The Cyclopedia Of Worlds

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 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

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

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

• Neptune (star)
  • Dakka
    • Agi
    • Argenta

Dakka surface, with moons Agi and Argenta visible at upper left.