Paradise 0131 B300A9D-D GG
The world is ruled over by the Church of the Virtual Deity. Most of its 20 billion citizens are kept in virtual reality pods for most of their adult lives. Life in VR is idyllic and often full of pleasures and fulfillment. Anyone who seriously breaks the rules is 'exiled' to the real world, and the 2% of the population who voluntarily choose real life are considered insane. The rulers of the sect are also in VR, and enact their will in reality through teleoperated robots. The world maintains a strong navy for a single world, and beside maintenance of the VR pods its the primary rl occupation. There are rumors that Virus strains have invaded the planet's systems, but so far is unsubstantiated.
Mesinam 0133 564421-5 GG
Mesinam is a life bearing world and the homeworld of a very inhuman sentient race dubbed the Blotches. The Blotches are amorphous creatures with a mutable body made of electrolyte fluid held together by a tough, semi-permeable membrane. The Blotches have internal organs visible through the membrane, including two unnervingly human-looking eyes that never blink. They can exchange information with each other by touching, and have a very alien psychology. The Imperium maintained a small human enclave on the surface to study them, and it remains even today. A colony of Blotches exist on Arrilinshu (0233), but with the Blotches low tech no one is sure how it got there.
Shalakur 0230 C656775-6 GG
After the Rebellion broke out, a number of opportunistic Vargr raiders and fleets tried raided the Imperium by making their way through its 'backdoor" by stealthing their way through the Antares Domain and then striking at unsuspecting border regions such as Ley, Delphi, Glimmerdrift Reaches, and others. Shalakur rperesents the farthest any one of those fleets successfully got, as the world was overrun by a surprise attack by a Vargr fleet in 3586 and conquered. As the major powers at the time had more important battles to fight, the world was written off after only a token effort to win it back. The Vargr remain the planet's ruling class to this day, though now broken into several territorial factions, and occasionally launch raids on surrounding worlds.
Arrilinshu 0233 D757545-2 GG
This world has a sizable population of Blotches, though no one is sure how exactly they arrived, as the Blotch homeworld has a TL of 5 and there are no signs of a previous high-tech culture there. Surface deposits of lanthanum and other rare metals have been found there, and the Imperium expanded the modest research base there into a mining operation which survives to this day. The Blotches seem to have no problem with the expanded human presence on their world.
Manei Lu 0236 X86A252-7 GG
Manei Lu is a waterworld with a modest human population. Its main purpose had been maintaining its starport as a low-jump way station between the Breda cluster and the Verge main. Its seas have a high mineral content and its native lifeforms produce crystalline organic structures that many find to be gourmet delicacies, but are toxic in large enough quantities. The world's 500 inhabitants make a decent secondary living off of trading these to off worlders. Its starport was destroyed by the Solomani, and it was attempted to be rebuilt but was destroyed again by Kafer raiders. Because of its relative insignificance, Manei Lu remains otherwise unscathed by the surrounding wars.
Eduukhiima 0331 C100537-A GG
The primary of this system is a brown dwarf, so it is a 'dark' system. Its gas giant is very far out, more than 10 AU, and is a small neptune-like world. The main world is a large icy world similar to Pluto, with a great deal of water and methane ice. The Vargr fleet which conquered Shalakur has raided the system regularly in the last decade and a half for high-tec equipment, adding to the world's already sharp economic woes and degrading its starport one level as they can't afford to do more then token repairs. They have pleaded for help form the surrounding worlds, esepcially Paradise, but those worlds plead that have their own concerns to look after.
Dashanilin 0336 C100102-A GG
Dashanilin during the Imperium was a minor mining outpost and refueling waystation. After the Kafer invasion of the Verge Main, it became a rallying point for refugee ships and naval remnants expelled by Kafer fleets, which solidified their resistance and managed to turn back a larger Kafer fleet through sheer determination and smart tactics around the world's rubble-strewn ringed gas giant primary. Though the main resistance forces have relocated to Gukishdamash (0435), several squadrons (including one unpublicized one from the Willow Accord) remain in the system to head off any Kafer attempt to expand to trailing.
Dimirbukhiir 0338 D889500-4 GG
Homeworld to a race of sentient mobile plant-like creatures called the Klaxun. Currently the planet is locked in an ice age, with only a few small landmasses near the equator not covered by glaciers. Human presence has always been near-minimal, with maybe a handful of researchers in a small island enclave and refueling station. The population number represents the number of Klaxun in known communities.
