{"data":{"id":15192,"title":"Galactic Guide: Horus System","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/15192-Galactic-Guide-Horus-System","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/15192","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/15192","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Galactic Guide","images":[{"id":4606,"name":"JP-GG-2016-01_v12.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/n1cqrtn9ygv92r\/source\/JP-GG-2016-01_v12.jpg","alt":"","size":5403617,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2016-01-26T17:44:39+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4606","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4606\/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":2,"translations":{"en_EN":"The Horus System is best known for two things: its two jumps into the Xi\u2019An Empire and Serling, a tidally locked planet with one of the most unique human habitations in the universe. For years, Horus\u2019 connection to the Xi\u2019An Empire made it a part of the Perry Line, a string of noman\u2019s-land systems that provided a buffer between the species, a status that cut off any public access or private development to the system. Now those connections are its biggest asset, making the system an intriguing prospect for those interested in doing business with the Xi\u2019An.\n\nHorus was officially discovered in 2528 by a then-unknown navjumper named Marie Sante. Legend claims that the system was actually discovered several years earlier by the fourteen-year-old Sante after she stole a ship to flee her family in Gonn. If true, she must have spent the majority of the intervening years in the unclaimed system, alone on her ship, as extensive checks of UPE records and landing registries have failed to uncover her name anywhere during that period of time.\n\nThe UPE\u2019s first official record of Sante was her application to register the discovery of the Horus System, which she, maybe tellingly, requested be named after her ship.\n\nIncluded in her initial application were meticulous documents describing the system\u2019s three planets and two asteroid belts. Apparently, Sante had spent years alone in the system exploring before she finally decided to share her find. This resulted in Horus being the only system to have been discovered and have all of its celestial bodies charted by the same person.\n\nSante\u2019s single-minded interest in uncovering all Horus had to offer was both her greatest strength and her ultimate downfall. In 2530, only two years after Horus\u2019 registration, Humanity first encountered the Xi\u2019An, and tensions only escalated from there. Meanwhile, as public and private interests established operations in Horus, Sante stuck to its outer reaches, singularly focused on the areas she had yet to explore. In 2542, Sante discovered the jump from Horus to the Rihlah System. To this day, historians debate whether Sante understood how reporting Horus\u2019 connection to Xi\u2019An territory would drastically alter the system\u2019s future.\n\nAt that time, the jump to Rihlah made Horus a security risk for the UPE. The government closed the system to non-military personnel, receiving little resistance from the small group of civilians that had begun to settle on the fledgling planet of Serling. Only Marie Sante defied the order. She hid in the system\u2019s outer reaches and managed to remain undetected until a Navy pilot reported an unauthorized ship in his sector. A battle group was mobilized only to realize that the ship had been Sante\u2019s. With the false alarm wasting many hours and credits, the military prioritized pushing Sante out of the system.\n\nTo this day, no one is certain of what fate befell Marie Sante. The last record of her comes from a recovered info-beacon containing her journals. The final entry was dated 10.1.2545. In it she expresses her belief that Horus had more secrets to uncover, which proved true with the discovery of a jump into the Xi\u2019An controlled Kayfa System in 2617. Her final entry ended with \u201cHorus is the only home I\u2019ve ever had. I shared the world and they took it from me. Let\u2019s just say I\u2019ll never make that mistake again.\u201d With those final words, Sante was never heard from or seen again.