Promise System

The **Promise System** is a solar system in the Pearlescent Expanse, primarily known as the home to Aureate, the Coalition's former capital. While home to a number of local polities, each is bound by treaties and trade as part of the Promise Constellation's loose federation.

## Features

The Promise System has the following features of note. Also included here are short descriptions of the state of some inhabited worlds in the year 923.

* **Promise**, the sun. Prone to strange magenta flares after absorbing tehoma-charged pieces of Graze.
* **Graze** was once the first planet from the sun, a small rocky planet partially-devastated by an ancient impact; it was destroyed by the Zeta Weapon in 817 as part of the Zeta Crisis, though its remaining debris still rings Promise today.
* Aureate, second from the sun and former Coalition capital of the Pearlescent Expanse. Aureate is primarily covered in briny ocean, with most habitation on the golden deserts of its Primary Continent or in small stations at the poles.
	+ **Samara**, Aureate's remaining moon; known as Samara the Keen in traditional Satellism, and as Samara the Orphan to most local sects. Lunar workshops once produced arms and equipment for the Coalition, but were devastated after they threw in with the Cobalt Revolt in 531. The People's Republic of Aureate restored many of these sites after the Centennial War, with Composite Moonworks outliving the republic that founded it and employing most of Samara's populace. The moon has become a haven for Promise's Satellists, with many coming to see the holy moon and mourn its slain twin.
	+ **The Ring of Severyn** was once Severyn the Aegis, Samara's twin and a patron of endurance to the Expanse's Satellist faithful, but the moon was shattered during the closing days of the Zeta Crisis by a Dodonan attack. Many refer to this incident as "Severyn's Sacrifice," commonly seen as a miracle that protected Aureate in its darkest hour; lingering empathic and tehomic radiation in the Ring is believed to be somehow related to the "Ghosts" seen on that world since. Before its destruction, Severyn acted as a Coalition fortress-moon that was eventually occupied by the Cobalt Revolt; the Coalition laid siege to the satellite for eighteen months before emerging victorious, creating its legend in the process.
* Fugue, third from the sun. A superposition of the Banner Post's homeworld, carrying with it countless stolen moons. Fugue's independence and neutrality guaranteed by ancient treaties dating back to the Coalition's end; most affairs are handled through offices on its moons, as landing on the Deep-touched world is nearly impossible for outsiders.
* The Ushakov Belt, between Fugue and Sapir, an asteroid belt home to miners, independent settlers, and the Packsong Principalities.
* Sapir, fourth from the sun. A gas giant whose moons once formed the support base of the Tyranon VII Fleet until their defeat in the Zeta Crisis.
	+ Auxesia, a jungle moon formerly of the Dodonan Tribunal. The VII Fleet used it as a breadbasket, calling the planet **Groniz**; the Unfettered Course began here as a Satellist insurgency, and liberated their planet with PRA assistance, restoring its old name.
	+ Akker has almost completely been turned into a city, drydock, and spaceport, but was once a rocky moon; the Coalition called it Petrichor, but it was seized by the VII Fleet during their invasion in 700 and massively expanded, before being liberated at the end of the Zeta Crisis. Ironborn locals, descendants of Fleet serfs, now rule; the industrial moon is a free port in the outer system with significantly less chaos than Naraka.
	+ Vetir, an icy moon originally settled by Hirdyr nomads; the VII Fleet pressed most clans into brutal labor, mining for ore and fuel, but a successful resistance during the Zeta Crisis saw clan rule restored. Prior to the Tyranon invasion, the moon was known as **Moroz**, but the name is considered outdated today - originally applied by Nadezhdan Exiles who claimed to rule from afar.
* Naraka, fifth from the sun. A dwarf planet uneasily shared by criminals, emissaries, and heretics, acting as a truly lawless place away from scrutiny. Originally a Coalition watch station known as **Lighthouse**.