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New project! Building on this concept which you all seemed to like.

Long ago, when mankind first took to the stars, they found a system that was shielded from the rest of the galaxy by a beautiful, rainbow-colored nebular shell. Upon venturing inside of this shell, they found a system like no other. They called the star Solaxos, in memory of the star Sol which gave their earthbound ancestors light. However, this system was far from familiar. The innermost planet had mind-defying lakes that were solid during the night period but boiled to lava in the searing heat of the daytime. It had a life-filled planet with radical and unpredictable tides due to its triplet moons. It had a gas giant that reflected the sunlight so intensely, it appeared to be a second star. And most unusual of all, the system had a belt of asteroids with a collective atmosphere, verdant with an abundance of plants and teeming with life like nowhere else in the galaxy.
The settlers were fascinated by this star system, and claimed the tidal planet as their own. They named it Terion, and over the millennia, life forms from across the Confederation of Systems have settled in the prosperous Solaxos system, hoping to find a better life for themselves.
Indeed, there are many opportunities here; from refining minerals on UV-6, to mining hydrogen from Gigas, to farming algae fuel on Terion, to fishing for picaelum outside the Nebular Zone. But the Confederation is in danger, and if it falls, Solaxos may be the last refuge for the survivors....

The Solaxos system consists of:

Solaxos – the G2-class star in the center of the system.

Uvon – a bizarre planet with wildly fluctuating surface temperatures due to the thin atmosphere and proximity to the sun. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Uvon, however, is the Icefire Pools: lakes of metal-silicon compounds that solidify during the Uvonian night period, and become molten in the intense heat of the daytime. Orbiting Uvon is a mineral refinery station, UV-6, that refines and packages Uvon's mineral wealth for shipment to other systems.

Terion – a colonized planet with native life. Terion is technically the capital of the Solaxos system. Terion has three small moons: Laemus, Selus, and Luma. They orbit at different distances and angles, making for highly irregular tides. Terion's economy is primarily based on the farming and export of valuable algae biofuel.

Gigas - a vibrantly colored gas giant that is aero-mined for hydrogen isotopes, which are used in fusion drives. Gigan Station, orbiting in the center of Gigas's asteroid ring, is not only a hydrogen refinery but also a goods trade-off point between Terion and the main exportation center of Octavion City in the Cortian Ring.

Cortian Ring – an asteroid belt with a shared atmosphere that circles the entire inner Solaxos system. Its continually shifting landscape harbors unique lifeforms and many stations, big and small. In the center is the huge and complex Octavion City, the primary exportation center for the Solaxos system. Several other prominent stations include Karos 5, Ilium, Reacher Station, and Zex’s Gas.

Nebular Zone – the beautiful, rainbow-colored nebular shell of gas and particulates that surrounds the inner Solaxos system. Solaxos' Nebular Zone is about ten thousand kilometers thick, and highly turbulent because of its convection-based nature. The clouds of the NZ are kept within a certain orbit by Solaxos's heat forcing it outwards and the gravitational force of the star pulling it in. Its dense, shifting clouds are difficult for small craft to navigate, and it blocks the view of the stars from the inner planets and absorbs most of the light and warmth from Solaxos. Outside the Nebulous Zone, there are only two small, frigid, inhospitable worlds orbiting Solaxos that serve no practical purpose; indeed, they are more like large comets than planets. However, the outer Solaxas system is plentiful in picaelum (basically space fish) and other vacuumorphs, making the Cortian Ring (closest in proximity to the outer system) a wealthy piking community.

~UPDATE!~ Doubled the res and basically just spruced things up a bit

Description
New project! Building on this concept which you all seemed to like.

Long ago, when mankind first took to the stars, they found a system that was shielded from the rest of the galaxy by a beautiful, rainbow-colored nebular shell. Upon venturing inside of this shell, they found a system like no other. They called the star Solaxos, in memory of the star Sol which gave their earthbound ancestors light. However, this system was far from familiar. The innermost planet had mind-defying lakes that were solid during the night period but boiled to lava in the searing heat of the daytime. It had a life-filled planet with radical and unpredictable tides due to its triplet moons. It had a gas giant that reflected the sunlight so intensely, it appeared to be a second star. And most unusual of all, the system had a belt of asteroids with a collective atmosphere, verdant with an abundance of plants and teeming with life like nowhere else in the galaxy.
The settlers were fascinated by this star system, and claimed the tidal planet as their own. They named it Terion, and over the millennia, life forms from across the Confederation of Systems have settled in the prosperous Solaxos system, hoping to find a better life for themselves.
Indeed, there are many opportunities here; from refining minerals on UV-6, to mining hydrogen from Gigas, to farming algae fuel on Terion, to fishing for picaelum outside the Nebular Zone. But the Confederation is in danger, and if it falls, Solaxos may be the last refuge for the survivors....

The Solaxos system consists of:

Solaxos – the G2-class star in the center of the system.

Uvon – a bizarre planet with wildly fluctuating surface temperatures due to the thin atmosphere and proximity to the sun. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Uvon, however, is the Icefire Pools: lakes of metal-silicon compounds that solidify during the Uvonian night period, and become molten in the intense heat of the daytime. Orbiting Uvon is a mineral refinery station, UV-6, that refines and packages Uvon's mineral wealth for shipment to other systems.

Terion – a colonized planet with native life. Terion is technically the capital of the Solaxos system. Terion has three small moons: Laemus, Selus, and Luma. They orbit at different distances and angles, making for highly irregular tides. Terion's economy is primarily based on the farming and export of valuable algae biofuel.

Gigas - a vibrantly colored gas giant that is aero-mined for hydrogen isotopes, which are used in fusion drives. Gigan Station, orbiting in the center of Gigas's asteroid ring, is not only a hydrogen refinery but also a goods trade-off point between Terion and the main exportation center of Octavion City in the Cortian Ring.

Cortian Ring – an asteroid belt with a shared atmosphere that circles the entire inner Solaxos system. Its continually shifting landscape harbors unique lifeforms and many stations, big and small. In the center is the huge and complex Octavion City, the primary exportation center for the Solaxos system. Several other prominent stations include Karos 5, Ilium, Reacher Station, and Zex’s Gas.

Nebular Zone – the beautiful, rainbow-colored nebular shell of gas and particulates that surrounds the inner Solaxos system. Solaxos' Nebular Zone is about ten thousand kilometers thick, and highly turbulent because of its convection-based nature. The clouds of the NZ are kept within a certain orbit by Solaxos's heat forcing it outwards and the gravitational force of the star pulling it in. Its dense, shifting clouds are difficult for small craft to navigate, and it blocks the view of the stars from the inner planets and absorbs most of the light and warmth from Solaxos. Outside the Nebulous Zone, there are only two small, frigid, inhospitable worlds orbiting Solaxos that serve no practical purpose; indeed, they are more like large comets than planets. However, the outer Solaxas system is plentiful in picaelum (basically space fish) and other vacuumorphs, making the Cortian Ring (closest in proximity to the outer system) a wealthy piking community.

~UPDATE!~ Doubled the res and basically just spruced things up a bit