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<blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1759886" data-attributes="member: 6390"><p>MAP IS HERE!</p><p><img src="http://www.intrepidheroes.com/Cremek%20System.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p style="text-align: center">The map may also be downloaded <a href="http://www.intrepidheroes.com/Cremek%20System.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> from Intrepid Heroes! Thanks guys!</p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: brown">Cremek System</span></span></p><p></p><p>The Cremek system was found quite easily, since the transit lines from</p><p>Almoz-227 we found by the intial scoutship exploring the sector. This was </p><p>also the last system surveyed by the Confederate Scout Corps Vessel 227,</p><p>which jumped over the "border zone" and contact was lost with it.</p><p></p><p>The system has no planetary jump/transit points, and wormhole mechanisms</p><p>do not work within the system due to the intense radiation, but d-foam strata</p><p>layers show that at one point, there was a wormhole between the three suns,</p><p>and the suns orbited it. Now, only string-drives, shunt drives, and slowships</p><p>can enter the system, with the string-point and shunt point being where the </p><p>wormhole once existed. A shunt-drive pilot must succeed at a Pilot check </p><p>(DC: 30) and a string-runner must succeed at a Pilot Check (DC: 28) or thier </p><p>ship will take 2d4x1,000 points of damage upon exit, due to the gravitational </p><p>tangling of the shunt-lines and strings at the exit point.</p><p></p><p>The only other entrance/exit is via hyperspace or jumpspace, one half light </p><p>year outside of the system. Radiation from the trinary system is intense </p><p>enough the FTL and insystem communications do not work, and </p><p>message-torps must be used.</p><p></p><p>Strangely enough, Cremek was one of the first systems with Terran influence,</p><p>since CSCV-227 reported extensive ruins on three of the planetiods in the </p><p>system, plus there were certian anomolies that interested certian people. For </p><p>example, all three suns apparently collapsed into white dwarfs at the same </p><p>time, and the interior three orbital wings were empty. There was also no </p><p>evidence of gas giants, which should have occurred in the system, nor was </p><p>there comets or any other debris in the system, which should have occured.</p><p></p><p>The three remaining planets had moons, and all of them had extensive ruins </p><p>on thier dark sides. Added into the mystery, was the fact that the three </p><p>remaining planets were in close orbits, and showed evidence of missing </p><p>oceans, despite the fact that they had no atmospheres.</p><p></p><p>The first object in the system was a solar observation and analysis station, </p><p>which took readings on the stars and tried to determine what occurred.</p><p></p><p>According to both Obelisk records, and evidence gathered, there was G'Tak </p><p>shipyards, creche facilities, breeding farms, and "cattle" cities. The </p><p>proto-humans managed to breach the G'Tak's defenses and launch three </p><p>altered Novacrackers, exploding the suns and causing heavy damage to the</p><p>system.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Cremek Alpha</strong></span></p><p>A white dwarf, this is the largest of the stars shows the most signs of </p><p>instability. Scientific monitoring by a now abandoned station shows that the </p><p>three stars transfer from standard green stars to white dwarfs was artificially </p><p>induced, and Cremek Alpha shows this must have been catastrophic to the </p><p>system. Plasma flares are quite frequent, and the solar winds are very heavy </p><p>off of Cremek Alpha, basically destroying any kind of FTL communications that</p><p> could take place.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Cremek Beta</strong></span></p><p>This star has the small research station put in place by the CSCV in order to </p><p>examine the obvious anomlies that the initial scouting report contained. The </p><p>base has been mothballed, on non-sentient programs keeping the base on </p><p>station. The base also monitors the transit lines into the system, which all </p><p>three suns orbit around.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Cremek Epsilon</strong></span></p><p>Cremek Epsilon is the smallest of the three, and evidence shows that in </p><p>several thousand years, it will collapse into a brown dwarf, cooling off rapidly.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>C-221a</strong></span></p><p>The largest planet of the system, as well as the closest, at 1.25 the size of </p><p>Terra, C-221a is in the 4th orbiting line around Cremek. Vast canyons and </p><p>mesas show where once there were oceans that covered 60% of the planet. </p><p>Scattered ruins at the bottom of the oceans show where there were once </p><p>sub-oceanic facilities, but these have, for the most part, been investigated </p><p>and are now ignored.</p><p></p><p>The planet has 0.95 G.</p><p></p><p>C-221a has no atmosphere, and the surface temperature is 1,100 C. The </p><p>planet rotates once every 19 TS hours (Terran Standard) and has one moon </p><p>that rotates the planet once every 12 hours.</p><p></p><p>The prison facility on C-221a is one of the harshest in the Confederacy, with </p><p>no escapes ever successful. The radiation interferes with SoulChip usage, and</p><p> the surviving few life forms, descended from crude cephlapods and </p><p>invertibates that survived the devestation, are very predatory and tough </p><p>enough to withstand the harsh temperatures and vacuum.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Grossenfuer</strong></span></p><p>Grossenfuer contains a DAS prison facility, which consists of merely a landing </p><p>pad. DAS prisoners are dropped on the moon, and left to thier own devices </p><p>among the vacuum, solar winds, solar radiation, and ruins of the G'Tak </p><p>shipyards that cover the entire moon. The moon is only 250 km wide, and </p><p>possesses .25 G</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>C-221b</strong></span></p><p>Existing between the 4th and 5th orbital ring, this planet appears to have </p><p>been pushed outward by the blast wave from the triple explosion. C-221b has</p><p> vast resiviors of alloys coating the "mesas" that loom in between the </p><p>canyons. The resiviors are the remainders of the vast cities that were </p><p>destroyed when the energy wave passed over the planet. Strangely enough, </p><p>one side of the planet shows damage from a heavy orbital bombardment, as if</p><p> the proto-humans showed up and made <em>sure</em> the job was finished.