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 Galactic Guide: Oberon System
FOOLS RUSH IN
From its very first days, Oberon has always been a system that beckoned those seeking wealth and fortune, only to time and again leave them destitute. As the Tarsus quantum drive mod became more readily available at the turn of the 23rd century, new exploration companies were formed, eager to reap the benefits from discovering a system. The “Golden Age of Expansion” was officially underway with hundreds of ships scouring known space, hoping to push the boundaries of Humanity even farther. While the media liked to create the romantic image of the explorer’s life, for every success story like NavJumper Antoine Lebec, there were dozens more who lost everything, including their lives, hunting for new jump points. The ship that discovered the first jump point to Oberon was one such tragedy despite their success in locating a new system.

The crew of the Lindy had been exploring the outreaches of Nul since 2348 and their reserve of funds had nearly run dry, when in 2356 their scanners picked up a faint anomaly that would reveal itself to be a jump point. They successfully traversed through interspace and found on the other side a new system anchored by a neutron star. Small and dense, it turned out to have twice the mass of most G-type main sequence stars despite having a solar radius that is just a fraction of the size. Formerly a binary star system, approximately 1.4 billion years ago the main star went supernova, gravitationally collapsing and stripping the outer layers of its companion. What was left orbiting in the wake of that chaotic event was the core of the former partner brown dwarf star, now known as Oberon I, and six other planets that had formed out of the debris of whatever planets had originally been in the system before. The Lindy crew, excited that their payday had finally arrived, completed their initial scans and charted their return trip to Nul.

Unfortunately, while traversing a new jump tunnel was, and still is, dangerous work, the return trip could be equally lethal due to the limited capacity of navigation computer systems of the time. Though the Lindy eventually emerged back in Nul, the ship’s hull had been horribly damaged en route and sadly the crew had all expired. A salvage vessel found the wreck days later and since no governing body controlled Nul space, the vessel exerted salvaging rights to claim the valuable navdata it found in the shattered ship as its own.

In the decades before the UNE was formed, regulations regarding the discovery of new systems were very much still in their nascent days. When the data were quickly sold at auction, the owner of the salvage operations, Stacia Rholtz, made an unprecedented amount of money for the coordinates of the jump thanks to a bidding war fueled by the recent hype surrounding the effort to terraform Croshaw. It appeared that Humans living outside of Sol were to be the future of the species and businesses were willing to pay heavily to get in on the ground floor. The winning bid for the coordinates was placed by Titania Terraforming and plans immediately began for settlement of the system.

Since so much of their budget had been spent on the acquisition of the system itself, Titania had decided upon a unique way to cut costs on their efforts to terraform Oberon II, by leveraging future profits against their present expenditures. Workers who signed on to the project would be sold plots of land at heavily reduced prices instead of receiving payment. The promise was that once the terraforming of the world was complete they would be able to settle on the surface with their families. The name of the system, Oberon, was part of the branding used in the marketing campaign to sell labor shares, “The world of your dreams is yours for the making.” People signed up by the thousands, selling all their possessions and cashing in their savings, hungry for a chance to leave Sol behind and find a fresh start. It was an interesting business strategy that might have worked if it were not for the fact that Oberon II was far from an ideal terraforming candidate.

With so little light and warmth being provided by the neutron star, one of the first steps in the process was going to have to be raising the planet’s core temperature a significant amount. This was a feat that had never before been attempted and one that proved beyond Titania’s abilities. After years of toiling, the core manipulations refused to take. The project was declared a failure and Titania dissolved as a corporation overnight. The workers were abandoned on a frozen planet that was only half terraformed with no means to leave. Using the gear abandoned by Titania, the settler’s managed to eke out a meager existence in the planet’s neverending winter, but their dreams of better days would remain unfulfilled.

Though the system has some wealth in the form of raw minerals and gases, it has never been enough to warrant any further economic investment throughout the centuries. In the late 2600s the UEE briefly looked into acquiring the system, but passed on the opportunity to make Oberon part of the Empire. Ever since, it has remained unclaimed, with only the descendants of those initial settlers, misguided fortune seekers, and various outcasts and
outlaws calling the system home. Ironically, after suffering so much misfortune throughout its history, it has been the system’s latest tragedy earlier this year that has allowed the people of Oberon to once again begin to foster hope.

