Narsekil System

The Narsekil System is a major, highly luminous star system found in the Ervo Sector of the Silky Way. The system is the capital system of the Krask Hegemony, a relatively young breakaway nation from the Falacian Dominion. The Narsekil System is centered upon the red bright giant Narsekil, and contains five planets. It is most known for the moon of Vadren, colonized by the Krask after the destruction of Tekarani during the Krask Diaspora. 
==Architecture==
As a single star system, the Narsekil System's architecture is fairly straightforward. The inner Narsekil System consists of three planets: Erelit, Dhyse, and Laruk, followed by the Tahal Belt, a sparsely populated belt of rocky material. The outer system contains the remaining two planets, Isumal and Enalis, as well as the Skatras Belt between the two and the Outer Belt beyond. 
===Narsekil===
Narsekil, an asymptotic giant branch star, is among the brightest stars in its neighborhood. Its violent stellar activity make the system utterly inhospitable for the evolution of native life, but the Krask Hegemony's formation resulted in an impressive rate of colonization. Narsekil is at the very end of its life, having devoured its inner planets and on the edge of collapsing into a white dwarf. 
==Formation & Evolution==
Narsekil formed roughly 2.9 billion years ago in an unknown nebula, as a lone A9 star. Its impressive debris disk formed a set of nine planets, including a single massive gas giant, Enalis; a gas dwarf, and a randomly arranged assortment of rocky worlds throughout the system. The chaos of planetary formation destroyed most of the other nascent planets, with possibly two gas giants colliding to form Enalis. 
Enalis' rapid growth was abruptly stopped by Narsekil's ignition, with its blinding pale blue light burning away the remaining gas and dust from the disk and leaving behind only the larger planetesimals. The inner system had most of its dust consolidated into planetesimals, so this event did not stop the formation of the inner five rocky worlds. 
Today, we know very little about the inner four planets, but Isumal was likely impacted by a large planetesimal, resulting in its wild tilt that it maintains to this day. Enalis' moon system formed from the disk of materials captured by the planet, creating a set of five major moons and countless minor. 
Over the next two billion years, it is theorized that one or more of the inner four planets developed life. The stellar charts found on Karba show a nascent biosphere beginning to evolve there as of 470 million years ago, near the end of Narsekil's main sequence lifespan. Unfortunately, it seems that they were unable to escape their planet before its star began to expand.
300 million years ago, Narsekil left the main sequence. With the end of hydrogen core fusion, its core began to collapse, heating it more and more and causing the star's outer layers to balloon to monstrous sizes. The first three planets were quickly consigned to their mother's firey belly, and any life there extinguished. During the helium core-burning stage, it collapsed again, giving the fourth planet a brief reprieve until the much quicker fuel rate of this stage caused Narsekil to run out once again. 
When this happened, Narsekil entered the Asymptotic Giant Branch, a severely unstable region of the H-R diagram populated by evolved, cool, and luminous stars. This stage does not last long, and Narsekil will soon die, creating an enormous planetary nebula within the next million years or so. 
==Recorded History==
The Narsekil System was first colonized by the proud Krask Confederation, an alliance and later union of states spread over much of the modern territory of the Falacian Dominion and United Planets. The proud nation began to assemble an impressive habitat swarm around the star, collecting the enormous amount of energy that it was putting out, but the invasion of the ever-expanding Falacian Dominion put a stop to these impressive plans. The Great Law of Peace so conservatively adhered to in the latter days of the Confederation made them unprepared for a defensive war for their livelihoods, especially against the warlike Dominion. 
The Krask Confederation was quickly subjugated in its unprepared state, and what little was built of the Narsekil swarm was destroyed in the fight. After this occurred, Narsekil was left mostly unexploited by the expansion focused Falacian Dominion, although a number of construction projects were undertaken here. Narsekil was used as a test site for the Dominion's weapons projects, including the still-elusive Stellar Detonation Device, colloquially known as a "nova bomb". The SDD was tested many times at Narsekil, with many different intended methods to trigger its result. Luckily for everyone in the Ervo Sector, none of them succeeded in detonating even the already ailing giant star. After the collapse of the ruling house of the Dominion, none of the factions warring to succeed it were willing to continue the project for fear of diverting too much effort away from the ongoing fight. 
The Krask began to return to the Narsekil System as the generally "useless" Telkron Expanse was "graciously" given to them as a special territory. They reasserted full control over the region after the independence of the Krask Hegemony was made possible by the extremely fractious state of Falacian politics, as none of them could afford to put resources into subduing the secession movement. By the time the Falacian Dominion's politics had calmed down somewhat, the Hegemony had already reestablished itself, setting their capital at the moon of Vadren. Their control over Narsekil allowed them to use the star's power to their advantage, beginning the reconstruction of the habitat swarm attempted by the Confederation of old.
==Inner Narsekil System==
===Erelit===
Erelit is the closest and hottest remaining planet of Narsekil, its inner siblings falling into the star as its expanding gases dragged them to their doom. Erelit originally was a frigid world akin to Rellis prior to its terraforming, but Narsekil's expansion blasted away what little atmosphere it had and reduced the entire planetary surface to an unceasing sea of lava. Due to its extreme proximity to its parent star, there are very few permanent surface features, the planet's crust melting at the full force of Narsekil's sky-filling light and resolidifying as the sun begins to dip beneath the horizon. 
