Fornax Region · Fornax · F8V System

Fornax Prime

A planetary system orbiting its local primary star. Fornax Prime is known for regional development and its importance within the surrounding region.

⊙ F8V256 lyPop. 5 Billion0.66 Earth M☉2.22 L☉

System Briefing

Overview

Colonial WorldPopulation CenterIce WorldSurveyed System

Fornax Prime is a planetary system orbiting Fornax Prime, a F8V ☼ star in the Fornax constellation of the Fornax Region.

Fornax Prime Fornax Prime is a close binary star system with multiple planets. The stars of the Fornax Prime System are a close binary pair consisting of a white/yellow F-class star, and a red dwarf M-class star. Fornax Prime is the unquestioned center of the Fornax Region.

Fornax Prime is the pinnacle of technology, population, and peace in an otherwise turbulent region. First settled over 1,000 years ago, Fornax Prime's primary world had a tumultuous past.

With the planet's large number of ethnic and religious living close to each other, violence was commonplace, numerous world wars took their toll on the planets population. Peace was eventually reached across the planet's population, and a new era of unparalleled growth was born.

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Fornax Prime Planets

Inner Orbit · Rocky World

Fornax Prime B

Fornax Prime B is a large rocky world. The planets surface is scorched both by intense heat of the nearby sun, and the runaway greenhouse effect. The planets thick atmosphere of greenhouse gasses nearly doubles the surface temperature from the cloud tops.

Distance0.21 AU

Orbit34 days

Temp557 K

Mass3.31 Earth

Radius8230 km

Gravity1.52 g

Rotation50 hours

Moons0

Inner Orbit · Rocky World

Fornax Prime C

Fornax Prime C is a terrestrial world with a thin carbon dioxide and nitrogen atmosphere. The planet's surface is covered in vast endless silicate plains, with a few small areas of rocky highlands. The planets lack of visable craters points to a recent resurfacing event.

Distance0.94 AU

Orbit334 days

Temp323 K

Mass0.55 Earth

Radius5372 km

Gravity0.78 g

Rotation38 hours

Moons2

Primary Planet

Habitable Zone · Ice World

Fornax Prime D

Fornax Prime D is the system's primary world. Colder than Earth, the planet has larger polar ice caps, snow can occur on most parts of the planet. The land areas consist of one large continent nearly twice the size of Africa, and four smaller continents ranging between the sizes of Australia and Antarctica. The main continent named Isidora is centered along the planet's equator.

Distance1.79 AU

Orbit877 days

Temp284 K

Mass1.26 Earth

Radius7071 km

Gravity1.03 g

Rotation29 hours

Moons0

Outer Orbit · Ice World

Fornax Prime E

Fornax Prime E and F are similar worlds, both cold and covered in water ice. Planet E has a nitrogen and carbon dioxide atmosphere. Sitting closer to the suns than Planet F, Planet E has been considered for terraforming. Its believed with enough greenhouse gasses, parts of the planet can reach temperatures above freezing.

Distance2.82 AU

Orbit4.7 years

Temp187 K

Mass0.24 Earth

Radius4435 km

Gravity0.50 g

Rotation33

Moons2

Outer Orbit · Ice World

Fornax Prime F

Fornax Prime E is a cold world orbiting outside the habitable zone. The planet has an extremely thin nitrogen atmosphere. The surface is composed of mostly water ice. Pockets of underground seas exist below the surface warmed by internal heat, water from these seas can occasionally reach the surface creating sporadic geysers.

Distance3.04 AU

Orbit5.3 years

Temp180 K

Mass0.66 Earth

Radius5865 km

Gravity0.78 g

Rotation57 hours

Moons3

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