| System | Planets, Planetoids, and Other Galactic Flotsam |
|---|---|
| Dholen | Gotha, Asteroid Belt, Charoum, Haestrom, Mass Relay |
| Ma-at | Ammut |
| Related Mission | System | Planet |
|---|---|---|
| Walkthrough Mission > Dossier: The Engineer | Dholen | Haestrom |
System: Dholen
Charoum
World Type: Giant Jovian
Richness: Moderate
Element Zero: None
Iridium: Poor
Platinum: Poor
Palladium: Poor
Population: 250,000–500,000 platforms; Colony Occupied: 1895 CE; Largest Station: “Hell’s Hive” (Dina Station); Orbital Distance: 2.9 AU; Orbital Period: 4.9 Earth Years; Radius: 54,532 Km; Day Length: 11.3 Earth Hours; Atmospheric Pres-sure: 1.37 Earth Atmospheres.
Description: Once a starship refueling station for the quarians, Charoum has expanded under geth rule. Thousands of orbital platforms surround the planet and its many moons, refining helium into helium-3.
A vast geth fleet comes and goes between Charoum and Haestrom, preventing all but the most stealthy of spy drones from discovering any information about it. Current estimates place the geth fleet numbers between 5,000 and 10,000 ships, with unknown levels of armament.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: Most intelligence estimates state that approaching Charoum is tantamount to suicide. All civilian traffic is prohibited.
Gotha
World Type: Desert
Richness: Rich
Element Zero: Moderate
Iridium: Moderate
Platinum: Moderate
Palladium: Rich
Orbital Distance: 1.5 AU; Orbital Period: 1.8 Earth Years; Radius: 1,056 Km; Day Length: 66.4 Earth Hours; Atmospheric Pressure: 99.64 Earth Atmospheres; Surface Temperature: 590 Celsius; Surface Gravity: 0.1 G.
Colony Founded: 2044 CE; Population: 188,003,870; Capital: Blackdamp; Orbital Distance: 1.3 AU; Orbital Period: 1.5 Earth Years; Radius: 5,900 Km; Day Length: 21.4 Earth Hours; Atmospheric Pressure: 1.2 Earth Atmospheres; Surface Temperature: 25 Celsius (habitable zone); Surface Gravity: 0.8 G.
Description: A dwarf planet, Gotha has a pressure-cooker atmosphere that brings its surface temperature to a scorching level. Carbon dioxide and ethane are plentiful in the planet’s hazy atmosphere.
There has been some speculation in the mining community about whether all of the precious metals were mined by the quarians before they fled the system some three centuries ago.
Rumors abound that anyone who could brave the geth in the system could find lodes of naturally occurring diamonds on Gotha, but this is likely just a starship legend.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: Gotha is in geth space. All civilian traffic is prohibited.
Haestrom
World Type: Desert
Richness: Not Minable
Element Zero: Not Minable
Iridium: Not Minable
Platinum: Not Minable
Palladium: Not Minable
Orbital Distance: 6.3 AU; Orbital Period: 15.8 Earth Years; Radius: 6,721 Km; Day Length: 18.5 Earth Hours; Atmospheric Pressure: 0.0 Earth Atmospheres; Surface Temperature: -107 Celsius; Surface Gravity: 1.2 G.
Description: Formerly a quarian colony, Haestrom was established to observe the phenomena on Dholen, the system’s parent star. Dholen appeared to be unstable, with a high possibility of erupting prematurely into a red giant.
Haestrom was lost to the geth in 1896 CE. Soon after, all communication from the planet and its attendant space stations ceased. The geth have shown no signs of treating Dholen as a threat over the past three centuries, other than establishing several space stations near it.
Dholen’s magnetic eruptions and solar output overwhelm most communications near it, and it is unclear how the geth have compensated.
Today spy probe scans indicate extensive orbital construction around Haestrom, housing thousands of geth platforms and an unknown number of geth software “minds.”
It is not known how many geth are on the planet’s surface: Spy probes face interference from Dholen, making remote scanning difficult.
Resource estimations based on geth mining, refining, and fabricating practices suggest that the planet has at least 20 more years of use before it is exhausted.
Intelligence experts speculate that the geth have not exploited all of their resources because they wish to keep some in reserve for repairs.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: Haestrom is a geth stronghold. Military spy drones using cutting-edge stealth technology are the only vehicles that have returned unharmed from geth space. All civilian traffic is prohibited.
System: Ma-at
Ammut
World Type: Giant Jovian
Richness: Moderate
Element Zero: None
Iridium: Poor
Platinum: Moderate
Palladium: Poor
Orbital Distance: 102.1 AU; Orbital Period: 1,036.0 Earth Years; Radius: 92,430 Km; Day Length: 12.2 Earth Hours.
Description: Ammut is an enormous hydrogen-helium giant with a mass approximately nine times that of Jupiter and nearly 2,900 times that of Earth.
Despite massive pressure its core has failed to ignite in a fusion reaction, qualifying it as a failed star.
It is believed to have captured all other planet-sized bodies in the solar system as moons or in impact events leading to its name, which means “Devourer.”
Unintimidated by this phenomena, the geth have colonized many of Ammut’s moons and skim the hydrogen from Ammut’s upper atmosphere.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: Ammut is in geth space. All civilian traffic is prohibited.