{"data":{"id":13304,"title":"Galactic Guide: Ellis System","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/13304-Galactic-Guide-Ellis-System","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13304","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13304","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Galactic Guide","images":[{"id":798,"name":"Ellis_System_1.png","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/j5g0nmpd3ciejr\/source\/Ellis_System_1.png","alt":"","size":3159264,"mime_type":"image\/png","last_modified":"2013-10-07T19:21:30+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/798","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/798\/similar"},{"id":799,"name":"Hard_Racer.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/j3hmsifp7gt9er\/source\/Hard_Racer.jpg","alt":"","size":355789,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-10-07T21:50:42+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/799","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/799\/similar"},{"id":800,"name":"Ellis_VII.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/inp9zed27nfsnr\/source\/Ellis_VII.jpg","alt":"","size":644106,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-10-07T21:50:44+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/800","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/800\/similar"},{"id":42776,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/2lwy1mzcfk4rn\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":1485525,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2025-10-23T10:12:22+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/42776","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/42776\/similar"}],"images_count":4,"translations":{"en_EN":"If speed could, paradoxically, be represented by a fixed point in space, then that point is unquestionably the Ellis System. Home of the Murray Cup, the most famous racing event in the galaxy, Ellis is a star system that plays off its reputation to any tourists or other visitors who pass through. However, Ellis is actually a very interesting star system on its own merits: from the massive underwater animals that once inhabited the oceans of Kampos to the recent collision between Ellis XI and its moon, Ellis is worth at least one voyage.\n\nCosmologically, Ellis is an F3V Yellow star featuring a green band teeming with planets, allowing for an unusually high amount of Human habitation. The system is located in a highly developed region of UEE space with strong jump ties to Magnus, Kilian and Nexus. Despite its association with space racing, Ellis has never been a manufacturing powerhouse; instead, it exports unrefined minerals and resources to other populated systems in the local star cluster.\n\nInner Planets\nEllis I and II are typical inner-system uninhabitable worlds. Ellis I is a protoplanet that orbits so close to the star that it is frequently caught within solar flares. Miners consider Ellis I the ultimate tease: advanced scanners indicate that the bubbling magma surface might hide a fortune in rare minerals \u2026 but there is no shielding technology yet available that would allow a mining crew to confirm the scans. Dozens of pilots and crews have been killed in the attempt. Ellis II is shrouded in a thick, smoggy atmosphere. The surface is barren and otherwise uninteresting, although the constant severe storms are an attractive diversion for observers.\n\nHabitable Band: Green, Kampos & Noble\nLocated on the edge of the system\u2019s green zone (hence the imaginative name), Green (Ellis III) was purpose-constructed as a resort world to cater to visitors interested in the Murray Cup. A terraformed ocean world, the planet is dotted with luxury towers and mega-resorts. To preserve the world\u2019s elaborate underwater reefs, only a single landing zone is allowed, in the coastal city of Aydo. Due to the fact that Green was terraformed, it has no native sea life. Attempts to transport species from Kampos and Earth have met with abject failure.