planets of hain - character creation

8/10/2019 Planets of Hain - Character Creation

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hrough birth or immigration you have found yourself resident on erra, a dystopiangarden world at the height of its powers. After making interstellar contact nearly fourmillennia ago, erra began a programme of aggressive colonisation, reaching manynearby systems including the one containing Athshe. After a near total collapse in whicha great deal of history was lost, erra joined the galactic union known as the League of AllWorlds, linking erra with Hain and nine other planets. he League was fragile, relyingon NAFAL travel which could take centuries from starting point to destination.

Around 3000 years ago the ansible was created, a device which allows people tocommunicate instantly across the vast distances of space. his strengthened the unionof planets; however over time it eventually disintegrated during a time known as theAge of the Enemy. In this period erra experienced dramatic population collapse andfragmentation. When the Enemy, the mysterious Shing, had been destroyed, the erransslowly built up their cities again and around 900 years ago they facilitated a rebuilding ofthe union of worlds with Hain at its head, this time called the Ekumen. his period waslargely one of peace and collaboration, though many areas of the galaxy did not participateand rejected the Hainish peacemakers.

Around 180 years ago the government on erra began to turn its eyes greedily outwardsonce more, having begun large-scale exploitation of the solar systems resource richplanets and asteroids. A market agreement was established with the Werellian corporate-government of reviled slave traders. 10 years later the Churten War broke out, precipitatedby a devastating attack on Hain which shattered the Ekumen and sent the galaxy into aperiod of chaos and diplomatic withdrawal. An attack on erra destroyed large parts ofthe planets ozone and vegetation layer, leaving vast swathes of radioactive wasteland.erras government quickly consolidated its powers and turned the system into a brutalcontrolled zone. Now calling themselves the Were, the government began re-buildingthe erran colonial war machine and prevented anyone leaving the system. errans havespent the last three generations living in a chain of totally administered city-bubbles, the

largest of which is ours, New Istanbul.

Hainish refugees who escaped on NAFAL ships 170 years ago have been arriving bit bybit for some time now, expecting a warm welcome from their erran allies. And the Weredid indeed welcome them in a fashion. he more skilled and useful refugees have beenintegrated into erran society, others placed into forced labour blocks, but many havebeen outlawed as city capacities became compromised and disappeared. he grip ofthe Were is strongest on Earth and its closest astral bodies, but at the edges of the systemunderground communities and lawless spaceports have sprung up. ravel is difficult butnow possible, with the right papers and enough money. As a result erran society is evenmore diverse today than it had famously been before the blockade and, as much as the

Were shout the opposite, the cracks are beginning to show...


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A month ago something profound happened to you. Someone pushed past you in the crowd and wedged a

parcel under your arm, disappearing immediately. You managed to suppress the urge to glance upwards at the

street cameras (known colloquially as Eyes) and hurried on your way. When you finally felt confident that

no-one had followed you, you pulled out the package and examined it. It felt like a book and, unwrapping it,

you saw the hard green cover and immediately a chill went through you. he circle debossed on the cover told

you all you needed to know this was a banned book, a very dangerous book, one you had only heard indirect

whispers about, one that few would admit to even having heard of, even to their most trusted friends. Odos

Analogue. he book that, they never say, started a revolution. Your fingers trembled as you turned over the

cover. Only a few ragged pages left of the book, fifty at the most. A fragment. here was a handwritten note

tucked inside:

hat night you devoured the book and hid it well. In the morning you went about your business as normal but

it felt as though every eye was turning towards you, at every corner you turned figures stalked you at a distance.

Over the next few days the feeling of unease did not dissipate, but you began to relax a little such high tension

cant be sustained indefinitely. Returning home one evening you found a City ransport Network single travel

pass on the floor. he name on it was not familiar. ime to choose. Using someone elses ticket is very illegal.

Who are these people, you thought to yourself. Can I trust them?

