SN 1054

For approximately 2 Terran Standard years starting in 1054, the populace of the small blue world, in an orbit 93 million miles around the star called Sol, were witness to a stellar event. From the surface of their world, the inhabitants would have seen one of the pinpoints of light in their night sky grow very bright. A few of the humans noted the event. Several hundred years later the descendants of those humans developed the technology to see beyond the confines of their planet's immediate vicinity, and they discovered that the source of increased brightness of that particular pinpoint of light, that which now called stars, was a star gone supernova. Several hundred years after that, the humans of Terra had discovered the secrets of interstellar travel. As a species humans have an unparalleled curiosity. This curiosity drove them to the location of the supernova. Many years before they had named the cloud of gas left by it the Crab nebula.

What the humans discovered was what was left behind. Since it's discovery so many years ago, Terran scientists have been unable to determine what turned an entire star system with numerous planets,  into an asteroid field. The star at center, the source of stability had been crystallized. A star, an enormous ball of burning gas, crystallized. Current science cannot fathom how this was accomplished. Measurements approximate the span of the star system at 400 billion kilometers. What remains is a field of rocks spanning that distance. The humans that discovered it named it Alghumud, the mystery.

Important locales of the Alghumud asteroid field

Fortuna Refinery: Hollowed out of the Rhombus asteroid, one of the largest in the field, this is a high capacity refinery and smelting facility. Taking in raw material from the independent miners across the field, this facility produces some of the purest metals and gemstones in the TCS.

Spaceport Gloria: Located on the coreward edge of the field, the spaceport handles all commercial and private traffic for the Field. Gloria is a Class A spaceport capable of refueling and repair of any space craft manufactured with the TCS.

Crystal Core: At 1500 kilometers across, Crystal Core is the largest crystal structure in the known universe. Currently TCS PhySCI is the only department allowed to have facilities on the massive crystal. This is a purely scientific station run by the TCS authority.

Fortuna Refinery - No Hex reference - C000435-11
Spaceport Gloria - No Hex reference - A000513-13
Crystal Core - No Hex reference - ??00?9?-??


As with all things in the TCS, this is a work in progress. I'll be adding to it the farther I get into building the TCS setting.

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