Verda Stellar Neighborhood

The Verda Stellar Neigborhood is a spherical region of space roughly 10 parsecs across which is the core of the Verdan Federation. It contains approximately 99% of the nation's population, mostly in systems such as Verda itself and Katheria. It contains roughly 544 stars and substellar objects like brown dwarfs.

## Location

The Verda Stellar Neighborhood is located just outside of the edge of the Vernarca Nebula, towards the outer reaches of the galactic ring of The Silky Way. The Vernarca Nebula is a member of the Arkas Wave, a spiral-arm-like overdensity in the interstellar medium, accompanied by many star-forming events.

## Overview

The Verda Stellar Neighborhood consists of 338 stars. None of them are O or B stars, which if they existed in this region would be by far the brightest objects in the night sky, possibly even visible in the daytime. 4 of them are A-type stars: Salis, Famal, Ovumus, and [name]. Of the next class, F, there are 8, including Starrial. Conveniently, the region includes 19 G-class stars similar to Verda itself, and 41 K-type stars like Altara. The overwhelming majority of stars in the Verda Stellar Neighborhood are M-class stars, both dwarfs and giants. Examples of these are Klein, among the smallest stars in the universe, and Ayana and Kabira. 20 members of the region are White Dwarfs, such as Aster.

In total, the region contains 241 single star systems, 75 binaries, 21 ternaries, 4 quaternaries, and 1 5-star system. Multiples comprise about 28% of the total number of systems. There are also 115 brown dwarfs of various types, as well as hundreds of rogue planets, 1 neutron star, and 1 black hole.

Interestingly, the region contains two Stromgren spheres, expanding bubbles of ionized gas surrounding the white dwarfs Salis B and Ilise.

## Set 1 - 22 objects

### Verda/Altara/Taozora

The Verda/Altara/Taozora system is a three-star system which contains 21 total confirmed planets, among the largest number in any system. This article will not go into detail here, as it is almost impossible to do it justice in only a few paragraphs, and most readers will probably be relatively familiar with the system.

### Elachor A/B

Provisional designation Kelten 786-3, the Elachor System is a fairly unremarkable, if very nearby, system to the Verda System. The system comprises two red dwarf stars in a binary arrangement, simply referred to as Elachor A and B. Similar to most red dwarfs, Elachor A and B flare. Elachor A's flares are relatively benign, but B's flares are utterly astonishing. The record brightness increase is approximately 8,000 percent!

Elachor B's absurd brightness fluctuations render the system uninhabitable without special technology, but there are a total of three planets in the system. Elachor A has two of them: **Dalkor** and **Dorion**, and B has the other: **Icalas**. Dalkor and Dorion are two planets relatively similar to each other, each with a large iron core and a thin or (in the case of Dorion) nonexistent atmosphere. Icalas, on the other hand, is a hellworld with endless oceans of lava, and a thick, silicate atmosphere.

Despite its closeness to the Verda System, the Elachor System has a relatively low population, mostly populated by autonomous mining craft.

### Yazera

Nearby to Elachor, there exists the solitary red dwarf **Yazera**, which is a shade smaller than Elachor B, and of course, a flare star. It is also a BY Draconis variable, which means that its surface is so pocked with starspots that its light noticeably varies with its rotation. It also has a low metallicity and very slow rotation, suggesting that it is rather old.

What makes Yazera interesting is the trio of planets orbiting it: **Ekre**, **Saras**, and **Alerak**, all of which are roughly the mass of Teralla. However, with orbital periods of 2, 3, and 4.5 days, none of them are cool enough for habitability, and Saras and Alerak are both hothouse Violis-like worlds.

The system is mostly populated by, again, automated mining installations as well as small research stations and a smattering of habitation stations.

### Katheria

Counterspinward to the Verda System and inline with it on the galactic plane is the Katheria System. The Katheria System is one of the most populated systems in the Verdan Federation, as well as the most archaeologically interesting. It contains two unremarkable mid-K class stars, Ayana and Kabira, both of which have almost unnoticeable flares.

The system contains a huge number of planets, including **Adelpha**, **Emerald**, **Carmella**, and many others. Carmella's recent capture into the system disrupted the orbits of the outer ice giants, throwing them onto wacky orbits. However, most of the system's importance comes from its moons. Lyane and Karba are two naturally habitable worlds orbiting Adelpha, and were formerly home to the Adelphan species. Karba in particular is home to many expansive ruined cities.

Katheria is the second most populous system in the Verdan Federation, and its most populous object, Zathapra, is considered a strategically important world.

