Coklat Kerdil

As Niima is in a brown dwarf system it is naturally sparse and there is little energy available (some brown dwarfs actually orbit in 'conventional' solar systems like gas giants); at first this caused the system to experience sluggish development, but later, with help from the Zambarau, the Astatines managed to develop it into the centre of a thriving trade network of interstellar cyclers. Today Niima is mainly populated by Astatines and Chondrites (as they do not posess a natural affinity for sunlight) but also a surprising number of Sceen, who have realised the potential of brown dwarfs for their large amounts of hydrogen, as well as power generation via electrodynamic tethers.  
The solar system in which Niima, the homeworld of the Astatines, orbits is actually quite sparse since its main body is a small Brown Dwarf (Coklat Kerdil); the main planet of the system, Mulwark (151,000 kilometres in diameter), orbits at a distance of only 20 million kilometres since the brown dwarf's relatively feeble gravity makes closer orbits necessary. Orbiting Mulwark is Niima itself, a rocky, volcanic moon that takes a highly elliptical orbit between 50,000 and 6 million kilometres from Mulwark; Niima has a diameter of just under 10,000 kilometres (very large for a gas giant moon), making it by far the largest moon of Mulwark (the rest are on the scale of small asteroids). Niima's surface is mostly water and completely dark (save for light from a few bioluminescant organisms). Other than Mulwark and a few asteroids trapped in its Lagrangian points the only other planetary body is T's, a planetoid in a very tight orbit around The Brown Bwarf which is expected to fall into The Brown Dwarf completely in a couple of hundred million years.
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