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| Almost twenty years ago, datahunters discovered the codes to the Zeta Reticuli Portal of the Pluto gate, allowing transfer to the system. The system has one notable gas giant quite close to the second star of the system. The presense of such a close Jovian type planet has discouraged the formation of any rocky terrestrial planets though the jovian has several large moons. The outer system is dominated by several successive belts of asteroids that form an unusually close kupier belt.
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| This gas giant is a swirling dark mass similiar to Neptune, though it exceeds Jupiter in size. The priciple worlds of the Zeta system are located in orbit, with one only world existing in the inner system.
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| The world of Hades is a galactic perculiarity. At some early point in the planet's formation, it appears huge deposits of expanding gas became trapped under a hot plastic crust, resulting a network of huge bubbles shaped caverns under the surface. It appears the world cooled significantly soon after, preserving them to this day. The mist surface of this world tends to percolate down, resulting in huge stalagmites forming in the cave systems. Terraforming the caverns was relatively simple and they remain to this day, one of the largest open air breathable spaces.
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| This world displays not only extra-terrestrial life, but also one of the most deadly environments in known space. Prometheus has a atmosphere that is some 45% oxygen and a significant amount of carbon, which has clouded this world in a thick greenhouse effect. Life here clings on in suprising abundence, thick fast growing plantlife adapted to a often random cycle of wild fires and mysterious insectoid life. Much like the tale of Prometheus, life here is brought to the brink of death continually, before being restored anew. Colonies were established on Prometheus, mostly on high mountain peaks or in the oceans, where the threat of the atmosphere was significantly less. The study and use of the exotic biota of the planet was the primary economic driver, though the collapse brought much turmoil...
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| This is highly volcanic world and contains unusually significant deposits of uranium, radium and thorium. The unusual amounts of radioactive material present throughout the crust contribute to a staggering level of surface background radiation and several sites of naturally occurring nuclear reactors that complicated exploitation.
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| During the collapse, the mining colonies on the surface endured varying fates, some suffering containment failures, exposing them to a toxic atmosphere of radioactive decay elements, others suffered over a long period, while others still endured and adapted themselves to an increasingly fraught environment.
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| Asteroid Belts<br>
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| The Zeta Belt is dominated by icey dwarf planets, comets and typical rocky asteroid.
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| Other systems have been discovered, that were purely the purview of posthumanity. Their discovery is entirely random and demonstrate that posthuman activity was occuring across great swaths of the galaxy.
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| BPM 37093 is a variable white dwarf star of the DAV, or ZZ Ceti, type, with a hydrogen atmosphere and an unusually high mass of approximately 1.1 times the Sun's. It is about 50 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus next to the Southern Cross, and has been found to have a 3000-kilometre-wide core of crystallised carbon, or diamond. Recently discovered after Zeft Brannigan discovered the transit codes in a posthuman complex located bizzarely under the old New York subway system.
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| PSR is a millisecond pulsar located 980 light years from Sol, with three carbon type (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_planet) planets in orbit. The planet's contain significant amounts of hydrocarbons and useful metals and are the subject of a exploitation race in order to develop these resources.
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Setting & Backstory
The Reconnect
The Reconnect is not just a area of space, it exists physically as the series of large international T-Gates capable of handling a large volume of traffic, the Reconnect network connects all the polities in known space together, the highways of the interstellar network.
As an area of space, politically it comprises 314 Inhabited Star Systems, consisting of over fifty nominal states.
The Dark Roads
The Dark Roads are a series of dangerous T-Gate connections spread across the connect. They are unofficial and un-monitored and fraught with dangers, natural, human or more esoteric. Some connections appear to be through some sort of mega-structure, it's dimensions are unknown, but spaceships can easily cross the connections that traverse it.
Various routes have been mapped, some are even considered relatively safe and desperate traders or smugglers may use them to avoid attention or cut corners.
The Megastructure
The most famous part of the Dark Roads are those that traverse the megastructure. It's location in the galaxy is unknown, as the T-Gates within it are fully enclosed from space, some even possessing a breathable atmosphere. The only constant is that there is a pair of T-Gates within each section of the structure one encounters, other than that, the sections vary in size, some barely large enough for a ship, others capable of housing entire cities or space stations.