\n\nKampos (Ellis IV) was the first world settled in the system and it remains the most populated planet. It is also the only planet in the Ellis System with an economy that revolves around anything but racing. Kampos is a high-gravity ocean world stocked with all manner of sea life. The planet itself is named after a particularly large sea creature (though not one of the many whose harvested meat is available for export). Kampos\u2019 high gravity also gave rise to the evolution of flatcats, which formed the basis of a brief fad in the UEE core worlds. The world is frequently called Seahorse by the locals, so-named for the appearance of some of the high-gravity sea monsters harvested by native fishermen.\n\nThe third of Ellis\u2019 populated planets, Noble (Ellis V) is a mid-sized forest world with a local government dictate requiring that most of the surface be preserved as-is. A single spaceport near the south polar region allows visitors to explore a beautiful landscape reminiscent of an undeveloped Earth. Two moons make for an especially beautiful landscape at night, although there is a consistent fear that urban development will spread on the world to support the ever increasing number of race fans traveling to the system.\n\nUndeveloped Worlds\nEllis VI sits just outside the green band, a rocky terrestrial world that is currently being used by the UEE for research projects examining the limits of human habitation. The hope is that terraforming techniques will expand to the point that planets farther and farther from a star will be able to someday support a human biosphere. A small science station is in geostationary orbit for this purpose and the population of scientists are always eager to purchase luxury goods to while away the time spent at their thankless tasks. Ellis VII and VIII are similarly uninhabitable worlds. VII features a highly corrosive atmosphere that can be damaging to ships entering local orbit. Ellis VIII is the smallest world in the system, an uninteresting rock with a limited atmosphere.\n\nGas Giants\nThe Ellis system features two gas giants: Walleye (Ellis IX) and Bombora (Ellis X). Walleye is the largest of the two and has been completely commercialized for resource collection. While Walleye is most famously recognized as a pit stop for racers, most of the time it is the site of impressive queues of freighters and warships waiting to take on fuel. Long-haul transports making the Earth-Pinecone run frequently begin at Walleye, and a variety of \u2018rest stop\u2019 facilities have grown up in orbit.\n\nEllis X is a smaller gas giant with an extremely turbulent atmosphere that led to the creation of its name, Bombora.\n\nOuter Planets\nThe eleventh planet in the Ellis system was famously destroyed recently in a collision with its moon. The world was uninhabitable and astrophysicists had long been tracking its apparent demise. Nevertheless, the impact resulted in an extremely dense debris field which pilots are advised to avoid at all costs. Outlying regions are a reasonable source for minerals, though, with gravity having already begun the refining process.\n\nEllis XII, named Judecca, is a small frozen ball in space, the site of the occasional ice-mining expedition and little else. The outermost planet in the system, Ellis XIII, is known locally as Pinecone due to its strange shattered rock surface. Pinecone is rich in heavy minerals and is a popular destination for long-haul miners, many of whom transport ores all the way back to Earth itself for resale.","de_DE":"Wenn die Geschwindigkeit paradoxerweise durch einen festen Punkt im Raum repr\u00e4sentiert werden k\u00f6nnte, dann ist dieser Punkt zweifellos das Ellis-System. Ellis ist die Heimat des Murray Cup, dem ber\u00fchmtesten Rennveranstaltung in der Galaxie, ein Sternsystem, das seinen Ruf bei allen Touristen und anderen Besuchern, die vorbeikommen, ausspielt. Ellis ist jedoch eigentlich ein sehr interessantes Sternensystem f\u00fcr sich: Von den massiven Unterwassertieren, die einst die Ozeane von Kampos bewohnten, bis hin zur j\u00fcngsten Kollision zwischen Ellis XI und seinem Mond ist Ellis mindestens eine Reise wert.