### Tauka

Tauka, the fifth closest system to Verda, is the closest Verda-like star to the system. It is about 0.8 solar masses and has a surface temperature of 5400 K, and has a very stable solar cycle, with virtually no periods of excess solar activity. Tauka has a very low metallicity, and calculations for its age vary from 5 to 10 billion years old.

Tauka has a total of 6 planets, five of which are superterallas between 1.5 and 4 earth masses. None are naturally habitable and one of them being terraformed by the Erdathian Federal Republic and the Verdan Federation. Tauka also contains a vast debris disk extending from 25 to 100 AU and contains about 10 earth masses in total, which is being heavily mined.

### Kareland

Provisinally designated Talenda 23187, Kareland is a fairly typical red dwarf. It has a moderately low metallicity, plenty of starspots, and although designated as a flare star is fairly quiescent by red dwarf standards.

In the early days of Terallan astronomy, Kareland had planets repeatedly discovered then disconfirmed around it, varying from a grouping of earth-mass planets near the star to a single massive gas giant orbiting extremely far away, depending on what year it was. However, all the tension was resolved when a single planet was confirmed beyond doubt to orbit the star: **Trita**. Trita is a relatively unremarkable, if cold, ice giant, with a thick ring system and two major moons.

Kareland, by virtue of being more interesting and habitable than Elachor, has a higher population, mostly habitation stations in the vicinity of Trita and automated mining facilities in Kareland's expansive disk.

### Walak

Walak is remarkable in how boring it is. It is a perfectly normal red dwarf star right at the bottom of the M-class range at 0.09 solar masses. Its surface temperature at 2800 K is low enough for actual chemistry to occur, showing traces of compounds such as iron hydride, carbon monoxide, and even water. Unlike Verda, Walak's small mass means that it is fully convective, meaning that it will keep generating light and energy for at least 8 trillion years.

Walak has two planets: **Viri**, a superterrestrial at about 4 terrestrial planet masses, and **Oran**, a gas giant about 3 times the mass of Nerella.

### Rossa

Rossa is a standard red dwarf about the size of Elachor B, though twice as bright and nowhere near as flare-y. Its low metallicity and slow rotation mean that it is very old, possibly as old as 10 billion years.

The really interesting thing about Rossa is its singular planet, **Morga**, which exists smack in the habitable zone and is only slightly larger than Teralla. It is currently under quarantine to protect its developing ecosystem, which appears to be almost to intelligence. Because of this, Rossa has a large population of research stations surrounding Morga.

### Neumann-Ferren

The Neumann-Ferren system is the third closest system to Verda after Elachor and Katheria, consisting of two brown dwarfs. Its two comprising objects are, respectively, 33 and 29 Jupiter masses and orbit each other every 27 years. They are approximately 2.5 times as old as the Verda System.

The Neumann-Ferren system has no planets, but both objects have a good number of small dwarf planets and a close-in debris disk, which is being heavily mined. Interestingly, Neumann's surface is banded, similar to Glau, and Ferren's surface is mottled in appearance with dark and light patches.

### Klein

Klein is among the smallest stars known. Its fast rotation rate and high metallicity indicate that it is very young, and it has an expansive debris disk and many protoplanets. It has a ridiculous solar wind, meaning that its only terraformed planet and regional capital, **Byfa**, requires a very powerful artificial magnetic field to supplement its natural one.

Its other two major planets, **Eksandos** and **Gontolmon**, are both large gas giants on the order of 4 or 5 jupiter masses and have large debris disks around them which are currently in the process of forming moons.

Klein, by virtue of its close distance to Verda, is among the more populous systems in the Federation, with Byfa's population being on par with many Verda System planets.

### Velim A/B

The Velim System consists of two red dwarfs slightly larger than Elachor B which orbit each other at a distance of about 4 AU, and are of course flare stars.

### Glaras 1

Glaras 1 is a large red dwarf. If it were much larger it wouldn't be a red dwarf. Still, like most red dwarfs it is a flare star, and is dusted with starspots. Glaras 1 has one boring planet, **Elos**, an ice giant in the far reaches of the system. What makes it interesting is that it has a relatively high motion through the galaxy, suggesting that it was kicked out of its home cluster by a collision or a supernova. What's confusing is that Elos is still orbiting it.

### Lelakil 9344

Lelakil 9344 is a fairly normal red dwarf, pocked with star spots. However, it has three planets in orbit around it: **Berel**, **Lathel**, and **Maira**; of 4, 5, and 8 earth masses respectively.