\n\nTo this day some believe Sante spent her remaining years hiding in the system. Everyone from novices to expert explorers, and even Spectrum show hosts, have tried to piece together clues from her journals to uncover her ultimate fate. A portion of Horus\u2019, albeit small, tourism sector focuses on this mystery, with \u2018history hunters\u2019 eager to locate the remains of Sante\u2019s lost ship.\n\nMeanwhile, as the UPE was transitioning into the UEE, the military maintained control over the Horus System throughout the cold war. Assignments monitoring the system\u2019s two jumps into Xi\u2019An territory were both strategically essential and extremely dull. A lack of hospitable planetside locations meant military personnel spent their deployment in either their cockpit or a capital ship, which did not endear the system to starmen.\n\nOnce the cold war ended and the Perry Line was dissolved, the UEE decided to use the system for more than just military patrols and exercises. The public finally had another chance to put its stamp on the system. Unfortunately, inhospitable planetary conditions have kept the population down, and minimal natural resources have made heavy industry slow to develop in the system.\n\nYet, its connection to the Xi\u2019An Empire, which once doomed it to isolation, may now be Horus\u2019 strongest selling point. Businesses looking to capitalize on improved relations and increased trade pay ever-rising real estate prices on Serling to have an office only one jump away from the business-friendly Rihlah System. While the future may be bright, many within the UEE still considered Horus an afterthought, a system that has yet to exert enough political or economic force to earn recognition in the UEE Senate.\n\nHorus I (Serling)\nMaintaining the nickname Sante gave it in her original reports, this tidally locked planet contains one of Humanity\u2019s most interesting habitats. With one side of the planet perpetually facing the system\u2019s main sequence M-type star and the other shrouded in darkness, the majority of the planet is unfit for habitation. Yet Humans discovered that life was possible along the terminator line, the narrow strip dividing the light and dark side of the planet, running from pole to pole.\n\nVisiting Serling is a must for anyone interested in truly unique vistas, but living under such conditions is not for the faint of heart. Serling is plagued by constant storms, a meteorological side effect of one side of the planet receiving all of the star\u2019s heat. Photographers flock to Serling to snap a pictures of the system\u2019s red star sitting upon the horizon amidst a severe storm. This majestic and surreal image has become emblematic of the entire system.\n\nIt has taken some ingenuity to make a manageable living in a place either constantly light or constantly dark (depending on which side of the terminator line one is on). In general, workplaces are zoned closer to the light side of the planet while residences are built near the dark side. This allows people the semblance of a normal day\/ night cycle. A system of high-speed trains and transport ships constantly moves workers from one side to the other.\n\nSince businesses on the light side, technically, never close, there is work aplenty for those who want it. Yet, some residents suffer psychological strain from the lack of a natural circadian rhythm similar to what many tourists feel upon arriving on a new world. Currently, the University of Aten, Serling\u2019s most prominent educational institution, is conducting a lengthy study in an attempt to isolate the differences between people who flourish under these conditions (often those in families who have lived on the planet for generations) versus those who have trouble adjusting.\n\nAs in most places around the Empire, those with unlimited means make the most out of even these unusual conditions. The planet\u2019s most expensive real estate lies in the middle of the terminator line, which provides a breathtaking permanent sunset view when facing the star. Stunning architectural homes, apartments and high-end hotels are programmed to rotate on a \u201cdaily\u201d schedule, providing their residences with the semblance of a more normal day\/night cycle.\n\nHorus II\nA massive desert world located within the green band. Even though the planet lacks any natural bodies of water, UEE surveyors and scientists are seriously assessing the cost-benefits of a terraforming attempt. As xeno-economic relations continue to strengthen and improve, there has been considerable support from the business community to pursue settlement on this planet, simply because companies without a foothold on Serling would love to establish operations on a more traditional planet and enjoy easy access to the Xi\u2019An Empire.