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The Israeh system is an inhabited frontier system whose second planet is home to an indigenous, industrial-age species known as the vuallillea, inhabiting the planet Rinaah. The vuallillea are reptilian bipeds who—at the time of contact with the Federation—were beginning to experiment with wireless radio transmission and elementary mechanical computers and were generally dead-locked by large regional wars using a combination of trench warfare and mass infantry fighting. Curiously, the industrial age on Rinaah began when a vuallillea scholar developed the means to harness the planet's geothermal energy. The same principles of deriving power from turbines were eventually replicated and applied to wind, falling water, and oceanic currents. Because of this, it was only late into the age of mechanization that spread out from an isolated peninsula near the northern pole of Rinaah that internal combustion was developed as a concept, and scholars fully appreciated the energy potential of petroleum products.

The Israeh system is additionally home to an extremely rare anomaly known as a 'Geist World'—a point in space whose effects orbit another body like a planet or moon, produces gravitation, causes objects in space to fall toward a central point, but with no apparent mass that could explain the presence of gravity. The Israeh system is home to one such point of non-mass; the fourth "planet" in the system, named the 'Meun Body' by the vuallillea, was a cause for much scientific turmoil among pre-industrial vuallillea society.

Although local scholars proved an early theory of gravitation to work by observation of the orbit of the planets Okrem and Faesksua, the unprecedented orbit of the minor planet Hydrelt nearly condemned the theory, as mathematic inquiry showed an absence of any nearby gravity well affecting Hydrelt. That is until astronomers discovered several rocky bodies were inexplicably orbiting around a central location of gravitational pull that appeared to orbit around Israeh like the intangible shadow of a planet. The presence of this anomalous gravity well—dubbed the 'Meun Body,' in honor of the phenomenon's discoverer—was not rectified by contact with the Federation. The only thing clarified by contact with the Federation was that the Meun Body has all the characteristics of a giant planet with one exception; it does not physically exist under any spectrum except the gravitational. Light refuses to form it, and all solid matter passes through the volume, the only damage caused near the very certain by the effect of high-gravity compression. Vessels could perform slingshots around it, enter synchronous orbit, and even plunge into the well, only to be ejected out into heliocentric orbit by its epicentral point of contra-gravitational para-equilibrium. Its indirect effects on reality could be observed, but their actual source could not.

The Israeh system has one central space station, the Rinaah Transfer Point, or 'RTP,' a 3.5-million ton platform in synchronous orbit assembled by Starfleet following the approval of a request from representatives of the Rinaah world community. The RTP serves Rinaah as an essential border point between the world below and the rest of the universe, with only Federation/Rinaah-approved vessels—after undergoing inspection on the RTP—being granted landing to and trade on Vuallillea with locals. The station post is maintained as a quarantine to minimize the risk of societal disruption and spillover of ecological invaders. Necessarily, the RTP is armed with an arsenal of space-to-space high-energy and guided weapons systems and coordinates with a secondary weapons platform maintained in orbit beyond the opposite side of the planet, allowing the transfer authority the capacity to neutralize any unauthorized spacecraft before entering Rinaah's atmosphere.

The existence of the anomalous Meun Body has proven extremely worrying to Starfleet commanders, who fear the Meun Body may be the work of a transapient party. Lessons learned from the long-ago Kazdiuel disaster have not been ignored. Because of this, Starfleet has, in secret, wholly reorganized fleets and civilian shipping positioned in Federation systems within the vicinity of Israeh to begin an evacuation—within hours of any emergency ansible reception from the RTP or the Meun Body sentry station—of fifty to eighty percent of the planetary population, cultural artifacts, and extensive representatives of native biota in the event of the Meun Body becoming an active and imminent danger to life on Rinaah.

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I put far too much effort and work into this than was necessary—I died a little inside.

The 'Geist Planet' concept is a nod to Ad Astra Per Aspera.

Description
The Israeh system is an inhabited frontier system whose second planet is home to an indigenous, industrial-age species known as the vuallillea, inhabiting the planet Rinaah. The vuallillea are reptilian bipeds who—at the time of contact with the Federation—were beginning to experiment with wireless radio transmission and elementary mechanical computers and were generally dead-locked by large regional wars using a combination of trench warfare and mass infantry fighting. Curiously, the industrial age on Rinaah began when a vuallillea scholar developed the means to harness the planet's geothermal energy. The same principles of deriving power from turbines were eventually replicated and applied to wind, falling water, and oceanic currents. Because of this, it was only late into the age of mechanization that spread out from an isolated peninsula near the northern pole of Rinaah that internal combustion was developed as a concept, and scholars fully appreciated the energy potential of petroleum products.

The Israeh system is additionally home to an extremely rare anomaly known as a 'Geist World'—a point in space whose effects orbit another body like a planet or moon, produces gravitation, causes objects in space to fall toward a central point, but with no apparent mass that could explain the presence of gravity. The Israeh system is home to one such point of non-mass; the fourth "planet" in the system, named the 'Meun Body' by the vuallillea, was a cause for much scientific turmoil among pre-industrial vuallillea society.

Although local scholars proved an early theory of gravitation to work by observation of the orbit of the planets Okrem and Faesksua, the unprecedented orbit of the minor planet Hydrelt nearly condemned the theory, as mathematic inquiry showed an absence of any nearby gravity well affecting Hydrelt. That is until astronomers discovered several rocky bodies were inexplicably orbiting around a central location of gravitational pull that appeared to orbit around Israeh like the intangible shadow of a planet. The presence of this anomalous gravity well—dubbed the 'Meun Body,' in honor of the phenomenon's discoverer—was not rectified by contact with the Federation. The only thing clarified by contact with the Federation was that the Meun Body has all the characteristics of a giant planet with one exception; it does not physically exist under any spectrum except the gravitational. Light refuses to form it, and all solid matter passes through the volume, the only damage caused near the very certain by the effect of high-gravity compression. Vessels could perform slingshots around it, enter synchronous orbit, and even plunge into the well, only to be ejected out into heliocentric orbit by its epicentral point of contra-gravitational para-equilibrium. Its indirect effects on reality could be observed, but their actual source could not.

The Israeh system has one central space station, the Rinaah Transfer Point, or 'RTP,' a 3.5-million ton platform in synchronous orbit assembled by Starfleet following the approval of a request from representatives of the Rinaah world community. The RTP serves Rinaah as an essential border point between the world below and the rest of the universe, with only Federation/Rinaah-approved vessels—after undergoing inspection on the RTP—being granted landing to and trade on Vuallillea with locals. The station post is maintained as a quarantine to minimize the risk of societal disruption and spillover of ecological invaders. Necessarily, the RTP is armed with an arsenal of space-to-space high-energy and guided weapons systems and coordinates with a secondary weapons platform maintained in orbit beyond the opposite side of the planet, allowing the transfer authority the capacity to neutralize any unauthorized spacecraft before entering Rinaah's atmosphere.

The existence of the anomalous Meun Body has proven extremely worrying to Starfleet commanders, who fear the Meun Body may be the work of a transapient party. Lessons learned from the long-ago Kazdiuel disaster have not been ignored. Because of this, Starfleet has, in secret, wholly reorganized fleets and civilian shipping positioned in Federation systems within the vicinity of Israeh to begin an evacuation—within hours of any emergency ansible reception from the RTP or the Meun Body sentry station—of fifty to eighty percent of the planetary population, cultural artifacts, and extensive representatives of native biota in the event of the Meun Body becoming an active and imminent danger to life on Rinaah.

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I put far too much effort and work into this than was necessary—I died a little inside.

The 'Geist Planet' concept is a nod to Ad Astra Per Aspera.