### Baracom

A few parsecs from Glaras 2011, almost at the edge of the sphere, is the Verda-like star Baracom. It is slightly larger and brighter than Verda, but is still G-type. It has a high metallicity, giving it an age of approximately 1 billion years. Despite its tantalizing sunlikeness, the only objects orbiting it are a rather large set of dwarf planets and asteroids.

### Dernar

Dernar is a relatively small red dwarf. It is among the closest systems to Verda, and has a single planet: **Verri**. Verri orbits Dernar in a wide orbit, placing it in the middle of the methane habitable zone. Verri is the homeworld of the Verna species, a major member species of the Verdan Federation. Because of this, Dernar is essentially only populated by members of that species.

### Elzir A/B/C

The Elzir System is a trinary red dwarf system. Stars A and B are large red dwarfs orbiting at the extremely close distsance of 0.03 AU, taking only 4 days to orbit. Star C orbits the pair every 823 days. Astoundingly for this pinball configuration, a single planet, Athiri, orbits within the habitable zone of A and B. Athiri has microbial life on its surface, and has small research bases scattered across it.

### Egar

Egar is a solitary white dwarf with a carbon-rich atmosphere and a single oddly close-in planet, **Jeuka**. Jeuka is a rare example of a Helium planet, and it is unknown quite how it got there, considering its orbit is deep within where Egar's red giant shell should be.

## Set 2 - 35 objects

### Charell

Charell is a star remarkably similar to Verda. At only 1.03 solar masses, it couldn't be more similar if it were trying. It also has a similar metallicity to Verda, suggesting that it is similar in age. It also has essentially no motion relative to Verda itself, suggesting that it even came from the same birth cluster!

Disappointingly, Charell has no habitable planets, although a terraforming process is underway on its second planet **Faraa**. It does however have a total of 5 planets in orbit around it, including **Jansar**, a planet believed to have a core made of compressed carbon. That's diamond by the way.

Because of this, Charell has a relatively high population compared to the surrounding stars.

### Neserus

Neserus is a solitary white dwarf that is essentially the prototypical example of its type. Neserus has a mass of about 0.65 solar masses, and a radius similar to Teralla. Its outer atmospheric temperature is ~6000K, which is rather cool for a white dwarf. Neserus became a white dwarf approximately 3 billion years ago, and lasted less than 1 billion years on the main sequence.

Neserus has a vast, thick debris disk, as well as a single, large, very distant planet.

### Relisa 249

Relisa 249 is a near twin of Elachor B, meaning that it has massive flares often briefly raising it to luminosities visible in the Terallan sky. In approximately 70,000 years, Relisa 249 will approach to 2.1 light-years away from the Verda System, making it the closest star to it.

### Grombad A/B

The Grombad System is a binary of two relatively quiescent red dwarfs of 40% and 14% the mass of Verda. Grombad A and B orbit each other at a distance of about 150 AU.

Grombad A has two planets: one a superterrestrial of 3 earth masses, orbiting every 11 days, and the other a supernerella of 36 earth masses orbiting every 21 years. The vast gap between them is almost completely empty for no apparent reason.

Grombad B has a single planet, **Glaras**, about the size of Rellis just beyond the edge of its habitable zone. It is currently being terraformed by the Verdan Federation, and has a relatively high population.

### Wileas

Wileas is a solitary, Y-class brown dwarf with a surface temperature of just 500 K. Its atmosphere contains compounds such as water, oxygen, ammonia, methane, and hydrogen sulphide that are usually associated with cold ice giants such as Nerella. It was originally classified as a periodic variable, but it is in fact orbited by a close-in, saturn-mass planet which often obscures large fractions of its surface from the perspective of Verda.

### Glasser 905

Glasser 905 is a solitary red dwarf with a very low metallicity, marking it as one of the oldest stars in the universe. As such, it has no planets and no debris and is therefore of little interest aside from this fact.

### Strall-Trua

The Strall-Trua system is a system consisting of two red dwarfs, of 0.33 and 0.25 solar masses respectively that orbit each other every 297 years. They have a wildly eccentric orbit around the galactic center, which sometimes even takes it into the gap between the core and the ring. Some studies indicate that the Strall-Trua binary originated outside the galaxy, but it has a relatively young age, at about 3 billion years.

Two Nerella-sized planets are in orbit around Trua. Interestingly, no planets exist around Strall.

