining operations on the inner planets.

Planet 4 Data: Rocky Distance: Class 16, 1.7097E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 06, 1.0546E+05 km
Mass: 2.0379E+28 kg
Density: 4.148 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 12.464 G, 122.276 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (42%), Oxygen (32%), Nitrogen (26%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (52%), Oxygen (48%)
Lithosphere: Yttrium (rich), Lithium (average), Francium (average)
Satellites: 2 large, 5 medium
This would be an outstanding colony world if it weren't for the fact that the local gravity and atmospheric pressure are crushing. Telescope observation reveals that there is life on the surface and in the smallish water oceans, but our small scout ships have no way to investigate these further and it is doubtful that even a Beagle's resources would turn out to be any help. We are contemplating the possibility of using simple robotic drones to investigate the surface.

Planet 5 Data: Rocky Distance: Class 18, 3.0773E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 06, 8.9804E+04 km
Mass: 7.6670E+27 kg
Density: 2.527 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 6.467 G, 63.438 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (58%), Hydrogen (42%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (75%), Chlorine (25%)
Lithosphere: Aluminum (very rich), Bismuth (average), Iron (poor)
Satellites: 6
While potentially rich in a very useful construction material, this planet is also far too heavy to conduct reasonable operations on.

GECSS-30

Primary Star DataClass: K
Subclass: 4
Size: III (OC 4-7)
Radius: 1.9439E+07 km
Temperature: 4389 K
Stability: calm
Secondary Star DataClass: K
Subclass: 0
Size: I (OC 12-16)
Radius: 9.3229E+08 km
Temperature: 5082 K
Stability: average

Planet 1 Data: Rocky Distance: Class 08, 3.7983E+01 Gm
Radius: Class 01, 3.2275E+03 km
Mass: 7.5504E+23 kg
Density: 5.361 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.493 G, 4.837 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Nitrogen (44%), Argon (41%), Hydrogen (15%)
Hydrosphere: Mercury (36%), Oxygen (34%), Carbon (30%)
Lithosphere: Lead (average), Iron (poor), Selenium (very poor)
Satellites: 6 captured
Now if only we needed a lot of lead...

Planet 2 Data: GaseousDistance: Class 18, 4.3128E+03 Gm
Radius: Class 04, 2.5944E+04 km
Mass: 6.5128E+25 kg
Density: 0.890 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.658 G, 6.457 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Nitrogen (58%), Sulfur (33%), Helium (9%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (75%), Hydrogen (25%)
Lithosphere: Carbon (very rich), Beryllium (very poor), Tellurium (very poor)
Satellites: 1 large, 3 medium, 5 small
If only we didn't have so many other places to get graphite... although, it does apparently have a very large diamond core. Useless and valueless, but interesting.

GECSS-31

Primary Star DataClass: G
Subclass: 8
Size: III (OC 4-7)
Radius: 8.9390E+06 km
Temperature: 5842 K
Stability: turbulent
Secondary Star DataClass: K
Subclass: 5
Size: III (OC 4-7)
Radius: 8.3062E+06 km
Temperature: 4632 K
Stability: turbulent
Tertiary Star DataClass: B
Subclass: 6
Size: V (OC 1)
Radius: 5.6229E+05 km
Temperature: 19327 K
Stability: average
No resources of note whatsoever. Only useful as a navigational system.

GECSS-32

Planetary Nebula Present: Oxygen, Helium, Nitrogen

Primary Star Data:
Class: B
Subclass: 4
Size: III
Radius: 8.8325E+06 km
Temperature: 27913 K
Stability: serene
Luminosity: 8.554E+01 Sol
Min Habitable: 1.319E+03 Gm
Max Habitable: 1.901E+03 Gm
Mass (Sols): 3.565 Sol
Mass (kg): 7.0906E+30 kg

Planet 1: Rocky
Distance: 1.2126E+02 Gm
Radius: 1.3495E+04 km
Mass: 4.3393E+25 kg
Density: 4.215 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.621 G, 15.899 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (100%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (53%), Hydrogen (47%)
Lithosphere: Molybdenum (rich), Cobalt (poor), Manganese (poor)
Satellites: 2 large

Secondary Star Data
Class: G
Subclass: 2
Size: V
Radius: 3.3366E+04 km
Temperature: 5528 K
Stability: calm
Luminosity: 2.424E-05 Sol
Min Habitable: 7.023E-01 Gm
Max Habitable: 1.012E+00 Gm
Mass (Sols): 0.048 Sol
Mass (kg): 9.5489E+28 kg