Erelit has a single large moon, Scorch, with similar surface conditions.
===Dhyse===
The second largest world of the system after Enalis, Dhyse is a gas dwarf, barely hanging onto its atmosphere in the baleful gaze of Narsekil. Its high temperature empowers its atmospheric gases with superhurricane-force winds, whipping around the planet in just seven hours. One of Dhyse's moons was observed crossing the Roche Limit during the time of the Krask Confederation, being quickly torn to shreds by its planet's gravity and forming an impressive, dense ring system, one of the few such events observed in local space in recorded history.
Dhyse, after its ring system's formation, has one major moon, Jesulon, which is the innermost consistently solid object in the system.
===Laruk===
Laruk is the largest rocky body in the Narsekil System. Over six terrestial masses, it singlehandedly shepherds the Tahal Belt, a belt of asteroids from which it has captured many moons. Its surface is pocked with open rifts, from which great lava oceans spill out. Laruk was originally substantially larger, with Narsekil's enormously magnified luminosity burning away a huge layer of ice, giving the planet an impressive cometary tail. While this had long since ceased by the time of recorded history, it would have been a sight to behold.
Despite its great number of captured asteroids, Laruk possesses no major moons. 
===Tahal Belt===
The Tahal Belt is a sparsely populated disk of debris, with its members on chaotic orbits stirred up by Laruk and, to a lesser extent, Isumal. The largest object within the belt is the unremarkable asteroid NAC-1493-8311, which is a mere 49 kilometers in length, making the belt merely a footnote in Narsekil System navigational catalogs. 
==Outer Narsekil System==
===Isumal===
Isumal is the smallest remaining planet in the Narsekil System, with anything smaller in the inner system being reduced to ashes in Narsekil's furnace. Isumal is also much more hospitable than Laruk, Jesulon, or god forbid Erelit, resulting in it having the second highest population of the system after the monstrous gas giant Enalis. Isumal has no major moons, but being surrounded by the Tahal and Skatras belts results in a great number of captured asteroids similar to Laruk. Isumal is thus populated with a number of habitat stations, alongside the colonies growing on its surface.
===Skatras Belt===
The Skatras Belt is the middle remaining asteroid belt within the Narsekil System. Containing the former ice dwarf planet Javini, the belt is composed primarily of metallic asteroids, with much of the silicate in the inner reaches being slowly ablated away from the smaller bodies found here. It is unclear whether Isumal creates a gap separating the Skatras Belt from the sparserTahal Belt, or whether that planet simply orbits within a combined Tahal-Skatras Belt, but the lack of objects with semi-major axes within that gap implies that a division does indeed exist.
The Skatras Belt is populated by a number of asteroids and dwarf planets, many of which were partly icy in Narsekil's main sequence days. Today, all the ice is gone, along with much of the silicates, leaving lucrative mining opportunities were they not swiped by the Falacian Dominion during its conquest.
===Enalis===
By far the largest planet in the system, Enalis is a monstrous gas giant orbiting far beyond Isumal. With a mass upwards of three Jovian masses and a very distant orbit, Enalis' sphere of influence is very impressive, pulling in over three hundred catalogued captured asteroids from the Skatras and Outer belts. Narsekil's newfound luminosity had provided a new influx of energy into the planet's structure, spurring the creation of a number of violent storms and creating a much clearer set of bands in its clouds. 
Like its gas dwarf companion, Enalis has a ring system. Unlike Dhyse, this ring system is much more massive, resulting from a much larger object crossing a roche limit much farther away from the planet. These bright rings create an impressive sight from the equally impressive retinue of major moons, with five major moons, Anvora, Vileta, Sioda, Galvar, and Vadren, orbiting from just outside the ring system to over 50 planetary radii out.
===Outer Belt===
The Outer Belt is the most massive asteroid belt of the Narsekil System. It extends from just beyond Enalis all the way to its merger with the Limit Cloud, and contains a great number of objects of all sizes and compositions. It actually passes through the current system habitable zone, making it a significant concentration of population within the Krask Hegemony, and making the dwarf planet Thasis into an easy terraforming candidate with a couple domes. Much of the ice remains in the outer reaches of the belt as well, making it the only easy source of water in the entire system. 
==Neighbors==
The Narsekil System is found at the center of the Telkron Expanse, a dead region of space completely lacking in habitable planets controlled by the Krask Hegemony. The closest star to Narsekil is Zavar, a similarly inhospitable, if not as outright violent, star system with all five planets exhibiting some level of consistent surface lava. Other systems include the Melos System, a future cataclysmic binary with a white dwarf; as well as the Aliga System, a ternary system with a white dwarf, a neutron star, a captured red dwarf, and a partially constructed nova engine. 
==List of Bodies==
Narsekil
*Erelit
**Scorch
*Dhyse
**Dhyse II-VIII (ring shepherds)
**Jesulon
*Laruk
**Laruk I-XXII (captured asteroids)
*Tahal Belt
*Isumal
*Skatras Belt
**Javini
*Enalis
**Anvora
**Vileta
**Sioda 
**Galvar 
**Vadren
*Outer Belt
**Hima
**Thasis
==Map==
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