\n\nHorus III\nHorus III is one of the few Super Jupiters in UEE space. Its high-density atmosphere makes the planet many times more massive than most other gas giants. Separated from Horus\u2019 inner two planets by two asteroid belts, Horus III sits in a long, lonely orbit far from anything else in the system.\n\nTRAVEL WARNING\nVisitors are encouraged to track their time spent on either hemisphere of Serling, as the effects of too much or too little light have been linked with exhaustion, depression and other symptoms.\n\nHeard in the Wind\n\u201cWhile we will never know for sure what drove her there, Sante\u2019s journals make it clear that she truly loved two things in life: her ship and the system she discovered.\u201d\n\n\u2013 Kwame Jones, The Heart of Horus, 2678\n\n\u201cBefore we sing the chorus, let us speak of Horus, a system sure to kill us, from boredom, not from war!\u201d\n\n\u2013 Guardians of the Jump, traditional Navy shanty, 27th Century","de_DE":"Das Horus-System ist vor allem f\u00fcr zwei Dinge bekannt: seine beiden Spr\u00fcnge in das Xi'An-Imperium und Serling, ein tidally locked planet mit einer der einzigartigsten menschlichen Behausungen im Universum. Jahrelang war Horus' Verbindung zum Xi'An Imperium ein Teil der Perry Line, einer Reihe von Noman's-Land-Systemen, die einen Puffer zwischen den Arten bildeten, ein Status, der jeden \u00f6ffentlichen Zugang oder jede private Entwicklung zum System unterbrach. Jetzt sind diese Verbindungen sein gr\u00f6\u00dftes Kapital, was das System zu einer faszinierenden Perspektive f\u00fcr diejenigen macht, die daran interessiert sind, Gesch\u00e4fte mit dem Xi'An zu machen.\n\nHorus wurde 2528 von einem damals unbekannten Navjumper namens Marie Sante offiziell entdeckt. Die Legende behauptet, dass das System tats\u00e4chlich einige Jahre zuvor von der vierzehnj\u00e4hrigen Sante entdeckt wurde, nachdem sie ein Schiff gestohlen hatte, um ihre Familie in Gonn zu verlassen. Wenn das wahr ist, muss sie die Mehrheit der dazwischen liegenden Jahre im nicht beanspruchten System verbracht haben, allein auf ihrem Schiff, da umfangreiche \u00dcberpr\u00fcfungen der UPE-Eintr\u00e4ge und der Landeregister ihren Namen in diesem Zeitraum nirgendwo aufgedeckt haben.\n\nDie erste offizielle Aufzeichnung von Sante durch die UPE war ihr Antrag auf Registrierung der Entdeckung des Horus-Systems, das sie vielleicht treffend nach ihrem Schiff benannt haben wollte.\n\nZu ihrem ersten Antrag geh\u00f6rten sorgf\u00e4ltige Dokumente, die die drei Planeten und zwei Asteroideng\u00fcrtel des Systems beschrieben. Anscheinend hatte Sante Jahre allein im System verbracht, bevor sie sich schlie\u00dflich entschied, ihren Fund zu teilen. Dies f\u00fchrte dazu, dass Horus das einzige System war, das entdeckt wurde und alle seine Himmelsk\u00f6rper von derselben Person erfasst wurden.\n\nSantes zielstrebiges Interesse, alles, was Horus zu bieten hatte, aufzudecken, war sowohl ihre gr\u00f6\u00dfte St\u00e4rke als auch ihr endg\u00fcltiger Untergang. Im Jahr 2530, nur zwei Jahre nach Horus' Registrierung, begegnete die Menschheit zum ersten Mal dem Xi'An, und von dort aus eskalierten die Spannungen. In der Zwischenzeit, als \u00f6ffentliche und private Interessen in Horus ihre T\u00e4tigkeit aufnahmen, hielt Sante an seinen Au\u00dfenbezirken fest und konzentrierte sich ausschlie\u00dflich auf die Bereiche, die sie noch nicht erkundet hatte. Im Jahr 2542 entdeckte Sante den Sprung von Horus zum Rihlah-System. Bis heute diskutieren Historiker dar\u00fcber, ob Sante verstanden hat, wie die Berichterstattung \u00fcber Horus' Verbindung zum Gebiet Xi'An die Zukunft des Systems drastisch ver\u00e4ndern w\u00fcrde.\n\nDamals machte der Sprung nach Rihlah Horus zu einem Sicherheitsrisiko f\u00fcr die UPE. Die Regierung schloss das System f\u00fcr nichtmilit\u00e4risches Personal und erhielt wenig Widerstand von der kleinen Gruppe von Zivilisten, die begonnen hatte, sich auf dem noch jungen Planeten Serling niederzulassen. Nur Marie Sante widersetzte sich dem Befehl. Sie versteckte sich in den \u00e4u\u00dferen Bereichen des Systems und schaffte es, unentdeckt zu bleiben, bis ein Marinepilot ein nicht autorisiertes Schiff in seinem Sektor meldete. Eine Kampfgruppe wurde mobilisiert, nur um zu erkennen, dass das Schiff von Sante war. Mit dem Fehlalarm, der viele Stunden und Kredite verschwendet, setzte das Milit\u00e4r Priorit\u00e4ten, indem es Sante aus dem System dr\u00e4ngte.