The El Nanth System

       The El Nanth system was the largest artifact known in the Federation until the discovery of the Dyson Sphere by the Enterprise D (the Jenolen never reported her find 75 years earlier.) The six worlds orbit the sun in the same orbit equidistant from each other. Five of the worlds are teraformed, only the largest, Savanna, is not teraformed. It is also recorded as the only world in the rosette that was originally in this orbit. Common names for the six worlds are clockwise from Savanna looking down from the solar north; Savanna, Veldt, Aurora, Meadow, Eliyssum, and Glade. The Rosette has an orbit of 3.2 standard Earth years. Axial tilt is only 2 degrees, and the orbit is round. This means that the Rosette has no seasons. Climate runs from tropical to temperate at the poles. The Ane don't live around the poles much, and a great deal of that land is turned over to temperate agriculture. The vast fully automated farms that produce El Nanth's major export labor in an eternal growing season.
       According to the Ane the Rosette is a work commissioned 760,000 years before the 24th century in exchange for ideas the Builders had no insight into. The Builders have since been revealed. The UFP has a limited diplomatic relationship with the Builders based at the Three Suns Station, an artificial planet that the Builders call home.
       El Nanth is protected by 20 Falcon class cutters, 3 Unity class frigates, and planetary phaser banks. Any number of Starfleet ships may be added to this total depending on what and who is in the space dock.
       The last "weapon" is the Sunlens. An asteroid defense system that is activated from an unknown location. The Sunlens is a focused been of solar energy that could melt the best ship any known power could produce with a single shot. However, there is great difficulty in aiming the Sunlens at a target moving at revivalistic speeds on an unpredictable course. Against any ship that can maneuver it isn't a viable option.
       The total Ane population at El Nanth is pproximately ten billion. About one million non-Ane are in permanent or semi-permanent residence. The Ane move in herds of varing size. Except for the two cities and the farm areas the rest of the planets are totally natural. No effort is expleded on "improveing" the land. Vast trackless plains broken by seas, lakes, forest bands, and mountians
.        The last item of note is El Nanth weather. The rosette worlds orbit a blue-white sun. the distance from the primary assures that the temperature is within Class M limits. However five times the ultraviolet radiation strikes the surface of El Nanth that does the surface of Earth. Local life is adapted. Ane have tough hide and bright blue mucus membranes. The cornea of their eyes, reflects violet and higher frequency light.
       Humanoids must use adaptive technology to survive. The average human left naked under El Nanth would not last a full day. The desert aba, made of a ultraviolet reflecting material, has been adopted as common overdress with anyone leaving cover. Sunscreen in excess of SPF 100 is strongly recommended for anyone leaving the cover of buildings. The Hotels in Crystal city have a dispenser in the shower for sunscreen, as does every home or apartment.
       The last weather feature of note is the terminator storms. Due to heavy ionization of the atmosphere during the long days a line of storms will tend to follow the terminator as the planets roll. the storms are not an unbroken line, nor will condition every day produce them. But you can generally count on a two in three chance of rain as evening approachs. All El Nanth worlds share the same weather pattrens.

A Brief Overview of the Rosette Worlds

       Savanna is the first and oldest of the El Nanth class M worlds. Ane records indicate it was present before the construction of the rosette, and that Ane have been present on Savanna for 2 million years.
       Ane are very restrictive of who is allowed on Savanna. The only non-Ane allowed regular access are the Ansisi people, originally from Earth. Only one settlement of any size has been alowed on the surface, this is the Ansisi city called "Landing Town" or just "Landing". It is a sprawling town that is mostly covered by forest, totally free of roads, and no structure reachs over 3 stories in height. Somewhere under the planet surface is the Memory One Complex. Memory One is one of the largest computer and data complexes in the Federation. The Ane have a public access to this resource on Glade. Memory One is a primary facility in the Federation wide Memory Alpha System, the primary keepers of the Federation database. Memory One is this, and more.
       Savanna has no industry whatsoever.
       The moon Kolith has riuns from ancient races dateing back over one million year to as late as fifty thousand years in age.

Veldt -- El Nanth B
       Class: M
       Gravity: 0.98 G
       Diameter 7600 miles
       Period: 1168 days
       Rotation: 36 hours
       Satellites:
              Takal -- class: F
                     gravity: 0.17 G
                     diameter 2560 miles
                     period: 60 days
                     rotation: 720 hours
       Life: Full range, sentient native
              Ane !00%

       Veldt is not noted for anything special. It has Ane on it, and produces a goodly amount of fresh produce.

Aurora -- El Nanth C
       Class: M
       Gravity: 1.1 G
       Diameter 8050 miles
       Period: 1168 days
       Rotation: 36 hours
       Satellites:
              Teel -- class: F
                     gravity: 0.27 G
                     diameter 2650 miles
                     period: 60 days
                     rotation: 720 hours
       Life: Full range, sentient native
              Ane 100%

       Aurora is a major industrial mineral producer including dilithium, latinum, gold, diamonds, and the Aurora power crystals. The Ane have not sold any of these to the public, or really explained the "power crystal" label. Aurora also produces its share of garden goods.
       All of the Aurora mines are completely underground. No surface works or venting is allowed. Transporters move the produce of the mines to the Aurora Station in orbit. Ships are loaded from here, personnel transported down etc. Security is extremely tight. Except for the line of sight to transporters on the surface, the entire station is transporter shielded.

