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System Overview

	Copernicus
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	System
Governing House	Independent
Region	Independent Worlds
Connected Systems	Sigma-13; Galileo;

Astronomical Bodies

Stellar Objects

Brown Dwarf

TYPE: T9
LUMINOSITY: V
COLOR: Magenta
TEMPERATURE: 502K
MASS: 10.7 x 10e27 kg
DIAMETER: 0.8 x 10e7 km

Planetary Objects

Planet	Owner
Brown Dwarf	Uninhabited
Planet Galle	Uninhabited
Planet Bode	Uninhabited
Planet Titius	Uninhabited
Hevellius	Uninhabited
[[]]	Uninhabited

Nebulae & Asteroids

Brohe Dust Field
Copernicus Asteroid Belt
Curie Ice Cloud
Darklands
Hirayama Cloud

Industrial Development

Space Stations

Commodity Mining

Faction Presence

Lawful Factions

Corporations & Guilds

Unlawful Factions

System Map

Areas of Interest

Nebulae

Darklands

>>>WARNING: EXTREME DANGER<<<

A specific composite of nebulae filled with elongated asteroids. Charting reports from an unnamed Rogue warns any pilot from entering the cloud as it's been described as "blackout area." Light from the Brown Dwarf enters the cloud and dissipates as it bounces around the asteroids, leaving behind a dark and dangerous navigational nightmare. Among the light rays that disappear, a couple of electronic signals are recorded, though positional details within the cloud are scrambled. Two words are appended to the end of the charting report: Slow down.

Hirayama Cloud

>>>WARNING: NAVIGATIONAL HAZARD<<<

A medium-sized arm of the Crow Nebula, famed throughout Sirius for its beautiful vistas. The nebula is rich in ionized Hydrogen, Helium and Oxygen. Explosive gas pockets and likely other undetected hazards can be found within the cloud. All pilots are advised to take caution.

Curie Ice Cloud

>>>WARNING: NAVIGATIONAL HAZARD<<<

A beautiful medium-sized ice field located within the Copernicus system. It was charted and named in 833 A.S. by the Xeno exploration vessel Raleigh, immediately after the system's discovery. The field's origin is unknown, but it likely drifted through deep space until it was caught by the gravitational wells of the system's brown dwarf and the nearby jump hole. The field holds no valuable resources and is almost entirely composed of ice asteroids and ionized hydrogen, responsible for its color.

Asteroid Fields

Brohe Dust Field

>>>WARNING: NAVIGATIONAL HAZARD<<<

A small dust field located within the Copernicus system. It was charted and named in 833 A.S. by the Lane Hacker exploration vessel Livingstone, soon after the system's discovery. The field was likely formed from surrounding dust particles drawn together by a nearby jump hole's gravitational well over a long period of time. It holds no valuable resources.

Copernicus Asteroid Belt

>>>WARNING: SEVERE DANGER<<<

A field of highly radioactive dust surrounding the Brown Dwarf in the Copernicus system. The field likely formed from surrounding dust particles attracted by the star's gravity over time. Avoid the belt at all costs.

Wrecks

Signal Beacon Container - E/D-8/7

This beacon container marks the site at which the ship of Hayakawa Uemura, a Golden Chrysanthemum veteran and ace, was seemingly lost. It was placed at the location by her wife, the Bounty Hunter Yugure Uemura. The pair had built up a serious reputation over the years, in no small part due to their seemingly incompatible affiliations. Yugure avoided any contracts aimed at the Chrysanthemums or their allies, targeting enemies they had in common instead, while Hayakawa resisted all pressure to reveal her partner's movements to the underworld.

Together, they had logged thousands of flight hours in a career spanning decades, always by each others' side, and more commonly focused on exploration and travel than martial pursuits. Much of the current-day mapping data registered at stations in the Crow region was provided by the couple.

When the pair was exploring the newly-discovered Copernicus system, they lost radio contact and, hit by an intense radiation spike which caused sensor misreads, Yugure assumed Hayakawa had perished when her Eagle lost life support. She placed this beacon as a memorial to her lost love, and with the light extinguished from her life, endeavored upon a final journey to end her own existence. A set of coordinates can be read: -80 000, ?, -80 000.

Contains:

5x Cardamine
5x Engine Components

Cloudpiercer - A-1

Cloudpiercer is a derelict Eagle belonging to the Bounty Hunter Yugure Uemura, who abandoned it deliberately with the intent to end her life. Believing to have lost her wife and exploration partner of three decades, Hayakawa, Yugure had set a course for the last waypoint they had plotted together, to leave her ship and all its gathered treasures at the spot for the next pioneering spirit to discover, should they find her trail.

