Dazhbog: F7 V. 1.2 Billion Years, 2.4231 luminosity, 7.55 snowline
0.04: The Ala Belt. Asteroid Belt -3 RVM
0.21: Svarog. Small (Rock) 757 BB 0 RVM, 0.91 density, 0.78 diameter (6175 miles), 0.71 gravities, 0.3 eccentricity, 0.43 mass, tide locked, 36 degree axial tilt, Heavy Vulcanism, Habitability -1, RVM 0, Affinity -1
0.40: Jarilo. Small (Rock) 548 BB +1 RVM, 1.13 density, 0.54 diameter (4301 miles), 0.61 gravities, Heavy Vulcanism, Moderate Tectonic, Habitability -1, RVM +1, Affinity 0
0.75: Lada. Standard (Greenhouse)400 BB 12, RVM 0, Habitability -3, Affinity -3
1.16: Tiny (Rock) 322 BB 0 RVM,
1.96: Morena
3.3: Small (Rock) 191 BB -1 RVM
6.27: Large (Ice) 139 BB 16
11.28: Tiny (Ice) 103 BB 0 RVM
18.41: Standard (Ice) 81 BB -1 RVM
33.8: Small (Hadean) 13
Morena. Standard (Ocean). 89% Hydrosphere. 290 degrees (Normal 62 Fahrenheit), 248 BB, 0.91 diameter (7243 miles), 0.91 gravity, 0.69 mass, Standard Suffocating Mildly Toxic Atmosphere (1.18 atmospheres), 3 moonlets, 896.46 earth days/years, 0.15 eccentricity, 23.08 hours/day, 31 degree axial tilt. Heavy Vulcanism. Moderate Tectonic Activity, Habitable 0, RVM +2, Affinity 2, TL 10 (Advanced in robotics), CC 72.8, PR 7 (95 million), Technocracy, CR 5, 57% income 37,943 dollars (Struggling), Class IV Spaceport, 4 civilian espionage bases, 1 enemy military espionage base, government research station, Patrol base, Survey Base,
Trade Classifications: None.
Story Seeds:
1. Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting... Unlike a lot of worlds with tight weapons restrictions, Morana is actually fairly successful at keeping firearms out of the hands of the citizenry. The fact that virtually the entire population is crowded into a single arcology, making it easy to monitor importation, and that the whole megalopolis has sensors that can pick up weapons discharges from home built weapons mean that almost all street crime is carried out using fists, clubs and blades. Training in unarmed self-defense is widespread and Morana has first rate instructors in sport, art and practical hand to hand combat as well as plentiful McDojos. Now one gifted student of the martial arts is misusing his training by using it to take over the sector's organized crime. While he trains his own students and attacks rivals, he tries to eliminate the best martial arts instructors so that their supremacy will go unchallenged. In seeking out some expert hand-to-hand instruction, player characters are drawn into this conflict.
2. The basalt flood plain that Morena City was built on was chosen because at the time of survey it was determined to be the most geologically stable place to build an arcology. But now one of the vulcanologists of the city has determined that a build-up of heat underneath one of the city sectors presages the formation of a new volcano.
Ulysses: M4 V 3.2 billion years, 0.0165 luminosity
0.07 Chatterley: Standard (Greenhouse) 377 BB,+1 RVM, -2 Habitability
0.24 Jodelle: Small (Rock) 203 BB -1 RVM, +0 Habitability
0.49 Breckenridge: Large (Ammonia) +0 RVM, -2 Habitability
0.8 New Virginia: Small (Ice) 111 BB 18, 0.67 density, 0.33 diameter (2630 miles), 0.22 gravities, Light Vulcanism, +2 RVM, +0 Habitability, TL 10 (Advanced), PR 5 (300,000) Athenian Democracy (CR 2)
1.24 Portnoy: Standard (Ice) 89 BB 13
2.17 Jadway: Standard (Hadean) 67 BB 0 RVM
3.55 Fanny: Small (Hadean) 53 BB -1 RVM
6.45 The Harrad Belt: Asteroid Belt +1 RVM
Founded by followers of a quasi-religious philosophy of sexual revolution, New Virginia (Ulysses IV) is well known in the sector, but not in a good way. The fact that they reject almost all known sexual taboos (including incest), and the fact that they have a legal system which eschews imprisonment in favour of exile when it doesn't use corporal or capital punishment has given them a spreading Reputation as swindlers and perverts and it doesn't help that they are uniformly attractive in the same way so that they are easily mistaken for each other and identified as to their planet of origin. The reputation is of course exaggerated. While technically close familial incest is legal on Ulysses IV there are only a couple of actual examples of it, and contrary to popular myth Ulysses IV does have and enforce laws against rape and child molestation. In fact off-worlders who misinterpret their ideology can easily get in trouble there by touching a local in an unwanted way and not immediately backing off when told to. The local legal system is pretty hair-trigger when it comes to accusations of sexual assault.
At the same time they are quite inbred in the cousin marriage sense, having started with a small seed population and getting little off-world immigration. Every New Virginian can fairly easily trace a cousin relationship to every other one. This could have caused problems but New Virginia has a particularly fine reproductive medicine clinic with exceptionally advanced genetic engineering and therapy capabilities. No pregnancy goes to term without any needed genefixing and New Virginians are exceptionally long lived. They have uniformly pale skin, green eyes and brown to red hair.
Most of the population of Ulysses don't actually live on the planet but rather in rotating space habitats. The mining domes on New Virginia only play host to about 20,000 people, most of them transients who stay there for no more than six months or so.
Story Seeds:
1. Ulysseans are not popular with nearby worlds and if the system was vacated, the mineral deposits there would be up for grabs again. For that reason, there's a scheme to develop a tailored biological agent which could exploit the homogenous and distinctive local genome to ensure nearly universal mortality. Someone on board a incoming starship has the weapon. But who? And how is it being concealed?
2. While the player characters are visiting New Virginia, the colony experiences the first rape-murder they've had since the founding of the colony. The sexually repressed outsiders are the obvious suspects as far as the locals are concerned.
3. The wealthiest and oldest man in Ulysses is Anibal Varesco. He may very well be the oldest human alive, but now, constantly plugged into a mobile life-support unit, he is reaching the end of what modern biological science can do for him, and so has turned to tracking down every rumour and fable of fountains of youth or magic technologies. As a result he has picked up several mysterious artifacts, one of which the PCs are asked to obtain.
M2 V, M7 V (4.0 AUs)
0.23: Standard (Ocean) 58% Hydrosphere
The Monogram Murders. Somebody other than Agatha Christie writing Hercule Poirot. There were certainly things in that book that Agatha Christie would never have dreamed of doing, like going into how disturbing it is to look at a murder victim's body or having a vicar's wife (or even a vicar) talking about theology. Still Hercule is recognizably Hercule so that's the important thing.