Waturae F24

A large gas giant planet of the Leonogo Major System, the home system of the Drimax.

Waturae F24 is the largest planet of the Leonogo Major system and consists of 2 times the mass of Jupiter, giving it a very powerful gravitational field and a massive quantity of hydrogen to be harvested. For a gas giant, Waturae F24 is also fairly important to drimax culture, as there are large space cities, or habitation stations, orbiting it and providing life to billions. For many years, these stations used the power given by these massive hydrogen extractors by using fusion reactors to fuse the hydrogen, until the drimax were allowed to use some technologies of the HF, after which they were replaced with the far more efficient antimatter reactors. A number of important scientists also took homes in some of these massive city stations, and after their deaths their houses might turn into small tourist attractions.

This station itself has a large number of huge gas giant extractors which provide a massive amount of fuel to the Drimax United Systems. The sheer importance of this planet is evident in more than one way.

However, as it has very little iron or other magnetic materials, they cannot purely rely on this planet. The drimax own and operate a large number of mines around the other planets in this star system. It does mean, though, that the planet has a weak magnetosphere so it should be easier to run very sensitive electronics on these city-stations.

The reason why the massive city-stations were established was that at the time the drimax still had an economy dependant on currency. The gas giant was described almost universally as beautiful, naturally attracting a lot of people who wanted to live in space. Living in space also offers very easy transit to other locations in the system and other excellent views in general. Some people think it is simply fun to enter 0g sometimes.

The gas giant takes up a mainly light blue colour and has relatively few clouds, which is typical for an ice giant rather than a gas giant. In some conditions, a huge number of rainbows can form near the gas giant, especially when the station is positioned roughly between the local K class star and the gas giant. Very rarely, the presence of the black hole might also have an impact on the rainbow and these very rare situations have even become a topic of much scientific discussion. It is well known that extreme gravitation can warp light, and it would take a very powerful supercomputer to simulate this effectively, but they have eventually managed to simulate the phenomenon. This only happens about once every several thousand years so the vast majority of people used to die before it would ever happen, but HF life extension technology has largely changed this.