Lantyr
Discovering where our place is in the cosmos has been the dream of many, and few have contributed more to this than the ancient dwarven hold of Orldhatun. While that hold may be gone now, many across Pearalos have risen to the challenge of taking up the mantle of discovering our place, and while our modern telescopes pale in comparison to Orldhatun's Starruzunkupa, many discoveries have been - and will still be - made. On this front, little stands out more than the collaboration between various factions of the United Legions, heralding our first - or second, if you believe some of the tales of the vinarl - foray into the void.Lantyr is the star at the centre of the solar system that houses the world of Pearalos, alongside twelve other planets, at least 80 moons, two major asteroid belts and a solar nebula, as well as many spatial features that the denizens of Pearalos have been studying with telescopes and observatories for decades. Its wonders have ever remained beyond the grasp of all but the famed vinarl, who are said to have been the only race able to explore the wonders of Lantyr. Until now, that is. Recent innovations within the realm of the United Legions has seen massive strides in observatory complexes, wit the almighty Starruzunkupa finally having a modern competitor, and with the Legion space program sending its first satellites into orbit, it's only a matter of time until - for the first time since the ancient vinarl, if the tales are to be believed - a faction of Pearalos will send their people beyond the firmament.
A Dense Solar Neighbourhood
Lantyr
The source of light to all of the system, Lantyr is the central star, and the body most well understood - outside of Pearalos itself. Orldhatun recorded Lantyr to be a G-type main-sequence star with fairly mundane qualities as far as they were concerned; the star exhibits solar flare activities at regular intervals and otherwise shows no odd patterns of activity, and the GVO's findings concur with this outlook. The discrepancies however, arise from a small detail of the report: the presence of structures near Lantyr's surface. The astronomers of Orldhatun were never able to make any positive identifications as to the nature of these structures, but rumours have ever run abound about them, and their presence is cause for intrigue, for certain. As a result of that, it's understood that the GVO has been heavily focused on studying Lantyr itself, and the Praeturia Satellite that was recently launched into orbit through the Emporian Launch System has had its first mission tasked to it to investigate these structures from orbit, where the atmosphere of Pearalos will no longer be a problem. To this end, the Foxian Command - one of the four major factions of the United Legions - even managed to recruit one of the only survivors of Orldhatun, a dwarven astronomer who survived its fall.Cutera
Believed to be highly volcanic, Cutera is a world believed to have three separate moons in orbit of it, called Aetis, Laetis, and Suprova. Cutera seems to lack any sort of atmosphere, based on the studies of the dwarves and the GVO, anyway, and varies from being the closest planet to Lantyr to being as far out as Iyama, while orbiting the star on a highly inclined track. Beyond that, little is actually known, unfortunately, as it frequently lingers far beyond even the famed Starruzunkupa's range for studies, leaving mere conjecture and theory-crafting as to its nature. One such theory - posited by the dwarves - is that due to its high orbital inclination and eccentricity, Cutera isn't a native planet to Lantyr at all, and instead it arrived at some point in the past, implying by extension that it had to pass through the Abyssal Nebula. Hopefully, studies by the GVO and the Praeturia Satellite - both of which are slightly more powerful than the Starruzunkupa - will shed some light on the situation.Ulvomia
Ulvomia is a very large volcanic world located between Pearalos and Lantyr. Its most striking traits are its vast asteroid-laden planetary rings, within the middle of which lingers its solitary moon, Iehiri. Ulvomia is one of the more... interesting planets, as it's close enough to Pearalos to have been studied for a long time indeed, long before the Starruzunkupa's development, and it's believed to have a storied history that - notably - includes it housing the ikarian elemental realm of fire beneath its volcanic surface, if the stories are true. This is actually a theory that still stands firm in the minds of many today, but one thing remains certain: in its current state, Ulvomia appears to be rather inhospitable to life. The dwarves determined that much with some certainty, and the Fique have all but confirmed it.Pearalos