\n\nBis heute ist sich niemand sicher, welches Schicksal Marie Sante widerfahren ist. Die letzte Aufzeichnung von ihr stammt von einem wiederhergestellten Info-Beacon mit ihren Aufzeichnungen. Der letzte Eintrag wurde mit 10.1.2545 datiert. Darin dr\u00fcckt sie ihre \u00dcberzeugung aus, dass Horus mehr Geheimnisse zu entdecken hatte, was sich mit der Entdeckung eines Sprungs in das Xi'An kontrollierte Kayfa-System im Jahr 2617 bewahrheitet hat. Ihr letzter Eintrag endete mit \"Horus ist das einzige Zuhause, das ich je hatte. Ich teilte die Welt und sie nahmen sie mir weg. Sagen wir einfach, ich werde diesen Fehler nie wieder machen.\" Mit diesen letzten Worten wurde Sante nie wieder geh\u00f6rt oder gesehen.\n\nBis heute glauben einige, dass Sante ihre verbleibenden Jahre damit verbracht hat, sich im System zu verstecken. Jeder, vom Anf\u00e4nger \u00fcber den erfahrenen Entdecker bis hin zum Moderator der Spectrum-Show, hat versucht, Hinweise aus ihren Aufzeichnungen zusammenzustellen, um ihr ultimatives Schicksal aufzudecken. Ein Teil des Horus', wenn auch kleiner, Tourismussektor, konzentriert sich auf dieses Mysterium, wobei die \"Geschichtsj\u00e4ger\" darauf bedacht sind, die \u00dcberreste von Santes verlorenem Schiff zu finden.\n\nIn der Zwischenzeit, als die UPE in die UEE \u00fcberging, behielt das Milit\u00e4r w\u00e4hrend des Kalten Krieges die Kontrolle \u00fcber das Horus-System. Die Aufgaben, die die beiden Spr\u00fcnge des Systems in das Gebiet von Xi'An \u00fcberwachten, waren sowohl strategisch wichtig als auch extrem langweilig. Ein Mangel an gastfreundlichen Standorten auf den Planeten bedeutete, dass das Milit\u00e4rpersonal seinen Einsatz entweder in seinem Cockpit oder auf einem Hauptschiff verbrachte, was das System bei den Starmen nicht sehr beliebt machte.\n\nNachdem der Kalte Krieg beendet und die Perry-Linie aufgel\u00f6st war, entschied sich die UEE, das System nicht nur f\u00fcr Milit\u00e4rpatrouillen und \u00dcbungen zu nutzen. Die \u00d6ffentlichkeit hatte endlich wieder die M\u00f6glichkeit, das System zu pr\u00e4gen. Leider haben die unwirtlichen planetarischen Bedingungen die Bev\u00f6lkerung niedrig gehalten, und minimale nat\u00fcrliche Ressourcen haben die Entwicklung der Schwerindustrie im System behindert.\n\nDoch seine Verbindung zum Xi'An Imperium, das es einst in die Isolation trieb, ist heute vielleicht das st\u00e4rkste Verkaufsargument von Horus. Unternehmen, die von verbesserten Beziehungen und erh\u00f6hten Handelszahlungen profitieren wollen, zahlen st\u00e4ndig steigende Immobilienpreise auf Serling, um ein B\u00fcro zu haben, das nur einen Sprung vom gesch\u00e4ftsfreundlichen Rihlah-System entfernt ist. W\u00e4hrend die Zukunft vielversprechend sein mag, betrachteten viele innerhalb der UEE Horus immer noch als einen nachtr\u00e4glichen Gedanken, ein System, das noch nicht gen\u00fcgend politische oder wirtschaftliche Kraft aufgebracht hat, um im UEE-Senat Anerkennung zu finden.\n\nHorus I (Serling)\nUnter Beibehaltung des Spitznamens, den Sante in ihren Originalberichten gab, enth\u00e4lt dieser tidally locked planet einen der interessantesten Lebensr\u00e4ume der Menschheit. Da die eine Seite des Planeten st\u00e4ndig der Hauptsequenz des M-Sterns des Systems zugewandt ist und die andere in Dunkelheit geh\u00fcllt ist, ist der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Teil des Planeten ungeeignet f\u00fcr eine Besiedlung. Doch die Menschen entdeckten, dass Leben entlang der Terminatorlinie m\u00f6glich war, dem schmalen Streifen, der die helle und dunkle Seite des Planeten teilt und von Pol zu Pol verl\u00e4uft.\n\nSerling zu besuchen ist ein Muss f\u00fcr jeden, der sich f\u00fcr wirklich einzigartige Aussichten interessiert, aber unter solchen Bedingungen zu leben, ist nichts f\u00fcr schwache Nerven. Serling wird von st\u00e4ndigen St\u00fcrmen heimgesucht, einer meteorologischen Nebenwirkung einer Seite des Planeten, die die gesamte Hitze des Sterns empf\u00e4ngt. Fotografen str\u00f6men nach Serling, um Bilder vom roten Stern des Systems zu machen, der am Horizont inmitten eines heftigen Sturms steht. Dieses majest\u00e4tische und surreale Bild ist zum Symbol des gesamten Systems geworden.