Uharu Star System

Uharu is a binary system rich on resources, also including the sibling-star Zuhal. Twenty-three moons and three dwarf planets orbit Zuhal, a brown dwarf about 15 AD from the main star. Zuhal is believed to have already devoured half of the system’s original celestial bodies; what remains can essentially be described as a huge asteroid belt surrounding it. When the Firstcome arrived in the Third Horizon, the binary system quickly became important — its closeness to Dabaran paired with its plentiful natural resources and abundance of flora and fauna made it a contested system. Dabaran dars fought endlessly with local colonists, and since the Zenith’s arrival, the Colonial Agency has joined the conflict by establishing orbital refineries around the three dwarf planets Alri, Harara and Warah.
Important moons:

• PYRE — Charred and ravaged moon without a natural atmosphere, located in a flux tube near Uharu itself. The Foundation operates a station here, the FS-21, where magnetic fields are studied.
• AZRAQ 1-5 — Five moons mainly covered in water and ice.
• Azraq-3 is tidally locked in its rotation around Uharu, with one of its sides constantly facing away from the star. The dark side is covered in thick ice sheets and treacherous underwater currents while the lit side is all muddy oceans and swamps. All the Azraqs have fauna mainly made up of hibernating worms and protofish, despite the harsh environments, low gravity and leaking atmospheres.
• NAJILA — Najila is the only moon large enough to maintain an atmosphere capable of supporting rudimentary vegetation and varied fauna, mainly consisting of different reptiles. Naturally occurring hot springs have allowed for human settlement, and several small Firstcome colonies have survived through the centuries up until today.

The dwarf planets:

• ALRI (0.3 G) — Believed to be the remains of a much larger planet, now brutally exploited for its riches. The Colonial Agency mines silicates here which they refine into silicon, hydrogen and oxygen using three orbital refineries. The atmosphere is heavily polluted and very thin, but still breathable.
• HARARA (0.3 G) — Alri’s closely orbiting sister planet. A ParrNestera mining station on the planet serves as the hub for hundreds of mining drones across the planet that harvest helium-3 from the planet’s crust. At the end of each segment, Alri does a close pass above the mining station and the raw materials are shipped to the refineries to be processed.
• WARAH (0.4 G) — A solid dwarf planet with a crust of frozen, iron-rich mud. Despite the thin and toxic atmosphere, a small tribe of Kalit humanites from Jina have made it their home. The tribe has domesticated the native Dol’amar — a type of acid-resistant isopod that can grow to be five meters long. Warah is mostly left alone by the factions.

The planets:

• ALBAH (0.45 G) — A small, inhospitable planet with a thick atmosphere saturated with ammonium chloride. The location of several surveillance stations and a former Dabaranian shipyard now claimed by the Order of the Pariah.
• RIH (0.8 G) — One of the planets that were colonized in the early days of the Third Horizon. Its thick crust consisted primarily of granite, but the bedrock was stripped away over the centuries and shipped to other systems. Today the surface, with its ancient ruins from former civilizations, is plagued by raging dust storms.
• YUJRA (1.5 G) — A severely exploited ice planet, now hosting military installations and naval bases captured by the Order of the Pariah.