Esthar System

The Esthar system is a massive system filled with many large gas giants and a young main sequence star. Located right on the border of Legion and New Empire Space. It is a Legion owned and used as a border hub between the two factions. Located in a critical area of trade where the three old factions used to meet. It’s used for large amounts of trade in the northern sector of the Orion Spur.

Its primary inhabited planet main planet is Esthar Primus, multiple floating cities float in the gas giants clouds, held aloft by a series of Minovsky Craft Systems on a massive scale. This allows the cities to resist the pull of the gravity of Esthar Primus, and park the cities right in a livable environment of both gravity and pressure. Humanity has only ventured slightly deeper than “The Island Closest To Hell” Located beneath the capital city of Edea. Any deeper and the crushing pressure of the planet becomes too great for ships and mobile suits to bear. The planet is only recently inhabited only around a thousand years ago during the middle of The Long Night, and thus rumors about its depths fluctuate through its populous. Those who worked and resided in “The Island Closest To Hell” have reported hearing strange mournful wails over sound recorders located on the outside of the collection and research station for them only to point deeper into the planets crushing atmosphere. Research ships have scanned the planet over and over again, and reported strange unexplained gravitational fluxes located around the planet and deep into its atmosphere where they cannot venture safely.

The planet’s capital city of Edea is located amongst the clouds of the rolling gas giant’s atmosphere. The Cities primary feature other than its size is the massive orbital elevator to easily transport its supplies up from The Island Closest To Hell station deep beneath the city.  Home to several million workers, people who work tirelessly in the collection stations that push outward from the city, and reach down far below it. Despite the advanced nature of the city, it takes on an older look to its buildings. Large living portions of the city are built on top of each other, with people growing upwards, or downwards to find space. The plate that the city resides on is easily modular so new sections can be added or removed for repairs. Each capable of holding itself up by itself the massive floating system filled with fail safes, and great amounts of redundant systems to prevent even in a massive city wide black out to keep it suspended from the depths of Esthar Primus. Around the primary city plate, smaller islands hold collection plants, parks, and more residents.

The Island Closest to Heaven is as the name suggests is the highest point of the orbital elevator, where massive freighters dock and can be easily loaded up with goods instead of having to plunge into the atmosphere. The station is newer in design compared to the older cityscape beneath it, itself being a trade station it is not heavily armed with defenses. It does come equipped with a comfortable turret mounted defense system to ward off any wayward pirate attacks.

The Island Closest To Hell the opposing end of the Orbital Elevator, it reaches the deepest down into the clouds of Esthar, so deep it's no longer visible from the main city scape. This is the city's large collection station and research station. While it collects the gases for processing and transport to the upper portions of the city and elevator, the science station researches the great planet of Esthar Primus in better attempts to understand its long history.