\n\nEs hat etwas Einfallsreichtum erfordert, um ein \u00fcberschaubares Leben an einem Ort zu erm\u00f6glichen, der entweder konstant hell oder konstant dunkel ist (je nachdem, auf welcher Seite der Terminatorleitung man sich befindet). Im Allgemeinen sind die Arbeitspl\u00e4tze n\u00e4her an der hellen Seite des Planeten angeordnet, w\u00e4hrend die Wohnungen in der N\u00e4he der dunklen Seite gebaut werden. Dies erm\u00f6glicht den Menschen den Anschein eines normalen Tag\/Nacht-Zyklus. Ein System von Hochgeschwindigkeitsz\u00fcgen und Transportschiffen bewegt die Arbeiter st\u00e4ndig von einer Seite zur anderen.\n\nDa Unternehmen auf der leichten Seite, technisch gesehen, nie schlie\u00dfen, gibt es jede Menge Arbeit f\u00fcr diejenigen, die es wollen. Doch einige Bewohner leiden unter psychischer Belastung durch das Fehlen eines nat\u00fcrlichen zirkadianen Rhythmus, der dem \u00e4hnelt, was viele Touristen bei der Ankunft in einer neuen Welt empfinden. Derzeit f\u00fchrt die University of Aten, Serlings bekannteste Bildungseinrichtung, eine ausf\u00fchrliche Studie durch, um die Unterschiede zwischen Menschen, die unter diesen Bedingungen gedeihen (oft in Familien, die seit Generationen auf dem Planeten leben) und solchen, die Schwierigkeiten bei der Anpassung haben, zu isolieren.\n\nWie an den meisten Orten im ganzen Reich machen diejenigen mit unbegrenzten Mitteln das Beste aus diesen ungew\u00f6hnlichen Bedingungen. Die teuerste Immobilie des Planeten liegt in der Mitte der Terminatorlinie, die einen atemberaubenden permanenten Sonnenuntergang mit Blick auf den Stern bietet. Atemberaubende architektonische H\u00e4user, Appartements und High-End-Hotels sind so programmiert, dass sie sich nach einem \"t\u00e4glichen\" Zeitplan drehen und ihren Residenzen den Anschein eines normaleren Tag\/Nacht-Zyklus verleihen.\n\nHorus II\nEine riesige W\u00fcstenwelt innerhalb des gr\u00fcnen Bandes. Obwohl es auf dem Planeten keine nat\u00fcrlichen Gew\u00e4sser gibt, bewerten UEE-Vermesser und Wissenschaftler ernsthaft den Kosten-Nutzen eines Terraforming-Versuchs. Da sich die xeno-\u00f6konomischen Beziehungen weiter festigen und verbessern, gab es erhebliche Unterst\u00fctzung von Seiten der Wirtschaft f\u00fcr die Ansiedlung auf diesem Planeten, nur weil Unternehmen, die nicht mit Serling verbunden sind, gerne auf einem traditionelleren Planeten t\u00e4tig werden w\u00fcrden und einen einfachen Zugang zum Xi'An-Imperium h\u00e4tten.\n\nHorus III\nHorus III ist einer der wenigen Superjupiter im UEE-Raum. Seine Atmosph\u00e4re mit hoher Dichte macht den Planeten um ein Vielfaches massiver als die meisten anderen Gasriesen. Horus III. ist durch zwei Asteroideng\u00fcrtel von Horus' inneren beiden Planeten getrennt und befindet sich auf einer langen, einsamen Umlaufbahn, die weit von allem anderen im System entfernt ist.\n\nREISEWARNUNG\nDie Besucher werden ermutigt, ihre Zeit auf der Halbkugel von Serling zu verfolgen, da die Auswirkungen von zu viel oder zu wenig Licht mit Ersch\u00f6pfung, Depressionen und anderen Symptomen verbunden sind.\n\nIm Wind geh\u00f6rt\n\"W\u00e4hrend wir nie sicher wissen werden, was sie dorthin gebracht hat, machen die Tageb\u00fccher von Sante deutlich, dass sie zwei Dinge im Leben wirklich liebte: ihr Schiff und das System, das sie entdeckte.\"\n\n- Kwame Jones, Das Herz des Horus, 2678\n\n\"Bevor wir den Chor singen, lassen Sie uns von Horus sprechen, einem System, das uns sicher umbringt, aus Langeweile, nicht aus dem Krieg!\"\n\n- W\u00e4chter des Sprungs, traditionelles Marinehaus, 27. Jahrhundert","zh_CN":"The Horus System is best known for two things: its two jumps into the Xi\u2019An Empire and Serling, a tidally locked planet with one of the most unique human habitations in the universe. For years, Horus\u2019 connection to the Xi\u2019An Empire made it a part of the Perry Line, a string of noman\u2019s-land systems that provided a buffer between the species, a status that cut off any public access or private development to the system. Now those connections are its biggest asset, making the system an intriguing prospect for those interested in doing business with the Xi\u2019An.