| System | Planets, Planetoids, and Other Galactic Flotsam |
|---|---|
| Micah | Elohi, Dumah, Asteroid Belt, Farlas, Kakabel, Asteroid Belt, Israfil |
| Paz | Garvug |
| Raheel-Leyya | Leyya, Migrant Fleet, Fuel Depot, Mass Relay |
| Related Mission | System | Planet |
|---|---|---|
| Walkthrough Mission > Loyalty Mission: Tali: Treason | Raheel-Leyya | Migrant Fleet |
System: Micah
Dumah
World Type: Giant Jovian
Richness: Moderate
Element Zero: None
Iridium: Poor
Platinum: Poor
Palladium: Poor
Orbital Distance: 1.6 AU; Orbital Period: 2.0 Earth Years; Radius: 59,152 Km; Day Length: 10.0 Earth Hours, Atmospheric Pressure: 1.05 Earth Atmospheres.
Description: Home to 51 moons, including the prebiotic moon Anafiel, Dumah is a standard hydrogen-helium gas giant with violent surface winds exceeding 1,900 kph.
Like its sister planet Elohi, it is believed to be an extrasolar capture.
Elohi
World Type: Giant Jovian
Richness: Moderate
Element Zero: None
Iridium: Poor
Platinum: Moderate
Palladium: Moderate
Orbital Distance: 0.6 AU; Orbital Period: 0.5 Earth Years; Radius: 38,119 Km; Day Length: 11.8 Earth Hours; Atmospheric Pressure: 0.97 Earth Atmospheres.
Description: A small hydrogen-helium gas giant formed around a metallic hydrogen core, Elohi will be the site of a rare astronomical event later this year.
The comet Asaro will come in on its orbit of 70 galactic standard years and travel so close to the giant that it is predicted to be captured as a moon.
Dozens of space probes from around the galaxy have been launched into the Raheel system to record this moment.
Elohi is within the “frost line” of its parent star, where gas giants do not usually form. For this reason it is believed to be an extrasolar capture.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: A statistically significant number of distress signals have come from the 1-million-kilometer mark around Elohi.
Pirates are believed to be working the area. In-person tourism is not advised.
Farlas
World Type: Rock
Richness: Rich
Element Zero: Moderate
Iridium: Rich
Platinum: Poor
Palladium: Moderate
Orbital Distance: 4.1 AU; Orbital Period: 8.3 Earth Years; Radius: 540 Km; Day Length: 24.1 Earth Hours; Atmospheric Pressure: 0.0 Earth Atmospheres; Surface Temperature: -116 Celsius; Surface Gravity: 0.1 G.
Description: One of a trio of asteroids formed around an element zero core, Farlas is the easiest to mine for low-yield eezo.
A carbonaceous asteroid, Farlas has a trace of water-bearing minerals and organic carbon in the form of kerogen. Currently the asteroid is surrounded by quarian mining ships extracting fuel for the flotilla.
Israfil
World Type: Rock
Richness: Rich
Element Zero: Moderate
Iridium: Rich
Platinum: Moderate
Palladium: Poor
Population: 1,006; Orbital Distance: 4.3 AU; Orbital Period: 8.9 Earth Years; Radius: 905 Km; Day Length: 68.6 Earth Hours; Atmospheric Pressure: Trace; Surface Temperature: -100 Celsius; Surface Gravity: 0.3 G.
Description: Largest of the “eezo trio,” Israfil is a silicate-heavy carbonaceous asteroid.
It is home to approximately 40 species of microorganisms in its liquid water and was blamed as the source of the prion-based biowarfare agent EHE (exotic humanoid encephalopathy) used by the terrorist group Totenkopf in their attack on Gagarin Station in 2184.
While many in the scientific community protested that Israfil did not have sufficient atmosphere or evolutionary history to sustain life at the prion level, the asteroid and its eezo miners were nevertheless quarantined to reassure the public that the Systems Alliance was taking action.
