Tesserelios
The Jackpot System

Tesserelios, also known as "the Jackpot system," is undoubtedly bizarre, but given half a trillion stars in the galaxy, something like it was fairly probable.

Tesserelios is a multiple star with nineteen life-bearing worlds in four star systems consisting of five stars and their planets. The components of the Tesserelios system are:

• Avras, a yellow dwarf, with twelve worlds: seven planets and five moons of two jovians.
• Vethas, an orange dwarf, with two worlds: moons of a jovian.
• Kamil, a double red dwarf, with four worlds: moons of a jovian.
• Telat, a red dwarf, with one world.

Tesserelios was settled was first settled by the Aliquine Terraformers, who enhanced some of the planets. Then came the Iahocho and the Barudani. Finally, and in smallest numbers, came the Liandan.

Recently, there was a war when the Iahochan leader tried to take over the entire Tesserelios system. In the aftermath, the political structure is:

• The Avras system is divided between the Avras Union and the Barudani Tesserelios Commonwealth.
  • The Avras Union holds nine worlds in the inner system and is a Aliquine culture with admixtures of Iahochan and Barudani cultures.
  • The Barudani hold the other three worlds, in the outer system.
• The Vethas system is held by the Vethas Republic, with Aliquine culture on two worlds.
• The Kamil system is held by the Barudani Tesserelios Commonwealth, with four worlds (in addition to the three worlds they hold in the Avras system).
• The Telat system is held by the Volluse Republic, with Iahochan culture.

So, in summary:

• There are four systems in Tesserelios, three small ones and a big one.
• There are three major cultures, each one holding one of the small systems, two (the Aliquine and Barudani) splitting the big system and sharing it with a fourth, minor culture (Liandan).
• There are four sovereignties, one for each system, though one sovereignty, the Barudani, has holdings in the big system as well as its own.

Reference

Stellography

Tesserelios is located west of the Corridor, north of the galactic plane, on the inner edge of the Sagittarius Arm. Though the Tesserelios system is of great academic interest and a tempting prize for colonization and terraforming, it is distant from major trade routes and other lifebearing systems. It is also often cut off by dark storms (turbulent dark matter). As a result, it is somewhat isolated from the rest of the galaxy.

Avras System

Avras is a yellow dwarf, forming a widely space binary with Telat. It has many planets in closely spaced orbits, including twelve spheres in the habitable zone – three standard earths, a pair of twin earths, two trojan earths, and five earth-like moons distributed between two warm neptunes:

Toropei  terraformed venus	Tharessa  warm oceanic	Ennetva and Essetva     wet and dry twins	Eccome  prime earth
Soln  moon of Agen	Ossel  moon of Agen	Derrun  moon of Agen	Brogen  leading trojan of Agen
Hune  moon of Torril	Tsfu  moon of Torril	Daha  trailing trojan of Torril

Telat System

Telat is a red dwarf, forming a widely space binary with Avras. It has a single one-face world, Volluse.

Vethas System

Vethas is an orange dwarf, forming a widely spaced binary with Kamil. It has two live moons, Imnas and Eshas, orbiting a warm jupiter.

Kamil System

Kamil consists of closely spaced twin red dwarves, East and West Kamil, and forms a widely space binary with Vethas. It has four live moons orbiting a warm superjovian: Bavil, Morve, Renno, and Karro.

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