Breas System (Bray-az System)

Breas is the last of the known star systems in the Epsilon Star Cluster. It’s the youngest of the three, having been settled during the Second Migration at the start of the Third Solar Age, a few months after the Yendu System. This system is the most active from stellar phenomenon to pirate activity and more.

This system has only a single primary, K6 class star, three active gas giants with rich moon systems. Two of the giants have ring systems as well. The third gas giant’s ring is a traditional ice based ring. But the second is more interesting, as it is less ice and more rocky debris that is like an asteroid belt. Since the second gas giant is a failed star, or brown dwarf, this gives support to that idea those rings may be the remains of a failed moon.

The second gas giant also orbits well inside the system’s habitable zone. A handful of its moons are closer to dwarf planets in size and contain habitable environments. The moon, Strosaria, is the largest and considered the ‘homeworld’ of the Breas system.

Planets

There are three planets that make up the orbiting bodies in this system. They are, in order from the nearest to farthest from the star:

Dallun

Dallun is a medium-sized gas giant that orbits the closest to the primary star in the system. This is a ‘hot’ gas giant, similar to the planet Zoya, in orbit around Yendu-B in the Yendu binary system. Temperatures in the outer layers of the atmosphere reach 530 degrees Celsius, or 986 degrees Fahrenheit. But there is more to this than just a super-heated gas giant.

This orange-green gas giant with its boiling copper, helium, and methane atmosphere is not native to this system. Dallun is a captured ‘rogue planet’, one that was caught from deep space during the formation of the system.

The gravitational forces with the oblique angle of the gas giant’s orbit pulled it in tight to the star. During its approach, Dallun absorbed or ejected early terrestrial worlds to take their place in the innermost orbit around Breas.

As expected, Dallus has no moon system around the world because of its proximity to the star. But it does have an unusual feature of flat, island-like asteroids that ‘float’ in the middle atmosphere. These islands of volcanic rock, mixed with ample amounts of potassium, lithium, and sodium, float on the denser lower atmospheric layers. Caught in the hurricane-force winds, they orbit around the planet inside its cloud layer.

Taranis

The second planet of the system is Taranis, another medium-sized gas giant. This one, unlike Dallun, is a brown dwarf, also known as a ‘failed star’. Taranis orbits in the middle of the system’s habitable zone, with an Earth-like rotation and orbit around the star.

Perhaps part of its history as a failed star is the collection of orbital bodies around the world. Taranis has fifteen moons, most of which are airless, or near airless, balls or rock or ice. But the largest three are terrestrial moons with a rich ecosystem, compatible for both human and velid species. They are, in fact, large enough to qualify as dwarf planets.

These moons, in order from closest to farthest from Taranis, are Mingoth, Strosaria, and Nabos. All are garden worlds. Mingoth and Nabos are primarily ocean with broken, island-like jungle continents at the equator. Strosaria, the largest of the three is has several large land masses with a mixture of environments from thick forests, deserts, to polar ice caps.

This last moon, Strosaria, was the first to be colonized. It quickly became the center of trade, civilization, and the local government for the system, the Strosarian Republic.

Taranis also has a collection of rings that orbit the planet. Planetary rings are commonly made of ice. Here, Taranis’s ring system is not ice but terrestrial rock. Studies by the FarWorlds Exploration Corps proved that this dense rocky debris is a failed planet that dates back to when this solar system formed. If the planet had formed, it would have been the largest in the Taranis moon system. It’s currently mined for resources by industries across the Epsilon Cluster.

Belisama

Last of the planets in the Breas system is the large gas giant, Belisama. While classified as a gas giant, Belisama is another of the few ‘ice giants’ in the Epsilon Star Cluster. A large, blue-gold world with continent-sized ice clouds that drift across its oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium atmosphere.

Belisama is native to the Breas system, like its neighbor Taranis. It also has its own moon system with nine objects in orbit; seven of those are dwarf moons or moonlets, and two are fully formed moons. The two moons have an atmosphere, but both are toxic as the atmosphere is a mixture of methane and sulfur gas over a frozen methane and hydrocarbon terrain. Despite being inhospitable, the moons are ripe for industry and are the focus of mining operations from Strosarian and other organizations.

Alternative Name(s)

TJ996

Type

Star System

Location under

Epsilon Star Cluster

Included Organizations

• Strosarian Republic Military

Owning Organization

Strosarian Republic

Stellar Classification

K6, "orange-yellow"

Mass

0.6 times the mass of Earth's sun

Surface Temperature

4200 K

Age

2000 million years

Planetary Bodies

Dallun

Taranis

Belisama

Society Information

Immigrated species

Humans

Velid