Though no evidence has yet been found that EHE originated from Israfil or was even synthesized in a local lab, the SSV Manila and a team of epidemiologists maintain watch over the asteroid’s ship traffic for now.
Kakabel
World Type: Rock
Richness: Rich
Element Zero: Moderate
Iridium: Rich
Platinum: Poor
Palladium: Rich
Orbital Distance: 4.2 AU; Orbital Period: 8.6 Earth Years; Radius: 470 Km; Day Length: 68.3 Earth Hours; Atmospheric Pressure: 0.0 Earth Atmospheres; Surface Temperature: -118 Celsius; Surface Gravity: 0.1 G.
Description: The second asteroid in the system formed around an element zero core, Kakabel is another carbonaceous asteroid with a surface made of hydrated minerals such as carbonates and clays.
Beneath its icy surface is liquid water with some amino acids. The surface of Kakabel is pitted and scarred with strip-mining stations, where the quarians took as much eezo as possible before moving on.
System: Paz
Garvug
World Type: Post-Garden
Richness: Good
Element Zero: Rich
Iridium: Poor
Platinum: Moderate
Palladium: Moderate
Orbital Distance: 4.0 AU; Orbital Period: 6.1 Earth Years; Radius: 6,200 Km; Day Length: 27.0 Earth Hours; Atmospheric Pressure: 1.2 Earth Atmospheres; Surface Temperature: -30 Celsius (5 at the equator); Surface Gravity: 1.0 G.
Description: In 354 CE Garvug was considered a “bargain world” given to the krogan to placate them because no one else wanted to live on such a frozen rock.
Technically a life-bearing world, Garvug had a small farm belt around its equator and well-insulated marine life in its seas.
By the turn of the century the krogan had completely adapted, breeding hundreds of younglings per family in vast underground bunkers.
By the turn of the next century Garvug’s narrow strips of coral reef had been destroyed by overfishing and pollutants, and excess krogan took to the stars to find another planet to consume.
Garvug was treated as an object lesson by the Citadel Council—the krogan could not be trusted to check their own numbers.
Today Garvug is a frozen wasteland home to corporate ecoengineering efforts trying to implement sustainable agri- and aqua-culture practices.
Krogan and vorcha packs are a constant threat, and the corporations pay mercenaries well to keep their operations safe.
System: Raheel-Leyya
Leyya
World Type: Binary Sun
Richness: Not Minable
Element Zero: Not Minable
Iridium: Not Minable
Platinum: Not Minable
Palladium: Not Minable
Description: The smaller pair of the binary giant system, Leyya is a young star, a BIII blue bright giant approximately 13 times the mass of Sol and 27,500 degrees Celsius.
Too hot to have any planets formed around it, Leyya will most likely nova within a short period—a few million years.
Susskind Station
World Type: Space Station
Richness: Not Minable
Element Zero: Not Minable
Iridium: Not Minable
Platinum: Not Minable
Palladium: Not Minable
Population: 1,550 (3,550 including visitors).
Description: Originally a small scientific research outpost with living modules for only 20 people, Susskind Station is a triumph of modern “snap-on” modular engineering for space station expansion.
Now with facilities for over 2,000 visitors and docking for over 50 starships, Susskind serves as a spaceport for those wishing to study the Raheel-Leyya binary blue giant.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: Due to the quarian fleet occupying the system, all docks at Susskind Station are currently filled.
Local authorities predict this condition for the foreseeable future until such time as the flotilla departs.
The Migrant Fleet
World Type: Fleet
Richness: Not Minable
Element Zero: Not Minable
Iridium: Not Minable
Platinum: Not Minable
Palladium: Not Minable
Description: A fleet of 50,000 craft holding over 17 million quarians, the Migrant Fleet is the largest array of spacefaring vessels in the known galaxy.
Though quarians on Pilgrimage have visited most settled worlds in the galaxy, few outsiders have ever stepped foot inside the quarians’ ships.