\n\nKosmologisch ist Ellis ein F3V Gelber Stern mit einem gr\u00fcnen Band, das voller Planeten ist und eine ungew\u00f6hnlich hohe Anzahl an menschlicher Behausung erm\u00f6glicht. Das System befindet sich in einer hoch entwickelten Region des UEE-Raums mit starken Sprungbindungen zu Magnus, Kilian und Nexus. Trotz seiner Verbindung mit dem Weltraumrennen war Ellis nie ein Produktions-Kraftwerk, sondern exportiert unraffinierte Mineralien und Ressourcen an andere besiedelte Systeme im lokalen Sternhaufen.\n\nInnere Planeten\nEllis I und II sind typische unbewohnbare Welten des inneren Systems. Ellis I ist ein Protoplanet, der so nah am Stern umkreist, dass er h\u00e4ufig in Sonneneruptionen gefangen wird. Die Miner halten Ellis I f\u00fcr den ultimativen Plagegeist: Fortschrittliche Scanner zeigen an, dass die blubbernde Magma-Oberfl\u00e4che ein Verm\u00f6gen an seltenen Mineralien verstecken k\u00f6nnte.... aber es gibt noch keine Abschirmtechnologie, die es einer Minenbesatzung erm\u00f6glichen w\u00fcrde, die Scans zu best\u00e4tigen. Dutzende von Piloten und Besatzungen wurden bei dem Versuch get\u00f6tet. Ellis II ist von einer dicken, smogartigen Atmosph\u00e4re umgeben. Die Oberfl\u00e4che ist karg und ansonsten uninteressant, obwohl die st\u00e4ndigen schweren St\u00fcrme eine attraktive Ablenkung f\u00fcr den Beobachter darstellen.\n\nBewohnbare Band: Gr\u00fcn, Kampos & Edel\nGreen (Ellis III) liegt am Rande der gr\u00fcnen Zone des Systems (daher der phantasievolle Name) und wurde speziell als Resortwelt konzipiert, um Besuchern, die sich f\u00fcr den Murray Cup interessieren, eine optimale Betreuung zu bieten. Der Planet ist eine terrassenf\u00f6rmige Meereswelt und \u00fcbers\u00e4t mit luxuri\u00f6sen T\u00fcrmen und Mega-Resorts. Um die aufwendigen Unterwasserriffe der Welt zu erhalten, ist in der K\u00fcstenstadt Aydo nur eine einzige Landezone erlaubt. Da Gr\u00fcn terrassenf\u00f6rmig angelegt wurde, hat es kein einheimisches Meeresleben. Versuche, Arten von Kampos und der Erde zu transportieren, sind mit einem schweren Misserfolg behaftet.\n\nKampos (Ellis IV) war die erste Welt, die sich im System niederlie\u00df, und es bleibt der bev\u00f6lkerungsreichste Planet. Es ist auch der einzige Planet im Ellis-System mit einer Wirtschaft, die sich um alles andere als um das Rennen dreht. Kampos ist eine hochgradige Meereswelt, die mit allerlei Meereslebewesen bev\u00f6lkert ist. Der Planet selbst ist nach einer besonders gro\u00dfen Meereskreatur benannt (obwohl nicht eine der vielen, deren geerntetes Fleisch f\u00fcr den Export verf\u00fcgbar ist). Die hohe Schwerkraft von Kampos f\u00fchrte auch zur Entwicklung von Flachkatzen, die die Grundlage f\u00fcr eine kurze Modeerscheinung in den UEE-Kernwelten bildeten. Die Einheimischen nennen die Welt h\u00e4ufig Seepferdchen, so genannt nach dem Erscheinen einiger der hochgravitativen Meeresungeheuer, die von einheimischen Fischern geerntet werden.\n\nDer dritte von Ellis' besiedelten Planeten, Noble (Ellis V), ist eine mittelgro\u00dfe Waldwelt, deren lokale Regierung vorschreibt, dass der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Teil der Oberfl\u00e4che unver\u00e4ndert erhalten bleiben muss. Ein einziger Weltraumbahnhof in der N\u00e4he der s\u00fcdlichen Polarregion erm\u00f6glicht es den Besuchern, eine wundersch\u00f6ne Landschaft zu erkunden, die an eine unbebaute Erde erinnert. Zwei Monde sorgen nachts f\u00fcr eine besonders sch\u00f6ne Landschaft, obwohl immer wieder bef\u00fcrchtet wird, dass sich die Stadtentwicklung auf der ganzen Welt ausbreiten wird, um die immer gr\u00f6\u00dfer werdende Zahl von Rennfans zu unterst\u00fctzen, die das System nutzen.