</p><p></p><p>The prison consists of a space elevator that connects to an orbiting base, </p><p>and a prefab dome shelter that can only hold 1,400 personell. What the inside</p><p> of the dome looks like is unknown, nor does anyone care. Those that go </p><p>down the elevator are never seen again, and the only things that come back </p><p>up are refined metals. The space elevators terminal on C-221b is manned by </p><p>mercenaries, who have been ordered to only allow prisoners to exit, and </p><p>whatever mined or salvaged materials that are scanned several times as they </p><p>move down a conveyer.</p><p></p><p>Since an attempting escape that the mercenaries put down, killing over </p><p>50,000 convicts, there has been no other attempts to sabotage the terminal </p><p>dome, the space elevator, or take control of the base.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The orbiting station is roboticized with unintelligent computers, and </p><p>unmanned. Goods are brought up the space elevator, exposed to vacuum, </p><p>crated, and fired via mass-driver to intercept with Tamstex Station. There is </p><p>a single docking ring, with an unpressurized hallway that leads to a personell </p><p>elevator that goes one way.</p><p></p><p>Down.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Sisyphus</strong></span></p><p>Surprisingly, this small moon possesses a gravity of 4G's, and is used as a </p><p>prison for heavy worlders. All ruins on the moon have been destroyed by the </p><p>gravity, and scientific analysis has shown that 1/10th of the interior of the </p><p>planet has been destroyed by what is causing the gravity: A micro-singularity.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>C-221c</strong></span></p><p>The smallest of the surviving planet, this one has a smooth surface, one side </p><p>having a slick, glassy look, with two rings in the center of the smooth </p><p>surface. This was cuased by the three leading waves of the photosphere </p><p>explosions hitting at a few moments apart.</p><p></p><p>The planet has been seeded with life forms that seek out the gems formed by</p><p> the blast wave striking the planet, and the metals left over from where the </p><p>cities were destroyed when the methane/oxygen atmosphere incandesced.</p><p></p><p>These life form appear as giant worms, with huge maws. The worms have a </p><p>purplish color from high conctrates of radium within thier system, give off </p><p>radiation (Highly radioactive), and excrete gems and metals. They have dug </p><p>vast systems of tunnels.</p><p></p><p>Convicts scour the tunnels for any of the excretions, gathering them up and </p><p>running them back to the prison. Once a year, a robot craft from the </p><p>Confederacy lands, the prisoners load it, and once there are no life forms </p><p>aboard, it takes off. The craft remains unpressurized and then proceeds to </p><p>Tamstex Station, where it remains several thousand kilometers from the </p><p>station, waiting for boarding and eventually unloading by the crew at the </p><p>station.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Kaltenares</strong></span></p><p>The largest of C-221c's moon, this airless rock has a single feautre. A vast </p><p>storage area where the materials gained from the prison planets are kept. </p><p>There are no shelters and no facilities on the planet, only a single landing field</p><p> with an unshielded beacon.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Tamstex</strong></span></p><p>A staging base for the Confederate military, this is considered the worst </p><p>posting in the sector, despite the fact that the Confederacy spends more on </p><p>entertainment and luxuries at this base than any other base in five sections.</p><p></p><p>The Confederate Navy has a Class I repair and refit yard, and the </p><p>Confederate Marines keep over a division on the planet, complete with </p><p>vehicles and varying cybernetic chassis. While on the budget as "prison </p><p>security forces" these troops have lately been rotated out with crack units, </p><p>and rumor has it that a the weapon manufacturing facilities on this moon are </p><p>producing planet-busters.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Tamstex Station</strong></span></p><p>A small sized space station, Confederate Navy or Marine forces do not visit </p><p>the station, nor do they make any contact with the station, other than to </p><p>requisition raw materials.</p><p></p><p>This station is where the raw materials gathered from the prison are sorted, </p><p>and then sent to Kaltenares to await pickup. The staff is highly paid, and has </p><p>some of the best luxuries the Confederacy has to offer, but the murder rate is</p><p> quite high. The most notorius was 6 years ago, when the crew of the station</p><p> attacked one another with knives and axes manufactured from the Medium </p><p>NCE onboard. There were no apparent factions, and the last remaining person</p><p> attacked the primary V-Deck with an axe, electrocuting herself.</p><p></p><p>Those who have been there, and survived, claim that the place is cursed and </p><p>that they have seen various ships move by, despite any evidence in the </p><p>stations scanning records.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ralts Bloodthorne, post: 1759886, member: 6390"] MAP IS HERE! [IMG]http://www.intrepidheroes.com/Cremek%20System.jpg[/IMG] [center]The map may also be downloaded [URL=http://www.intrepidheroes.com/Cremek%20System.jpg]here[/URL] from Intrepid Heroes! Thanks guys![/center] [size=7][color=brown]Cremek System[/color][/size][color=brown][/color] 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. [size=4][b]Cremek Alpha[/b][/size][b][/b] 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. [size=4][b]Cremek Beta[/b][/size][b][/b] 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. [size=4][b]Cremek Epsilon[/b][/size] 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. [size=4][b]C-221a[/b][/size] 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. [size=4][b]Grossenfuer[/b][/size] 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 [size=4][b]C-221b[/b][/size] 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 [i]sure[/i] 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. [size=4][b]Sisyphus[/b][/size] 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. [size=4][b]C-221c[/b][/size] 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. [size=4][b]Kaltenares[/b][/size] 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. [size=4][b]Tamstex[/b][/size] 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. [size=4][b]Tamstex Station[/b][/size] 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. [/QUOTE]
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