Something strange came over you. Memories of the last few years. Friends lost, rules followed thoughtlessly,

needless pain, suffering. he Fragment bubbled up in your mind. You grasped the ticket in your hand and

turned and walked back out of the house, now filled with a supreme confidence. Down alleys thick with mossyou weaved your way to the station, visible here and there by its tall ochre towers, deep into the bowl of the city.

he train rushed underground and clanked its way through Yenikap, the old port. As it reached surface level

again, the sky was getting dark. he old basin of the Marmara stretched out ahead, home to a triple layered

sandwich of poverty, darkness and policing. At the far edge of the neighbourhood the biome rose up to become

the sky, condensation blurring the vacant world beyond. Descending to the lowest level again, the train slowed

and jarred to a halt. You stepped onto the empty platform. A voice spoke into your head: Out the station, turn

left, up the steps, third door along. Not daring to turn around you made your way forward and followed the

instructions to a rusty green door.

he meeting was short. No names were exchanged. No mention was made of the book, the ticket or how

anyone had come to be there. You were content to just sit and listen. In fact, the meeting seemed almost absurd.People were talking about ordinary things: the success of mining operations on VE68, the rising cost of food,

prestigious refugees arriving from Alterra. All acting as if you were old friends, or colleagues having a casual

chat over coffee. his was clearly some kind of test. No-one could trust anyone else, and they certainly werent

ready to trust you just yet. It would be up to you to put yourself out there, make yourself vulnerable so you had

nothing left to lose. hen theyd feel safe. Sweating slightly, you spoke up

hree more meetings and things were beginning to get hot. You could scarcely have imagined the scale of this.

here were twelve people in the group, though youd only met seven in person so far. Over the city there were

tens, maybe hundreds of other cells, all co-ordinating somehow (your lot either didnt really know or werent

going to tell you.) Something big was being planned and in the next couple of days there would be a conference

to discuss it. Revolution was brewing, and you would soon be on the front line!..


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One of the primary things that differentiatesFate from other game systems is the extent towhich players are invited to be involved in thestory and world creation. In a sense you are

collective storytellers, playing characters butalso responsible for the drama and ideas whichmake up the world and its narrative. One ofthe ways this is modelled is through aspects.hey define who your characters are, and theyprovide ways for you to generate fate points andto spend those fate points on bonuses. Virtuallyeverything can have aspects, from story pointsto environments and objects. he aspects whichpush you into conflictand help you excel onceyoure therewil l be among your best and most-used. Whilst having a mechanical function,dont forget that they also guide you in your

choices and character development: aspects arealways true, regardless of if you are using themto get boosts to actions.

he various special psychic abilities of LeGuins universe are modelled through skillsand aspects. Since these are often complexand nuanced cultural practices in her fiction,the advice for their use should be treated as astarting point to allow them to interact withthe game. Ultimately they are storytellingdevices rather than superpowers and should be

developed with care and attention to detail.

Welcome to he Hunt For Anarres, an epic adventure which takes place in Ursula Le Guins sci-fiuniverse. Your story will take in daring escapes, space battles, untouched alien cultures and internaldivisions and conflicts. As you begin the game, the revolution is about to kick off on erra. Where thestory goes from here is up to you...

he first part of character creation establishes the stories of your characters so far. hey have historiesof their own and with each other, establishing where theyve been, what theyve done, and why theycontinue to act as they do, together or in opposition. heres an ongoing story youre now steppingintoits just that the most interesting parts havent happened yet.

Start by determining your characters high concept and trouble concept. he three remaining aspectson your character are made in phases, together called the phase trio. he first phase is about recentbackground: something you did thats interesting and adventurous. he second and third are abouthow the other player characters got involved in that adventure, and how you got involved in theirs.

Once you have that figured out, flesh out your characters skills and stunts. hen youre ready to play!

