The Greenhouse

**The Greenhouse** is a pulsar planet located in an Unnamed Pulsar System in CDC-41-Gamma. It is the only large planetary body in the system. It is also home to a harvesting outpost of the same name, set up by the Avalon Exploratory Initiative.

## Description

The Greenhouse orbits on the edge of its system. It was probably once, several billion years ago, a primarily silicate sand desert. However, after its parent star went supernova, the intense heat forged the sand on the planet's surface into layer upon layer of cold glass.

The planet maintains a thin atmosphere, breathable by Humans and, most likely, Advari. The planet's surface temperature is survivable but dangerously cold, and the landscape is marked by numerous deep crevasses across the planet's surface. The Advari built a number of terrariums on the planet to grow vegetation, some of which is edible by Humans.

The plants grown in the Greenhouse's underground sanctuary grow remarkably quickly, with Elizabeth Ancelet reporting in her personal logs that the plants seem to grow back almost as fast as they can be harvested.

## History

Some time before the arrival of the Avalon Expedition Fleet in CDC-41-Gamma, the planet was colonised (presumably) by the Holy Advari Empire. Under several sheets of glass, the Advari colonists built large terrariums, in which they grew various crops, that continued to grow long after the Advari had abandoned their facilities. Furthermore, at some point, an small Advari vessel, no bigger than a standard shuttlecraft of the Tantalus Cluster, crashed into one of the crevices on the planet's surface. The vessel was still sealed when it ditched.

Several weeks after the arrival of the Avalon Fleet, the *Guinevere* was dispatched to study the pulsar around which the planet orbits. Upon closing in to the unnamed system, they detected the Vitrified Planet, and decided to send a smaller expedition to the planet's surface to study its unique phenomena. On the planet, Director Elizabeth Ancelet and Captain Cassandra Farren travelled on foot and aboard their R-36 Wildcat All-Terrain Excursion Rover, uncovering several of the ruins left behind by the Advari colonists. After crashing their rover and having to survive the extreme conditions of the planet, the two were rescued, taking several plant samples with them.

Following their return to the Avalon Expedition Fleet, Elizabeth Ancelet and Cassandra Farren led the *Siochana* back to the planet to establish shelters to harvest its planet life. Ancelet expressed hope that this might provide the nucleus for a new Human colony. Later, the command staff of the *Avalon* expressed interest in moving the platform - and thus the main component of the expedition's flotilla - towards the planet. Following Vice Admiral Winston Redfield's attempted coup and subsequent return of control of the expedition to Director Ancelet, the *Avalon* was successfully moved into orbit around the planet, where a harvesting outpost was constructed. "The Greenhouse" came to be applied as a name to both the shelter and the planet as a whole, which now serves as the primary host for the expedition as of 100th of Equinox, 305 PCU.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Dust and Shadow*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Contact, Wait Out*
3. ↑ *The Promised Land*
4. ↑ *Theirs Not to Make Reply*