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Latest revision as of 09:42, 14 October 2023
History
Geroha is a former gas giant stripped of her atmosphere during the violent incursion by Ante and her children during the Obscuration. Brotherhood astronomers hypothesize that the world impacted an Antei system planet or other body resulting in the creation of much of the asteroidal debris in the system today. The smaller Antei planetoid was utterly destroyed in the collision and it is unknown what, if any, life was lost there.
Once brilliantly draped in swirling hues of methane and oxygen, the planet is now charcoal in color and solid methane ice with trace nitrogen deposits. Of all Brotherhood-held worlds, Geroha is perhaps the least valuable economically and strategically. It possesses neither natural resources nor strategic importance.
Of only marginal scientific interest, Geroha does possess five small moons: Vek, Nar, Sket, Tral, and Lon. These satellites are sometimes referred to as “Geroha’s Daughters”. Like their father, they are known to possess no appreciable resources or value of any kind. They are the largest of the remaining fragments from the collision and are believed to comprise elements of both Geroha and the unnamed Antei system world destroyed on impact.
Landmarks
The Blight
This feature of Geroha is found in the southern hemisphere. It is an eighty kilometer-wide depression on the planet’s surface indicative of the impact with the Anteian body Geroha impacted when the two systems merged. It stands out as a slightly darker ragged patch against the already pitch-colored surface.
Krath astronomers have sought funding for an expedition to this feature of the planet to increase their understanding of the Obscuration and complement the data already gleaned from remote surveys of the planet.
Moons
Vek
Vek is among the smallest of the rocky bodies. Its orbit is closest of the Daughters at some 150,000 km. Comprised of nickel-iron it is believed to be a fragment from the obliterated Antei system world.
Nar
Second in orbit from the planet, Nar is the largest body at twenty-two kilometers in diameter. It is another nickel-iron rock most likely from the aforementioned Antei planet. This moon has piqued the interest of certain Krath scholars of late as to its importance as evidence in a theory suggesting a previously unrecorded temple used by Tiamat to practice the rituals used in the catastrophic Obscuration.
It is the Krath Order’s hope that some further information can be recovered from the remnants of this planetoid as whispers amongst their Order suggest the possibility of a revelation capable of astonishing the entire Brotherhood.
Sket
Sket holds an elliptical orbit third from the planet. It is second-largest among the satellites and just under twenty kilometers in diameter and is a nickel-iron slug in the vein of her sisters, Vek and Nar.
Tral
Tral is an ice-cored chunk of frozen gasses. This particular fragment is believed to be atmosphere from Geroha ejected during the collision. Its circular orbit is fourth from its parent and has drawn some minor interest from Krath scientists seeking data regarding the Obscuration as it represents a geological time capsule.
Lon
Lon is another small chunk of nickel-iron a mere two kilometers in diameter. Fifth from the planet, it is of little interest.
Political Outlook
Geroha has only recently come into any measure of political concern. This attention centers on the supposition that with the destruction of the unnamed sixth planet of Antei during the Obscuration, there may in fact be dire information regarding the founding of the Brotherhood among other revelations.
The likelihood of this information being retrieved from the thousands year old debris orbiting Geroha is slight at best, but there are those who think it possible.