Planet 1: Gaseous
Distance: 9.5001E+01 Gm
Radius: 2.2222E+04 km
Mass: 4.7403E+25 kg
Density: 1.031 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.653 G, 6.406 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Helium (52%), Hydrogen (28%), Oxygen (20%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (62%), Hydrogen (38%)
Lithosphere: Thallium (rich), Francium (rich), Silicon (average)
Satellites: 4 small
Planet 2: Rocky
Distance: 2.4001E+00 Gm
Radius: 1.0505E+05 km
Mass: 1.4970E+28 kg
Density: 3.083 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 9.228 G, 90.525 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (49%), Helium (22%), Carbon (29%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (70%), Nitrogen (30%)
Lithosphere: Silver (very rich), Manganese (average), Iron (average)
Satellites: 2 medium


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GECSS-33

Primary Star Data
Class: B
Subclass: 3
Size: III
Radius: 1.1461E+07 km
Temperature: 11124 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 1.349E+02 Sol
Min Habitable: 1.657E+03 Gm
Max Habitable: 2.387E+03 Gm
Mass (Sols): 4.061 Sol
Mass (kg): 8.0769E+30 kg

Planet 1: Rocky
Distance: 7.6122E+01 Gm
Radius: 5.8169E+03 km
Mass: 4.1317E+24 kg
Density: 5.012 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.831 G, 8.148 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Radon (58%), Carbon (22%), Nitrogen (20%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (86%), Carbon (14%)
Lithosphere: Zinc (rich), Aluminum (average), Magnesium (average)
Satellites: 2 captured
Planet 2: Gaseous
Distance: 1.1513E+03 Gm
Radius: 1.9154E+04 km
Mass: 2.8174E+25 kg
Density: 0.957 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.522 G, 5.125 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Helium (76%), Carbon (24%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (47%), Mercury (37%), Neon (16%)
Lithosphere: Sodium (very rich), Potassium (average)
Planet 3: Rocky
Distance: 2.2409E+03 Gm
Radius: 1.9434E+03 km
Mass: 1.7067E+23 kg
Density: 5.551 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.307 G, 3.015 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Carbon (55%), Nitrogen (45%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (38%), Carbon (34%), Hydrogen (28%)
Lithosphere: Molybdenum (rich), Mercury (poor), Copper (very poor)


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GECSS-34

Primary Star Data:
Class: K
Subclass: 5
Size: III
Radius: 2.2887E+07 km
Temperature: 4587 K
Stability: calm
Luminosity: 2.049E+05 Sol
Min Habitable: 6.457E+04 Gm
Max Habitable: 9.302E+04 Gm
Mass (Sols): 32.930 Sol
Mass (kg): 6.5498E+31 kg

Planet 1: "Gaseous"
Distance: 6.1088E+01 Gm
Radius: 1.8167E+04 km
Mass: 2.9577E+25 kg
Density: 1.178 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.610 G, 5.980 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (72%), Helium (28%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (52%), Carbon (25%), Oxygen (23%)
Lithosphere: Carbon (poor), Magnesium (poor)
Satellites: 12 captured


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GECSS-35

Primary Star Data:
Class: O
Subclass: 9
Size: III
Radius: 1.8771E+07 km
Temperature: 37142 K
Stability: calm
Luminosity: 3.200E+02 Sol
Min Habitable: 2.552E+03 Gm
Max Habitable: 3.676E+03 Gm
Mass (Sols): 5.197 Sol
Mass (kg): 1.0337E+31 kg

Planet 1: Rocky
Distance: 1.3603E+03 Gm
Radius: 3.6474E+03 km
Mass: 1.0776E+24 kg
Density: 5.302 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.551 G, 5.405 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Carbon (54%), Hydrogen (46%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (38%), Carbon (33%), Hydrogen (29%)
Lithosphere: Potassium (very rich), Iron (rich), Gallium (very poor)
Satellites: 1 medium
Planet 2: Rocky
Distance: 3.1850E+03 Gm
Radius: 3.8313E+03 km
Mass: 1.2429E+24 kg
Density: 5.276 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.576 G, 5.650 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (41%), Carbon (40%), Hydrogen (19%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (53%), Iodine (47%)
Lithosphere: Beryllium (rich), Phosphorus (rich), Chromium (average)

