Thelos


Type: Low gravity.
Function: Homeworld and Port.
Region: Border Regions.
Trade Route: Long Path.
Sector: Yaeger Sector.
Strategic Location: Toward the center of the Imperium sphere of influence.
Temperature: 97% Standard.
Atmosphere: Thin, with high concentrations of helium, chlorine, and methane. Exposure suit recommended for non-natives, especially for exposures of longer than a few hours.
Hydrosphere: 22% of the surface of Thelos is covered with liquid ammonia, which has an average purity of 92%.
Gravity: .05% Standard.
Terrain: Relatively little erosion through normal means has taken place on Thelos, though chemical decay has caused the mountains of Thelos to weather into highly precipitous spires and remarkably steep canyons.
Mineral Resources: Large supplies of crystalline malin, uranium, platinum, duridium, and iron.
Length of Day: 82 standard hours.
Length of Year: 101 local days.
Sapient Species: The Sharnoth are the only native sentient species.
Capital City: Sharamat is the historic capital of the Sharnoth, though that city has been radiated over the last hundred years by factional warfare, and is still not safe for habitation. The current capital is Ashimar, though Sharnoth walkers are currently at work decontaminating Sharamat.
Other Cities: The other major cities of Thelos are Hashit, Moroth, and Horadin.
Starport: Thelos is home to four separate galaxy class ports, none of which are near the Sharnoth cities.
Population (within +/- 1%): 346,812,919 Sharnoth
Government: The planet is ruled by the Sharnoth military dictatorship, which has remained in control of the world and the Sharnoth despite it's occasional factional conflict, which had the effect of irradiating the capital and several other cities over the last hundred years.
Tech Level: High Space. Thelos has all the benefits of advanced Sharnoth technology, and is the site of the largest Sharnoth research facilities.
Major Exports: Sharnoth technology, manufactured goods.
Major Imports: Raw materials, foodstuffs.
System: Imithite
Star: Imith (single red dwarf)
Name Planet Type Moons
IlimbraiWater world1
UsharothTerrestrial2
OlsharGas Giant12
ThelosLow gravity world0

System Capsule:

Ilimbrai: This world of steaming oceans is inhabited by a few depth dwelling cetaceans of some limited intelligence.
Usharoth: Inhabited by humans, Usharoth was the first military target of the Sharnoth, and is now under their military control. The Imperium has considered taking control of Usharoth, and probably will when it no longer needs the Sharnoth.
Olshar: This large and hot world exerts considerable influence on the orbit of Thelos.
Thelos: See above.

Planetary Capsule:

Flora and fauna: Thelos's light gravity has led to it's population by creatures which would seem to be something out of a spice dream. Mile long gossamer bubbles, termed sky whales, feast on passing airflowers. Giant ameboids roam the plains, chasing the huge insectile herdbeasts, and the fruiting silimar tower thousands of meters in the air.

Sentient Species: The Sharnoth are the only sapient natives of Thelos. These light spiderlike creatures have taking to wearing mechanical walkers when off their homeworld, and this habit has spread back to the homeworld among some. However, the military dictatorship has expressed it's disapproval of this habit, so most go through the month long process of removing themselves from their suits when visiting Thelos.

History: After the Sharnoth reached sapience, the early history of Thelos was one of internal conflict between dynastic monarchs, who soon found themselves superseded by military leaders. Eventually one military leader succeed in unifying the Sharnoth, and they began expansion into space. Before they could discover worlds capable of sustaining the then unprotected Sharnoth, they were overwhelmed by the Yrotha, who amused themselves by puncturing the sky whales and squashing the helpless Sharnoth.

The Yrotha left Thelos when a Yaeger advance threatened to cut Thelos off from the rest of the Yrotha empire. The Sharnoth military quickly regained control of the populace, and began work on the high gravity walkers now standard among the Sharnoth. After achieving workability, and after upgrading their spacefleet to match the Yrotha's capabilities (most of which capabilities were developed from abandoned Yrotha craft), the Sharnoth set off into space to fight the Yrotha, only to discover that the Yaeger had already destroyed them. Afraid that the Yaeger's power would soon leave them as vulnerable as they were to the Yrotha, the Sharnoth began conquering neighboring systems, and building up a base of slave labor capable of handling the industrial explosion that the Sharnoth thought that they needed.

Thelos was built up during this period, and it's unique wildlife was soon relegated to parks and zoos, while the bulk of the planet was turned over to military and industrial development. When the Yaeger made no move against the Sharnoth the pace of development slowed and then stopped, as industries relocated to other worlds.

When the Skathelon began their expansion, the Sharnoth allied themselves with that race, and the products of conquest began to flow into Thelos. Unlike Skathos, which expanded beyond its capacities, living off these plundered goods, the military dictatorship invested it's share into the economy, allowing the Sharnoth to develop their military technology to a frighteningly high degree. It was around this time that the Sharnoth's personal walkers reached the degree of sophistication that they currently display, with full neural linkage between the Sharnoth and their walker. With the defeat of the Skathelon, the Sharnoth lost many of the worlds that they had won in the Yrotha protectorate, but were able to retain some of those by virtue of the fact that as natives of the Yrotha protectorate they had certain rights in Yaeger law, a fact that the Sharnoth saw as another sign of weakness in the Yaeger.

When the Empire expanded into the sector, the Sharnoth saw that massive military machine as the ultimate in strength through technology, and enthusiastically joined an alliance with them. As a willing ally of the Empire, Thelos was not put under immediate Imperial governance, and as long as the Imperium needs the Sharnoth, it will not be. However, many of the other Sharnoth worlds have been co-opted by the Empire, and taxes have prevented the influx of capital that Thelos has always experienced, and the economy is being reworked to deal with these problems.
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