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Hemera System

Greetings, Commander, and welcome to the Hemera system! This is a binary star system first surveyed by Rattium Shipyards in the year 20XX with long range survey probes.

The Hemera system is vast, and the starting locations in the spawn menu are just that - starting locations. They are all more or less hospitable, and all resource types are available either on-planet or nearby (except for food - you'll have to buy that from trade stations for most of them).

Wherever you choose to spawn, you will start with enough space credits (SC) to purchase a reasonably sized ship or rover of your choosing, and some food or beverages, from a nearby merchant outpost.

• Solar system is divided into 3 widely separated "zones" to separate player factions in early- and mid-game, and to maintain a vastness of scale late game. Each zone has unique advantages:
  
  • The Hemera Zone has the most habitable planets and best surface access to ice
    
  • The Tartarus Zone has the most mineral wealth
    
  • The Hescyhia Zone is the easiest to hide in
    
• Global speed limit of 6000 m/s, set without use of mods, to allow traversal within the zones pre-Jump Drive (they're still recommended for travel etween zones)
  
• Easy access to ice for hydrogen fuel, by running collectors in planetary rings or by diving into gas giants (but be careful! they'll crush you and your ship if you dive too deep!)
  
• Stars will burn you and your ship if you get too close
  
• Resource "funnels" to drive player interaction within each zone:
  
  • Asteroids are found exclusively in the planetary rings of Borea, Notus, and Hesychia
    
  • Naturally occurring food can only be found on Terra, and possibly on Xena (hasn't been tested yet)
    
    

This starting location is in a wide valley high in the Terran mountains. Terra is lush and has harvestable plants, but its only neighbor is its moon Luna. Terra is not capable of sustaining its own planetary ring, so the closest one is a great distance away, around Borea (i.e. no harvestable ice from a planetary ring, and no asteroids, without taking a long journey to the nearest gas giant).

This starting location is in the Great Rift on Kharak, the only place on the otherwise featureless desert planet that holds an atmosphere after an asteroid strike cracked the planet like an egg long ago. While the Rift Valley has a dense atmosphere and a massive hemisphere-spanning network of canyons and gorges, it only has a single ice lake, in the very center. If you can reach the lip of the canyon network, there is nearly a thin enough atmosphere for ion engines to work.

This starting location is in the clay pans of Satreus, a very different kind of desert planet than Kharak. Satreus is covered in salt and clay pans that used to be shallow oceans, and has dune seas and rocky "islands" that sustain different kinds of alien flora. The sky is dominated by Notus, which hangs unnervingly above its moons as if to fall on them.

This starting location is on one of the rocky islands dotting Aulden's ice sheet. The flora and geography on Aulden is remarkably similar to Earth's Scottish highlands, except that all its land exclusively occurs as an "island" archipelago - in reality, mountaintops - rising out of the ice. Aulden orbits Borea, a great blue gas giant that dominates the Hemera system.



Top scientists have recently discovered FOOD in the Hemera System!

Initial investigations have shown that this new resource is primarily concentrated on Terra and Xena, and that it can also be harvested from Sabroids on planets they occur on. Top minds have determined that the grad student diet (ie coffee and soda) is a viable substitute for this vital new resource.

Additionally, a new radiation type has been discovered. It appears to be linked to antineutrino flux, as it is principally found near damaged reactors. Unlike antineutrinos however, this new radiation appears to be blocked by ordinary reactor shielding.


|-Terra
| `-Luna
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|-Borea
| |-Aulden
| |-Europa
| `-Mars
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`-Achlys
 |-Titan
 |-Komorebi
 `-Xena

|-Bek
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|-Torvion
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|-Notus
| |-Satreus
| `-Dund
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`-Qun

|-Silona
|-Kharak
|-Triton
|-Tomor
|-Object85
`-Sar