\n\nHorus was officially discovered in 2528 by a then-unknown navjumper named Marie Sante. Legend claims that the system was actually discovered several years earlier by the fourteen-year-old Sante after she stole a ship to flee her family in Gonn. If true, she must have spent the majority of the intervening years in the unclaimed system, alone on her ship, as extensive checks of UPE records and landing registries have failed to uncover her name anywhere during that period of time.\n\nThe UPE\u2019s first official record of Sante was her application to register the discovery of the Horus System, which she, maybe tellingly, requested be named after her ship.\n\nIncluded in her initial application were meticulous documents describing the system\u2019s three planets and two asteroid belts. Apparently, Sante had spent years alone in the system exploring before she finally decided to share her find. This resulted in Horus being the only system to have been discovered and have all of its celestial bodies charted by the same person.\n\nSante\u2019s single-minded interest in uncovering all Horus had to offer was both her greatest strength and her ultimate downfall. In 2530, only two years after Horus\u2019 registration, Humanity first encountered the Xi\u2019An, and tensions only escalated from there. Meanwhile, as public and private interests established operations in Horus, Sante stuck to its outer reaches, singularly focused on the areas she had yet to explore. In 2542, Sante discovered the jump from Horus to the Rihlah System. To this day, historians debate whether Sante understood how reporting Horus\u2019 connection to Xi\u2019An territory would drastically alter the system\u2019s future.\n\nAt that time, the jump to Rihlah made Horus a security risk for the UPE. The government closed the system to non-military personnel, receiving little resistance from the small group of civilians that had begun to settle on the fledgling planet of Serling. Only Marie Sante defied the order. She hid in the system\u2019s outer reaches and managed to remain undetected until a Navy pilot reported an unauthorized ship in his sector. A battle group was mobilized only to realize that the ship had been Sante\u2019s. With the false alarm wasting many hours and credits, the military prioritized pushing Sante out of the system.\n\nTo this day, no one is certain of what fate befell Marie Sante. The last record of her comes from a recovered info-beacon containing her journals. The final entry was dated 10.1.2545. In it she expresses her belief that Horus had more secrets to uncover, which proved true with the discovery of a jump into the Xi\u2019An controlled Kayfa System in 2617. Her final entry ended with \u201cHorus is the only home I\u2019ve ever had. I shared the world and they took it from me. Let\u2019s just say I\u2019ll never make that mistake again.\u201d With those final words, Sante was never heard from or seen again.\n\nTo this day some believe Sante spent her remaining years hiding in the system. Everyone from novices to expert explorers, and even Spectrum show hosts, have tried to piece together clues from her journals to uncover her ultimate fate. A portion of Horus\u2019, albeit small, tourism sector focuses on this mystery, with \u2018history hunters\u2019 eager to locate the remains of Sante\u2019s lost ship.\n\nMeanwhile, as the UPE was transitioning into the UEE, the military maintained control over the Horus System throughout the cold war. Assignments monitoring the system\u2019s two jumps into Xi\u2019An territory were both strategically essential and extremely dull. A lack of hospitable planetside locations meant military personnel spent their deployment in either their cockpit or a capital ship, which did not endear the system to starmen.\n\nOnce the cold war ended and the Perry Line was dissolved, the UEE decided to use the system for more than just military patrols and exercises. The public finally had another chance to put its stamp on the system. Unfortunately, inhospitable planetary conditions have kept the population down, and minimal natural resources have made heavy industry slow to develop in the system.\n\nYet, its connection to the Xi\u2019An Empire, which once doomed it to isolation, may now be Horus\u2019 strongest selling point. Businesses looking to capitalize on improved relations and increased trade pay ever-rising real estate prices on Serling to have an office only one jump away from the business-friendly Rihlah System. While the future may be bright, many within the UEE still considered Horus an afterthought, a system that has yet to exert enough political or economic force to earn recognition in the UEE Senate.