### Cyga A/B

The Cyga system is a distant binary of two inviting K-type orange dwarfs. However, they both really act more like red dwarfs. The primary companion, Cyga A, has about 0.7 solar masses, while Cyga B has 0.65. Cyga A has so many starspots that they can be detected across interstellar space. Cyga B however is a flare star, often doubling in brightness. The two orbit their barycenter every 660 years.

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### Glasser 687

Glasser 687 is a medium-sized red dwarf with roughly 0.4 solar masses and an age of about 4.4 billion years. Glasser 687 has a Nerella-sized world with an orbital period of about 38 days, which has a large moon which is currently being terraformed. There is another exo-Nerella with an orbital period of 727 days beyond that.

### Kruga-Argelan

The Kruga-Argelan system is yet another red dwarf binary, with both members being about the size of Rossa. Argelan, the secondary companion, is a flare star because of course it is. They come as close as 5.5 AU apart and so do not have large planetary systems. However, there is a large captured gas giant, **Aptera**, orbiting both stars at a distance of approximately 70 AU.

### LLASS 3186

LLASS 3186 is a T-type brown dwarf and has methane in its atmosphere. It has a thin debris disk and two ice worlds on the border between planet and dwarf planet in orbit around it.

### Simar

Simar is considered a Y-class brown dwarf with high metallicity. However, at 1.27 Glau masses, it is only barely large enough to become a brown dwarf at all. Simar has constantly shifting cloud patterns and extremely powerful aurorae, making it very interesting to study.

### Glasser 1151

Glasser 1151 is a small red dwarf of Elachor A-ish dimensions and is about 2.5 billion years old. Its magnetic field is interacting with an Esera-sized planet, **Herak**, in a tight 3-day orbit. This planet is in a similar relationship to Eoros and Glau except scaled up. The star's magnetic field completely ionizes every atom in Herak's atmosphere, effectively transforming it into a planet-sized microwave. Combine this with a crushing atmosphere of 65 atm, and you get a planet that is essentially the definition of hell.

### Tezera

Tezera is a bog-standard small red dwarf with two planets: **Aletis**, a Nerella-sized planet, and **Keris**, a planet approaching the mass of Von. Both are outside the habitable zone.

### Kaxor

Kaxor is among the most interesting stars in the Verda Stellar Neighborhood. Not on its own, as it is a quiescent M-class star of 84 Jupiter masses with no unique characteristics. However, Kaxor has two planets near the habitable zone. The first, **Lyrne**, orbits the star every 5 days and the second, **Hilia**, orbits every 11 days. Lyrne is almost uninhabitable, with only tiny lakes on the night side of the terminator, but Hilia, with its higher CO2 content, is warm enough to be habitable.

### Mires

Mires is an orange dwarf star at 0.66 solar masses, 0.6 solar radii, and 0.15 solar luminosities. It tends to act like a red dwarf, pocked with star spots and the occasional flare. Mires has a highly reflective ice disk from 51-53 AU, flanked on either side by a half-Nerella mass planet. There is also a 4-jupiter mass planet orbiting within Mires's habitable zone, with many moons, some of which have been terraformed by the Varbudians.

### Theriland's Star

Theriland's Star is a yellow dwarf star at about 0.7 solar masses. Despite being a G-class star it has only 0.2 solar luminosities. Theriland's Star is notably a *halo star*, and has a highly inclined orbit relative to the galactic ring. The star is estimated to be approximately 5.4 billion years old, which normally would mean there could be a developed biosphere here. Unfortunately, Theriland's star emits flares commonly 10 to 100 times more powerful than Verda.

There are six planets orbiting Theriland's Star, none of which are in the habitable zone.

### Glasser 412

Glasser 412 is a binary system with two red dwarfs, one of which is half the size of Verda, and the other is 10% Verda's size. The two are separated by over 100 AU.

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### Umar

Umar is a near twin to Verda with about 90% its mass and radius and 60% its luminosity, similar to Tauka. Unlike Tauka, Umar has no debris disk, although it also possesses no planetary companions.

### Alera Asenis

Alera Asenis is a 5-star system consisting of the **Kerlanes**, an F-type star, **Neseb**, a G-type star, **Kejir**, a K-type star, **Veron**, a red dwarf, and **Kerovos**, a T-type brown dwarf. The dominant pair has an orbital period of about 60 years and a separation of around 10 AU. Neseb-Veron's closeness to Kerlanes-Kejir allows their magnetic fields to mingle, creating herds of starspots across Neseb and Veron. Veron's luminosity is so low that it makes Kaxor look fiesty.