Playing with Fate

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erran society completely collapsed around a thousand years ago during the Age of Te Enemy.Once the League of All Worlds was created it gradually reemerged as an intergalactic power andwas one of the first planets to join the Ekumen. Nuclear war has since reduced much of the planetto desert, with the population living in isolated city-bubbles. An authoritarian government nowpresides over the planet as it slowly reaccesses its resources and rebuilds. New Istanbul is thelargest city on Earth today, home to over 20 million humans and 80% of the planets flora.

he denizens of Earth are a diverse and brokenpeople. Society is explicity split into classes, fromwealthy consumers and bureaucrats down to minersand farm gangers, each with their own separateprivileges and domiciles. erra has a large tech

sector, with prospecting colonies throughout thesolar system and computer monitoring networksacross its major cities.

erran society today is descended from a hugerange of different peoples, a diaspora cut off fromtheir homes when the system blockade came downthree generations ago. As such, pockets of off-worldcultural practices have flourished and evolved inparts of the planet, though deliberate consolidationand streamlining by the government has kept these

enclaves small. Often, a subservient and obedientoutward appearance can obscure a fierce andrebellious spirit passed on by grandparents whoremember the way things used to be. errans areused to watching what they say and knowing who

is watching them.

he population is largely honest, hardworkingand timidcriminals on erra do not last long.he use of mindspeech is only permitted by CityInvestigators and surveillance is everywhere.Families are regularly split up and the social orderprovides only the barest reproductive sustenance tothe poor and struggling. he Were have ruled withan iron fist for the best part of a century, but therumbles of dissent are beginning to get louder...

Suggested Aspects

ough as Nails; Keeping an Eye Out; On My Guard; erraormer, Mixed Blood

Skillset

Agility

Engineering

Physique

Deceive

Fighting

Pilot

Terra

Orbits:Sol

Distance to Hain:140 light years

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HAIN

Orbits:DAVENANT

Distance to erra: 140 LIGHT YEARS

A century and a half ago Hain was attacked by anunknown force, precipitating the Churten Wars.he war was supposedly ended, but people seemreticent to speak of Hain, the jewel in the Ekumenscrown.

Hain was once the site of magnificent archivesand libraries, three million years of knowledgeand wisdom, much of it incomprehensible today.A proportion of this data was smuggled off-worldduring the war, but the various ships it travelledon have been scattered far and wide in their flightfrom the warzone. As far as is known, the survivingpeople of Hain are a diaspora, spread across theentire known universe. Attempts to contact Hain

via ansible have been unsuccessful, but many have

attempted to return to the system but not beenheard from since.

he Hainish are a reserved and wise people.hey cannot conceive children without making a

conscious decision to do so which has contributedto the order and purposefulness which allowedthem to colonise so many planets in the distantpast. he Hainish remain keepers of knowledge,keen observers and stoic philosophers. hey claimto have seen every permutation of human societyand mastered almost every technology in theirlong history. he universities on Hain specialisein research, computer technics and history, butthe Hainish can also be found near the top ofcorporations, fleets and underworld gangs.

SUGGESTED ASPECTS

Knowledge Keeper; Strategist; Arcane echnology; Perect Recall, Can Drive Anything!

he history of the people of Hain goes back three million years, making Hainish theoldest known culture in the universe. Ancient Hain had a high-technology cultureand seeded humanoids on hundreds of planets before mysteriously collapsing twomillion years ago. More recently Hain has become known as the Prime World of theEkumen, the beautiful island-city of Stse being home to the planetary government,research institute and some of the oldest and most puzzling ruins in the galaxy.

