Largent
12-10-2005, 02:38
ooc: extension of this thread: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=448591
As though guarded by a cosmic lighthouse, a bright light shone on the fringes of the Iron Kingdoms system. In reality the lighthouse was no more than a pulsar, or a rapidly spinning neutron star. The dead star’s core can spin hundreds of times per second causing the star to blink like an atomic clock. The surrounding nebula was visible from light years away. It started as a vibrant purple at the center and radiated out, slowly becoming a pleasant blue.
The LNS-Endeavor was a large bulky ship. It was blocky and designed for science, not to look good, which it didn’t. But to Captain Fuller she was beautiful and she was his home. At least she had been for the last fifteen years. As he gazed out at the nebula he realized that he had returned to his homeland. His ancestors had left this system for Earth centuries ago, and now he was to explore it.
Fewer than one million people lived in the entire system and they were all Largentians. Yet, no real contact had been made with them in over a century. All the government really knew was that the people were surviving. However, should other nations be permitted access to the system, much more information would be needed on it.
Fuller nodded to a crewman and the ship accelerated as the nebula turned a brilliant intense blue and then almost instantaneously shifted towards a brilliant red as they entered the system and were greeted by their first challenge. It was neither a star nor a planet, it was a brown dwarf which the Mapalgetians had once inhabited. High altitude clouds captured light and if reflected it in a bright magenta. Beneath the clouds intense heat caused the object to shine red.
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Mapalgetia
Brown Dwarf
Current Status: Habitable
Day Length: 25,536 Earth hours
Year Length: 1,067 Earth days
This brown dwarf has a solid surface deep within its core yet floating cities were much more common when it was a civilized planet. Terraforming was incomplete yet with proper protection living on the surface is possible. Several structures from the former empire remain and some life has survived the genocide the planet experienced. The atmosphere is mainly composed of carbon dioxide and nitrogen.
Satisfied, drones were released from the ship in pods. As they descended into the atmosphere rockets slowed them and they were ejected into the atmosphere. Each of the seven drones began making measurements and taking readings. They slowly descended to the surface where they took rock samples and soil samples along with several pictures. Once their mission was complete Fuller recalled them and they were rocketed back to the Endeavor.
Test began on the samples and within a few hours they had results.
Atmosphere:
CO2-87%
Nitrogen-10%
Hydrogen-2%
Other-1%
Soil:
Magnesium-64%
Iron-30%
Other-6%
Atmospheric Conditions- ‘Unstable’
As though guarded by a cosmic lighthouse, a bright light shone on the fringes of the Iron Kingdoms system. In reality the lighthouse was no more than a pulsar, or a rapidly spinning neutron star. The dead star’s core can spin hundreds of times per second causing the star to blink like an atomic clock. The surrounding nebula was visible from light years away. It started as a vibrant purple at the center and radiated out, slowly becoming a pleasant blue.
The LNS-Endeavor was a large bulky ship. It was blocky and designed for science, not to look good, which it didn’t. But to Captain Fuller she was beautiful and she was his home. At least she had been for the last fifteen years. As he gazed out at the nebula he realized that he had returned to his homeland. His ancestors had left this system for Earth centuries ago, and now he was to explore it.
Fewer than one million people lived in the entire system and they were all Largentians. Yet, no real contact had been made with them in over a century. All the government really knew was that the people were surviving. However, should other nations be permitted access to the system, much more information would be needed on it.
Fuller nodded to a crewman and the ship accelerated as the nebula turned a brilliant intense blue and then almost instantaneously shifted towards a brilliant red as they entered the system and were greeted by their first challenge. It was neither a star nor a planet, it was a brown dwarf which the Mapalgetians had once inhabited. High altitude clouds captured light and if reflected it in a bright magenta. Beneath the clouds intense heat caused the object to shine red.
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Mapalgetia
Brown Dwarf
Current Status: Habitable
Day Length: 25,536 Earth hours
Year Length: 1,067 Earth days
This brown dwarf has a solid surface deep within its core yet floating cities were much more common when it was a civilized planet. Terraforming was incomplete yet with proper protection living on the surface is possible. Several structures from the former empire remain and some life has survived the genocide the planet experienced. The atmosphere is mainly composed of carbon dioxide and nitrogen.
Satisfied, drones were released from the ship in pods. As they descended into the atmosphere rockets slowed them and they were ejected into the atmosphere. Each of the seven drones began making measurements and taking readings. They slowly descended to the surface where they took rock samples and soil samples along with several pictures. Once their mission was complete Fuller recalled them and they were rocketed back to the Endeavor.
Test began on the samples and within a few hours they had results.
Atmosphere:
CO2-87%
Nitrogen-10%
Hydrogen-2%
Other-1%
Soil:
Magnesium-64%
Iron-30%
Other-6%
Atmospheric Conditions- ‘Unstable’