Albicosus is a large, ringed, terrestrial planet in the Caperion System. It is the fourth planet from the star, Caperion. It is a cold and harsh world with a small colony.
Astrological
Albicosus is a cold and mostly barren world. It is the fourth planet in the Caperion system, at a distance of 460 million kilometers from the star, Caperion. It has an average surface temperature of -10 celsius. It is the largest terrestrial planet with a diameter of 26,616 kilometers, and a high gravity of 2.05 x standard gravity. It orbits Caperion every 586 standard days, and has a planetary rotation time of 93 hours. It is the only ringed planet in the system. Its ring is comprised primarily of rock and ice. An atmosphere is present, but has an incredibly low oxygen level.
Albicosus has a single moon, Ulress.
Physical Geography
Surface of Albicosus
Albicosus’ surface is largely covered in sheets of ice and glaciers. Its rocky surface does periodically cut to the surface in sharply carved mountain peaks, or in the basins and crags in of the ice sheets. The rocky tectonic plates have rarely shown any movement, but the ice that covers them frequently slide across the plates, resulting in far more movement than seen on the surfaces of other planets. This can result in frequent avalanches on the planets’ sharp mountainsides.
History
Albicosus and its moon, Ulress, share a long history. Albicosus was initially settled by the families of those who began mining out the moon. As Ulress hollowed out, those families built a massive complex city within the moon itself leaving behind a perfectly usable colony on the Albicosus’ surface. Once the mining ended however, the citizens of Ulress turned the moon into a den of scum and villainy.
Able bodied and dedicated martial artists of Nayama ventured to the high gravity planet to train their bodies to be strong, and to endure in extreme environments. To make a living they hired themselves out as honorable mercenaries, primarily employed to police Ulress and maintain the peace between the rival gangs that call it home. Unwilling to subject their families to the dangers of the moon, the Nayaman mercenaries took up camp in the old colony of the planet as a permanent base of operations. Shuttles between the planet surface and Ulress go continually as goods and people are moved to and fro.