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Cremek System
The Cremek system was found quite easily, since the transit lines from
Almoz-227 we found by the intial scoutship exploring the sector. This was
also the last system surveyed by the Confederate Scout Corps Vessel 227,
which jumped over the "border zone" and contact was lost with it.
The system has no planetary jump/transit points, and wormhole mechanisms
do not work within the system due to the intense radiation, but d-foam strata
layers show that at one point, there was a wormhole between the three suns,
and the suns orbited it. Now, only string-drives, shunt drives, and slowships
can enter the system, with the string-point and shunt point being where the
wormhole once existed. A shunt-drive pilot must succeed at a Pilot check
(DC: 30) and a string-runner must succeed at a Pilot Check (DC: 28) or thier
ship will take 2d4x1,000 points of damage upon exit, due to the gravitational
tangling of the shunt-lines and strings at the exit point.
The only other entrance/exit is via hyperspace or jumpspace, one half light
year outside of the system. Radiation from the trinary system is intense
enough the FTL and insystem communications do not work, and
message-torps must be used.
Strangely enough, Cremek was one of the first systems with Terran influence,
since CSCV-227 reported extensive ruins on three of the planetiods in the
system, plus there were certian anomolies that interested certian people. For
example, all three suns apparently collapsed into white dwarfs at the same
time, and the interior three orbital wings were empty. There was also no
evidence of gas giants, which should have occurred in the system, nor was
there comets or any other debris in the system, which should have occured.
The three remaining planets had moons, and all of them had extensive ruins
on thier dark sides. Added into the mystery, was the fact that the three
remaining planets were in close orbits, and showed evidence of missing
oceans, despite the fact that they had no atmospheres.
The first object in the system was a solar observation and analysis station,
which took readings on the stars and tried to determine what occurred.
According to both Obelisk records, and evidence gathered, there was G'Tak
shipyards, creche facilities, breeding farms, and "cattle" cities. The
proto-humans managed to breach the G'Tak's defenses and launch three
altered Novacrackers, exploding the suns and causing heavy damage to the
system.
Cremek Alpha
A white dwarf, this is the largest of the stars shows the most signs of
instability. Scientific monitoring by a now abandoned station shows that the
three stars transfer from standard green stars to white dwarfs was artificially
induced, and Cremek Alpha shows this must have been catastrophic to the
system. Plasma flares are quite frequent, and the solar winds are very heavy
off of Cremek Alpha, basically destroying any kind of FTL communications that
could take place.
Cremek Beta
This star has the small research station put in place by the CSCV in order to
examine the obvious anomlies that the initial scouting report contained. The
base has been mothballed, on non-sentient programs keeping the base on
station. The base also monitors the transit lines into the system, which all
three suns orbit around.
Cremek Epsilon
Cremek Epsilon is the smallest of the three, and evidence shows that in
several thousand years, it will collapse into a brown dwarf, cooling off rapidly.
C-221a
The largest planet of the system, as well as the closest, at 1.25 the size of
Terra, C-221a is in the 4th orbiting line around Cremek. Vast canyons and
mesas show where once there were oceans that covered 60% of the planet.
Scattered ruins at the bottom of the oceans show where there were once
sub-oceanic facilities, but these have, for the most part, been investigated
and are now ignored.
The planet has 0.95 G.
C-221a has no atmosphere, and the surface temperature is 1,100 C. The
planet rotates once every 19 TS hours (Terran Standard) and has one moon
that rotates the planet once every 12 hours.
The prison facility on C-221a is one of the harshest in the Confederacy, with
no escapes ever successful. The radiation interferes with SoulChip usage, and
the surviving few life forms, descended from crude cephlapods and
invertibates that survived the devestation, are very predatory and tough
enough to withstand the harsh temperatures and vacuum.