\n\nUnentwickelte Welten\nEllis VI. liegt etwas au\u00dferhalb des gr\u00fcnen Bandes, einer felsigen terrestrischen Welt, die derzeit von der UEE f\u00fcr Forschungsprojekte genutzt wird, die die Grenzen der menschlichen Lebensweise untersuchen. Die Hoffnung ist, dass sich die Terraformtechniken so weit ausdehnen, dass Planeten, die immer weiter und weiter von einem Stern entfernt sind, eines Tages in der Lage sein werden, eine menschliche Biosph\u00e4re zu unterst\u00fctzen. Eine kleine Wissenschaftsstation befindet sich zu diesem Zweck im geostation\u00e4ren Orbit und die Bev\u00f6lkerung der Wissenschaftler ist immer bestrebt, Luxusg\u00fcter zu kaufen, um die Zeit f\u00fcr ihre undankbare Aufgabe zu vertreiben. Ellis VII und VIII sind \u00e4hnlich unbewohnbare Welten. VII weist eine hochkorrosive Atmosph\u00e4re auf, die f\u00fcr Schiffe, die in den lokalen Orbit einfahren, sch\u00e4dlich sein kann. Ellis VIII ist die kleinste Welt im System, ein uninteressanter Felsen mit begrenzter Atmosph\u00e4re.\n\nGasriesen\nDas Ellis-System verf\u00fcgt \u00fcber zwei Gasriesen: Walleye (Ellis IX) und Bombora (Ellis X). Walleye ist das gr\u00f6\u00dfte der beiden und wurde vollst\u00e4ndig f\u00fcr die Ressourcenerfassung kommerzialisiert. Walleye ist zwar bekannt als Boxenstopp f\u00fcr Rennfahrer, aber meistens ist es der Ort mit beeindruckenden Schlangen von Frachtern und Kriegsschiffen, die darauf warten, Treibstoff zu erhalten. Langstreckentransporte, bei denen der Erd-Steinkegel h\u00e4ufig l\u00e4uft, beginnen in Walleye, und eine Vielzahl von \"Rastst\u00e4tten\" sind im Orbit aufgewachsen.\n\nEllis X ist ein kleinerer Gasriese mit einer extrem turbulenten Atmosph\u00e4re, die zur Entstehung seines Namens Bombora f\u00fchrte.\n\n\u00c4u\u00dfere Planeten\nDer elfte Planet im Ellis-System wurde k\u00fcrzlich bei einer Kollision mit dem Mond zerst\u00f6rt. Die Welt war unbewohnbar und die Astrophysiker hatten ihren scheinbaren Untergang l\u00e4ngst verfolgt. Dennoch f\u00fchrte der Aufprall zu einem extrem dichten Schuttfeld, das die Piloten um jeden Preis vermeiden sollten. Abgelegene Regionen sind jedoch eine vern\u00fcnftige Quelle f\u00fcr Mineralien, da die Schwerkraft bereits mit dem Raffinationsprozess begonnen hat.\n\nEllis XII, genannt Judecca, ist ein kleiner gefrorener Ball im Weltraum, der Ort der gelegentlichen Eisbergbauexpedition und wenig mehr. Der \u00e4u\u00dferste Planet im System, Ellis XIII, ist wegen seiner seltsam zersplitterten Gesteinsoberfl\u00e4che lokal als Kiefernzapfen bekannt. Kiefernzapfen ist reich an Schwermineralien und ist ein beliebtes Ziel f\u00fcr Bergleute auf der Langstrecke, von denen viele Erze bis zur Erde selbst transportieren, um sie weiterzuverkaufen.","zh_CN":"If speed could, paradoxically, be represented by a fixed point in space, then that point is unquestionably the Ellis System. Home of the Murray Cup, the most famous racing event in the galaxy, Ellis is a star system that plays off its reputation to any tourists or other visitors who pass through. However, Ellis is actually a very interesting star system on its own merits: from the massive underwater animals that once inhabited the oceans of Kampos to the recent collision between Ellis XI and its moon, Ellis is worth at least one voyage.\n\nCosmologically, Ellis is an F3V Yellow star featuring a green band teeming with planets, allowing for an unusually high amount of Human habitation. The system is located in a highly developed region of UEE space with strong jump ties to Magnus, Kilian and Nexus. Despite its association with space racing, Ellis has never been a manufacturing powerhouse; instead, it exports unrefined minerals and resources to other populated systems in the local star cluster.\n\nInner Planets\nEllis I and II are typical inner-system uninhabitable worlds. Ellis I is a protoplanet that orbits so close to the star that it is frequently caught within solar flares. Miners consider Ellis I the ultimate tease: advanced scanners indicate that the bubbling magma surface might hide a fortune in rare minerals \u2026 but there is no shielding technology yet available that would allow a mining crew to confirm the scans. Dozens of pilots and crews have been killed in the attempt. Ellis II is shrouded in a thick, smoggy atmosphere. The surface is barren and otherwise uninteresting, although the constant severe storms are an attractive diversion for observers.