Though the populace suffered heavy losses when a Vanduul clan recently raided the settlements on Uriel, Admiral Bishop and the UEES Retribution arrived in time
to hold off a second attack and establish a new order in the generally lawless system. For the first time in its history, Oberon now hosts a contingent of Navy capital ships.
Though the Retribution has moved on, a large fighting force remains in the system charged with protecting it from further Vanduul incursions. The fleet’s presence has already begun to have an effect, as outlaw activity has dropped and relief aid has begun to arrive. Though some herald this as a possible second chance for the system, there are plenty who predict that the Navy will pull out soon. If they do, Oberon may never recover.

TRAVEL WARNING
Before visiting Uriel, confirm it is not a year the chestnut beetles are active. Ships sitting on the planet surface will be at risk for severe damage by the insatiable insects.

OBERON I (GONN)
According to legend, the planet received its name from one of the original settlers who had staked a mining claim — a former Cathcart hauler, who used to chase away rival ships by yelling “Chinewa bedda get Gonn!” A super-Earth carbon planet, Oberon I is the remnants of the system’s former binary star. Rich in untapped resources, very few miners are up to the challenge that the extreme environmental and economic conditions pose. The minimal upkeep that the few automated refineries dotting the surface require is too steep a price for most. Even the hardy and rugged mining community that lives here struggles to turn a profit. Many who do find the courage to try their hand come seeking the vast wealth of diamonds that is rumored to exist in the planet’s dense carbon core, despite that the fact that so far only a few sparse diamond veins have ever been found.

OBERON II (URIEL)
The settlers who were stranded after the terraforming failure were forced underground by the harsh surface conditions. The temperature being slightly warmer near the core, the families spent decades carving out a meager existence in dark and densely packed caves. The struggle for resources lead to significant in-fighting during those first years and resulted in a society built on strong family ties with dividing lines clearly drawn based on which warren you lived in. One of these warren families, known as the Echo, attributed their strength of faith to their group’s survival. The planet’s name is said to come from their often repeated saying that, “in the darkness of the tunnels, God is my light.”

As difficult as life on Uriel has been, it got significantly worse in the 27th century when one of the warrens introduced the chestnut beetle to the world as a farmable food source. It worked well at first, with their seventy year dormant, six months active cycle, and their ability to eat almost anything making them easy to care for. However, that did not last when the inhabitants realized that the insects had found a way to survive on the surface and were spreading to other warrens. What started as a welcome addition to the locals’ diet quickly turned into a serious pest, with the beetle population growing into the millions. Now like clockwork, the beetles emerge every seventy years and sweep across the planet, devouring anything they can. Most of the warrens have developed methods to help seal up the tunnels during chestnut season, but the invasive species has seriously hampered any attempts to settle the surface. In recent years several above-ground communities have sprung up, but with the chestnut threat looming they have kept relatively small. Some consider this fortunate, as the casualties from the recent Vanduul attack might have been much worse if it wasn’t for the chestnut beetle keeping the population below ground.

OBERON III & IV
These small rocky protoplanets drift well outside of the scant green band that the limited light of the neutron star provides the system.

OBERON V
What little resources there ever were on this atmosphereless mesoplanet have largely been stripped away, leaving it a barren rock that few deem worthy of a visit.

OBERON VI
Even with its rocky core, this gas dwarf does not have much in the way of harvestable commodities.

OBERON VII
Considered to be one of the few calming sights in the whole of Oberon, this Class IV gas giant composed of carbon monoxide has a high presence of alkali metal, giving it a pleasing subdued color.

HEARD IN THE WIND
“The most valuable thing someone can ship in the Oberon system is Urielians. Away from it.”
– Urelian Saying

“In the face of such a threat, we cannot afford to draw distinctions between those who are within the Empire and those who are not. There is only us against them. Humanity versus Vanduul.”
– Admiral Bishop, Comm to Imperator Costigan, 2946