Grossenfuer
Grossenfuer contains a DAS prison facility, which consists of merely a landing
pad. DAS prisoners are dropped on the moon, and left to thier own devices
among the vacuum, solar winds, solar radiation, and ruins of the G'Tak
shipyards that cover the entire moon. The moon is only 250 km wide, and
possesses .25 G
C-221b
Existing between the 4th and 5th orbital ring, this planet appears to have
been pushed outward by the blast wave from the triple explosion. C-221b has
vast resiviors of alloys coating the "mesas" that loom in between the
canyons. The resiviors are the remainders of the vast cities that were
destroyed when the energy wave passed over the planet. Strangely enough,
one side of the planet shows damage from a heavy orbital bombardment, as if
the proto-humans showed up and made
sure the job was finished.
The prison consists of a space elevator that connects to an orbiting base,
and a prefab dome shelter that can only hold 1,400 personell. What the inside
of the dome looks like is unknown, nor does anyone care. Those that go
down the elevator are never seen again, and the only things that come back
up are refined metals. The space elevators terminal on C-221b is manned by
mercenaries, who have been ordered to only allow prisoners to exit, and
whatever mined or salvaged materials that are scanned several times as they
move down a conveyer.
Since an attempting escape that the mercenaries put down, killing over
50,000 convicts, there has been no other attempts to sabotage the terminal
dome, the space elevator, or take control of the base.
The orbiting station is roboticized with unintelligent computers, and
unmanned. Goods are brought up the space elevator, exposed to vacuum,
crated, and fired via mass-driver to intercept with Tamstex Station. There is
a single docking ring, with an unpressurized hallway that leads to a personell
elevator that goes one way.
Down.
Sisyphus
Surprisingly, this small moon possesses a gravity of 4G's, and is used as a
prison for heavy worlders. All ruins on the moon have been destroyed by the
gravity, and scientific analysis has shown that 1/10th of the interior of the
planet has been destroyed by what is causing the gravity: A micro-singularity.
C-221c
The smallest of the surviving planet, this one has a smooth surface, one side
having a slick, glassy look, with two rings in the center of the smooth
surface. This was cuased by the three leading waves of the photosphere
explosions hitting at a few moments apart.
The planet has been seeded with life forms that seek out the gems formed by
the blast wave striking the planet, and the metals left over from where the
cities were destroyed when the methane/oxygen atmosphere incandesced.
These life form appear as giant worms, with huge maws. The worms have a
purplish color from high conctrates of radium within thier system, give off
radiation (Highly radioactive), and excrete gems and metals. They have dug
vast systems of tunnels.
Convicts scour the tunnels for any of the excretions, gathering them up and
running them back to the prison. Once a year, a robot craft from the
Confederacy lands, the prisoners load it, and once there are no life forms
aboard, it takes off. The craft remains unpressurized and then proceeds to
Tamstex Station, where it remains several thousand kilometers from the
station, waiting for boarding and eventually unloading by the crew at the
station.
Kaltenares
The largest of C-221c's moon, this airless rock has a single feautre. A vast
storage area where the materials gained from the prison planets are kept.
There are no shelters and no facilities on the planet, only a single landing field
with an unshielded beacon.
Tamstex
A staging base for the Confederate military, this is considered the worst
posting in the sector, despite the fact that the Confederacy spends more on
entertainment and luxuries at this base than any other base in five sections.
The Confederate Navy has a Class I repair and refit yard, and the
Confederate Marines keep over a division on the planet, complete with
vehicles and varying cybernetic chassis. While on the budget as "prison
security forces" these troops have lately been rotated out with crack units,
and rumor has it that a the weapon manufacturing facilities on this moon are
producing planet-busters.
Tamstex Station
A small sized space station, Confederate Navy or Marine forces do not visit
the station, nor do they make any contact with the station, other than to
requisition raw materials.
This station is where the raw materials gathered from the prison are sorted,
and then sent to Kaltenares to await pickup. The staff is highly paid, and has
some of the best luxuries the Confederacy has to offer, but the murder rate is
quite high. The most notorius was 6 years ago, when the crew of the station
attacked one another with knives and axes manufactured from the Medium
NCE onboard. There were no apparent factions, and the last remaining person
attacked the primary V-Deck with an axe, electrocuting herself.
Those who have been there, and survived, claim that the place is cursed and
that they have seen various ships move by, despite any evidence in the
stations scanning records.