The home to all races that have come and gone from mortal history, Pearalos is the most well-known planet of the Lantyr system, being as everyone lives upon her surface. She orbits within the ideal habitation zone of Lantyr and possesses an oxygenated atmosphere, liquid water, and earth-like characteristics to her geography and biosphere. Pearalos has two moons, one of which has an atmosphere. Helena is the largest moon, tied to the moon goddess of the same name, and has ever taunted the denizens of Pearalos with its appearance of idyllic beauty, and a habitability that matches Pearalos itself - complete with water, continents and so on. Masser follows just behind Helena, and is notably smaller, and a lot more rocky and barren than Helena appears to be. Curiously the two moons appear to be co-orbital, contributing to Pearalos' distinctive tides - with the general tide approximately twice that of earth's tides, a tide of 2.5 times earth's tides when Masser is between Helena and Pearalos, and a tide of 1.7 times earth's tides when Helena is between Masser and Pearalos.Alnora & Olmuna
Initially confused for a single planet, Alnora and Olmuna are actually a binary planetary pair, the physics of which have eluded Pearalosan observers for decades. Nobody knows how they maintain their stable orbit, and when the Starruzunkupa discovered this binary nature, the dwarves made a point of checking back in on the planetary pair every few months - and later years - to check in on their state... and sure enough, they were always orbiting in a stable fashion around one another, seemingly anchored around a point between them, but closer to Alnora which is the bigger of the two. Alnora is about 10% bigger than Olmuna, and is the most visually distinctive of the pair for its highly inclined - roughly 70 degrees - planetary ring, and both planets seem to possess atmospheres, with Alnora looking to possess small oceans and bodies of water - if the tales from the Starruzunkupa are to be believed - while Olmuna looks barren and desolate. The GVO has recently been turned to observe the pair again, as they have recently re-entered telescope visual range of Pearalos.Iyama
Iyama is a desolate rocky world, believed by the dwarves to be very mineral rich - potentially in Adamantine or Mithril in particular - and accompanied by a small, similarly rocky moon known as Bizolara. It's a relatively boring planet as it stands, with few factors that draw people to it. In fact, this is so much the case that its most famous quality is the fact that it's the final of the inner planets, with the eturn asteroid belt separating the inner and middle system planets. Still, the fact that it is potentially mineral rich has made it an interesting exploration for spaceflight technologies, provided the tech can prove itself in closer-distance travel, and provided that it is actually mineral rich, and that its lack of atmosphere can be dealt with.Eturn Asteroid Belt
The Eturn Asteroid Belt is a large region of asteroids that orbits between Iyama and Elvuna, and separates the inner system from the rest of the solar system. Little is known of the eturn belt, as its asteroids are difficult to accurately track with the level of technology available to Pearalos' societies - even the Starruzunkupa and GVO proved little value in that regard - and all appear to blend together when it comes to tracking them, making it a well known, but not well known about region of space. This is one of the main regions that the Praeturia Satellite might be able to shed some more light on.Elvuna
Elvuna is quite an interesting planet indeed, and the astronomers that first observed it with the Starruzunkupa were... quite surprised, to say the least! The planet is located on the far side of the eturn belt, and should by all metrics be far beyond Lantyr's habitable zone... yet it possesses a proper atmosphere, continental landmasses, and liquid upon its surface, making it seem like it could, in fact, harbour life! Beyond that, Elvuna also has a small planetary ring system consisting of 4 rings, and a colossal - for a standard planet of its size - total of 9 moons, known as Regrone, Sautis, Citune, Cusides, Ingosie, Zivetera, Sainia, Hethea, and Vetala. It's possible it may have even more than that, but the Starruzunkupa was unable to observe any more than 9 distinct moons during its operation, and Elvuna is too far from Pearalos to see with any other telescopes, with the GVO having only recently picked up studies of it again.Vinea