 Galaktischer Leitfaden: Oberon System
DUMMKÖPFE KOMMEN HEREIN.
Oberon war von Anfang an ein System, das diejenigen, die Reichtum und Glück suchten, lockte, nur um sie immer wieder mittellos zu machen. Als der Tarsus-Quantenantriebsmod um die Jahrhundertwende leichter verfügbar wurde, entstanden neue Explorationsfirmen, die die Vorteile der Entdeckung eines Systems nutzen wollten. Das "Goldene Zeitalter der Expansion" begann offiziell mit Hunderten von Schiffen, die den bekannten Raum durchkämmen und hofften, die Grenzen der Menschheit noch weiter zu verschieben. Während die Medien gerne das romantische Bild des Lebens des Entdeckers schufen, gab es für jede Erfolgsgeschichte wie NavJumper Antoine Lebec Dutzende mehr, die alles verloren, auch ihr Leben, auf der Jagd nach neuen Sprungbrettern. Das Schiff, das den ersten Sprungpunkt nach Oberon entdeckte, war eine solche Tragödie, obwohl es gelang, ein neues System zu finden.

Die Besatzung der Lindy hatte die Einsätze von Nul seit 2348 erkundet und ihre Geldreserven waren fast ausgetrocknet, als ihre Scanner im Jahr 2356 eine schwache Anomalie aufnahmen, die sich als Sprungbrett erweisen würde. Sie durchquerten erfolgreich den Zwischenraum und fanden auf der anderen Seite ein neues System, das von einem Neutronenstern verankert war. Klein und dicht, stellte sich heraus, dass sie die doppelte Masse der meisten G-Hauptreihensterne aufweist, obwohl sie einen Sonnenradius hat, der nur einen Bruchteil der Größe beträgt. Früher ein Doppelsternsystem, vor etwa 1,4 Milliarden Jahren ging der Hauptstern in die Supernova, brach gravitativ zusammen und entfernte die äußeren Schichten seines Begleiters. Was nach diesem chaotischen Ereignis im Orbit blieb, war der Kern des ehemaligen Partner-Weißzwergsterns, heute Oberon I genannt, und sechs weiterer Planeten, die sich aus den Trümmern der Planeten gebildet hatten, die ursprünglich im System gewesen waren. Die Lindy-Crew, die sich darüber freute, dass ihr Zahltag endlich gekommen war, beendete ihre ersten Scans und kartierte ihre Rückreise nach Nul.

Leider war und ist die Durchquerung eines neuen Sprungtunnels eine gefährliche Arbeit, aber die Rückfahrt könnte aufgrund der begrenzten Kapazität der damaligen Navigationssysteme ebenso tödlich sein. Obwohl die Lindy schließlich wieder in Nul auftauchte, war der Schiffsrumpf während der Fahrt schrecklich beschädigt worden und leider war die Crew alle abgelaufen. Ein Bergungsschiff fand das Wrack Tage später und da kein Regierungsorgan den Nul-Raum kontrollierte, übte das Schiff Bergungsrechte aus, um die wertvollen Navdata, die es im zerbrochenen Schiff fand, als seine eigenen zu beanspruchen.

In den Jahrzehnten vor der Gründung der UNE befanden sich die Vorschriften für die Entdeckung neuer Systeme noch in den Kinderschuhen. Als die Daten schnell auf einer Auktion verkauft wurden, verdiente die Besitzerin der Bergungsarbeiten, Stacia Rholtz, dank eines Bieterkrieges, der durch den jüngsten Hype um die Bemühungen, Croshaw zu terraformen, angeheizt wurde, einen beispiellosen Betrag für die Koordinaten des Sprungs. Es schien, dass die Menschen, die außerhalb von Sol leben, die Zukunft der Art sein sollten, und die Unternehmen waren bereit, viel Geld zu zahlen, um im Erdgeschoss einzusteigen. Der Zuschlag für die Koordinaten wurde von Titania Terraforming erteilt und die Pläne für die Abrechnung des Systems begannen sofort.