SKILLSET

Investigate

Science

ravel

Computer

Leadership

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Athshes original plants and animals were similar to those of Earth, placed there by the Hainishin their first wave of colonisation. oday the planet is heavily forested and home to a bogglingarray of flora and fauna. Te native population have only recently developed metal-basedtechnologies, a response to multiple unsuccessful attempts at colonisation. It is rare for Athsheto travel and most found off-world are either slaves or descendents of slaves.

he innocent, ingrained obedience of theAthsheans and the fact that they appear neverto sleep made them seem ideal slaves. However,they turned out to be surprisingly difficult tosubdue and after years of guerilla warfare, they

were largely left in peace. Athshete communitiesare very quick to adapt and exceptionally close-knit. Lost (or, indeed, enslaved) Athshete have ahabit of making their way back home, sometimesacross incredible distances.

Athshe society is very loosly, horizontallyorganised. Minor status is granted purely onthe basis of lifetime achievement or talent andis not tranferred from parent to child. Athshetereturning from offworld are often called Shaab, a

word meaning both translator and god.

he Athshete practice polyphasic sleep, takinga few dreamless catnaps spread throughout theday and entering into a state of lucid dreaming at

will. hey see the dream-time as just as real asworld-time and in many way it appears to be so,linking Athshe across both space and time. heAthshete themselves are small, shrewd creatureswith a thick covering of green hair. Individualswill often grow moss and lichen with specialproperties in their hair, a kind of symbioticrelationship carrying status and geographicalmarkers. It is rare for an Athshete to excel inmathematical or academic disciplines, but theylearn practical and spiritual skills quickly.

Suggested AspectsSurvival Instinct; One With Nature; Lucid Dreamer; Natural Healer; Sensitive Nose

A t h s h eOrbits: G l i e s e 8 3 2

Distance to erra: 1 6 L i g h t y e a r s

Skillset

ProjectStealth

Animal Ken

Survival

Crafs

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ALTERRA

Orbits: ELTANIN

Distance to erra:154 LIGHT YEARS

Alterrans are a hybrid race of errans andrevarians, cat-like beings native to the planet.hey are a proud and powerful people with anold and traditional culture. Alterran society isstratified into nine Levels, each one granting

successive secret knowledge. hey are renowned asintergalactic negotiators and traders, exceptionalmathematicians and navigators. Fortunately theyare a moral and strictly peaceable society.

Over the centuries, the Alterrans have developedexceptional para-mental abilites including mindcontrol and long-distance telepathy. heir psychicabilities are so potent that they are forbidden toenter erran and Werel space and are elsewhereoften treated with mistrust and fear.

Alterras long year has wide-ranging effects onAlterran culture and social division. he life of aSpring Born will likely take a completely differentcourse from that of an Autumn Born, and the ebband flow of society is uniquely shaped by this

pattern. he development of cities on Alterrameans that buildings made for an imminent,harsh winter can remain untouched for sixtyyears until they are needed again. On the otherhand such a building might be completely re-purposed by Spring Borns. Alterran physiology istuned to the slow turn of seasons and it is alwayspossible to tell a natural Winter-born from aSummer who is wearing a temporary layer offat. However, something about their biology alsocauses Alterran birth-rates to be incredibly low.

SUGGESTED ASPECTS

My Mood Is Your Mood; Constant elepath; Loner; Dont Break Te Code; Got A Secret

Alterra has an orbital period of 60 Earth years, with correspondingly long seasons. One ofthe first colonies of erra, Alterra lost contact with Earth for several thousand years untilthe natives were able to create NAFAL drives and re-establish relations. Tough small, itis an exceptionally beautiful planet with a number of highly intelligent lifeforms and largecities. Alterran architecture is renowned galaxy-wide, though there is no word for touristin Alterran.

SKILLSET

Project

Empathy

Deflect

Rapport

ravel

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GETHENOrbits: DORADO (GLIESE 163)


o a Gethenian, your affiliation with one of thethree Houses of Winter is much more importantthan anything you might identify with off-world. he people of Karhide are peaceful andcustomary, organising relations through an

intricate set of unspoken social rules and formalcourtesy called Shifgrethor. Orgoreyn societyis somewhat the converse of this, its peopleacting plainly but concealing a manipulative anddeceptive undercurrent.