Vinea is another curiosity, appearing to stay static as it orbits, with the dwarves referring to it as rotationally locked. This is curious just on its own, but the other aspects of its planetary system only serve to make it even more weird! For one, it has an enormous planetary ring system - easily the largest of any non-gas giant planet - as well as three distinct moons, known as Hasiea, Taniea, and Saniea. Beyond that, the Starruzunkupa produced observations that suggest its twilight zone - and potentially its dark side - experience high levels of volcanic activity. Ironically though, the planet itself isn't the most curious part about Vinea, but instead it's the fact that the Starruzunkupa observed something that wasn't intrinsic to the planet itself: it saw specks of light around Vinea and within its ring system, with a high degree of regularity. It lacked the fidelity to ever truly identify these specks, however, and is no longer operable, but it's spurred on ever more curiosity about Vinea, curiosity that led to the famous Vinea Observations - a set of images taken by the GVO of Vinea that showed proof of these specks of light in real time.Sozuno
Sozuno is the largest of Lantyr's two gas giants. A roiling mass of gases, Sozuno lacks any rings, but is believed to have an incredible 36 moons, though none have been verified or named as of yet. A curious fact is that the Starruzunkupa detected Magia around Sozuno and moving to and from it when calibrated to scan for magical signatures, potentially suggesting that it may well be a massive Leyline as well? And maybe also that it's able to move magia around? If either is true, it'd be quite revolutionary indeed!Sarnus
Sarnus is the second of Lantyr's gas giants. While it is smaller - though not by too much - than Sozuno, it has the largest ring system of any planet in the Lantyr system, and by a considerable margin, at that. Like Sozuno, Sarnus is believed to have a monumental 30 moons or more, but none of them have been properly verified and named yet. Sarnus is notable for being the final of the middle system planets, with the planets beyond its orbit being the outer planets.Isothia
Isothia is the first of Lantyr's outer planets, and not to be outdone by some of the other planets, it's by far one of the weirdest discoveries made by Orldhatun and the Fique, and one that we know basically nothing about due to its range, beyond the scraps of data the Starruzunkupa and GVO were able to dredge up - owing to it barely being within range. The planet appears to possess liquid water, in spite of its distance from Lantyr, while also having a reasonable - if small - planetary ring system and a general hue of its atmosphere being blue and purple. A popular dwarven theory made before the fall of Orldhatun was that it's a psychically-attuned world of some sort, and it draws on magia to keep liquid water, but nobody knows for sure.Izumo
Little is known of Izumo; it's believed to have a large moon known as Asoth around it, but its an extremely remote planet, on an elliptical orbit that has it swap with Cenotaph for the title of the most remote world for a small part of its orbit - a part of the orbit that takes it through the abyssal belt. Otherwise, however, it's completely unremarkable from the extreme distances, and appears to be entirely frozen over. Like Cenotaph, it might be somewhat subjected to abyssal corruption, though likely not as much as Cenotaph, as it only spends a small portion of its orbit in the abyssal belt.Cenotaph
Cenotaph is the furthest planet from Lantyr - at least, almost all of the time - and is a world that straddles the abyssal belt for its entire orbit. Cenotaph itself is little more than an icy ball of rock in space that is believed to be remarkably unremarkable, aside from its likely state of capturing comets from the abyssal belt. Where it gets interesting, though, is that the dwarves believe the planet is likely to be at least marginally corrupted by the abyss owing to its presence to the abyssal belt. Of course, this cannot be proven, but it's an interesting theory.The Abyssal Belt
The Abyssal Belt is a dense belt of icy and metallic asteroids located in the far reaches of the system, stretching from the boundary of Cenotaph's orbit all the way to the boundaries of the Abyssal Nebula itself. The belt is believed to be thoroughly tainted by the energy of the abyss, with many believing that creatures reside within the belt's incomprehensibly vast quantity of asteroids. Still, little is truly known of the belt itself, as it is too remote and full of objects too small for even the Starruzunkupa to have observed during its working years.The Abyssal Nebula
The Abyssal Nebula, formerly known as the Denaar Passage, is a huge solar nebula that encases and surrounds Lantyr for an incomprehensible distance. Nobody knows its size, nor its true nature, but the Starruzunkupa observed roiling masses of magia and abyssal corruption in the nebula during its studies, leading to the popular - and now generally accepted - theory of the abyssal nebula being the root of all evil on Pearalos. It's also believed that the Ikarian Upper Realms are located deep within the abyssal nebula, their denizens working tirelessly to fight back against the force of the abyss to prevent its influence from running amok and overwhelming the Lantyr system.
Alternative Name(s)
The Sun
Type
Star
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