Dakharili 0430 B574555-B GG
A world terraformed sometime by an unknown alien race a few million years before, with many odd indigenous lifeforms. No sign of the aliens, whoever they were, remain. Human presence on the world dates back to the Vilani First Imperium 2000+ years ago. Dakharili has been an industrialized world in all that time, and the world's atmosphere is contaminated with industrial pollutants, to the extent that most inhabitants must wear filter masks. Though it suffered more than one Black War raid during the rebellion and frequent raids from Shalakur, it has rebuilt its starport in the years since and has become one of the only two remaining well-maintained trading hubs on the Verge Main (Paradise being the other.) It maintains a decent sized fleet for a single world, and has received a large flux of refugees from the Kafer-conquered worlds. The world is covered over with wood and tree-analogs that can be dozens of meters deep that have been accumulating for millions of years, as the local microbes have yet to evolve a way to digest it.
Guziikumgii 0431 D591678-5 GG
Guziikumgii was a heavily-industrialized colony world dating from the time of the Vilani First Imperium. Its atmosphere is contaminated by industrial pollutants. It suffered a Black War raid by both the Solomani and Lucan's forces, and the subsequent economic crash hit its specialized industries hard. In the ensuing chaos, its tech level dropped from C to 5, and the world splintered politically into no less than fourteen polities, most headed by a Technologically-Elevated Dictator or Oligarchy which uses the remaining high-tech resources to maintain autocratic control. The three strongest maintain their own starports (all class D), and they compete very heavily for what interstellar trade they still get, sometimes to the point of violence. Suffers occasional raids from Shalakur and its outer system of 4 gas giants and an asteroid belt is rumored to be a hotbed of pirate activity.
Sha 0432 CA97334-A GG
Sha's main industry during the Imperium was supporting the system's major scout waystation. That was destroyed by the Solomani during a Black war raid and the world has been hit by hard economic times ever since. The world itself is a high-gravity (1.3 G) world with an atmosphere tainted by gasses from volcanic activity. It modest self-defense fleet is almost entirely ships salvaged from the old scout base shipyard, and most are quite old, over a century or more.
Mimdishshasli 0433 C658624-8 GG
This world was terraformed during the Vilani era some 2000 years ago and hosted a small Vilani colony for centuries, but that died out during the long Night after the second Imperium. During the Imperium, the world was resettled by transhumans of various strains, particularly Aquans and a large population of GENI dolphins Normal humans a definite minority on the planet. The world suffered some raiding during the Rebellion, but no major battles. In their wake, the world's former 3 balknaized governments have formed a loose alliance that has slowly been giving way to a unified world government, though sharp cultural differences remain. The economic crash hit it hard, however, and its economy is struggling. The flood of refugees from Kafer-conquered worlds has given it a boost, allowing it to invest in much-needed system defense boats for protection.
Amkhash 0434 B4336BD-A GG
One of the few worlds of the subsector that has been able to retain its technical independence and run an effective self defense fleet. It was mostly to the world's leader, vislord Amir Trigvassen, taking totalitarian control of the world and exerting influence in every aspect of Amkhash life to retain resources. Amir died a few years ago and was succeeded by his son Abdul, who was less charismatic and popular than his father, but still holds onto much loyalty by the populace. Amkhash has become the major industrial and staging area for the Kafer resistance fleets, and has done its best to profit as much as possible by it. Physically, the world is about the size of Mars but closely resembles the Moon, and has only a trace atmosphere of nitrogen. It has traces of vacuum-adopted lifeforms, mostly plant-analogs, on its surface.
Gukishdamash 0435 D772476-6 GG
A dry, mostly desert world dominated by silt seas and mud flats, with only microbial lifeforms. The world has a modest population of 70,000, split between some 50,000 humans concentrated in a few large cities and 20,000 scattered Droyne communities. Both formed their own independent nations, but relationships were cordial. The sole damage from the Rebellion came from a raid on its modest Scout Base. In the wake of the Kafer invasion of the Verge Main, the remaining independent worlds and refugee groups put together a coalition fleet under the Dakharili admiral Borodin in order to stop the Kafer advance. After extremely fierce fighting they managed to turn the Kafers back at Gukishdamash. The coalition fleet remains in the system as a deterrent to the Kafers, but a great deal of politics cause a lot off friction and only Borodin's rep and force of personality seems to keep it from disintegrating. They occasionally launch raids into Kafer space and patrol nearby systems for any sign of a Kafer outbreak.