Da so viel von ihrem Budget für den Erwerb des Systems selbst ausgegeben worden war, hatte sich Titania für eine einzigartige Möglichkeit entschieden, die Kosten für ihre Bemühungen um die Terraform von Oberon II zu senken, indem sie zukünftige Gewinne gegen ihre derzeitigen Ausgaben einsetzte. Die Arbeiter, die das Projekt unterzeichnet haben, würden Grundstücke zu stark reduzierten Preisen verkauft, anstatt eine Zahlung zu erhalten. Das Versprechen war, dass sie sich nach Abschluss der Terraform der Welt mit ihren Familien an der Oberfläche niederlassen können. Der Name des Systems, Oberon, war Teil des Brandings, das in der Marketingkampagne zum Verkauf von Arbeitsanteilen verwendet wurde: "Die Welt deiner Träume gehört dir". Die Menschen unterschrieben zu Tausenden, verkauften all ihren Besitz und kassierten ihre Ersparnisse, hungrig nach einer Chance, Sol zurückzulassen und einen Neuanfang zu finden. Es war eine interessante Geschäftsstrategie, die hätte funktionieren können, wenn es nicht daran gelegen hätte, dass Oberon II bei weitem kein idealer Terraforming-Kandidat war.

Da der Neutronenstern so wenig Licht und Wärme liefert, musste einer der ersten Schritte im Prozess darin bestehen, die Kerntemperatur des Planeten um einiges anzuheben. Dies war eine Leistung, die noch nie zuvor versucht worden war und die über die Fähigkeiten von Titania hinausging. Nach Jahren der Schufterei weigerten sich die Kernmanipulationen. Das Projekt wurde für gescheitert erklärt und Titania löste sich über Nacht als Aktiengesellschaft auf. Die Arbeiter wurden auf einem gefrorenen Planeten ausgesetzt, der nur halb terrassenförmig und ohne Mittel zum Verlassen war. Mit der von Titania verlassenen Ausrüstung gelang es den Siedlern, im endlosen Winter des Planeten eine karge Existenz aufzubauen, aber ihre Träume von besseren Tagen blieben unerfüllt.

Obwohl das System über einen gewissen Reichtum in Form von Rohmineralien und Gasen verfügt, war es nie ausreichend, um weitere wirtschaftliche Investitionen im Laufe der Jahrhunderte zu rechtfertigen. In den späten 2600er Jahren überlegte die UEE kurz, das System zu erwerben, gab aber die Gelegenheit weiter, Oberon zum Teil des Reiches zu machen. Seitdem ist es nicht mehr beansprucht worden, nur die Nachkommen dieser ersten Siedler, irregeführte Vermögenssucher und verschiedene Ausgestoßene und
Gesetzlose, die das System zu Hause anrufen. Ironischerweise war es nach so viel Unglück in seiner Geschichte die jüngste Tragödie des Systems Anfang dieses Jahres, die es dem Volk von Oberon ermöglicht hat, wieder einmal Hoffnung zu wecken.

Obwohl die Bevölkerung schwere Verluste erlitt, als ein Vanduul-Klan kürzlich die Siedlungen auf Uriel überfiel, kamen Admiral Bishop und die UEES-Vergeltung rechtzeitig an.
um einen zweiten Angriff abzuwehren und eine neue Ordnung im allgemein gesetzlosen System zu schaffen. Zum ersten Mal in seiner Geschichte beherbergt Oberon nun ein Kontingent von Großschiffen der Marine.
Obwohl die Vergeltung weitergeht, bleibt eine große Kampftruppe im System, die sie vor weiteren Übergriffen der Vandule schützen soll. Die Präsenz der Flotte hat bereits erste Auswirkungen gezeigt, da die Aktivitäten der Gesetzlosen zurückgegangen sind und die Hilfsmaßnahmen bereits angelaufen sind. Obwohl einige dies als eine mögliche zweite Chance für das System ankündigen, gibt es viele, die voraussagen, dass die Marine bald aussteigen wird. Wenn sie es tun, wird sich Oberon vielleicht nie erholen.

REISEWARNUNG
Bevor Sie Uriel besuchen, bestätigen Sie, dass es kein Jahr ist, in dem die Kastanienkäfer aktiv sind. Schiffe, die auf der Planetenoberfläche sitzen, sind von den unersättlichen Insekten schwer beschädigt.