Planet 3: Gaseous
Distance: 4.6382E+03 Gm
Radius: 3.6168E+04 km
Mass: 2.1624E+26 kg
Density: 1.091 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.124 G, 11.030 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (50%), Helium (38%), Nitrogen (12%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (73%), Iodine (27%)
Lithosphere: Manganese (very rich), Nickel (very rich), Molybdenum (poor)
Satellites: 15 captured
Planet 4: Gaseous
Distance: 6.6405E+03 Gm
Radius: 2.8120E+04 km
Mass: 9.9203E+25 kg
Density: 1.065 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.853 G, 8.372 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Carbon (56%), Hydrogen (28%), Helium (16%)
Hydrosphere: Iodine (51%), Hydrogen (49%)
Lithosphere: Gadolinium (very rich), Technetium (rich), Sodium (average)
Satellites: 20 captured

SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 36
DISTANCE: 537 LY

Primary StarClass: A9III
Radius: 2.2538E+07 km
Temperature: 9505 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 4.407E+02 Sol
Min Habitable: 2.994E+03 Gm
Max Habitable: 4.314E+03 Gm
Mass (Sols): 5.695 Sol
Mass (kg): 1.1327E+31 kg

Planet 1-I: RockyDistance: 4.0632E+01 Gm
Radius: 6.1233E+03 km
Mass: 4.7825E+24 kg
Density: 4.973 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.868 G (8.511 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Bromium (42%), Hydrogen (35%), Chlorine (23%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (65%), Hydrogen (25%), Oxygen (10%)
Lithosphere: Tungsten (very rich), Technetium (very poor), Copper (poor)
Satellites: 1 large, 1 mediumPlanet 1-II Data: RockyDistance: 4.6494E+03 Gm
Radius: 1.8384E+03 km
Mass: 1.4489E+23 kg
Density: 5.567 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.292 G (2.861 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Carbon (50%), Hydrogen (37%), Helium (13%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (56%), Hydrogen (23%), Nitrogen (21%)
Lithosphere: Sodium (poor), Molybdenum (average), Hafnium (average)
Secondary StarClass: A4V
Radius: 1.1446E+06 km
Temperature: 7741 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 2.394E+00 Sol
Min Habitable: 2.207E+02 Gm
Max Habitable: 3.180E+02 Gm
Mass (Sols): 1.283 Sol
Mass (kg): 2.5526E+30 kgTertiary StarClass: B8V
Radius: 4.8906E+04 km
Temperature: 11655 K
Stability: turbulent
Luminosity: 9.614E-03 Sol
Min Habitable: 1.399E+01 Gm
Max Habitable: 2.015E+01 Gm
Mass (Sols): 0.265 Sol
Mass (kg): 5.2763E+29 kg

Planet 3-I: RockyDistance: 8.0313E+02 Gm
Radius: 2.0125E+03 km
Mass: 1.8915E+23 kg
Density: 5.540 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.318 G, (3.117 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Sulfur (42%), Carbon (32%), Hydrogen (26%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (100%)
Lithosphere: Carbon (poor), Iron (poor), Molybdenum (very poor)
Satellites: 1 largePlanet 3-II: GaseousDistance: 4.6391E+00 Gm
Radius: 1.8878E+04 km
Mass: 3.6030E+25 kg
Density: 1.278 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.688 G, (6.746 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (79%), Hydrogen (21%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (40%), Fluorine (36%), Helium (24%)
Lithosphere: Iridium (poor), Carbon (poor), Boron (average)
Satellites: 3 capturedPlanet 3-III: GaseousDistance: 1.2884E+02 Gm
Radius: 3.9619E+04 km
Mass: 2.9117E+26 kg
Density: 1.118 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.262 G (12.378 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (45%), Oxygen (25%), Hydrogen (30%)
Hydrosphere: Helium (54%), Hydrogen: (11%), Hydrogen (35%)
Lithosphere: Sodium (average), Beryllium (very rich), Magnesium (average)
Satellites: 4 large, 3 small

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SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 37
DISTANCE: 392 LY

Primary StarClass: K3IV
Radius: 1.1275E+06 km
Temperature: 4942 K
Stability: turbulent
Luminosity: 5.438E+00 Sol
Min Habitable: 3.326E+02 Gm
Max Habitable: 4.792E+02 Gm
Mass (Sols): 1.622 Sol
Mass (kg): 3.2268E+30 kg

