Þeodcwéne (THAY-od-kway-nuh)
| 2d10 | Class (Mod) |
|---|---|
| 2 | A |
| 3-4 | F |
| 5-8 | G |
| 9-13 | K (-3) |
| 14-20 | M (-6) |
| 2d10 | Size (Mod) |
|---|---|
| 2 | Luminous Giant (+8) |
| 3 | Giant (+6) |
| 4-6 | Sub-Giant |
| 7-14 | Main Sequence |
| 15-18 | Sub-Dwarf |
| 19-20 | Dwarf Star |
| 2d10 | Dwarf Star Class |
|---|---|
| 2-4 | White Dwarf |
| 5-7 | White Dwarf F |
| 8-11 | Yellow Dwarf |
| 12-16 | Red Dwarf |
| 17-20 | Red SubDwarf |
Geography
The sister queens (Mondan and Sunnan) are a binary star system where one is surrounded with a rainbow aura that occasionally reaches the other. It is dominated by Sunnan: a star that sheds mass in steadily into a vast, rainbow-coloured ring of ionized gases. Hydrogen glows deep crimson; oxygen blazes turquoise; nitrogen radiates violet - all caught in luminous bands that spiral outward like a crown. This gaseous halo is not uniform. Denser clumps refract light in auroral curtains that shift as stellar winds buffet them.
Within this vivid envelope moves the system’s second star: a white dwarf that orbits within the gas ring itself. Though its nuclear fires are long dead, it scavenges mass from the surrounding medium, forming a ghostly accretion disk that flickers with pale blue light. Its gravity slightly distorts the ring, creating graceful ripples that radiate outward like the wake of a ship through water.
Ecosystem
Swinging Orbits
| 1d10 | Companion Orbit (AU) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 3 | (d10+2)*1000 |
| 4 | (d10+4)*1000 |
| 5 | (d10+6)*1000 |
| 6 | (d10+8)*1000 |
| 7 | (d10+10)*1000 |
| 8-10 | d10*1000 |
Planets can have a close (just one), intermediate (between) or wide binary (both) distance between the stars, affecting where they can safely orbit without destabilizing gravitational interactions.
Use the Companion Orbit Separation Table to set a distance for the stars’ orbits around each other at a given time, as measured in astronomical units.
Planet Count Orbiting Range:
| Total | Just One | Between | Beyond |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 0-11 | 0-14 | 21+ |
Ecosystem Cycles
In the stable-unstable orbits of the Nataraja System, certain syzygy events can catapult whole planets into any of the ten suns far or near.
These cosmic alignments occur when the gravitational forces of the system's stars converge, creating pockets of unstable regions where bodies are flung from their orbital paths with little warning.
Climate
Radiation Storm
Between the stars lies a turbulent zone where their competing winds and gravity ranges sculpt the gas into unstable fronts. Energy from the Sunnan's direct glare is enough to strip electrons from atoms. While shadowed eddies in the wake of the white dwarf are relatively cooler that allows denser molecular clouds to condense. This gives rise to plasmic microclimates: eddies of cooler plasma circulate in cells, dense enough to seed nascent dust but too unstable to coalesce into planets. Within the halo itself, the interplay of stellar radiation and magnetic fields creates bands of differing temperatures; sometimes thousands of degrees apart within short distances. Any spacecraft attempting to navigate the region would experience rapid fluctuations of intense radiation spikes when passing through ionized fronts, followed by eerie calm in the lee of the dwarf’s gravitational 'shadow'; where drifting gases fall into a delicate stillness.
Alternative Name(s)
Theodqueyne
Type
Star System Sector
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