Aphrophine

catalog: ACA-3291ll-333uuy-669-h0011
(ACA-329/llos re:333/2 per old sys.)

Aphrophine, with the Riftig region visible

Common Names:	Aphrophine, Scafas
Body Class:	planet
Equatorial Diameter:	14,690 km
Mass (Earths):	1.621
Mean Surface Gravity:	1.2 G
Rotation Period (Day):	4.22 days
Orbital Period (Year):	230.5 days
Axial Tilt:	38.01°
Semi-major Axis:	.649 AU
Surface:	rocky
Atmosphere:	argon oxygen
Atmos. Pressure:	.78
Surface Temperature:	29° C (min) 48° C (mean) 71° C (max)
Indigenous Life:	1 dominion, 2 domains
Natural Satellites:	2
Parent:	star, Marstame

APHROPHINE (af-ROF-fin-eh) is one of the four so-called Core Worlds. It is a planetrich in high-demand natural resources, including golden-green real estate. As a result control over the planet has been hotly disputed. Aphrophine is the second planet in orbit around Marstame (aka Muphris / Muphrid / Balshine). It has two large rocky satellites – an oxygen-rich moon, Hafelin, and a sulfur-clouded volcanic moon, Yar Vas.

HISTORY

Blue Agency surveyors landed on Aphrophine in 95 N.E., but did not stake any formal claim for the planet. Then in 111 N.E. Your Agency, with the weakest legal claim to do so, annexed Aphrophine – along with the fuel-belt planet, Lannic – as its own. In 115 N.E., Blue Agency and Your Agency went to war over control of the two worlds. Called the “Battles for Lannic and Aphrophine” (also the “First Aphrophine War”), the conflict ended in a mere three years with the Blue Agency withdrawing claims to Aphrophine, and with Lannic being held in trust by the Soutras Wranglers of Lantil Mybea. Thirty years later, in 151 N.E., Blue Agency challenged Your Agency’s legitimacy on Aphrophine. The resulting conflict was called the Second Aphrophine War and featured sky-naval combat at an unprecedented level. The Second Aphrophine War was even shorter than the first, but many times more brutal. During the conflict, 30% of Aphrophine’s surface was devastated – parts of made almost uninhabitable – by the effects of matter-antimatter weaponry and bombardment of various large scale fusion devices.

Clean-up in subsequent decades was slow and costly. Now the area is well-developed real estate host to some of the tallest cities on Aphrophine.

CULTURE

Major Population Centers

• Crown
• Jackwind
• Riftig Gits

GEOGRAPHY

Real Estate Outline

Marstame

1. Aphrophine

• Yar Vas
• Hafelin
• Constructed Real Estate
  
  • Cole Cam Station
  • Hafelin Best Station
  • Hafelin Armpot Station
  • Aphrophine Platform Flat
  • Aphrophine Platform Full

Moon Hafelin, with crescent Aphrophine in the distance