Friday, June 19, 2026

Zo

Zo is my MTU replacement for Pixie from the Kinunir. It's UWP is: B100595-9. Meaning:

  • Starport B - a good facility with refined fuel and capable of starship maintenance
  • Size 1 - a very small planet, with just 0.122 G
  • Atmosphere 0 - a vacuum world
  • Hyrdographics 0 - no standing water
  • Population 5 - 80,000 people call this place home for some reason. 
  • Government 9 - Captured government. Another Imperial operated place, primarily because of the Gash in orbit above
  • Law Level 5 - personal concealable weapons prohibited
  • TL 9 - early interstellar.
A good question is: where does the fuel come from as the system has no gas giants, planetoid belt nor any liquid oceans? We're going to lean into deep ice caves under the crust. A large chunk of the population deals with mining. Another TL-9 system, so we'll have some next-gen domed habitats, and maybe cave dwellers. The advantage of underground ice deposits is we can also use that as the source of air. TL-9 is not that much more advanced than us. 

The starport has a mix of above ground pads and elevator pads. Similar to Space:1999, there are smaller pads that can take ships and shuttles up to 100 tons below the surface.

Worlds without atmosphere nor liquid oceans are a bit difficult to map. I used the mars coloration after trying a few variations. Dust plains or something like that, and some small elevations. I've added 1 other planet to the system, just a tad larger than Zo itself. The habitable zone for a K9 star is in orbit 12, which is 307 AU out! The math works out to 1 year on Zo = √307^3 / 5 = 2405 years! Not that I use jump shadows in MTU, but if I did it would not really change much for any visitors.


made the background sort of match the world at least


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