Tkalzktak
A planet in the Scronola system.
Tkalzktak is a gas giant with a very large orbital radius. It also has relatively calm winds due to being very cold, as few individual air particles are able to absorb enough energy to travel at high speed. This makes it easy to harvest hydrogen gas from using gas giant collecting stations. Tkalzktak has 62 moons and a large asteroid ring, though due to very low temperatures none were habitable historically. However, these moons were eventually made habitable as Tkalzktak was ignited by the Grand Artanat Empire, turning it into a very small star. This has warmed up the moons (which are now technically planets) orbiting it and made several habitable. Thus, this planet has become known as the Tkalzktak system.
The GAE also collects energy from the tiny star and performs star lifting, giving them a large amount of resources from just the star itself. It does require a ring world-like megastructure around the star however in order to keep it ignited, as stars of that size are normally unstable and eventually lose enough energy to collapse back into a gas giant. This large ring world is also the megastructure from which they perform star lifting, and they obtain enough energy and resources to make a net energy profit.
This small system was used as the GAE emperor's house several times as it is a symbol of GAE technological progression and power expansion - in their past they could not ignite gas giants. The emperors that lived there wanted to prove the eternally growing might of the GAE. They have also built a number of shipyards there in order to make advantage of the massively shortened travel times which can allow for rapid starship production and restocking.
Tkalzktak is a gas giant with a very large orbital radius. It also has relatively calm winds due to being very cold, as few individual air particles are able to absorb enough energy to travel at high speed. This makes it easy to harvest hydrogen gas from using gas giant collecting stations. Tkalzktak has 62 moons and a large asteroid ring, though due to very low temperatures none were habitable historically. However, these moons were eventually made habitable as Tkalzktak was ignited by the Grand Artanat Empire, turning it into a very small star. This has warmed up the moons (which are now technically planets) orbiting it and made several habitable. Thus, this planet has become known as the Tkalzktak system.
The GAE also collects energy from the tiny star and performs star lifting, giving them a large amount of resources from just the star itself. It does require a ring world-like megastructure around the star however in order to keep it ignited, as stars of that size are normally unstable and eventually lose enough energy to collapse back into a gas giant. This large ring world is also the megastructure from which they perform star lifting, and they obtain enough energy and resources to make a net energy profit.
This small system was used as the GAE emperor's house several times as it is a symbol of GAE technological progression and power expansion - in their past they could not ignite gas giants. The emperors that lived there wanted to prove the eternally growing might of the GAE. They have also built a number of shipyards there in order to make advantage of the massively shortened travel times which can allow for rapid starship production and restocking.
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