Parao

Common Names:	Parao
Body Class:	planet
Equatorial Diameter:	40,020 km
Mass (Earths):	12.51
Mean Surface Gravity:	.94
Rotation Period (Day):	8.16 hours
Orbital Period (Year):	5.12 years
Axial Tilt:	24.2°
Semi-major Axis:	2.71 AU
Surface:	gas
Atmosphere:	noble gases helium oxygen
Atmos. Pressure:	1.7 (cloud level)
Surface Temp.:	-145° C (mean)
Indigenous LIfe:	1 dominion, 1 domain
Satellites:	1
Parent:	star, Lan Shipao

PARAO (pa-RAU) is a gas giant and is the fourth and outermost planet of the star Lan Shipao. The world and its real estate operate under the aegis of the Soutros Authority.

Parao has only one rocky moon, Blates. Prior to human development of the Lan Shipao territory, Parao also had seventeen more small asteroid moons. Most of these were rich in strontium and lithium and were completely broken down and harvested by the middle of the War Period.

The longrunning Newstring Service moved to Parao’s orbit in 101 N.E., setting up a major Broadcast Table on the moon Blates.

Parao has become a poetic icon of return to home and safety. In the Expansion Period, its appearance was often the first visual evidence to freighter teamsters and crew that they were indeed at the end of their long voyages to the trade hubs of Lantil Mybea and Lannic.

Fencepost Period balladier, Rusen Baltai, wrote a love song called “Parao”, which is still popular today:

I return to your beauty
I return to breath
I return to your warmth
O my Parao

So many hours, so many years,
So many watches
Embraced only by the No-Nothing
The black and lonely No-Nothing
Oh! O, my Parao! O, my Parao

Real Estate Outline

• Lan Shipao
  1. 1. Blates
  • Parao