Altecrast

Altecrast is the origin system of the Roanian race and the capital of their first empire. A binary star system, the habitable belt starts at Altecrast Tertius. By any reasonable (i.e, non-Roanian) standards, however, the habitable belt starts outside the system, as Altecrast's twin suns occasionally violently flare.

System Composition

The twin suns together account for roughly 90% of the system's mass, with the three rocky worlds, the asteroid belts, and the single neptune-sized gas giant making up the remainder.

Altecrast Prime

A desolate, scorched, twisted and pitted world. Solar radiation here is so powerful that life in any form simply cannot exist, though there are points, mainly inside craters, where the temperature would otherwise be conducive to settlement. There is no lasting atmosphere.

Altecrast Secundus

Altecrast Secundus is an intensely unstable world. In the distant past a very large rogue asteroid (some theorise the planet's moon) crashed into the planet and 'broke' it, causing fault lines across the planet to open up. Owing to the relatively short timespan of civilised Roanian science, it's still not established whether Altecrast Secundus is growing back, or whether it's still shattering.

It would be easily established if the Roanians were willing to land, but as yet few are willing to try.

Altecrast Tertius

Altecrast Tertius was the capital of the Empire of the Twin Lamps until particularly violent solar flares hit the planet, in conjunction with still unexplained phenomena. When Alexander I Commander sent men to conquer the planet upon rediscovery of ancient charts, nothing was found. So, it's believed, he destroyed the ancient charts and every reference to Altecrast he could find and then wrote up a new, official, version of events (namely, that he was a great explorer and found the planetary system himself). It's still unknown if Altecrast was the original name for the system, though academic theory points to it being named Rah (Home).

The true history of the system was only established 200 years ago, when extraction teams on Altecrast found the remains of the Palace of the Stars and archivists going through Alexander I Commander's personal papers on Rudan found references to what that most amoral of all Lord-Emperors termed 'the greatest con in history'. Historical circles have argued the validity of the evidence ever since, though generally the new information is accepted.