Kteiroa

Kteiroa (C-560164-8)

Kteiroa is a cold, low-population, desert world located in the Tlaiowaha Subsector of the Trojan Reach.

•          The system is loosely affiliated to the Aslan Hierate, with the small starport on the mainworld maintained by a sept of aslan outcasts.
•          Formerly known as Piper, the main settlement and starport was bombed during the Fall of Drinax. The crater is still unhealthily radioactive a hundred years later.
•          The planet was formerly held as a fief of the Kingdom of Drinax. The ruling noble was captured by Aslan forces during the Fall on Drinax, with most of the human settlements in the system failing and being abandoned over the next few years.
•          Kteiroa is now a haunt of smugglers, free traders and Ihatei scouts, who use this last aslan world as a refueling post before jumping to the human worlds of the Outrim Void.

Kteroa is a frozen desert, though it does have a breathable atmosphere what little water is available must be melted from glacial icecaps or drilled out of the permafrost deposits scattered across the surface of the planet. If the planet could be warmed sufficiently to melt the permafrost then there is enough water to perhaps raise the hydrography rating to somewhere between 1 or 2 but as the planet orbits beyond the outer edge of the habitable zone in the system, such a terraforming project was never deemed worthwhile.

For the past couple of decades, the only permanent population on Kteiroa has been a small ahriy (pride, family group) of outcast Aslan who somehow scrounged together enough resources to found a small settlement and a starport that is just about extensive enough to warrant a ‘C’ rating. As outcasts run the only settlement on the planet, the entire system is regarded as a Ruktaha (an outcast ghetto) by the aslan and consequently the system has been avoided by respectable aslan traders and relegated to a backwater, serving the sort of desperate quasi-criminals (or indeed actual criminals) who find it difficult to transact their business in the more established, high traffic systems. More recently this has started to change, with increasing numbers of Ihatei using the planet as a convenient final stop-over before they brave the more hostile systems of the Dust Belt and the Outrim Void.

There is no highport on Kteiroa, but there is a downport built a few tens of kilometres from the impact craters of Pipertown on the ‘coast’ of an ice lake close to the planetary equator. The downport has enough landing pads and refuelling facilities (unrefined only) for a couple of dozen ships (maximum displacement, ~1000 dTons). There are also three enclosed bays built in to the side of the bluffs overlooking the lake that can take ships up to ~500 dTons and provide a shirt-sleeve environment for repairs, but there are no facilities at present which would be capable of performing extensive refits or building new hulls.

Berthing Cost: Cr500
Docking Fee: Cr100/day
Unrefined Fuel: Cr100/dTon

Kteiroa System

Kteiroa Prime is an F5 V yellow-white dwarf, rather hotter than Sol meaning that Kteiroa is marginally habitable even though it orbits its primary at nearly 2.5 AU (~375 million km out, about the same distance as the inner part of the asteroid belt in the solar system is from the Sun). 

System Parameters

Minimum Orbit	Inner LZ	Outer LZ	Snow Line	Max Orbit
0.26 AU	1.6 AU	2.2 AU	8.5 AU	52 AU

Planetary Orbits

Orbit	Distance	Name	Type	Size
1	0.26 AU	Vansus	Terrestrial	6400 km
2	0.61 AU	Meon	Terrestrial	6400 km
3	0.96 AU	Vorca	Terrestrial	3200 km
4	1.5-2.0 AU	-	Planetoid belt	-
5	2.48 AU	Kteiroa	Terrestrial	8000 km
6	6 - 8 AU	-	Planetoid belt	-
7	10.66 AU	Bellopho	Gas Giant	112000 km
8	19.85 AU	Sonta	Gas Giant	104000 km
9	39.40 AU	Palmon	Gas Giant	80000 km

Both planetoid belts were heavily exploited during the time of the Sindalian Empire and are largely mined out. The lack of resources and the combination of the marginal habitability of the main world with its presence at the frontier between Aslan and Human space mean that this system seems doomed to remain a backwater.