Ambreneta

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Binary Star System
     ‘Great Lantern’ - F2III Yellow-White Giant Star
     ‘Ember’ - M8VI Red Subdwarf Star

Inner Orbital Planets
     A1 ‘Forsaken’

Outer Orbital Planets
     AB1 ‘Lamplighter’
     AB2 ‘Interloper’
           AB2a ‘Life Finds A Way’
     AB3 ‘Renegade’
           AB3a ‘Entropy’
           AB3b ‘Slave’
           AB3c ‘Anarchy’
           AB3d ‘Captive’
           AB3e ‘Prisoner’
           AB3f ‘Chaos’
     AB4 ‘Consequences’
     AB5 ‘Gatekeeper’


Jump Lanes
Stable Cae ParavaeCae EranaeCae Alosyra

A1 'Forsaken'

  • (Class U) Molten Planetoid

The only planet with a stable orbit around a single star in the binary pair, Forsaken lives up to its name. It is a ball of molten material, left over from the formation of the star system. It is so close to the Great Lantern that its surface has never dropped below melting point, and no probes have ever survived to reach planetary orbit, let alone the surface.


AB1 'Lamplighter'

  • (Class U) Rocky Planetoid

Once part of a different star system, the Lamplighter was captured about a million years ago, and is currently in a close figure of eight orbit around both stars. Within the next million years or so, it will either stabilise into a circular orbit around one or both stars, or be ejected from the system again.


AB2 'Interloper'

  • (Star) K3V Orange Star

The Interloper was captured by the binary systems immense gravity when the two stars systems passed through each other about fifty million years ago. It orbits the binary pair in a highly elliptical orbit, and has swept the system clear of almost all of its original planets. Most of the Interlopers own planets were also either destroyed or ejected from the system as well.


AB2a 'Life Finds A Way'

  • (Class 1H) Cyclic Habitable World
  • Lamentia Colony founded turn 0 by Ilum Tenabra

The sole remaining planet of the Interloper system that still orbits its star is subjected to huge temperature variations thanks to the Interlopers elliptical orbit. When the Interloper is on its close approach to the binary pair, temperatures on AB2a rise to make it a warm, if not quite tropical, world on which life flourishes. As the stars move apart, however, the world is plunged into a deep freeze. Native life has adapted to these cyclic ice ages, and vegetation springs up rapidly during the each fifteen year habitable period, before retreating and hibernating during the thirty years of cold.


AB3 'Renegade'

  • (Class U) Large Gas Giant

Once part of the Interloper system, the Renegade has been ripped out of its original orbit and now orbits the binary pair in a very elongated path. It retains a small system of moons, as well as several asteroids that are likely the remnants of planets destroyed when the two systems collided.


AB3a 'Entropy'

  • (Class U) Rocky Planetoid

The only moon of Renegade with an atmosphere, Entropy's air is highly toxic and corrosive. The ground is covered in a permafrost that has so far prevented any life emerging, though it is possible that something has evolved in the chemical seas beneath the ice.


AB3b 'Slave'

  • (Class U) Large Asteroid

Thought to have been captured in the last three or four million years, Slave is an unremarkable asteroid.


AB3c 'Anarchy'

  • (Class U) Rocky Planetoid

Large enough to be a small planet in its own right, Anarchy is unusually dense, thought to be due to unusual concentrations of heavy metals in its core. Whether Anarchy arrived with Renegade or is a remnant from the original binary system remains unknown.


AB3d 'Captive'

  • (Class U) Small Asteroid

Captive is an asteroid captured by Renegade about six million years ago. There is evidence that the asteroid is part of a larger one that was fragmented by a collision.


AB3e 'Prisoner'

  • (Class U) Small Asteroid

Current theories on the formation of Renegades moon system suggest that Prisoner was once part of the same body as Captive, and its elliptical orbit is due to it being ejected by the collision which separated them, but it not moving fast enough and being recaptured by Renegade.


AB3f 'Chaos'

  • (CLass U) Icy Planetoid

Originally thought to be a captured comet, probes revealed it to be much larger than expected, and it is now thought to be a small planetoid size object that was ejected into the inner system by the approach of Interloper, and then captured by Renegade's gravity.


AB4 'Consequences'

  • (Class U) Debris Ring

In a more normal system, this would have been an asteroid belt. Formed by the destruction of several planets when Interloper entered the system, it has since been swept clean by the elliptical orbits of both Interloper and Renegade. The few remaining asteroids are too small and too sparsely distributed to be of any value, and remain only as a monument to the death of a star system.


AB5 'Gatekeeper'

  • (Class U) Icy Planetoid

The sole surviving planet of the original binary system, Gatekeeper orbits at the systems outer edge, near where the jump nodes have formed. It has a solid metal core surrounded by thick layers of ice, and there is some speculation that it is not a natural planet, and that something ancient lies concealed beneath the ice.