Finally, the T-type brown dwarf Kerovos orbits the other four at a distance of 6,000 AU, making it the only star to have more than one planet.

### Daxanir

Daxanir is an extremely dim star which has a fleet of ice planets orbiting it, but nothing else of interest is found here.

### Relka

At first glance, Relka does not seem particularly interesting. It is a normal K-type star at about 0.8 solar masses. However, it is much more violent than at first glance. Its magnetic field is 40 times stronger than Verda's, its corona is twice as hot, and its solar wind is thirty times more powerful. The heliosphere generated by this powerful solar wind extends to almost 8,000 AU, 70 times the size of Verda's. At any given time, a tenth of Relka's surface will be covered in sunspots, and tracking these sunspots gives a rotation value of just 11 days. This means that Relka is a very young star, at 400 million years old.

Relka is a solar system in formation. There is a large dust disk extending from 30 to 100 AU, with a maximum density at 60 AU. There are also a total of two asteroid belts within the system, one at a similar location to the Kellelai Belt, and another significantly farther out. The two belts are held in place by a two planets approximately three and five times the mass of Nerella.

In the inner system, there is a massive planet, **Algas**, approximately 22% the mass of Glau and with a semi-major axis of about 3.4 AU. None of the planets in the system are habitable, but there are research bases on many of them.

### Tessa

Tessa is a red dwarf about 40% the size of Verda, and only 1/40th its luminosity. It's metallicity is extremely low, so it is estimated to be extremely old, possibly even above ten billion years. What's really interesting about it however is its planet, **Zaro**, which transits its star's disk from Verda's perspective. Zaro is an extremely rare example of a "Hot Nerella", completing an orbit in just 2.6 days.

Planets like Zaro are so rare that astronomers speak of a "hot Nerella desert", probably caused by the atmosphere of such planets being blasted away. And this is indeed happening to Zaro, with a large infrared-glowing tail trailing off the planet. However, metallicity measurements of Tessa indicate that both star and planet are almost as old as the universe itself, making how Zaro is in its current state a mystery. Possibly it was much larger when it first formed. But perhaps the oddest thing about Zaro is that its orbit passes over its star's poles, telling us that its journey to get there clearly wasn't pleasant.

### Nela

Nela is a medium-sized red dwarf that is one of the most active red dwarfs known. At any given time, approximately 3/4 of its surface is magnetically active, often generating coronal loops almost a third as large as the star itself. Its corona is double the temperature of Verda's. This is probably because Nela is very young, at only 200 million years old.

### Prakka-Erlon

Prakka is an F-type star about 1.5 times the mass of Verda. However, it is exceptionally bright for an F-class star, at 7 Verda luminosities, when F-type stars generally max out at around 5. This leads astronomers to assume that Prakka is a subgiant, just beginning to become a red giant. In approximately 100 million years, Prakka will swell to a red giant almost 2/3 the size of the orbit of Glau.

Prakka is not alone however. It is orbited by the white dwarf Erlon, which is difficult even today to image from outside the system due to the extreme difference in luminosity. Erlon is not close enough to eventually cause a type Ia supernova at 15 AU SMA, orbiting every 40 years. It is estimated that Erlon's progenitor had about 2.5 solar masses and ended its life about 1.2 billion years ago.

### Lekna

Located just 1.2 light-years from Prakka, Lekna is a fairly normal red dwarf. Its slow rotation and low metallicity imply that its age is as high as 8 billion years. Lekna has two planets in orbit around it: **Feanoros**, a Teralla-mass planet, and **Earen**, a superteralla of 3 Teralla masses. Earen lies in Lekna's habitable zone and has an intelligent species inhabiting its oceans (interestingly not native), making Lekna a major system in the Federation. As an older red dwarf, Lekna shows less of the violence its younger cousins are prone to, making Earen almost perfect for habitability.

### Kedr System

The Kedr System consists of a K-type orange dwarf of about 80% Verda's mass, **Kedr**, orbited every 8,000 years by a binary between a red dwarf and white dwarf: **Ilise** and **Erim**, which orbit each other at about Siskruo's distance. The white dwarf **Erim** was the first of its kind ever identified.

Kedr has two planets in orbit around it: **Mima**, a superteralla at 8 earth masses with an orbital period of 42 days, and **Vua**, a planet about the mass of Esera in the habitable zone, home to a species recently integrated into the Verdan Federation.

### Letar System

The Letar System is a trinary system of three red dwarfs. Letar B and C orbit each other once every 36 years and together orbit A once every 250 years at roughly Siskruo's distance. The largest planet in the system is **Esla**, a 8 Teralla mass planet in a tight five day orbit around B.