Gethenian sexual biology is unique amongknown humans. For around twenty days oftheir 26-day cycle Gethenians are neither malenor female. After this period they enter a statecalled kemmer in which individuals develop

sexual organs complimenting those of others alsoin kemmer and often engage in intense multi-partnered relationships. When not in kemmerGethenians are unaffected by sexual impulses.Gethenians can also enter a state called dothe

at will, a short period of supreme energy andstrength after which they must rest for a numberof hours.

he Handdara, a network of ascetic hermitageson Karhide, practice the mysterious art ofForetelling a kind of collective oracle. Sensitiveindividuals can experience minor future-diviningeven when not part of a group of tellers. As a rule,Gethenians cannot stand to use mindspeech andas a result often stick together off-world.

SUGGESTED ASPECTSFeel No Cold; Fear o Flying; Sexually Sensitive; Foreteller, Never ell A Lie

Te planet of Gethen, also known as Winter, is a frigid planet, still in the grips of a prolongedice age with only a single populated strip around the equator. It is split into three continents,Karhide, Orgoreyn and Sith. It was one of the last planets to join the Ekumen and has been largelyisolated since the Churten Wars. Te capital of Karhide and de-facto capital of the planet is calledErhenrang. Gethen has no flying creatures of any kind and few land-based animals.

SKILLSET

Empathy

Receive

Survival

Rapport

Resolve

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Eleven-Soro is one of the most recent planets to make extra-solar contact. Evidence suggests that inits distant past the planet reached a technological pinnacle before completely collapsing. It brieflyhad the maximum population density of any known planet, with cities covering two of the continentsentirely. Tere had been 120 billion people living in the cities, while the animals and the sea and theair and the dirt died, until eventually the people began dying too. oday the population is spread

very widely and lives simply by galactic standards.

Since the collapse, a strange, introverted newculture has emerged on Eleven-Soro wherewomen live in small groups and are unwilling totalk to visitors. Men live on the periphery of femaleareas, vying for supremacy in hyper-masculine

displays of violence and courage and. Remnentsof the fall are observable in the supersitions andmythology: Soroans abhor technology and whatthey call magic.

he females of Eleven-Soro exercise Awareness,a kind of anti-transcendent philosophy which,when honed, allows practitioners to experiencethe multiplicty of reality without filters. Stillness,silence, listening, watching, retreating; theseare all central concepts to being Aware. Soroan

females refuse to intellectualize, generalize, oruniversalize on the political level at all, not eventhinking of themselves as a people. hey livealongside other humans as they live alongside allother entities, displaying a profound connection

without interaction. Women look after childrenin tent hamlets until they are old enough to leave.

Males go through a brutual coming of age ritualwhen they reach puberty and fight each other tothe death whilst living in small gangs in the harsherareas of the planet. he (few) older men establishbreeding territories which they are obliged todefend. Many young Soroan males make it off-world and excel in the various underworlds andspace-gangs at the fringes of polite society.

SUGGESTED ASPECTS

Awareness, You Earn My Respect, Silence Is A Virtue, Act First Tink Later

ELEVEN-SORO

Orbits: KOI-LYRA


SKILLSET

Notice

Agility

Larceny/Stealth

Fighting

Philosophy

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Orbiting Pictor (HD 40307) - 42LY from erra, 120LY from HainAspects: Sciento-heistic otalitarian Government; Ocean World

Aka was a monoethnic world that underwent an aggressive revolutionary change intechnological status, during which almost all of the traditional culture was suppressedor rejected. As far as we know Aka is now governed by a despotic state which mandatesa form of scientific theism and aims to turn its citizens into ideal producer-consumers,with the ultimate goal of attaining advanced spaceflight capabilities. hey have notcommunicated with Hain via ansible for many years.

