Felaren System

The Felaren /fe-lahr-en/ system, named after its most significant planet, is a light blue star system containing 6 planets and a large asteroid field between the 5th and 6th planet.

The Felaren system is currently the setting to a conflict colloquially dubbed The Felaren War.

# Origin / Discovery

The Felaren system was left mostly untouched by civilizations, until Emmett J. Hamran, in the year 528 PoU, due to disagreements with the Union scientific community, left Union space and traveled, unbeknownst to the rest of civilization, to the Felaren system.

Dr. Hamran terraformed 3 planets (Charika, Levia and Safite) in a matter of weeks, a feat that has yet to be even attempted to be recreated (current terraforming procedures take multiple centuries to terraform a planet to livable conditions), into varying flourishing ecosystems.

Dr. Hamran then set out to ferry different life forms native to the Terran ecosystems he had recreated onto his planets, along with engineering his own.

Dr. Hamran created a museum on Levia from which all of this information has been gathered. Dr. Hamran has, however, hidden or destroyed the vast majority of his technology that superseded the time, citing that civilization “was not responsible enough” to wield his creations.

Dr. Hamran’s prized feat, as he claims, is his creation of the Felans, a sentient race genetically engineered from Terran cats. Dr. Hamran claims to have guided them indirectly through early to modern times in approximately 1200 years, guiding them to the information age by 1740 PoU. Dr. Hamran claims in his museum to have been alive all that time. Dr. Hamran then claims to have left them to enter the Sectoral community at 1750 PoU. Lost traders stumbled upon the Felaren system after miscalculating a hyperspace jump approximately 2 months after Dr. Hamran is said to have made his leave.

All of Dr. Hamran’s claims have been verified by records and documentation kept by the Felan people, although some suspect that these were simply forged, either by Dr. Hamran or Felans.

In the last 400 years or so, since their integration with the rest of the Sector, Felans have found themselves accepted by the vast majority of the sector, and to an unknowing eye it would most likely seem as though they are just another species.

## Natural

### Planets

#### Yeeta

Yeeta is a small planet, approximately .3 Tr. It has no atmosphere and is covered in molten common metals.

While occasionally mined on by freelance miners, little other mining or inhabiting happens on Felaren I, due to the cost of protecting equipment in such extreme temperatures.

Average Temp: 2200K

Radius: .1 Tr

#### Wadu

Wadu is a barren planet, with a substantial amount of common metals and a respectable amount of rare metals in its crust.

Its surface consists of the stereotypical asteroid-pummeled rock and dust surface, with mountainous occasionally sprouting up and the vague remnants of small seas in the form of large, flat beds of land.

A small number of now-abandoned, due to the war, mining colonies dot it’s surface and crust.

#### Charika

Charika is a bit of an ‘odd one out’ of the trio of Dr. Hamran’s terraformed planets, as it does not take after any habitat of Terros. Instead, it seems to have been an experiment of Dr. Hamran’s on a planetary scale: Hamran seems to have created an ecosystem comparable in complexity and sustainability to that of a naturally inhabited planet completely in his own image.

The atmosphere of Charika is clouded with incredibly thick fog, making surface life exist in a sort of eternal night. Due to this, significant amounts of the fauna and flora have developed bioluminescent features.

The Felans that live here tend to be much more reclusive than those found of Lenia or Safite

#### Levia

Levia is considered to be Dr. Hamran’s crowned jewel of a planet, is a medium-sized planet that is covered mostly in 3 large continental structures of jungle, with many small tropical islands dotting the oceans in between. Water covers approximately 45% of the planet’s surface.

Average Temp: 295 K

Radius: .9 Tr

#### Safite

Fernal is a currently oceanic planet that was once a barren, [mostly] gray planet. Its oceans are at an average 3 km deep, and it is dotted with relatively small islands (no more than 100 km2).

Fernal is home to the majority of old-world Terran sea creatures, with its oceans designed to imitate each of Terros’ in different locations of Fernal. Water covers approximately 90% of the planet’s surface.

Fernal has a set of rings approximately 23,000 km wide.

#### Xantares

Xantares is a gas giant of approximately 6 Tr made of ~73% hydrogen, 26% helium, and 1% other, heavier elements.

The planet has one moon of .6 Tr, made up of primarily liquid ammonia under a thick (.25 km average thickness) sheet of solid ammonia.

This moon is largely deserted, although some smuggler ports have sprung up due to the harsh but not unlivable conditions and a central location between Spartan and Union space.

Average Temp: 128K

Radius: 6 Tr

#### Isgar

The moon of Xantares, named Isguar after it’s first entrepreneuring settler, was home to, before the outbreak of the war, many traders and/or smugglers looking for a remote and non-patrolled location to stop between Spartan and SIU space.

Average Temp: 230K

Radius: .6 Tr

### Asteroid Field

Before the Felaren war, the Asteroid field between Levia and Safite was a populous and bustling place of trade and commerce, with many asteroid settlements and space stations littering the patrolled region.

It is now witness near-constant warring and few civilians venture there.

## Non-Natural

Many space stations orbit various planets in the system, along with the system’s asteroid field, which before the war was teeming with life and commerce.

At current times there are more than 1000 military spaceships in the Felaren System, from both the SIU and Sparta.

## Current Events

The Felaren system has had fighting in its domain for 462 days.

The War is colloquially referred to as the Felaren War.