Tuesday, June 8, 2021
A Guide to New Sol
Attention, Attention. This is an automated message. The world of New Sol is hereby interdicted as of January 22, 5623 by resolution of the 57th Secretariat of the Solomani Confederation. All travel by foreign ships to any world in the inner system is prohibited. —Warning Beacon message, recorded 341-1102.
New Sol (Magyar 0503 D501956-7). Red Zone. High Population, Industrial, Ice-Capped, Non-agricultural, Vaccuum.
New Sol is a Solomani Confederation system located in the Urartu Cluster, sometimes known as the Clan Cluster, a string of 38 worlds connected by Jump-1 distances. The Cluster extends from Akuusir subsector in Dark Nebula to Clan and Eery subsectors in Magyar.
System Data
The mainworld, with a population of 9.8 billion, occupies a heavily industrialized system with six inhabited secondary worlds, including Edom (F6B48CA-A), with a population of 538 million.
Primary Aeetes. Spectral Class G3 V. Mass 0.99 M☉. Stellar Radius 0.99 R☉. 100 Diameter Limit 0.92 AU. Luminosity 1.06 L☉. Absolute Magnitude +4.69.
| Orbit | Name | UWP | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Aeetes | G3 V | ||
| 0 | Hleayuaeea | Y9B0000-0 | Tz | |
| 1 | Ktaa | Y7A0103-7 | Tz | |
| 2 | Canaan | YAAA27A-A | Ho Mi | |
| 3 | New Sol | D501956-7 | Hi Ic In Na Va Fo | |
| 40 | Lystra | Y100211-9 | Mi Sa | |
| 4 | Edom | F6B28CA-A | Co | |
| 5 | Gath | YAA3102-8 | ||
| 65 | Gittite Moon | H400699-7 | Mi Sa | |
| 6 | Iya | Size Q SGG | ||
| 7 | Hfoileiiau | Size Q SGG | ||
| 8 | Fteih | Size Q IG | ||
| 9 | Kaaiia | Size L IG | ||
| 10 | Eyaaiy | Y6A1000-0 | Fr | |
| IS Form 11 | Star System Data | |||
Planetary Data
Mean Orbital Radius 130.15 million km (0.87 AU). Period 317 days 18h 43m. Rotation Period 22h 36m 11s. Axial Inclination 39° 34′ 23″. Diameter 8,756 km. Mass 0.28 M🜨. Density 4.7 g/cm3. Mean Surface Gravity 0.58g. Escape Velocity 5.049 m/s. Surface Atmospheric Pressure 0.00 atm. Composition N/A. Hydrographic Percentage 10%. Mean Surface Temperature 27.75° C.
The mainworld is a medium-sized, airless planet. New Sol has no surface water but large subsurface ice deposits.
Socio-Political Data
Total World Population 9.84 billion. Primary Cities Thaeta, 4 billion; Megipa, 2 billion; Mioza, 1.3 billion; Figura, 1 billion; Jisa, 800 million; Kyekhui, 667 million. World Government Feudal Technocracy (New Sol Directorate). Law Level Moderate law (all firearms except shotguns prohibited). Tech Level Pre-Stellar (7). Primary Trade Goods minerals, polymers, bulk precipitates.
Although Terrans surveyed the New Sol system relatively early in the Rule of Man period, none of the planets proved hospitable. The mainworld was first settled in earnest by Aslan ihatei during the Long Night, who named the world Tyestea. Humans began immigrating to the system during the Solomani period as interstellar trade was reinvigorated across the Urartu Cluster.
Humans and Aslan shared New Sol for centuries with relatively few incidents, establishing scattered settlements across the planet’s surface. These modest industrial settlements eventually grew into a cluster of powerful city-states. In 742 a Solomani Party faction gained control of Megipa City and began a unification campaign that culminated in a planetary constitution in 891.
The world government eventually grew into a feudal technocracy, wherein all senior governmental positions were held by a hereditary Solomani Party leadership. This system was notoriously corrupt and frustrated native industrial interests by hampering lucrative trade with Aslan markets.
In 1099 the Party system was overthrown in a bloodless popular revolution led by the new Magyar Free Trade party. In response the Confederation interdicted the world, but New Sol has proven extremely resilient: while the Solomani Navy has placed a small picket of patrol frigates in the inner system to enforce the interdiction, the New Sol starport at Thaeta remains open and commercial traffic continues to flow, though at a much reduced rate.
The mainworld harbors a remnant population of some 40 million Aslan, mostly found in the ancient domed city of Kyekhui.
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