Planet I: RockyDistance: 5.9456E+00 Gm
Radius: 5.2006E+03 km
Mass: 2.9995E+24 kg
Density: 5.091 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.754 G, (7.401 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Nitrogen (47%), Carbon (13%), Hydrogen (40%)
Hydrosphere: Chlorine (31%), Hydrogen (14%), Mercury (55%)
Lithosphere: Cobalt (average), Titanium (poor), Cobalt (poor)
Satellites: 4 smallPlanet II: RockyDistance: 1.8085E+02 Gm
Radius: 9.0334E+04 km
Mass: 9.8751E+27 kg
Density: 3.198 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 8.232 G (80.754 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (78%), Hydrogen (22%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (23%), Carbon (26%), Nitrogen (51%)
Lithosphere: Molybdenum (average), Silicon (poor), Tantalum (average)Planet IV: RockyDistance: 2.9198E+02 Gm
Radius: 1.0388E+05 km
Mass: 1.8426E+28 kg
Density: 3.925 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 11.616 G, (113.950 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (68%), Oxygen (32%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (62%), Mercury (38%)
Lithosphere: Silicon (average), Platinum (poor), Palladium (rich)Planet V: RockyDistance: 1.1520E+03 Gm
Radius: 1.0359E+04 km
Mass: 2.0943E+25 kg
Density: 4.498 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.328 G, (13.023 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (45%), Krypton (13%), Oxygen (42%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (64%), Nitrogen (36%)
Lithosphere: Aluminum (very poor), Dysprosium (average), Potassium (average)
Satellites: 1 large, 1 captured

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SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 38
DISTANCE: 456 LY

Primary StarClass: A5I
Radius: 1.6322E+09 km
Temperature: 7569 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 7.922E+05 Sol
Min Habitable: 1.270E+05 Gm
Max Habitable: 1.829E+05 Gm
Mass (Sols): 48.461 Sol
Mass (kg): 9.6388E+31 kg

Planet 1-I: RockyDistance: 2.5475E+03 Gm
Radius: 3.7974E+03 km
Mass: 1.2113E+24 kg
Density: 5.281 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.571 G (5.605 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Oxygen (65%), Sulfur (35%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (51%), Nitrogen (49%)
Lithosphere: Sodium (poor), Sulfur (rich), Carbon (very poor)
Satellites: 1 small, 1 capturedPlanet 1-II: RockyDistance: 1.6384E+05 Gm
Radius: 7.3616E+04 km
Mass: 3.4172E+27 kg
Density: 2.045 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 4.289 G (42.077 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (44%), Hydrogen (35%), Oxygen (21%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (57%), Hydrogen (43%)
Lithosphere: Zinc (poor), Niobium (very poor), Lithium (poor)
Satellites: 4 small, 1 medium, 1 captured
Secondary StarClass: K5III
Radius: 2.0662E+07 km
Temperature: 4953 K
Stability: serene
Luminosity: 1.433E+05 Sol
Min Habitable: 5.399E+04 Gm
Max Habitable: 7.778E+04 Gm
Mass (Sols): 29.730 Sol
Mass (kg): 5.9133E+31 kg

Planet 2-I: RockyDistance: 4.9128E+03 Gm
Radius: 1.2493E+03 km
Mass: 4.6208E+22 kg
Density: 5.657 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.201 G (1.976 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (53%), Carbon (47%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (39%), Hydrogen (14%), Nitrogen (47%)
Lithosphere: Iron (average), Rhodium (very rich), Platinum (poor)Planet 2-II: RockyDistance: 1.7826E+03 Gm
Radius: 2.9674E+03 km
Mass: 5.9094E+23 kg
Density: 5.399 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.456 G (4.478 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (44%), Sulfur (36%), Radon (20%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (57%), Hydrogen (29%), Nitrogen (14%)
Lithosphere: Manganese (rich), Aluminum (very rich), Selenium (average)
Satellites: 2 mediumPlanet 2-III: RockyDistance: 1.1226E+04 Gm
Radius: 5.7324E+03 km
Mass: 3.9629E+24 kg
Density: 5.022 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.820 G (8.047 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (48%), Helium (18%), Chlorine (34%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (27%), Hydrogen (16%), Oxygen (57%)
Lithosphere: Cobalt (average), Iron (very poor), Erbium (average)
Satellites: 2 captured

