Aurinko

Rogue Trader: Drake Dynasty
GM
Adam
Dynastic Power
Character Level: 31,250 XP / Rank 8
Profit Factor: 43𝖕
Command Crew
Lord-Captain Drake Navigator Primus Mordecai Arch-Millitant Winter Astropath Solarus
House Drake Fleet
Aurea Albion Hound of Albion • Abhorrent Fortuitous Purpose • Penance of Iocanthos
Drake Trade Empire
Damaris • Scintilla • Kulth Svard • Dross • Aurum Sepheris Secundus • Tennenberg Killian's Rest
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Grand Endevours
Personnel
Magistrates • Retainers Militants Svard 1st • Stormtroopers House Drake Expeditionary Army
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System

Note: Listed from the star outward.

Aurinko - the star of Svard system, Aurinko is a Class M RGB-III red giant. With a mass double that of Sol and diameter hundreds of times bigger, Aurinko is believed to have swallowed most of the inner planets.

Jatti - is the largest planetary body of Svard system. This Jupiter-class gas giant has captured most of the remaining planetary bodies of Svard into its orbit. It also presents a significant navigation hazard as its atmosphere is being slowly drained by Aurinko's proximity, creating a spectacular particle storm. It was in the upper layers of Jatti that Lord Drake finally discovered the ‘’Whisperer’’, and ancient warship of Yu’voth origin.

Cog – is a tectonically stable small moon half again as close to Jatti as Svard. Cog would be unremarkable among Jatti’s planetoid moons were it not for its abundance of rare earth and heavy metals and remarkable geological stability given its location.

Inner Asteroid Ring – Between the planetoids of Svard and Cog sits a ring of asteroids in a constant fluxing orbit around Jatti and intermingled among themselves. A good half of the asteroids are simply chunks of ice, with the rest a mix of silicoid and ferrous. Silence, with its abundance of marble, is the only asteroid so far to be unique enough to warrant note.

Svard - is the largest moon of Jatti, as well as the most distant of the settled moons. Mechanicus Astrographers belive that Svard used to be an independent planetary body until it was captured by Jatti's gravitational pull. Certainly the fact that planet contains massive river basins lends credence to this theory, even though the surface temperature only rises above freezing in a few locations along the equator. The planet’s oceans remain liquid under a layer of ice, warmed by geothermal vents.

Settlements

Svard - Thanks to an abundance of water, Svard became the primary inhabited body of the system despite its consistent low temperatures. The population dwells in four large, partly underground (or rather under-ice) cities and is ruled by the Crystal Council.

Cog – is the second hub of Svard's economy, with a significant Adeptus Mechanicus industrial facility constructed on the surface, where they can directly refine the planetoid’s minerals. Its proximity to Jatti, however, means that approaching Cog can be tricky at times.

Silence - Technically the oldest inhabited place in Svard system, Silence is a single asteroid within the belt that was settled by a group of religiously-motivated sculptors, artists and monks nearly a thousand years before the planet Svard.

Installation 23 - the primary source of exports and the draw of Rogue Traders on the way to Ragged Worlds and Heathen Worlds, Installation 23 is a huge prometheum extraction and refinery station in low orbit over Jatti. The unstable gas giants particle emissions allow Installation 23 to be one of the few producers of high grade pormetheum within the Expanse. Although thought lost to the whisperers, the Drake Dynasty located and recovered the station, and at great expense has finally gotten it running again.