\n\nHabitable Band: Green, Kampos & Noble\nLocated on the edge of the system\u2019s green zone (hence the imaginative name), Green (Ellis III) was purpose-constructed as a resort world to cater to visitors interested in the Murray Cup. A terraformed ocean world, the planet is dotted with luxury towers and mega-resorts. To preserve the world\u2019s elaborate underwater reefs, only a single landing zone is allowed, in the coastal city of Aydo. Due to the fact that Green was terraformed, it has no native sea life. Attempts to transport species from Kampos and Earth have met with abject failure.\n\nKampos (Ellis IV) was the first world settled in the system and it remains the most populated planet. It is also the only planet in the Ellis System with an economy that revolves around anything but racing. Kampos is a high-gravity ocean world stocked with all manner of sea life. The planet itself is named after a particularly large sea creature (though not one of the many whose harvested meat is available for export). Kampos\u2019 high gravity also gave rise to the evolution of flatcats, which formed the basis of a brief fad in the UEE core worlds. The world is frequently called Seahorse by the locals, so-named for the appearance of some of the high-gravity sea monsters harvested by native fishermen.\n\nThe third of Ellis\u2019 populated planets, Noble (Ellis V) is a mid-sized forest world with a local government dictate requiring that most of the surface be preserved as-is. A single spaceport near the south polar region allows visitors to explore a beautiful landscape reminiscent of an undeveloped Earth. Two moons make for an especially beautiful landscape at night, although there is a consistent fear that urban development will spread on the world to support the ever increasing number of race fans traveling to the system.\n\nUndeveloped Worlds\nEllis VI sits just outside the green band, a rocky terrestrial world that is currently being used by the UEE for research projects examining the limits of human habitation. The hope is that terraforming techniques will expand to the point that planets farther and farther from a star will be able to someday support a human biosphere. A small science station is in geostationary orbit for this purpose and the population of scientists are always eager to purchase luxury goods to while away the time spent at their thankless tasks. Ellis VII and VIII are similarly uninhabitable worlds. VII features a highly corrosive atmosphere that can be damaging to ships entering local orbit. Ellis VIII is the smallest world in the system, an uninteresting rock with a limited atmosphere.\n\nGas Giants\nThe Ellis system features two gas giants: Walleye (Ellis IX) and Bombora (Ellis X). Walleye is the largest of the two and has been completely commercialized for resource collection. While Walleye is most famously recognized as a pit stop for racers, most of the time it is the site of impressive queues of freighters and warships waiting to take on fuel. Long-haul transports making the Earth-Pinecone run frequently begin at Walleye, and a variety of \u2018rest stop\u2019 facilities have grown up in orbit.\n\nEllis X is a smaller gas giant with an extremely turbulent atmosphere that led to the creation of its name, Bombora.\n\nOuter Planets\nThe eleventh planet in the Ellis system was famously destroyed recently in a collision with its moon. The world was uninhabitable and astrophysicists had long been tracking its apparent demise. Nevertheless, the impact resulted in an extremely dense debris field which pilots are advised to avoid at all costs. Outlying regions are a reasonable source for minerals, though, with gravity having already begun the refining process.\n\nEllis XII, named Judecca, is a small frozen ball in space, the site of the occasional ice-mining expedition and little else. The outermost planet in the system, Ellis XIII, is known locally as Pinecone due to its strange shattered rock surface. Pinecone is rich in heavy minerals and is a popular destination for long-haul miners, many of whom transport ores all the way back to Earth itself for resale."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":113,"created_at":"2013-10-07T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 04:32:06","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13302,"next_id":13305}}