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SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 39
DISTANCE: 78 LY

Primary StarClass: K3III (OC 4-7)
Radius: 1.7784E+07 km
Temperature: 5012 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 8.476E+04 Sol
Min Habitable: 4.153E+04 Gm
Max Habitable: 5.983E+04 Gm
Mass (Sols): 25.589 Sol
Mass (kg): 5.0896E+31 kg

Planet I: RockyDistance: 5.9748E+01 Gm
Radius: 1.5976E+03 km
Mass: 9.5700E+22 kg
Density: 5.603 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.255 G (2.502 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (57%), Oxygen (10%), Nitrogen (33%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (38%), Hydrogen (12%), Carbon (50%)
Lithosphere: Beryllium (very rich), Molybdenum (rich), Cobalt (very rich)Planet II: RockyDistance: 2.6939E+03 Gm
Radius: 1.0245E+04 km
Mass: 2.0311E+25 kg
Density: 4.509 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.316 G (12.912 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (45%), Radon (15%), Nitrogen (40%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (54%), Hydrogen (46%)
Lithosphere: Nickel (average), Bismuth (poor), Potassium (very rich)
Satellites: 2 large, 1 medium, 1 small

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SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS)
DISTANCE: 259 LY

Primary StarClass: K9III
Radius: 9.9130E+06 km
Temperature: 4916 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 1.096E+04 Sol
Min Habitable: 1.493E+04 Gm
Max Habitable: 2.151E+04 Gm
Mass (Sols): 14.263 Sol
Mass (kg): 2.8370E+31 kg

Belt IMin Distance: 1.6008E+01 Gm
Max Distance: 1.2167E+01 Gm
Mass 1: 8.2465E+25 kg
Mass 2: 4.4656E+26 kg
Nebula: Phosphorus, Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen, Iodine, Sulfur, Mercury
Asteroids: Boron (average), Manganese (very rich), Xenon-rich ores (rich), Zinc (rich), Iridium (very rich)Secondary StarClass: O3V
Radius: 1.2477E+06 km
Temperature: 38808 K
Stability: turbulent
Luminosity: 2.784E+00 Sol
Min Habitable: 2.380E+02 Gm
Max Habitable: 3.429E+02 Gm
Mass (Sols): 1.340 Sol
Mass (kg): 2.6650E+30 kg

SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 40
DISTANCE: 233 LY

Primary StarClass: F7V
Radius: 4.4766E+05 km
Temperature: 6169 K
Stability: violent
Luminosity: 2.145E-01 Sol
Min Habitable: 6.606E+01 Gm
Max Habitable: 9.516E+01 Gm
Mass (Sols): 0.644 Sol
Mass (kg): 1.2811E+30 kg