Meadow -- El Nanth D
       Class: M
       Gravity: 1.005 G
       Diameter 7940 miles
       Period: 1168 days
       Rotation: 36 hours
       Satellites:
              Snest -- class: F
                     gravity: 0.13 G
                     diameter 2800 miles
                     period: 60 days
                     rotation: 720 hours
       Life: Full range, sentient native
              Ane 100%

       Meadow is not noted for anything special. It has Ane on it, and produces a goodly amount of fresh produce.

Eliyssum -- El Nanth E
       Class: M
       Gravity: 1.06 G
       Diameter 7970 miles
       Period: 1168 days
       Rotation: 36 hours
       Satellites:
              Flit -- class: F
                     gravity: 0.12 G
                     diameter 2790 miles
                     period: 60 days
                     rotation: 720 hours
       Life: Full range, sentient native
              Ane 100%

       Eliyssum is not noted for anything special. It has Ane on it, and produces a goodly amount of fresh produce.

Glade -- El Nanth F
       Class: M
       Gravity: 1 G
       Diameter 8020 miles
       Period: 1168 days
       Rotation: 36 hours
       Satellites:
              Fleck -- class: F
                     gravity: 0.16 G
                     diameter 3190 miles
                     period: 60 days
                     rotation: 720 hours
       Life: Full range, sentient native
              Ane 99%
              Other 01%

       Glade is the capitol of record for the Ane Confederation. All outworlder contact is done through this planet, and its associated station.
       Glade is the site of Crystal City. Crystal City was originally built by the El-Aurian people 5000 years ago during the Second Empire period. Much of the original city remains today. Crystal City is the main groundside interface between the Ane and other peoples.
       The ministries of other Federation member worlds, or the embassies of non Federation member worlds are located here. Each is allotted an area to build it's complex, or offered an empty, but suitable suite of rooms or structures. In extreme cases the Ane will have a site adapted to fit the special needs of the guests.
       Crystal City holds the Memory One University campus. This university while dealing in all subjects specializes in history, considering the resource at hand. Enrollment is limited to 20,000. The Memory One public access facility is adjacent to the campus. This is open to any resident of Glade or visitor to the planet.
       Crystal City is also the location for The main offices of Nanotech, producers of the Crystalmind computer systems. The headquarters of the Liggets Spacecraft Company, a producer of small craft (under 5000 tons). The offices of EverFresh Statis Systems, makers of the primary transport method for El Nanth produce. The offices of Waldo & Magic, the primary producers of the heavy Ane bios as well as medical and industrial remote handling systems. Stoner Medical Systems, the producers of the prosthetics style bios. As well as a major supplier of more modern medical marvels. And the main offices of Aurora Mines. Other Interstellar and local companies are also headquartered here, or have major offices.

       High Crystal, or Glade Station as it is sometimes called is the primary space port for industrial and personal traffic. The main production facilities for Nanotech, and Waldo & Magic are housed here. The main passenger terminal, and produce station is also at this location.
       Security is handled by a dual system installed at the insistance of Security Director Terkos after the "Dumpster Incident". All sensitive areas, station safety operations, power operations, station environmental controls, security stations, and reprocessors are now under constant watch by the station's main computer. This security system consists of common sensors backed by the ancient passive sensors of camera and microphone. These latter two are hooked coaxially to the security stunners (these can be set higher by the computer) what the camera sees, gets shot. 24 security substations around the station supply bases for security personel.
       The High Crystal Station itself contains a thriving community of merchants, workers, and transient space-farers. The multi-level promenade of the High Crystal station holds a most interesting collection of goods and services for sale. Due to the laid back nature of the Ane toward what you might do to yourself, things are available here that are restricted or forbidden in the rest of the Federation. However, do not come crying to the authorities if your illicit pleasures bite you. If you stick your nose in it, you are responsible for what happens to your nose.

       Builder Station is the last station of note in the system, and it is of note. The Builder Station was built at the time of the construction of the rosette, and has been in its current orbit for the last 760,000 years.
       The Builder Station is huge. Even now it is only has a fraction of it's area in use. Whole sections of the station lie unexplored since it was reopened 200 years ago.
        Builder station holds the El Nanth Space Dock. This serves as a Starbase for Starfleet and a home port for all Ane military and exploration craft. This station holds the mothball docks for a good number of Starfleet ships, and is capable of building ships of the line on site, or maintaining any ship in the fleet. The principle dock is an enclosed space in vacuum of 4 kilometers by 5 kilometers by 10 kilometers. This dock area is just one of sixty like it in the station at large. Only five of these are in use.
       Liggets Spacecraft has their main production facilities at this location. They build ships of the class usually called "free traders" yachts, shuttlecraft, and runabouts. El Nanth Starships also builds the Falcon class cutter at this location. El Nanth is the military ship builder for the Ane. They build no civilian class ships. El Nanth Starships is also the primary supplier of the "Cloptic Torpedo Delivery System." Aurora FTL Systems also has it's primary manufacturing facility on builder station.

       The El Nanth system contains no other major planets. An extensive asteroid belt, called "The Grinder", at the equivalent of Neptune's orbit are the only other bodies in the system. None of them is larger than 120 miles in diameter. Astrophysicists believe the rest of the system was cleared to prevent any perturbation of the delicate balance of the rosette. The debris were dumped in the Grinder. There is an old space dog legend that somewhere in the Grinder are the massive tractor ships used to move the planets. It is however, just a legend.

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