Jiorkie System

The Jiorkie star system used to have one of the most promising upstart civilizations in the galaxy. Its star was stable, it had a planet that could support life, and there were almost a hundred billion beings that called this system home. All that changed about 9,000 years ago when the Star suddenly collapsed into a white dwarf and caused a nova explosion that irradiated each of the worlds. There are a number of competing theories for why the star collapsed the way it did, ranging from interaction with an already existing white dwarf star to an innate instability with the type of star that used to exist in the current star's place. The displaced species that survived in very little numbers were scattered to other star systems and have yet to recover from this stellar cataclysm.

This world was already a rather hot rocky world being very close to its parent star. After Jiorkie went nova, the planet was completely liquified into a sphere of molten lava, with most volatile elements vaporizing and forming a thin atmosphere around the world. Due to Jiorkie's extremely high surface temperature for a white dwarf, this planet has yet to cool down, even after nine thousand years.

If the planet ever cools down, it will be an excellent mining world. Extracting resources from th ethin crust would be quite easy compared to drilling dozens or even hundreds of kilometers to get to the same resources. As it is, the surface temperature of the liquid world is something that only elemental tungsten can withstand, keeping its resources out of reach, for now.

This world used to have several notable moons, including a slushy water world that supported primitive forms of life. The Vusinor had a rather large research station on this world when Jiorkie went nova. According to recorded data, the entire moon vaporized within a few minutes. the remains of the world then likely got absorbed into the larget ice giant it used to orbit. Other than a few small rocks, this planet does not have any large moons, not anymore. they were all destroyed.

Somehow, thanks to influence from the white dwarf star, the world's temperature is still above freezing despite having almost no atmosphere. The atmosphere is even breathable with plenty of oxygen and is about 85 percent as dense as Earth's atmosphere at sea level. No one will come to settle this world however. It is designated by the Galactic Council as a Grave World, a planet sized tombstone for the nearly one hundred billion lives that were lost.

Oddly, this is the only planet in the Jiorkie System that has its own name. This is because this ice giant is inhabited by the Cetalari. Vusinor records show that they were there long before the star went nova, and even though Trenork lost 30% of its mass and had its atmosphere temporarily ignited from the blast, the Cetalari somehow survived. They cleared away the wreckage of the switchboard the Vusinor built, and asked them politely to refrain from building another one. The world is slightly too warm to try building another switchboard right now anyways.

This world was an icy green sphere before its parent star went nova, and it is still an icy green sphere. The heat from the nova blast still temporarily liquified the world, but it quickly froze and is more or less the same as it was nine thousand years ago. Vusinor records show that there was evidence of an ancient super structure under the ice of this world from a precursor civilization, but with the world melted and refrozen, scans of the world aren't showing signs of it anymore.