catalog: ACA-3291ll-333uuy-669-h0011
(ACA-329/llos re:333/2 per old sys.)
Aphrophine, with the Riftig region visible
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| 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 planet rich 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
- 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
catalog: DDT-928kabaum-11sk-3-aa2
(DDT-8377/os re:45/661 per old sys.)
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| Common Names: |
Dakka, D’Kauka |
| Body Class: |
planet |
| Equatorial Diameter: |
13, 995 km |
| Mass (Earths): |
1.41 |
| Mean Surface Gravity: |
1.2 G |
| Rotation Period (Day): |
31.2 hours |
| Orbital Period (Year): |
543.2 days |
| Axial Tilt: |
29.4° |
| Semi-major Axis: |
1.82 AU |
| Surface: |
rock
liquid H2O |
| Atmosphere: |
oxygen
nitrogen
methane
CO2
water vapor |
| Atmos. Pressure: |
1.49 |
| Surface Temperature: |
- 21° C (min.)
38° C (mean)
60° C (max) |
| Indigenous Life: |
2 dominions, 3 domains |
| Natural Satellites: |
2 |
| Parent: |
star Neptune (aka Crosa 45) |
DAKKA (DAH-kah) (also “D’Kauka”), one of the Four Core Worlds, is a submerged world with over 99% of its geology under a layer of liquid water. It is the second planet in orbit around the star Neptune (Crosa 45) and is under jurisdiction of Your Agency.
Dakka has two rocky moons, Agi and Argenta.
Natural History
Dakka’s oceans are teeming with life, but because much of the planet’s ozone and CO2 is dissolved in the oceans, certain protective layers of the upper atmosphere are relatively thin. Penetration by radioactive particles from Dakka’s sun, “Neptune” (associated in name only with the Solar gas giant planet, Neptune) make the planet’s few exposed land masses devoid of any megafauna. Human habitation of these islands began soon after the planet was discovered, however.
Dakka has a core of iron carbides and nickel.
By the end of the first century of the New Era, it was clear Earth’s compromised environment would no longer sustain vertebrate animal life in its oceans. In an act of desperation and hope, scientists transferred 38 large pelagic Earth species to Dakka’s massive oceans. Most scientists involved in the relocation project had scant hope that any of the animals would be sufficient to start new populations – even with the plan of aggressive genetic upgrades proposed. All of these species died out within a few decades except for charcarodon charcarias, which defying expectation, not only survived but flourished. The animal found a suitable niche in Dakka’s ecosystem and is now classified as a new species, the Dakka shark.
One of Dakka’s most aggressive predators, the Bamoda, is also one of its biggest specialty food exports.
Dakka shark
Civilization and Culture
The first landing on Dakka was by the venture ship USSA Aventura five years before the start of the New Era (5 O.E.).The Aventura had been commissioned by an Earth-based political league of the Southern Hemisphere, but when its crew got word of the power-sharing pact signed by the Three Agencies, it claimed the planet for Your Agency.
Dakka is agriculturally rich, with enough food resources to enable a lucrative specialty food export trade. Most mineral material must be imported from other worlds. The cost of living in its two developed populations centers – Kermis and Semis – is quite high.
Immigration to Dakka has been very tightly controlled – even throughout the War Period. Nearby Core World Aphrophine has been forced to absorb many of those denied entry to Dakka – often to that planet’s economic and political detriment.
Dakka is home to Davis University at Dakka, and its renowned Aquatic Lifeforms program.
Real Estate Outline
Dakka surface, with moons Agi and Argenta visible at upper left.
catalog: ERB-87tarcroft-3tl-92-ba7
(ERB-80073/os re:33/8 per old sys.)
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Palul-Lar Don western hemisphere map view, with ice caps
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| Common Names: |
Palul Lar Don, Palul,
Reserve World Palul, The
Dinosaur Planet |
| Body Class: |
planet |
| Equatorial Diameter: |
10,919 km |
| Mass (Earths): |
.722 |
| Mean Surface Gravity: |
.82 G |
| Rotation Period (Day): |
39.91 hours |
| Orbital Period (Year): |
492.7 days |
| Axial Tilt: |
21.9° |
| Semi-major Axis: |
.869 AU |
| Surface Comp: |
rock |
| Atmosphere |
nitrogen
oxygen
CO2 |
| Atmos. Pressure: |
.72 |
| Surface Temp: |
- 120° C (min.)