Planet I: RockyDistance: 3.3856E+00 Gm
Radius: 2.2774E+03 km
Mass: 2.7213E+23 kg
Density: 5.500 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.357 G (3.501 m/s^2)
Atmosphere [tenuous]: Hydrogen (73%), Chlorine (27%)
Hydrosphere: None
Lithosphere: Phosphorus (very poor), Molybdenum (very poor), Cobalt (very poor)
Satellites: 2 mediumPlanet II: RockyDistance: 4.4968E+00 Gm
Radius: 4.2072E+03 km
Mass: 1.6296E+24 kg
Density: 5.224 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.626 G (6.143 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (75%), Oxygen (25%)
Hydrosphere: Chlorine (39%), Nitrogen (12%), Hydrogen (49%)
Lithosphere: Rubidium (average), Iron (poor), Nickel (rich)
Satellites: 2 large, 2 capturedPlanet III: GaseousDistance: 5.2730E+01 Gm
Radius: 3.7619E+04 km
Mass: 2.7007E+26 kg
Density: 1.211 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.298 G (12.735 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (48%), Carbon (18%), Oxygen (34%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (81%), Oxygen (19%)
Lithosphere: Technetium (average), Silicon (average), Manganese (average)
Satellites: 4 largePlanet IV: GaseousDistance: 1.0811E+01 Gm
Radius: 4.1430E+04 km
Mass: 3.2314E+26 kg
Density: 1.085 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.281 G (12.563 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Carbon (53%), Hydrogen (35%), Helium (12%)
Hydrosphere: None
Lithosphere: Aluminum (poor), Sulfur (very poor), Lithium (poor)
Satellites: 3 small, 1 capturedPlanet V: RockyDistance: 3.0273E+01 Gm
Radius: 4.8873E+03 km
Mass: 2.5096E+24 kg
Density: 5.132 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.715 G (7.011 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Carbon (73%) Nitrogen (27%)
Hydrosphere: None
Lithosphere: Manganese (rich), Bismuth (average), Rubidium (average)Planet VI: GaseousDistance: 8.0779E+01 Gm
Radius: 3.9170E+04 km
Mass: 2.9413E+26 kg
Density: 1.168 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.304 G (12.793 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (86%), Oxygen (14%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (49%), Mercury (51%)
Lithosphere: Yttrium (average), Manganese (rich), Aluminum (poor)
Satellites: 2 largePlanet VII: RockyDistance: 2.3227E+02 Gm
Radius: 8.9278E+03 km
Mass: 1.3848E+25 kg
Density: 4.646 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.182 G (11.594 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (57%), Oxygen (11%), Neon (32%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (28%), Hydrogen (12%), Carbon (60%)
Lithosphere: Gold (average), Iron (poor), Aluminum (very poor)
Satellites: 18 capturedPlanet VIII: GaseousDistance: 3.7508E+02 Gm
Radius: 2.6800E+04 km
Mass: 8.0910E+25 kg
Density: 1.003 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.766 G (7.517 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Carbon (51%), Nitrogen (49%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (43%), Oxygen (10%), Chlorine (47%)
Lithosphere: Sodium (average), Molybdenum (average), Lithium (rich)
Satellites: 3 large, 5 capturedPlanet IX: RockyDistance: 2.8686E+02 Gm
Radius: 2.6170E+03 km
Mass: 4.0919E+23 kg
Density: 5.450 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.406 G (3.987 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Oxygen (50%), Helium (50%)
Hydrosphere: Mercury (24%), Nitrogen (33%), Hydrogen (43%)
Lithosphere: Manganese (average), Aluminum (poor), Silicon (very poor)
Satellites: 1 capturedPlanet X: RockyDistance: 4.7122E+02 Gm
Radius: 1.5567E+03 km
Mass: 8.8645E+22 kg
Density: 5.610 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.249 G (2.441 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Chlorine (43%), Hydrogen (57%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (44%), Hydrogen (56%)
Lithosphere: Nickel (poor), Nickel (average), Sodium (very poor)Planet XI: RockyDistance: 7.9054E+02 Gm
Radius: 1.5923E+03 km
Mass: 9.4770E+22 kg
Density: 5.604 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.254 G (2.494 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (72%), Xenon (28%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (100%)
Lithosphere: Polonium (average), Germanium (rich), Zinc (average)Planet X: RockyDistance: 6.9159E+03 Gm
Radius: 2.7892E+03 km
Mass: 4.9307E+23 kg
Density: 5.425 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.431 G (4.229 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Oxygen (40%), Radon (12%), Carbon (48%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (50%), Hydrogen (50%)
Lithosphere: Molybdenum (average), Rhodium (rich), Silicon (very poor)
Satellites: 1 small
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SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 41
DISTANCE: 596 LY

Primary StarClass: K4IV
Radius: 1.8270E+06 km
Temperature: 4948 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 2.945E+01 Sol
Min Habitable: 7.741E+02 Gm
Max Habitable: 1.115E+03 Gm
Mass (Sols): 2.629 Sol
Mass (kg): 5.2285E+30 kg

Planet 1-I: RockyDistance: 7.0164E+03 Gm
Radius: 2.4688E+03 km
Mass: 3.4489E+23 kg
Density: 5.472 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.385 G (3.776 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (53%), Carbon (36%), Hydrogen (11%)
Hydrosphere: None
Lithosphere: Zinc (average), Technetium (average), Rhodium (very poor)
Satellites: 1 small, 1 captured
Secondary StarClass: A2IV
Radius: 1.8345E+06 km
Temperature: 7663 K
Stability: turbulent
Luminosity: 5.466E+00 Sol
Min Habitable: 3.335E+02 Gm
Max Habitable: 4.804E+02 Gm
Mass (Sols): 1.625 Sol
Mass (kg): 3.2314E+30 kg