AK

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Orbiting Gamma Draconis - 154LY from erra, 100LY from HainAspects:

Alterra is the homeworld of the Alterrans, a hybrid race of errans and the original

native HILFs. he planet has an orbital period of 60 Earth years, with correspondinglylong seasons. here are two major groups co-habiting on Alterra: he evarans, a tribeof humanoid extraterrestrials indigenous to the planet and a dwindling colony of Earthhumans that had been effectively marooned on the planet. Although both populationsshare a common genetic heritage in the Hainish people, the difference is significantenough to prevent interbreeding. he relationship between the two groups has long beentense and characterized by limited interaction. However, this is somewhat different thesedays.

ALTERRA

Orbiting Gliese 832 (red dwarf) - 16LY from erra, 157LY from HainAspects: Fighting Back Against Colonialism; Forest Paradise

Athshe has a Hain Similarity Index of 0.91, one of the highest ratings recorded for anyknown extrasolar planet. Its temperature is relatively similar to erras, but is subjectto significant swings as it orbits its star. he planet has a relatively high eccentricity,taking it very near to the predicted inner edge of the habitable zone. Athshe is a forestplanet (whose name means forest), also known as World 41 and called New ahitiby errans. Athshe is peopled by a small, furred (but in fact fully human) group of HILFs(high-intelligence life forms.) It was exploited for its timber resources before a nativerevolt expelled the errans. It is not known why they are green-furred and only one metre

tall. Either the original settlers were genetically modified by the Hainish or the locals tohave naturally evolved this way.

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Orbiting Ras (Kepler-186f) - 500LY from erra, 300LY from HainAspects: Mysterious ech; Going It Alone

Ganam is a very diverse world with some high technology. he inhabitants, or one groupof them, are called the Gaman. Ancient Hainish records refer to it as G-14-214-yomoand also adkla. It is one of the outermost seedings of the Hainish Expansion, and waslost from the human community for five hundred millennia. Even now it is a strangeplanet which does not permit slipstreaming in or out of its system and which does notengage in intergalactic politics.G

ANAM

Orbiting Dorado (Gliese 163) - 49LY from erra, 230LY from HainAspects:Dont Get Caught In he Cold; Shoreger

Gethen is a very cold, glacier-covered planet also known as Winter. It is inhabitedby androgynous intelligent humanoids, surmised to be descended from geneticallyengineered Hainish settlers. Since joining the Ekumen, Winter has developed somewhattechnologically but retains its old cultural traditions and distaste for overdevelopment.Ecological experiments have brought new species to Winter, with less than desirableconsequences.

hey will not give advice. GETHEN

Orbiting Fomalhaut - 25LY from erra, 115LY from HainAspects: Post-Apocalypse; Scoundrels Living in Orbit

Faraday is a young planet which embarks on a career of interstellar war and conquest and

constructs a secret base on Rokanan, from which destructive ships could be launched tonumerous targets while the League spent its force on subduing their home world. heplanet was originally discovered and named by errans, who introduced its inhabitantsto interstellar civilization. Faraday was a relative late-comer to the league but quicklytook up new technologies, built up aggressive armed forces in order to carve out a biggerplace for itself and oppressed weaker cultures and peoples which it encountered. heplanet was devastated by the war which set the scene for the fall of the League and theestablishment of the Ekumen. oday it is still in a state of relative undevelopment, withlarge areas of the planet ravaged by nuclear fallout and desert. It has recently attracted anumber of orbiting stations with bad reputations.

FARAD

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Orbiting Koi-Lyra (K-138) - 200LY from erra, 60LY from HainAspects: echnological Collapse; Archeological secrets

Eleven-Soro is a world that had a high technology and then a massive crash. A strangeintroverted new culture has emerged, with women living alone and unwilling to talkto visitors. Its people are of Hainish descent and briefly had the maximum population

density of any known planet, with the greatest cities ever built on any world, coveringtwo of the continents entirely, with small areas set aside for farming; there had been 120billion people living in the cities, while the animals and the sea and the air and the dirtdied, until the people began dying too. Its society is now in chaos as a front of investorsand greedy prospectors have begun picking through the artifacts and remnants of itsprevious technological era.