In actuality, the radiation spike she believed had killed her partner had merely incapacitated the ship. Hayakawa had survived with quick thinking and action in the hold, after raising the flameout bulkhead, and had managed to repair her craft within a few hours on-site.

Having instinctively pursued the same shared last waypoint, Hayakawa found Yugure's pod drifting, her partner resigned to her fate. With seemingly everything lost, she had surrendered herself to the eternal silence of the cosmos, before the love of her life's voice pinged the pod's comms. Rather than return to her own ship, Yugure decided to leave the Eagle and all its priceless relics, a monument to what she had intended to do, and the fact that she wanted nothing but her rescuer herself. Happily reunited, the couple retired from their more spectacular exploits to live out their later years together in private.

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Livingstone - G-7

The remains of Livingstone, a derelict Dromedary formerly operated by the Lane Hackers, its exterior unblemished but without life on board. The vessel's crew and her captain, Kalani Haoa, were responsible for the very first flood of data on the Copernicus system, her advanced comm arrays having provided a constant feed of information back to Leiden.

Her last outgoing comms also provided insight into the tragic life of the doomed crew, who, as their harrowing messages tell, were upset by engine trouble while dealing with an outbreak of sickness the small team was unequipped to handle. Rather than turning around, Haoa made the difficult decision to keep the vessel flying forwards on what they then knew would be a one-way trip, providing a wealth of insight on the mysterious star system.

Two bodies rest in their cots, likely victims of the disease, while Haoa and their first mate lie together on the bridge, victims of what appear to be self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Their mission having gone as far as it would take them, the Livingstone's crew had reached their grave site, the ship's name ready for the annals of exploration history.

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The Gambler - E-2/1

The wreck of the Gambler, a Bounty Hunter Hammerhead. The ship looks to have sustained critical damage from the surrounding violent gas pockets, likely due to a loss of maneuverability.

The pilot, Uwe Friedrich, was a renowned Bounty Hunter of the Sigmas and east Omicrons, having killed many notorious criminals. He was likely ambushed by local pirates, seeking revenge for one of their downed friends. The Gambler's left wing was crippled, inflicting critical damage on the ship's maneuverability systems. Resourceful and experienced, Friedrich made a run for the nearby gas pockets. While he managed to shake off the pursuers, the ship was too damaged to survive the violent explosions. The ship was lost along with all the valuables collected across this Hunter's envious career.

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Tsuiseki - D-2

The remains of the Tsuiseki, a Gas Miners Guild vessel registered to Misaki Oshiro. Known for his bold and daring personality, the pilot was among the first to discover the connection between Copernicus and the Sigmas, venturing into unexplored territory in search of glory.

While exploring the uncharted region of the Crow Nebula, known for its treacherous gas pockets, the Otte successfully navigated the hazardous terrain. However, a mistake on the pilot's part exposed the ship to a series of gas pocket explosions. In an attempt to take a shortcut through the gas-filled nebula, the pilot underestimated the width of the gap, triggering one gas pocket after another as the ship took unrecoverable damage. The pilot likely died on the spot.

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Object Unknown - B-4/3

No information available.

Contains:

Object Unknown - F-2/1

No information available.

Contains:

1x HAMMERFALL

Raleigh - B/C-2

An almost perfectly intact Kestrel belonging to the Xenos, the Raleigh was among the earliest explorers of the system. The ship experienced an electrical failure and was abandoned by its crew, who survived for several weeks in their escape pod before being found. The tale of captain Walter Sollbright and his crew's heroic journey quickly entered Xeno folklore, and what may have been an EMP effect from a nearby volatile jump hole has since taken on ever grander proportions of epic space-time explosions every time the story is retold.

The ship itself has since become a popular landmark for other pioneers, its hull speckled with graffiti of names and dates. Paying respects at the wreck site is considered to bring good fortune, and so the area has become littered with offerings left by other explorers hoping for greater success than the Raleigh's crew.

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Jump Gates/Holes

Target System	Type	Location
Sigma-13	Jump Hole	G/H-3
Galileo	Jump Hole	B-5/6
Copernicus	Jump Hole	C/D-6
Copernicus	Jump Hole	C/D-6
Copernicus	Jump Hole	G/F-4
Copernicus	Jump Hole	G/F-4
Copernicus	Jump Hole	B/C-2
Copernicus	Jump Hole	C/B-2
Copernicus	Jump Hole	F/G-7/8

Copernicus
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System
Governing House	Independent
Region	Independent Worlds
Connected Systems	Sigma-13 Galileo