OBERON I (GONN)
Der Legende nach erhielt der Planet seinen Namen von einem der ursprünglichen Siedler, der einen Minenanspruch geltend gemacht hatte - einem ehemaligen Cathcart-Schlepper, der rivalisierende Schiffe verjagte, indem er "Chinewa bedda get Gonn!" schrie. Oberon I, ein Super-Erde-Kohlenstoffplanet, ist der Überrest des ehemaligen Doppelsterns des Systems. Nur sehr wenige Bergleute, die reich an ungenutzten Ressourcen sind, stellen sich der Herausforderung, die die extremen Umwelt- und Wirtschaftsbedingungen mit sich bringen. Der minimale Unterhalt, den die wenigen automatisierten Raffinerien, die sich auf der Oberfläche befinden, benötigen, ist für die meisten ein zu hoher Preis. Selbst die zähe und zerklüftete Minengemeinde, die hier lebt, kämpft darum, Gewinne zu erzielen. Viele, die den Mut haben, ihre Hand zu versuchen, kommen auf der Suche nach dem riesigen Reichtum an Diamanten, der angeblich im dichten Kohlenstoffkern des Planeten existiert, obwohl bisher nur wenige spärliche Diamantadern gefunden wurden.

OBERON II (URIEL)
Die Siedler, die nach dem Terraformingversagen gestrandet waren, wurden durch die rauen Bodenverhältnisse unter Tage gezwungen. Da die Temperaturen in der Nähe des Kerns etwas wärmer waren, verbrachten die Familien Jahrzehnte damit, ein karges Leben in dunklen und dicht gepackten Höhlen zu führen. Der Kampf um Ressourcen führte zu erheblichen Kämpfen in den ersten Jahren und führte zu einer Gesellschaft, die auf starken Familienbindungen mit Trennlinien aufbaute, die eindeutig darauf beruhen, in welchem Krieg du lebst. Eine dieser Warrenfamilien, bekannt als das Echo, schrieb ihre Glaubensstärke dem Überleben ihrer Gruppe zu. Der Name des Planeten soll von ihrem oft wiederholten Ausspruch herrühren, dass "in der Dunkelheit der Tunnel Gott mein Licht ist".

So schwierig das Leben auf Uriel auch war, es wurde noch schlimmer im 27. Jahrhundert, als einer der Krieger den Kastanienkäfer als landwirtschaftliche Nahrungsquelle in die Welt brachte. Es funktionierte anfangs gut, mit ihrem siebzigjährigen Ruhezustand, ihrem sechsmonatigen Aktivzyklus und ihrer Fähigkeit, fast alles zu essen, was sie pflegeleicht macht. Das dauerte jedoch nicht lange, als die Bewohner erkannten, dass die Insekten einen Weg gefunden hatten, um an der Oberfläche zu überleben und sich auf andere Stämme auszubreiten. Was als willkommene Ergänzung zur Ernährung der Einheimischen begann, entwickelte sich schnell zu einem ernsthaften Schädling, wobei die Käferpopulation in die Millionen wuchs. Wie ein Uhrwerk tauchen die Käfer nun alle siebzig Jahre auf und fegen über den Planeten und verschlingen alles, was sie können. Die meisten Warrens haben Methoden entwickelt, um die Tunnel während der Kastanienzeit abzudichten, aber die invasive Art hat alle Versuche, die Oberfläche zu besiedeln, ernsthaft behindert. In den letzten Jahren sind mehrere oberirdische Gemeinschaften entstanden, die sich aber mit der drohenden Bedrohung durch die Kastanie relativ klein gehalten haben. Einige halten dies für ein Glück, da die Verluste durch den jüngsten Vanduul-Angriff viel schlimmer gewesen sein könnten, wenn nicht der Kastanienkäfer die Bevölkerung unter der Erde gehalten hätte.

OBERON III & IV
Diese kleinen felsigen Protoplaneten driften weit außerhalb des knappen grünen Bandes, das das begrenzte Licht des Neutronensterns dem System liefert.

OBERON V
Die wenigen Ressourcen, die es auf diesem stimmungslosen Mesoplaneten je gab, wurden weitgehend abgebaut, so dass er ein karger Felsen ist, den nur wenige für einen Besuch wert halten.

OBERON VI
Trotz seines felsigen Kerns hat dieser Gaszwerg nicht viel an erntbaren Gütern.

OBERON VII.
Der aus Kohlenmonoxid bestehende Gasriese der Klasse IV, der als einer der wenigen beruhigenden Anblicke in ganz Oberon gilt, weist einen hohen Alkaligehalt auf und verleiht ihm eine angenehme, dezente Farbe.