Nusgukhigi 0436 C99A400-A GG
Nusgikhigi is a water world with a high concentration of carbon dioxide and low concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere, making it difficult to breathe for humans for more than a few hours at a time. Most residents wear breathing compressors. Before the Kafer Invasion of 3590, the world was mostly a center for harvesting exotic foodstuffs from its vast ocean, which included microbial algae-analogs which produced a huge amounts of food for the surrounding systems. The world was targeted several times during the Rebellion by both Lucan and the Solomani to destroy its food manufacturing facilities as well as its B-class starport, but it suffered few relative casualties compared to surrounding systems. However, when the Kafers invaded in the latter phase of their invasion of the Verge main in 3590, the Kafers overrun the few island settlements and setup their fortress-colonies., driving off all the human inhabitants and killing any that remained. Twelve thousand of the world's 20,000 inhabitants died. Those that remain make a living as nomads on watercraft or in the few underwater facilities still extent. The Kafers seem to care little of the human survivors as long as they don not harass their new Kafer overlaords. The Kafers have at least two major fleets stationed in the system, and many expect if a new invasion of the Verge main were to be launched, it would be from Nusgukhigi.
Irkhi 0437 E552456-7 GG
Irkhi was an old Vilani industrial world that once boasted several million inhabitants. However, civil strife during the Second Imperium caused a great deal of infighting as the population split into tribal groups and nations. The constant wars ground down its industrial base and it became known as a slum world despite thriving logging and farming businesses. During the Third Imperium, emigration remained high, and its population dwindled to a mere several thousand, spread out among small clusters of widely-dispersed settlements representing the old tribal groups. Solomani raids destroyed its meager industries, and the Irkhi residents were too poor to do much rebuilding. The world has been ignored since by most major combatants, including teh Kafers, though it suffered from a few Vampire raids looking for slave crews.
Ungimula 0440 X43869A-8 GG
Ungimala the 'main world' is the second world from the central M3 star, an unremarkable ice world with a trace atmosphere. It held only a few thousand residents who mainly worked to support its former C class starport and its accompanying businesses. The majority of the system's population actually inhabits the moons of the superjovian gas giant, and besides the usual space industries made a good living off of harvesting both the gas giant lifeforms as well as the diamond filament-flakes that form in its atmosphere that form an essential resource for its non-organic biosphere. The Solomani destroyed the starport and the modest settlements surrounding it on the main world, but left most of the gas giant industries alone. Since then, the system's inhabitants have become increasingly xenophobic, and are more than happy to carry on their own culture and society independent of the greater interstellar culture. They decided not to rebuild their starport, and trade with other systems is infrequent, though they still allow travellers to refuel at their gas giant unmolested.
Memgug 0533 C843600-7 GG
A life bearing world terraformed during the Ancients era, most of its life (as well as agriculture and industry) is concentrated around its single large ocean. The world formerly had a modest population of a few thousand, but because of ist stable, human-friendly biosphere, it has been overwhelmed with refugees who ahve basically taken over the planet. The world's government collapsed under its own weight, and the world became a lawless collection of cantonments and xenophobic communities dominated by outworld refugees of all factions and stripes. Today, it is considered a lawless anarchy, with thousands of local 'warlords' and local polities, but with no one becoming strong enough--yet--to dominate the others. Though the planet is considered dangerous for visitors, it is also a haven for the blackmarket and other hard to get goods, s well as for pirates and other underworld activity that would not be tolerated on other planets.
110-796 0536 BAF5500-B GG
This high-gravity world sports an insidious, corrosive atmosphere. Most of its human 3 million inhabitants occupied either the planet surface or orbital habitats. An early Solomani attack destroyed most of the surface habitats, while the succeeding Kafer invasion destroyed the space facilities. Today, no known humans survive in the system. The population, starport, and tech level refer to the current Kafer population.
Ushkhesh C400400-B GG
Ushkhesh was an airless vacuum world whose habitats were mostly underground to protect it them from radiation from its cepheid variable star, Every two weeks, the star (a yellow supergiant) flares for an hour, during which its radiation output increases 100,000 fold. While the planet is a good enough distance away (2 billion + km) that the levels during the flare are not instantly lethal to those wearing standard protection, they can still be health-threatening. UshKhesh's human inhabitants were descendants of community of neoMormon settlers. They have however are believed to have been totally wiped out by the Kafers during the invasion, though there are rumors of some surviving in remote deep tunnels, according to some passing ships that reported receiving what could be communications from them. Other, however, believe it simply to be a Kafer ruse to lure unsuspecting human ships into a trap. The current stats for the planet reflect only those of teh Kafer conquerors
Mikhuurgakha 0633 D586100-9 GG
The world had its biosphere heavily damaged by first a Black War raid and later by a Kafer fleet, to the point that it is facing total collapse. Oxygen levels are dropping, CO2 is skyrocketing, all ecosystems are suffering major extinction events, and storms predominate the atmosphere. Once home to over three hundred thousand residents, the survivors managed to organize a complete evacuation over the last decade, many settling on nearby Memgug. A few dozen hardcore hold-outs remain, but their exact fate remains unknown and communication with them is spotty. The system's one gas giant still has active Kafer in orbit which occasionally claims passing ships.