25° C (mean)
68.2° C (max.) |
| Indigenous Life: |
1 dominion, 3 domains |
| Number of Satellites: |
2 |
| Parent: |
star, Foulus |
PALUL-LAR DON is colloquially called “The Dinosaur Planet”. It has a substantial covering of liquid water and a warm climate suitable for animal life. The planet has one large rocky moon, Palul-Lar Som, and a smaller icy moon, Palul-Ris’sharah.
Surveyors registered and mapped the planet in 161 N.E., near the end of the Expansion Period. They were amazed to find a host of large organisms which closely resembled Earth species – including specimens which appeared to be offshoots of lifeforms from Earth’s Mesozoic Era.
Certain scientific and spiritual communities have engaged in an ongoing campaign to have Palul-Lar Don declared a Reserve World, off-limits to development and commerce. Palul-Lar Don’s vast wealth of mineral and agricultural resources have made the planet an inviting prospect for developers.
Reticulan Influence
It is supposed that the Reticulans, who monitored – if not actually influenced – human evolution, might also been husband to other species. It is conjectured that, in the case of Palul-Lar Don, a wide array of lifeforms were transplanted from Earth 200 million years ago – just prior to Earth’s so-called KT Deluge, which caused massive extinctions on Earth and wiped out many larger animals, including the planet’s dinosaurs.
Old World dinosaurs are fairly common in most zoological parks, but on Palul-Lar Don life has been allowed to develop, apparently unhindered, for 200 million years now. Scientists of all disciplines continue to study the planet as a fascinating model of how biology on Earth might have evolved without the impact of the KT Deluge and other extraterrestrial interference.
Though the Palul-Lar Don is popularly called “The Dinosaur Planet”, the percentage of true dinosaurs among its fauna is relatively low. An astounding sampling of the original Earth fauna must have been brought to the planet. “They brought two of everything,” quipped paleogaeologist Wiley Ericson. Also, some of the dinosauria have evolved to a point where they may require new classification. Debates on this point are still in the early stages
Lifeforms
Some notable fauna of Palul-Lar Don:
- craulium
- hippodontia
- homoceratops
- lataceratops spp.
- luxopus
- megaloceratops
- meliaceratops
- metricanopus
- Palul wellington
- rauliad
- raulicaucis
- sauropodia delta
- sauropodia eta
- tarbosaurus palula minor
- tetraharpedon
- triharpedon
- vestaceratops
- xicantid
Rocky Strone’s Expedition
Earlier this Common Calendar year, celebrity naturalist Rocky Strone embarked upon a high profile expedition to Palul-Lar Don.
Strone’s mission, funded by grants from The Cyclopedia Of Worlds and the Davis University at Dakka, is intended to be the most complete in-flesh survey of the planet ever.
Strone, in cooperation with Cyclopedia Of Worlds and the Newstring information service, established a live data signal which allows Strone and his team to transmit live updates of their expedition to the whole of the Newstring service. The live stream is said to be the first of its kind to be used for mass civilian information transmission since the middle of the War Period.
A number of eminent paleobiologists and exobiologists have accompanied Strone on the Palul-Lar Don mission, including Dr. Mason Hauki.
Expedition Team
- Rocky Strone
- Dr. Mason Hauki
- Weddy Beluzzi, Atmospherics Head AUS-DS
- Ruddy Koi-sin, Lead Behaviorist
- Pola Nicomai, Biosystems Statistician
- Trondheim Karu, Deputy Seismologist
- Shulia Sunny, Deep Controller
- Yonah Wellington, 2nd Ear & Eye Tech
- Mandy Ben Witt, 1st Ear & Eye Tech
- Reckner Amparo
- Petra Neely
- Shaki Ywsef, Microbiologies Systematician
- Keyes Augusta Navarro, Microbiologies Tech
- Caper Smallover, Grey Studies Expert
- John-Charles Cojo, Team Physic
Strone Expedition Live Updates
Follow updates from the Strone Palul-Lar Don Expedition at @rstrone
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