IM WIND GEHÖRT
"Das Wertvollste, was jemand im Oberon-System versenden kann, sind Urielianer. Weg von ihr."
- Urelianisches Sprichwort

"Angesichts einer solchen Bedrohung können wir es uns nicht leisten, zwischen denen zu unterscheiden, die im Reich sind, und denen, die es nicht sind. Es gibt nur uns gegen sie. Menschlichkeit gegen Vanduul."
- Admiral Bishop, Comm zu Imperator Costigan, 2946

 Galactic Guide: Oberon System
FOOLS RUSH IN
From its very first days, Oberon has always been a system that beckoned those seeking wealth and fortune, only to time and again leave them destitute. As the Tarsus quantum drive mod became more readily available at the turn of the 23rd century, new exploration companies were formed, eager to reap the benefits from discovering a system. The “Golden Age of Expansion” was officially underway with hundreds of ships scouring known space, hoping to push the boundaries of Humanity even farther. While the media liked to create the romantic image of the explorer’s life, for every success story like NavJumper Antoine Lebec, there were dozens more who lost everything, including their lives, hunting for new jump points. The ship that discovered the first jump point to Oberon was one such tragedy despite their success in locating a new system.

The crew of the Lindy had been exploring the outreaches of Nul since 2348 and their reserve of funds had nearly run dry, when in 2356 their scanners picked up a faint anomaly that would reveal itself to be a jump point. They successfully traversed through interspace and found on the other side a new system anchored by a neutron star. Small and dense, it turned out to have twice the mass of most G-type main sequence stars despite having a solar radius that is just a fraction of the size. Formerly a binary star system, approximately 1.4 billion years ago the main star went supernova, gravitationally collapsing and stripping the outer layers of its companion. What was left orbiting in the wake of that chaotic event was the core of the former partner brown dwarf star, now known as Oberon I, and six other planets that had formed out of the debris of whatever planets had originally been in the system before. The Lindy crew, excited that their payday had finally arrived, completed their initial scans and charted their return trip to Nul.

Unfortunately, while traversing a new jump tunnel was, and still is, dangerous work, the return trip could be equally lethal due to the limited capacity of navigation computer systems of the time. Though the Lindy eventually emerged back in Nul, the ship’s hull had been horribly damaged en route and sadly the crew had all expired. A salvage vessel found the wreck days later and since no governing body controlled Nul space, the vessel exerted salvaging rights to claim the valuable navdata it found in the shattered ship as its own.

In the decades before the UNE was formed, regulations regarding the discovery of new systems were very much still in their nascent days. When the data were quickly sold at auction, the owner of the salvage operations, Stacia Rholtz, made an unprecedented amount of money for the coordinates of the jump thanks to a bidding war fueled by the recent hype surrounding the effort to terraform Croshaw. It appeared that Humans living outside of Sol were to be the future of the species and businesses were willing to pay heavily to get in on the ground floor. The winning bid for the coordinates was placed by Titania Terraforming and plans immediately began for settlement of the system.

Since so much of their budget had been spent on the acquisition of the system itself, Titania had decided upon a unique way to cut costs on their efforts to terraform Oberon II, by leveraging future profits against their present expenditures. Workers who signed on to the project would be sold plots of land at heavily reduced prices instead of receiving payment. The promise was that once the terraforming of the world was complete they would be able to settle on the surface with their families. The name of the system, Oberon, was part of the branding used in the marketing campaign to sell labor shares, “The world of your dreams is yours for the making.” People signed up by the thousands, selling all their possessions and cashing in their savings, hungry for a chance to leave Sol behind and find a fresh start. It was an interesting business strategy that might have worked if it were not for the fact that Oberon II was far from an ideal terraforming candidate.

With so little light and warmth being provided by the neutron star, one of the first steps in the process was going to have to be raising the planet’s core temperature a significant amount. This was a feat that had never before been attempted and one that proved beyond Titania’s abilities. After years of toiling, the core manipulations refused to take. The project was declared a failure and Titania dissolved as a corporation overnight. The workers were abandoned on a frozen planet that was only half terraformed with no means to leave. Using the gear abandoned by Titania, the settler’s managed to eke out a meager existence in the planet’s neverending winter, but their dreams of better days would remain unfulfilled.