Planet 2-I: GaseousDistance: 2.3655E+03 Gm
Radius: 2.8755E+04 km
Mass: 1.0981E+26 kg
Density: 1.103 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.903 G (8.862 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Oxygen (90%), Hydrogen (10%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (36%), Chlorine (16%), Nitrogen (48%)
Lithosphere: Tantalum (average), Iron (rich), Rubidium (poor)
Satellite Points: 2 large, 1 small
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SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 42
DISTANCE: 166 LY

Primary StarClass: K1III
Radius: 1.9348E+07 km
Temperature: 4782 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 1.138E+05 Sol
Min Habitable: 4.813E+04 Gm
Max Habitable: 6.933E+04 Gm
Mass (Sols): 27.839 Sol
Mass (kg): 5.5373E+31 kg

Planet 1-I: RockyDistance: Highly Eccentric Orbit
Radius: 5.7670E+03 km
Mass: 4.0313E+24 kg
Density: 5.018 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.825 G (8.089 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (53%), Helium (37%), Oxygen (10%)
Hydrosphere: Carbon (100%)
Lithosphere: Iron (average), Chromium (average), Manganese (very rich)
Satellites: 6 capturedSecondary StarClass: A1IV
Radius: 2.1284E+06 km
Temperature: 9286 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 7.090E+00 Sol
Min Habitable: 3.798E+02 Gm
Max Habitable: 5.472E+02 Gm
Mass (Sols): 1.750 Sol
Mass (kg): 3.4807E+30 kg

Planet 2-I: RockyDistance: 2.2838E+00 Gm
Radius: 9.8517E+04 km
Mass: 1.5979E+28 kg
Density: 3.990 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 11.199 G (109.863 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: None
Hydrosphere: None
Lithosphere: Rubidium (average), Manganese (rich), Tungsten (very rich)
Satellites: 3 large, 1 small, 1 capturedPlanet 2-II: GaseousDistance: 6.1148E+00 Gm
Radius: 3.0501E+04 km
Mass: 1.4340E+26 kg
Density: 1.207 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 1.049 G (10.286 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Carbon (48%), Hydrogen (20%), Sulfur (32%)
Hydrosphere: Helium (53%), Iodine (18%), Hydrogen (29%)
Lithosphere: Iron (very rich), Sodium (very rich), Calcium (rich)
Satellites: 4 large, 4 capturedPlanet 2-III: GaseousDistance: 1.3059E+02 Gm
Radius: 2.2866E+04 km
Mass: 5.3072E+25 kg
Density: 1.060 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.690 G (6.774 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (55%), Carbon (45%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (51%), Helium (39%), Oxygen (10%)
Lithosphere: Boron (average), Magnesium (very poor), Chromium (rich)
Satellites: 1 small, 2 capturedPlanet 2-IV: RockyDistance: 3.6236E+02 Gm
Radius: 1.9125E+03 km
Mass: 1.6279E+23 kg
Density: 5.555 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.303 G (2.970 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Radon (49%), Helium (25%), Carbon (26%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (46%), Nitrogen (37%), Oxygen (17%)
Lithosphere: Thallium (average), Chromium (rich), Erbium (poor)Planet 2-V: RockyDistance: 4.0329E+02 Gm
Radius: 2.4573E+03 km
Mass: 3.4021E+23 kg
Density: 5.474 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.383 G (3.760 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (100%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (52%), Nitrogen (48%)
Lithosphere: Lanthanum (rich), Potassium (very rich), Iron (very rich)Planet 2-VI: GaseousDistance: 4.0143E+02 Gm
Radius: 1.8893E+04 km
Mass: 3.3810E+25 kg
Density: 1.197 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.644 G (6.321 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Carbon (54%), Nitrogen (35%), Hydrogen (11%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (57%), Oxygen (43%)
Lithosphere: Sulfur (poor), Osmium (rich), Boron (poor)
Satellites: 1 large, 3 medium, 1 smallPlanet 2-VII: RockyDistance: 2.8857E+03 Gm
Radius: 4.6876E+03 km
Mass: 2.2258E+24 kg
Density: 5.159 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: 0.689 G (6.760 m/s^2)
Atmosphere: Helium (79%), Carbon (21%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (50%), Oxygen (33%), Chlorine (17%)
Lithosphere: Tungsten (average), Sodium (average), Iron (rich)
Satellites: 2 small

