Hamura Star System

Its location a jump away from Kua made the Hamura system an important transit system up until the Ghazali incident. After the collapse of the portal to Taoan, it becomes almost forgotten.
The hamurabi station is still visited now and then by traders, but the luxury cruises from Coriolis to Dabaran stop, and so does the busi-ness they brought with them. The system instead becomes a highly militarized no-man’s land, where the fleets of the Order and the Legion go to flex their muscles.
PLANETS The system contains only three planets, one of which – Nestero – is a massive gas giant. Nestero has a strange, close orbit around the Hamura star, with the smaller planets Hamura and Yublai on longer orbits farther out. The system is known for its violent ion storms and for its infamous corsair captain, Samina. The Hamurabi portal station orbits the star between the two portals at about ½ AD from both the star and the portals.
NESTERO The Foundation have been studying Nestero for many years to try to explain how the mysterious gas giant can have such a close orbit around its star – gas giants are otherwise found far from the center of their home systems. It is believed that some form of portal-related phenomenon might explain its orbit, and research teams arrive regularly on Hamurabi to undertake dangerous survey expeditions. Nestero has thirteen moons, of which the Abui ice moon is the most widely known. The Colonial Agency runs a mine on Abui where hired hands work long, dangerous shifts mining ice.
HAMURA The planet with the same name as the system is mostly covered in vast oceans. A string of hundreds of thousands of tiny islands can be ound along the equator. The gravity effects produced by the relationship between Hamura and her three moons create gigantic tides every four days, with ebb and flow differences of up to a hundred meters. Terrifying storms are common. Hamura is a popular cruise desti-nation thanks to its rich marine fauna and the high concentration of minerals in its water. Its oceans are marketed as “the Horizon’s most natural spa experience,” and well-off people from near and far come here to rest up or calm down. The planet’s only large settlement, Dome Isolda, owes much of its economy to tourism, with underwater cruises departing weekly for distant paradise islands and reefs inhabited by extraordinarily beautiful marine life.
YUBLAI Yublai is a dark reflection of its sister planet Hamura – covered in boiling lava. Peculiar activ-ity in the planet’s core constantly transports lava to the surface. The volcanic activity also produces a valuable gas, named Bwalya after the discovering prospector. The Agency have made repeated attempts to mine the gas, most recently using ED technology to funnel the gas through the atmosphere up to low-orbit space stations. Technical difficulties have forced them to shut down four of the project’s six stations, and the remaining two are only used for data gathering. The most remote installation, sta-tion Gupta, has been claimed as home base by Samina’s dreaded corsairs.
TRAVELING IN HAMURA Ion storms and corsairs make the Hamura system more dangerous than one might think. Pages 138–140 in the Coriolis core rulebook detail space travel in the Third Horizon. To the right is

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