## Set 3 - 36 objects

### Salis

Salis is currently the 4th brightest star in the Terallan sky. It moves very fast across the sky, and in 15 centuries it was a full half degree from its current position. Located 9 light-years from Verda, it is one of only 4 A-type stars in the Verda Stellar Neighborhood.

More interesting than even that is the fact that Salis is orbited by a white dwarf companion, lost in its glare. Salis B, only the second white dwarf ever discovered, orbits its primary once every 50 years at a distance of ~20 AU. Its discovery allowed the mass of the Salis system to be measured, giving Salis a mass of almost exactly 2 Verda masses. Salis B on the other hand was almost exactly the mass of Verda, yet ten thousand times dimmer.

Salis B is approximately 25,000 times the density of the sun and 1,000 times denser than uranium. Like 3/4 of its kind, it is a DA-type white dwarf, with a hydrogen atmosphere and ever denser layers of material down to the core, mostly carbon and oxygen. Its surface temperature, 25000 K, is fairly average for a white dwarf. In one respect, Salis B is rather remarkable. At 1.01 solar masses, it is among the largest white dwarfs known. Its progenitor star is believed to have been over 5 solar masses.

Salis itself, being an A-type star, is 25 times more luminous than Verda. Counterintuitively, A-type stars possess little to no intrinsic magnetic field or activity because the surging energy of their interiors crowds out any convective zone. Because of the tug from Salis B, Salis rotates very slowly, at only 16 km per second. Because of this slow rotation, the energy from the core is able to push light-absorbing elements such as chromium and zirconium up towards the surface, giving its surface an overabundance of these elements. Therefore, a large starlifting assembly is being constructed here.

The system projects a Stromgren sphere, a halo of ionized gas, as far as 2.6 parsecs into space. Collectively, the system produces a higher than average amount of infrared radiation, a telltale sign of a ring of rocky material. Because white dwarfs cool at a relatively constant rate, it is possible to estimate the age of the system as a whole: 220 million years, with Salis B being a white dwarf for half that time.

Because of the original closeness of Salis B to Salis, any planets were torn apart before they were fully formed. Therefore, neither star has any planets, although there is a captured circumbinary Nerella-like planet.

### Kalema

Kalema is one of the most fascinating objects in the Verda Stellar Neighborhood. Not only is it just 2.3 parsecs from Verda, it is also a Y-class brown dwarf. Given the age of the universe, these are very rare. Kalema has a mass of only 1.2 Glau masses, making it barely a brown dwarf at all. Its surface temperature lies near 250 K, near the original temperature of Rellis and far colder than almost every other known brown dwarf.

Some classify Kalema as a rogue planet, but most consider it either a brown dwarf or an object on the borderline between these two classes. Kalema even has three "planets" of its own, two of which are dead iceballs and a third being a large nerella-sized planet.

### Ilo

Ilo on its own is relatively boring. It is essentially a slightly smaller and dimmer version of Elachor A. However, it has three Teralla-sized planets in orbit around it. The three planets' short years are in a near-exact 1:2:4 ratio, with the closest at 3.2 days, the next at 6.7, and the outermost at 13. The outermost planet, **Telir**, orbits within Ilo's habitable zone, but unfortunately its highly eccentric orbit takes it to Violis-level insolation at periapsis. It is being terraformed however.

### LLASS 12175

LLASS 12175 is a fairly typical brown dwarf binary that has nothing to distinguish it.

### Dennis

Dennis is an example of an L-type brown dwarf, which shines mostly in the infrared, and is the closest L-class to Teralla. At over 50 Von masses, it is on the larger side of brown-dwarfhood. However, it is quite cool, with a surface temperature of about 1300 K, cold enough for water vapor, methane, and even ammonia to form in its atmosphere. This essentially makes it a superheated, larger version of Nerella.

### Kalpen

Kalpen is a decent-sized red dwarf about twice the size and 8 times the luminosity of Elachor A. It is also a BY Draconis variable, pocked with starspots. Its metallicity is only 17% that of the sun, giving it an age between 10 and 12 billion years old. It moves in the opposite direction to the galaxy's rotation, and is a member of a group of stars of similar motion known as the Kalpen moving group. This group's chemical makeup suggests that they may (or may not) have been expelled from the Web Cluster, a large globular cluster also orbiting this way.