Lamente 0635 C88A800-B GG
Lamente was once one the Verge Main's trading hubs, and was a prosperous, high-tech, and well-populated water world with a large human and neo-cetacean population. It supports a teeming ecology, and has no landmasses, though it does have regiosn of shallows where the water is only a few meters deep. These shallows are the site of most human habitats, constructed on pylons and covering entire square kilometers, and later converted by the Kafers into their fortresses. The world was the scene of a number of battles during the Rebellion, given its value as a war prize, and it was also the crown jewel in the Kafer's conquest of the worlds of the Verge Main. Unlike most worlds to come under the Kafer heel, The Kafers spared most of human population and uses them as slave labor, mostly to produce food and biological goods the kafers find useful. The humans are left with only a subsistence of what they need to survive. There is a thriving boat-based nomad community on the world that was swelled from refugees since the invasion, and though teh kafers occasionally crack down on one group or another, they mostly don't care as long as their production needs are met.
Umi 0636 C552700-8 GG
Umi is a desert world with an atmosphere tainted with copious fine dusts and spores. The mold-tainted dust is essential to its complex microbial ecosystem, and the various bacterial-analogs actively create it as a byproduct of their lifecycle. The dust induces severe allergic reactions in most humans, and prolonged exposure can lead to asthma and other respiratory problems. There are no native multicellular lifeforms on Umi, though the world does have an ecosystem very similar to Mishanuumlir, and may have the same origins. The human presence on Umi measured in the millions, and the planet was known mostly for low-tech manufacturing (TL-8) and metal work. It suffered a few cursory attacks during the Rebellion by the Solomani, and the Kafers conquered the planet by laying waste to its surface cities. Outside of the kafer safehouses, soe human communities survive, using what tech survived the attack to scrape out a rudimentary subsistence existence. The Kafers usually (but not always) leave them unmolested so long as the humans don't interfere with their affairs.
Mishanuumlir 0637 E551400-8 GG
Mishanuumli has a microbe-dominate desert ecology almost identitical to Umi's, with the same kind of mold-tainted dust contaminant in the atmosphere. Scientists believed that the two star systems once must have supported terraformed ecologies created by some unknown sentient species millions of years ago, but whether the terraforming never got beyond a certain stage or regressed at some point is unknown. The human presence measured a few million colonists, specializing mostly in cultivating the microbes in the atmosphere for commercial use. The kafers destroyed the human settlements completely, and there are no known human survivors.
Ulaginkiir 0638 B310463-D GG
Ulaginkiir was once one of the richest worlds of the Verge Main. The world is a low-gravity rock with only a trace atmosphere and no surface water or ice. The world was set up in the Second Imperium mostly as a Jump-2 trading crossroads to points rimward. Its population was never very high (about 8500 prior to the rebellion) and it was devoted almost entirely to supporting the starport and its related industries and businesses. Its upgraded it facilities steadily over the centuries, and wass a very-high tech facility which supported a modest scout base. The Solomani rolled over the world during the Rebellion, and corsairs associated with the Solomani occasionally raided the system even after it was recaptured by Margaret's forces. The Kafers went after it as well, wanting the essential hub for themselves even though a Jump-2 waystation was of lesser importance after the activation of the Hyperspace Cascade. Most of the starport was captured intact and is still used by the Kafers, though most of its human population was able to flee. No humans remain in the system.
Shallax 0732 C200544-B No GG
Shallax is a desolate system, consisting only of a small white dwarf star and three small terrestrial planets. Water and hydrogen is very sparse in the system.. It might have been classified as a Rubble star system and left abandoned if a routine survey probe hadn't detected Ancient structure on the surface of the largest body, Shallax. it was discovered that Shallax is the remains of a Gas Giant core whose atmosphere was blown away when its parent star went nova hundreds of millions of years ago. It is extremely rich in heavy metals, and the Ancient base present was apparently a mining outpost. The human outpost set up there was dedicated to mining these. There are even rumors that the world may contain very rare stable trans-uranic elements, maybe even super-heavy metals. The world was subject of a deep raid by the Solomani during the rebellion, but finding none of the very rare supermetals, just departed while confiscating a number of junk Ancient artifacts. Because of its lack of