Though the system has some wealth in the form of raw minerals and gases, it has never been enough to warrant any further economic investment throughout the centuries. In the late 2600s the UEE briefly looked into acquiring the system, but passed on the opportunity to make Oberon part of the Empire. Ever since, it has remained unclaimed, with only the descendants of those initial settlers, misguided fortune seekers, and various outcasts and
outlaws calling the system home. Ironically, after suffering so much misfortune throughout its history, it has been the system’s latest tragedy earlier this year that has allowed the people of Oberon to once again begin to foster hope.

Though the populace suffered heavy losses when a Vanduul clan recently raided the settlements on Uriel, Admiral Bishop and the UEES Retribution arrived in time
to hold off a second attack and establish a new order in the generally lawless system. For the first time in its history, Oberon now hosts a contingent of Navy capital ships.
Though the Retribution has moved on, a large fighting force remains in the system charged with protecting it from further Vanduul incursions. The fleet’s presence has already begun to have an effect, as outlaw activity has dropped and relief aid has begun to arrive. Though some herald this as a possible second chance for the system, there are plenty who predict that the Navy will pull out soon. If they do, Oberon may never recover.

TRAVEL WARNING
Before visiting Uriel, confirm it is not a year the chestnut beetles are active. Ships sitting on the planet surface will be at risk for severe damage by the insatiable insects.

OBERON I (GONN)
According to legend, the planet received its name from one of the original settlers who had staked a mining claim — a former Cathcart hauler, who used to chase away rival ships by yelling “Chinewa bedda get Gonn!” A super-Earth carbon planet, Oberon I is the remnants of the system’s former binary star. Rich in untapped resources, very few miners are up to the challenge that the extreme environmental and economic conditions pose. The minimal upkeep that the few automated refineries dotting the surface require is too steep a price for most. Even the hardy and rugged mining community that lives here struggles to turn a profit. Many who do find the courage to try their hand come seeking the vast wealth of diamonds that is rumored to exist in the planet’s dense carbon core, despite that the fact that so far only a few sparse diamond veins have ever been found.

OBERON II (URIEL)
The settlers who were stranded after the terraforming failure were forced underground by the harsh surface conditions. The temperature being slightly warmer near the core, the families spent decades carving out a meager existence in dark and densely packed caves. The struggle for resources lead to significant in-fighting during those first years and resulted in a society built on strong family ties with dividing lines clearly drawn based on which warren you lived in. One of these warren families, known as the Echo, attributed their strength of faith to their group’s survival. The planet’s name is said to come from their often repeated saying that, “in the darkness of the tunnels, God is my light.”

As difficult as life on Uriel has been, it got significantly worse in the 27th century when one of the warrens introduced the chestnut beetle to the world as a farmable food source. It worked well at first, with their seventy year dormant, six months active cycle, and their ability to eat almost anything making them easy to care for. However, that did not last when the inhabitants realized that the insects had found a way to survive on the surface and were spreading to other warrens. What started as a welcome addition to the locals’ diet quickly turned into a serious pest, with the beetle population growing into the millions. Now like clockwork, the beetles emerge every seventy years and sweep across the planet, devouring anything they can. Most of the warrens have developed methods to help seal up the tunnels during chestnut season, but the invasive species has seriously hampered any attempts to settle the surface. In recent years several above-ground communities have sprung up, but with the chestnut threat looming they have kept relatively small. Some consider this fortunate, as the casualties from the recent Vanduul attack might have been much worse if it wasn’t for the chestnut beetle keeping the population below ground.

OBERON III & IV
These small rocky protoplanets drift well outside of the scant green band that the limited light of the neutron star provides the system.

OBERON V
What little resources there ever were on this atmosphereless mesoplanet have largely been stripped away, leaving it a barren rock that few deem worthy of a visit.

OBERON VI
Even with its rocky core, this gas dwarf does not have much in the way of harvestable commodities.

OBERON VII
Considered to be one of the few calming sights in the whole of Oberon, this Class IV gas giant composed of carbon monoxide has a high presence of alkali metal, giving it a pleasing subdued color.

HEARD IN THE WIND
“The most valuable thing someone can ship in the Oberon system is Urielians. Away from it.”
– Urelian Saying

“In the face of such a threat, we cannot afford to draw distinctions between those who are within the Empire and those who are not. There is only us against them. Humanity versus Vanduul.”
– Admiral Bishop, Comm to Imperator Costigan, 2946

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