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Vermillion System

 

System: Vermillion

Primary Star: Vermillion

Stellar Type: K5V ☼

Companion Star(s): None

Distance from Earth: 164 ly

Distance to Wormhole: 57.5 ly (Izaria)

Constellation: Canes Venatici

Region: Izar

Population: 8 Million

 

Summary:

The Vermillion system orbits a dim k-class star.  The primary planet is a cold world despite having a similar orbit to Mercury.

 

 

 

Vermillion B

Vermillion B is a cold world despite it having nearly the same orbit as Mercury.  The reason the planet is so cold is that the parent star is so dim, being an orange k class star.  The planet is in the grips of an ice age, ice covers most of the main continent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vermillion C

Vermillion C is a cold world made up of ice and rock.  The planet is volcanically active causing deep grooves across the surface.  There is a very thin atmosphere made up of mostly carbon dioxide.

 

 

 

 

 

Vermillion D

Vermillion D is an ice covered world without an atmosphere.  The planet glows orange in the dim light of the sun.

 

 

 

 

 

Vermillion E

Vermillion E is an outer terrestrial world orbiting far from the dim star.  Its atmosphere is made up of nitrogen giving the clouds a brownish orange hue.  Snowstorms of methane are the most common site on the surface.

 

 

 

 

 

Vermillion F

The distant gas giant of Vermillion F is a hydrogen-helium gas giant and the systems only jovian world.

 

 

 

 

 

Closest Inhabited Systems (50 ly):

 

Name

Distance (ly)

Type

Rama

23.17

G2V

Spirus

23.69

G0V

Kai

28.72

F5V

Asura

32.50

G6IV

58 Ursae Majoris

33.44

F4V

Ta Tsun

38.89

K1III

 

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