The Corletaas System

## Deceptive Stability

One of a handful of solar systems discovered by Ann'mui astronomers following the Suicide War, the Corletaas System is, by far, the most distant yet discovered- To the extent that one half of the sky is a near-completely-black slate of absolute nothingness, while the other is a dramatic, sweeping canvas of the Galaxy in its entirety, glittering and shining with the light of its innumerable stars. The system itself, despite being relatively young, consists of a binary pair of stars, one blue giant, and a distant yellow dwarf, possessing, between the two of them, eleven major planets, among which is a collection of ten known moons. While four of these worlds fall into the general category of "Habitable," and they, as well as some others, do, in fact, have life upon them, due to the youth of the system as a whole, they are extremely inhospitable and undeveloped, with exceptionally fragile ecosystems locked in an evolutionary arms race.

## Celestial Bodies

The Corletaas system possesses a startling variety of major bodies within it, ranging from desolate, frozen wastelands, to fiery hellholes, to some embracing both, and even worlds with sprawling oceans and landmasses, stained orange by the leaves of plants feeding on the blue light of Corletaas-A. There are, in total, between both stars, six worlds with recorded life, with two strange outliers, and the remaining four nestled peacefully in the habitable zones of their respective stars.

### Corletaas-A ["Vaedraa"]

Corletaas-A is the primary star of the system, hosting the majority of the collective mass of the entire system in both itself, as it is a supermassive blue giant, as well as its planets, with seven of the eleven total being bound to its gravitational influence. Oddly, it is estimated to be roughly as old as its neighbour, which offers an explanation to the curious stability of the two stars' orbits around each other, though this theory is contested by the differences in sheer mass between the two bodies, as the blue giant itself is considered to be massive enough to hold a yellow dwarf in a distant orbit with as much stability as it holds its own planets.

#### Corletaas-A-I ["Ljen'zaa"]

Corletaas-A-I is the nearest planet to its parent star, Corletaas-A, and is considered to be the single-most environmentally hostile world in the entire system, as its proximity to Corletaas-A has tidally locked it, resulting in completely destabilized crust on one half, with certain surface elements and atmospheric elements burned away, to the point where the entire Eastern hemisphere has effectively no atmosphere to speak of. The frozen western hemisphere is precisely the opposite, with the gaseous elements of the atmosphere- Which can only be found with any degree of stability in the incredibly toxic median ground between east and west- Falling as an icy snow and forming an ominous, jagged, bleak landscape of icy crags and valleys. The twilight region between hemispheres is a startling mixture of colossal, icy spires, resembling the needle-like teeth of deep sea organisms, mixed in with smouldering volcanic peaks and lakes, where there is only silence, ash, and desolation. Despite the lack of atmosphere, the planet seems illuminated by an eerie, brown-orange, burnt glow, produced by the light radiating from the hottest point of the planet, dubbed the "Yoenduundaan dul Tirva," which is the patch of planet closest to Corletaas-A, and glows perpetually white-hot.

#### Corletaas-A-II ["C'ei Oto'ol dul Solqendj'dei"]

Corletaas-A-II is an incredibly dangerous planet, despite the peaceful, swirling, sandy-peachy-coloured clouds that engulf the surface, as the atmosphere is not simply just thick enough to completely crush most organisms in seconds, but also *incredibly* toxic, as well as functioning as a suffocating blanket, trapping enough heat on the surface that it actually radiates a faint light, making Corletaas-A-II the second-brightest planet in the entire solar system. The surface is littered with vast pits and canyons, with, startlingly, many billions of tons of corroded, crumbling, ruinous machines and factories, suggesting that Corletaas-A-II had once been on the radar of some advanced mining corporation, likely from around the time of the Old Republic. It is theorized that the planet's core was mined dry of its metals, and all the equipment was left to the elements as the gases produced from the many thousands upon thousands of factories and refineries choked the atmosphere, driving the planet to the molten, crushing state it is today.

### Corletaas-B ["Vaedrenaan"]

Corletaas-B is the smaller of the two stars, serving effectively as a sort of Jupiter-like figure in the Corletaas system, responsible for regulating the orbits of the outermost planets under Corletaas-A's influence, as well as serving as something of a "Bullet sponge," redirecting and occasionally annihilating asteroids and comets pulled down from the extremely unstable cloud of small bodies surrounding the system in something of an oval-shaped wall. Despite being the calmer, and relatively "Safer" of the two stars, Corletaas-B only has two worlds with life, though one is an extremely unique case of life, as it somehow managed to evolve within the gaseous clouds of the resident gas giant.