SYSTEM: Galaxy Exploration Command Survey System (GECSS) 43
DISTANCE: 530 LY

Primary StarClass: B4V
Radius: 1.0975E+06 km
Temperature: 16633 K
Stability: average
Luminosity: 2.225E+00 Sol
Min Habitable: 2.127E+02 Gm
Max Habitable: 3.065E+02 Gm
Mass (Sols): 1.257 Sol
Mass (kg): 2.4995E+30 kg

Planet I: RockyDistance: 1.8510E+00 Gm
Radius: 1.1670E+04 km
Mass: 2.9106E+25 kg
Density: 4.372 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: (1.454 G) 14.262 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (44%), Helium (38%), Carbon (18%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (27%), Fluorine (14%), Chlorine (59%)
Lithosphere: Sodium (very poor), Zinc (rich), Phosphorus (average)
Satellites: 15 capturedPlanetary Nebula IMean Distance: 4.0286E+00 Gm
Mass: 3.3428E+28 kg
Constituents: Oxygen, Helium, Carbon, Germanium (very rich), Cobalt (average), Vanadium (rich), Zinc (very rich), Tellurium (rich), Aluminum (rich)Planet 2: GaseousDistance: 8.2848E+00 Gm
Radius: 2.6180E+04 km
Mass: 9.3796E+25 kg
Density: 1.248 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: (0.931 G) 9.132 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (100%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (29%), Oxygen (13%), Helium (58%)
Lithosphere: Molybdenum (very poor), Lithium (average), Tungsten (average)
Satellites: 16 capturedPlanet III: RockyDistance: 1.6314E+01 Gm
Radius: 3.1874E+03 km
Mass: 7.2801E+23 kg
Density: 5.367 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: (0.487 G) 4.782 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Oxygen (89%), Nitrogen (11%)
Hydrosphere: Oxygen (80%), Hydrogen (20%)
Lithosphere: Carbon (poor), Iron (average), Sulfur (very rich)
Satellites: 1 capturedPlanet IV: RockyDistance: 4.9797E+01 Gm
Radius: 3.4165E+03 km
Mass: 8.9107E+23 kg
Density: 5.334 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: (0.519 G) 5.094 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (55%), Neon (32%), Helium (13%)
Hydrosphere: Nitrogen (76%), Hydrogen (24%)
Lithosphere: Iron (rich), Potassium (average), Zirconium (very rich)
Satellites: 1 capturedPlanet V: GaseousDistance: 1.5755E+02 Gm
Radius: 2.2721E+04 km
Mass: 5.9741E+25 kg
Density: 1.216 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: (0.787 G) 7.722 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (55%), Oxygen (34%), Carbon (11%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (39%), Carbon (33%), Oxygen (28%)
Lithosphere: Cobalt (rich), Carbon (average), Molybdenum (average)
Satellites: 4 capturedPlanet VI: RockyDistance: 4.2055E+02 Gm
Radius: 2.0317E+03 km
Mass: 1.9453E+23 kg
Density: 5.537 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: (0.321 G) 3.145 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Fluorine (58%), Nitrogen (14%), Hydrogen (28%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (56%), Nitrogen (44%)
Lithosphere: Beryllium (very rich), Copper (average), Plutonium (average)
Satellites: 2 capturedPlanet VII: RockyDistance: 3.1201E+02 Gm
Radius: 5.7695E+03 km
Mass: 4.0365E+24 kg
Density: 5.018 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: (0.825 G) 8.092 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Hydrogen (59%), Oxygen (15%), Fluorine (26%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (51%), Oxygen (49%)
Lithosphere: Actinium (average), Potassium (very rich), Niobium (average)
Satellites: 6 capturedPlanetary Nebula IIMean Distance: 1.1426E+03 Gm
Mass 2.3727E+26 kg
Constituents: Helium, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Carbon, Chlorine, Lanthanum (rich), Boron (rich), Molybdenum (average), Technetium (rich), Cobalt (very rich), Aluminum (rich)Planet VIII: RockyDistance: 2.4430E+03 Gm
Radius: 2.1210E+03 km
Mass: 2.2077E+23 kg
Density: 5.524 kg/m^3
Surface Gravity: (0.334 G) 3.275 m/s^2
Atmosphere: Sulfur (40%), Carbon (19%), Helium (41%)
Hydrosphere: Hydrogen (81%), Oxygen (19%)
Lithosphere: Sulfur (poor), Lithium (rich), Titanium (rich)