The most interesting thing about Kalpen is the existence of two superterallan planets orbiting the star, at 1/6 and 1/4 the mass of Nerella. The innermost planet **Nalaren**is just within the star's habitable zone, and is strewn with ruins that are ancient beyond measure. This makes Nalaren the oldest known planet that was inhabited at some point in its history, and it may have been the home of one of the most ancient species in the universe. Because of this, the system is restricted to colonization, and is being heavily researched by huge numbers of scientists.

### Holias

3 parsecs away from Kalpen is the G-type star Holias. It is similar to Verda, though slightly brighter. Its high proper motion suggests that, like Dernar, it was originally part of a satellite galaxy which was later consumed by the Silky Way. Its low metallicity also suggests that Holias is ancient, possibly as old as 5 billion years.

Holias has nine planets in orbit around it, including the habitable world of Erdath. The Erdathian species, native to this planet, recently joined the Verdan Federation. A dust disk exists around Holias beyond Eptunis, roughly analogous to Verda's Kipper Belt, although slightly closer in.

### Malvor

A old red dwarf, Malvor is the only star and is being orbited by one single planet that is similar in size to that of Erdath and is similar to that of Teralla. It's only planet Ergal is being used by the Erdathian Federal Republic as a mining colony due to it's rare minerals on it's surface.

### LLASS 5658

There is nothing much interesting about this brown dwarf save that it is Y-class.

### LLASS 1048

LLASS 1048 lies on the boundary between very dim star and very bright brown dwarf. The fact that it's a flare star suggests that it belongs in the former class, but no one's entirely sure.

### Etim-Cyln - Perin System

The Perin System is a binary K-type star with a period of about 475 years. Both stars have a number of planets, but the primary star, **Etim**, has two planets located within the habitable zone. Both of them are habitable, and the system is the home of the Perin Union, an autonomous state which grew out of a Terallan colony here which was lost.

### Methus

Also known as Glasser 486, Methus is a large red dwarf about 1/3 the size of the sun. Its slow rotation suggests that it is very old. The most interesting thing about it however is that it is orbited by **Iress**, a 3-Teralla mass planet with a period of less than 1.5 days. Iress is currently being mined to construct habitats in the system.

### NSS 1845-6357

NSS 1845-6357 is a binary between a red dwarf about the size of Walak and a brown dwarf of about 5 Glau masses, approaching stellar mass, at a distance of about 4.1 AU.

### Glasser 915

Like all white dwarfs, Glasser 915 is an ultra-dense dead star composed of degenerate matter. Its mass is 85% that of Verda and its surface gravity is a quarter million times stronger than Teralla's. Its relatively hot surface temperature, 8600 K, suggests it has been cooling for between 1 1/2 and 2 billion years. In life it was a B-type blue giant star 7 times as massive as the sun, which died after only 70 million years.

Unusually for a white dwarf, Glasser 915 possesses a strong magnetic field, about a million times stronger than Teralla's, probably generated by convection currents in the cooling interior.

### Glasser 514

A large red dwarf about half the size of Verda.

### Avor System

The Avor System is one of the bigger names in the Verdan Federation. At just 3.6 parsecs it is remarkably close to Verda, and at ~3/4 the mass of Verda it is a coveted K-type star. Avor's metallicity is similar to Verda's suggesting that it likely has a similar age.

Avor is orbited by a binary of large T-class brown dwarfs at a distance of 1500 AU, orbiting each other 2 AU apart. They both have planets, but they're boring. Avor is also orbited by a set of four large gas giants, one of which is in the habitable zone and has a habitable moon. Therefore, Avor is among the most populous systems in the Federation.

### LLASS 133533

While not particularly small for a brown dwarf, it is rather cool with a surface temperature of just 500 K. This suggests that it may be quite old.

### Glasser 832

Glasser 832 is a rare example of a quiet red dwarf. That is, it doesn't erupt firey doom every few years. In fact, Glasser 832 is calmer than Verda! This, combined with its slow rotation of about 45 days, implies that it is quite old, with an estimated age of 9.25 billion years. There is also little to no cometary disk, meaning that its planets are relatively free of impacts.

Two planets orbit around Glasser 832. The outermost is a gas planet twice the size of Von orbiting at 3.5 AU. The other, **Dyra**, is a 5 Teralla mass planet orbiting at 0.16 AU. This is on the inner edge of the habitable zone, but unfortunately Dyra is not naturally habitable. Its highly elliptical orbit means that its solar flux is nearly 50% higher than Teralla's at periapsis, enough to boil oceans. Dyra is currently being terraformed however.

### LLASS 232519

A T-type brown dwarf with nothing to distinguish it.