ELEVE

N-SORO


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Orbiting Davenant - 140LY from erraAspects: World Builders; Remnants o Old ech

Hain is the Prime World and the oldest culture in the Ekumen. Since the collapse theEkumen has begun reparations from Hain and local planets. Hain is supposedly theultimate source of most intelligent life in the planets of the Ekumen. Its people cannotconceive children or father them without a conscious decision to do so. It once had ahigh-technology culture, and also seeded humans or humanoids on various planets,including Earth and other worlds now in the Ekumen. he history of the people of Haingoes back three million years.From the older high-tech culture there was a crash and a re-building on a wiser basis.Evidence of the former high-tech life is all around, along with proof of the currentindifference to it.

HAIN-DAVENANT

Orbiting Fomalhaut - 25LY from erra, 115LY from HainAspects: No Atmosphere; Scientiic Experiments

New South Georgia is the location of the League HILF Survey Base for Galactic Area 8.Its chief city is Kerguelen. It is unable to support life outside of its greenhouse settlementsand there are no plans to terraform it further. It is mostly scientific labs still.

NSG

Orbiting Pegasus - 145LY from erra, 4LY from HainAspects:Cross-Marriage; Peaceul Farmers; Spiritual Awakening

O is very close to Hain and as such has a long history of interaction. Its people are knownas kiO and their society is notable for its unusual four-person sedoretu marriage system(a set combination of multiple genders and sexual orientations).

O

Orbiting au Ceti - 12LY from erra, 150LY from HainAspects: Productivity and Supremacy; Xenophobic

Being the larger body of a double planet system, Urras is covered by oceans and continents.he oceans are simply named iuve Sea, Insel Sea, North Sea and Great South Sea. Besidesa couple of smaller islands, Urras landmass is split in two big continents.On one of the two continents, the nation-states of A-Io and hu are located, bothportrayed as developed industrial societies. A-Io is evidently a capitalist parliamentaryrepublic, whereas hu is described as a totalitarian socialist state. On the second largecontinent, unstable Benbili is found whose society is economically underdeveloped.Urras is the original world of the Cetians. An anarchist group called Odonians, separating

from its propertarian society, settled Anarres, Urras sister planet and moon.

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Orbiting Fomalhaut - 25LY from erra, 115LY from HainAspects: Unscrupulous Shipbuilders; Diversity of Lifeforms

Rokanan is the second planet of the star Fomalhaut, peopled by at least three high-intelligence life forms. Rokanan is Rocannons name among the native Gdemiar andused by the Ekumen. Before the fall of Faraday it was the site of large-scale weapons

production but now the factories are some of the most productive shipyards in the knownuniverse, selling to anyone with a big enough purse.

ROKANAN

Orbiting Draconis (Gliese 581), red dwarf - 22LY from erra, 166LY from Hain

Yeowe and Werel are the third and fourth planets, respectively, of a single star systemsurrounded by a vast debris disk, with at least thirty times as many comets as the erransolar system. Draconis radiates primarily in the near infrared and the inhabitants ofYeowe and Werel both have eyes adapted to this fact.

Yeowe was settled from Werel. he dominant race of Werel have black or bluish skins.hey enslaved the white-skinned Werelians as well as the children of unions betweenslaves and masters, who are described as having clay-coloured skins. At some pointthere was a bloody civil war on Werel. oday there are very few people with white skinsleft due to the sexual practices of the Werelians. he civil war prompted a concerteddevelopment of disciplinary apparatus which were subsequently exported to erra duringthe fall of the Ekumen some 50 years ago. he stereotype of Werelians today states thatthey can be found throughout the Western Spiral Arm of the Milky Way, buying andselling slaves, contraband and weapons.

YEOWEAND

WEREL


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