Ardaya System

Ardaya itself, from just above Thalion's orbit

Ardaya is the brightest star in Myrmidan in the realm of Cosmoria and the parent star of the capital of the Coalition of Free Systems. Ardaya is the site of many impressive megastructures, being inhabited by the Edanans since the days of Jamulsa and continuously fortified against the Somnar Hive. Its two habitable planets, **Xathor** and **Edana**, have since become very well known in the scope of Florathel's stars, and there are four planetary bodies in the Ardaya System.

## Architecture

The Ardaya System holds one very inner planet, **Thalion**, which exists less than five stellar radii from the star itself. The middle Ardaya System contains the other three planets, **Xathor**, **Edana**, and **Kelar**. Beyond Kelar lies a vast assemblage of habitation stations, comet miners and other stuff, inhabiting almost everything larger than a chair out to almost a light-year, known as the Hope Cloud. The Hope Cloud holds the vast majority of the population of the system, and is also its last line of defense.

## Orbital Infrastructure

Ardaya is surrounded by a thick cloud of orbital habitats carrying members of every remaining unassimilated species native to the region, made from material starlifted off the star. There is also a large Nicoll-Dyson beam being assembled.

## Planets

Thalion - **Father of Flame**

Brief Description
Thalion is the innermost world of the Ardaya System, orbiting extremely close to the star. Typically, Thalion is known for its extreme conditions and unique appearance, and has no moons. Thalion's skies are filled with the blazing furnace of Ardaya, continually blasting away huge amounts of gas from the planet, and its tiny sphere of influence is used as a convenient place to get fusion fuel to fuse into useful building materials.

Xathor - **Ocean of Storms**

Brief Description
Xathor is the second and second largest planet of the Ardaya System. Its endless oceans have at least some immigrants from every species in the Myrmidan Sector, and its two moons are filled with powerful defenses in case of a Somnar incursion. Jarek in particular is home to a secret research site looking into possible cures to the Somnar hive infection, and has recently cracked a method to completely block QSD jumps into the system.

Moons
Xathor has two known moons:

* Jarek
* Laserith

Edana - **Endless Savannahs**

Brief Description
Edana is the third planet of the Ardaya System and is widely considered the most beautiful. Edana is a temperate terra world mainly covered in savannahs, with great cities across the plains. Edana, despite having a surface population of one trillion people, only contains a tiny fraction of the population of the system, with untold hundreds of trillions floating around in the system's Limit Cloud.

Moons
Edana has two known moons:

* Ulekka
* Seltina

Kelar - **The Great Dune**

Brief Description
Kelar is the last and smallest planet in the Ardaya System. Kelar is a small cold desertic world that may be terraformed in the future. The planet is relatively physically uninteresting at the present day, with only stromatolites littering the surface native to it. Kelar may also be turned into ecumenopolis or disassembled entirely in an enormous engineering project to create vast numbers of habitats, although there are more than enough resources left to be extracted from the Limit Cloud to support population growth for another hundred thousand years. Today, Kelar has one small moon, which has been hollowed out to form a large rotating habitat, with the material used to create three more.

Moons
Kelar has only one moon:

* Vesper