### Lakaya

Lakaya is a star on the very edge of red dwarfdom. Almost a K-type, it has been frequently mistaken for one. That, along with its relatively close distance, means that it is the only red dwarf to be occasionally visible to the naked eye. It got outed as a red dwarf when it was found to be a flare star. Lakaya is only half a billion years old, and as such its planets aren't quite done forming.

### Ulas A/B

The Ulas System is a wide binary of two low-metallicity brown dwarfs. While it's difficult to exactly pin down their ages, they are believed to be relatively old.

### Aren

On its own, Aren has little to distinguish it. It's a medium-sized red dwarf about a third the size of Verda. However, it has an unusually calm surface. Aren has three terrestrial sized planets around it, one of which lies on the inner edge of its habitable zone.

### Relisa 154

An Elachor A-ish star which flares every 2 days. Its fast rotation implies it is quite young, perhaps younger than a billion years.

### Famal System

The Famal System is one of the oddest configurations in this region. Its not spectacular mass of barely twice that of Verda holds stars so distant that at first glance no one could tell they were connected at all. **Tawask**, or Famal B, and **Lyo**, or Famal C, are separated from one another (and their parent) by almost a parsec of distance, and about 7.5 degrees across the sky. Across these huge distances, their orbits require tens of millions of years to complete. The age of the system is about 440 million years, meaning that whatever systems are around the three stars are still in formation.

Four debris disks exist around Famal. A disk of smokelike particles at 0.1 AU, a second disk of larger particles extends from 0.4 to 1 AU, a thick disk of icy debris at the snow line, and finally an outer belt extending from 133 to 158 AU. The inner edge of the outer belt is extremely sharp, caused by the influence of a newly formed superjovian planet.

Tawask, like many red dwarfs, is a BY Draconis variable, a star so magnetic that its starspots are visible across interstellar distances. However, it *isn't* a red dwarf. It is an orange K-type star about 3/4 the mass of Verda. A single planet currently orbits Tawask, with more presently forming.

Lyo, or Famal C, is the most distant member of this turbulent system, residing 2.5 light-years from the primary. Like Famal itself, Lyo has a large debris disk extending from 10 to 40 AU. Unlike Tawask, Lyo is actually a red dwarf, about the size and temperature of Rossa.

### Kiboro System

The Kiboro System consists of a G-type and K-type star orbiting at a distance of around 40 AU. The primary is a G-type star similar in mass to Verda. Astoundingly, it is also a BY Draconis variable, with a period of just 10 days. This suggests that it is very young, at just 200 million years old.

The secondary star is a K-type star about 2/3 the mass of Verda, that orbits the Kiboro barycenter once every 151 years. Should any planets form in the system, they would have to keep within 4 AU to avoid being disrupted by the other star's gravity. The primary has a small debris disk about 1/4 the size of Verda's Kipper Belt.

### Glasser 884

A solitary K-type star with a large, sparse asteroid belt extending from 0.1 to 100 AU. I'm surprised there aren't any planets.

### Zalidor

A solitary Red-Giant star and is the system's only star that has only 1 planet named Zoreda which is a Erdath Catalogue that was once habitable.

This star does have a Kuiper belt that ranges from 198 AU to a colossal 250 AU and it was once believed that there was a planet in this region of the system but was eventually debunked 50 years later from it's discovery.

Zalidor is also the 3rd brightest star in-terms of Luminosity and is the closest red giant to the Verda System and Holias system.

Finally, Zalidor also recently as of 510 million years ago destroyed it's planet's moon system but also destroyed a comet in the process.

### Kapet

Kapet, on its own, is strikingly dull. It is a red dwarf and BY Draconis variable about 1/3 the size of Verda. It could be any of about 50 stars that have already been visited. In other respects however, Kapet is unique. Kapet has a set of four planets, all within the orbit of Moa, with the closest completing an orbit in less than 2 days. The orbits are so close in fact that the second third and fourth planets are locked in a 1:2:4 resonance. While the second planet is on the inner edge of the habitable zone, it is unfortunately a moonless gas giant.

While the second and third planets are classic jovian worlds, the innermost is a terrestrial world with 7 times the mass of Teralla. It resembles a cross between Violis and Eoros, and orbits only 3 million km from its star. The planet is perpetuallyl bathed in solar radiation, and has permanent aurorae. The last planet in the system resembles Nerella in mass and composition, and is the only planet in the system to have moons.

Finally, the Kapet system has a large debris disk extending out past the last planet to approximately 100 AU.