Getting ready to start my Spacers: Big Space mini-campaign running. From my notes both typed and handwritten.
Bog, Not Desert Planet
A planet that is thirty percent land, forty percent open water, the rest covered in moss-filled and marsh-like environment. The moss is an organism that is akin to similar plants on Earth can be up to five-meters thick.
Settled by human colonists from Earth some six hundred years ago, its colony-ship het Rotterdam, is still in orbit and treated as a shrine to Old Urth. Its original colonists have formed into a dozen or so clan nations, known as Houses, that compete with each other for dominance as well as work together against those that would dominate them. While the cities of planet can be very high tech in their living standards most of the planet remains hi-tek rustic so to speak. Turfskippers, move through the marshes and alternately fuel their abodes energy with peat and cold fusion.
For
two centuries now, Solar Standard Calendar, Panni leaders from their
Commonwealth Worlds, have noticed Cluster J and have started to
incorporate the worlds therein into their territories. Bog being the
most prominent of the star groups’ worlds has not escaped their
notice. The Gradom Corporation, an agent of the Panni Empire, has
taken the lead towards inroads in making the planet one
of theirs. This has not been met with much success.
The clans of
Bog have developed their own interplanetary fleet, known as the Trot,
and increased their own interstellar commerce as well. The largest
city of Bog, Jewel, even created a floating city, Loom, above itself
to so their capabilities to any newcomers thinking that they might
have a technological edge over the natives are rapidly apparent. Now called
City-Above-City, it is the premier spot of high tech culture of the
Cluster. Gradom has sponsored its own city known as the Spire, in
one of the less inhabited portions of the planet. While the Panni
boast of one day creating a space elevator on the planet, not much
has come of that. They have bred a human/Panni hybrid species called
the “Numan” which they are sure will seduce the humans into
becoming subjects of the Empire for confused and muddled racist
reasons.
The Kodoan species-dominated star systems known as the 19 Worlds has more recently
involved themselves with Bog. Cluster J is a lot closer to their
territories than any part of the Panni Commonwealth. They are not
friendly towards the humans of the Julii star system, but they do not
want to see the Panni make any progress there either. The largest
clan of the planet, House Ingsco, has been able to tread a careful
path of undermining the Panni and not driving the lesser clans
towards working with them. How long can they keep this up? Well, this
is where the role-playing starts.
Star:
J6
Calendar
Type:
Red Dwarf
Systems:
5 “dry” terrestrials planets, 3 gas giants, 4 ice giants: 12
planets (a-k) recognized in official navigation archives.
Inhabited Areas:
J6-J Caesar
A gas giant five times the Jupiter. There are three terrestrial-sized moons in close orbits around the planet.
J6-J4 Javelin
A
heavily volcanic world where rain-forest jungles at the equators
create an Earth-like atmosphere, but the heavy emissions from the
volcanoes fill it with too much sulfur
and methane to be breathable except to plants and insects. It is
claimed by the Panni-directed
Gradom
Corporation. House Ingsco also has a military training complex on the
planet and does not acknowledge Gradom’s
claim to exclusively own the world.
At
the Equator:
About 280 to 320 Kelvin
At
the Top and Bottom:
Around 200 Kelvin
Places
of Interests:
Speartip, Gradom
Mining Depot,
Space
Ports:
Gradmo Industries Port of Entry, Lake Speartip
J6-J5
Bog
Thirty
percent land, forty percent open water, the rest covered in moss and
marsh-like environment. The moss can be up to five-meters thick.
At
the Equator:
About 290 to 305 Kelvin
At
the Top and Bottom:
Around 270 Kelvin
Places
of Interests:
City-Above-City, Logjam, The Great Southern Marsh, The Spire
Space
Ports:
Logjam, The Spire
The Lukriig Trot, Bog’s space fleet.
The battleships of the planet Bog are manned by personnel from all the clans institution known as the Luchtkriigmach, or just more commonly the Lukriig. Alternately the vessels are maintained by the biggest clans and therefore commanded by members of those clans. This can cause some friction between the ships when strife occurs between the big clans back on the planet. This disunity is often countered by the other vessels stepping in to moderate potential conflicts between the antagonists. The battleships are known as Turkeys and as a fleet it is called the Trot. Listed from biggest to smaller.
The
Ajax
The Cambuur
The
Sparta
The Go Ahead Eagle
The Heracles
The
Fortunna
The
Willem
J6-J6 Orangutan
A very cold world covered in orange colds.
At
the Equator:
About 180
to 100
Kelvin
At
the Top and Bottom:
Around 90
Kelvin
Places
of Interests:
Kastek,
the
Methane Sea,
Ymir
Space
Ports:
Kastek
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