\n\nHorus I (Serling)\nMaintaining the nickname Sante gave it in her original reports, this tidally locked planet contains one of Humanity\u2019s most interesting habitats. With one side of the planet perpetually facing the system\u2019s main sequence M-type star and the other shrouded in darkness, the majority of the planet is unfit for habitation. Yet Humans discovered that life was possible along the terminator line, the narrow strip dividing the light and dark side of the planet, running from pole to pole.\n\nVisiting Serling is a must for anyone interested in truly unique vistas, but living under such conditions is not for the faint of heart. Serling is plagued by constant storms, a meteorological side effect of one side of the planet receiving all of the star\u2019s heat. Photographers flock to Serling to snap a pictures of the system\u2019s red star sitting upon the horizon amidst a severe storm. This majestic and surreal image has become emblematic of the entire system.\n\nIt has taken some ingenuity to make a manageable living in a place either constantly light or constantly dark (depending on which side of the terminator line one is on). In general, workplaces are zoned closer to the light side of the planet while residences are built near the dark side. This allows people the semblance of a normal day\/ night cycle. A system of high-speed trains and transport ships constantly moves workers from one side to the other.\n\nSince businesses on the light side, technically, never close, there is work aplenty for those who want it. Yet, some residents suffer psychological strain from the lack of a natural circadian rhythm similar to what many tourists feel upon arriving on a new world. Currently, the University of Aten, Serling\u2019s most prominent educational institution, is conducting a lengthy study in an attempt to isolate the differences between people who flourish under these conditions (often those in families who have lived on the planet for generations) versus those who have trouble adjusting.\n\nAs in most places around the Empire, those with unlimited means make the most out of even these unusual conditions. The planet\u2019s most expensive real estate lies in the middle of the terminator line, which provides a breathtaking permanent sunset view when facing the star. Stunning architectural homes, apartments and high-end hotels are programmed to rotate on a \u201cdaily\u201d schedule, providing their residences with the semblance of a more normal day\/night cycle.\n\nHorus II\nA massive desert world located within the green band. Even though the planet lacks any natural bodies of water, UEE surveyors and scientists are seriously assessing the cost-benefits of a terraforming attempt. As xeno-economic relations continue to strengthen and improve, there has been considerable support from the business community to pursue settlement on this planet, simply because companies without a foothold on Serling would love to establish operations on a more traditional planet and enjoy easy access to the Xi\u2019An Empire.\n\nHorus III\nHorus III is one of the few Super Jupiters in UEE space. Its high-density atmosphere makes the planet many times more massive than most other gas giants. Separated from Horus\u2019 inner two planets by two asteroid belts, Horus III sits in a long, lonely orbit far from anything else in the system.\n\nTRAVEL WARNING\nVisitors are encouraged to track their time spent on either hemisphere of Serling, as the effects of too much or too little light have been linked with exhaustion, depression and other symptoms.\n\nHeard in the Wind\n\u201cWhile we will never know for sure what drove her there, Sante\u2019s journals make it clear that she truly loved two things in life: her ship and the system she discovered.\u201d\n\n\u2013 Kwame Jones, The Heart of Horus, 2678\n\n\u201cBefore we sing the chorus, let us speak of Horus, a system sure to kill us, from boredom, not from war!\u201d\n\n\u2013 Guardians of the Jump, traditional Navy shanty, 27th Century"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":82,"created_at":"2016-02-09T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"10 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-09 03:03:06","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":15191,"next_id":15195}}