Star Citizen: Loremaker's Guide to the Galaxy - Pyro System

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   [Music] w hello welcome to another episode of lemaker Guide to the Galaxy I'm archist Sherry hyberg uh if you've never seen L makers guide before this is a program in which the members of the lore team at CAG take you on a guide through the uh mythology the history and the science

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   behind all of the systems that we make for the game um and with that let us get started today we are going to do pyro now pyro has an interesting history there we go it's an unclaimed system with a red dwarf at the center no inhabitable planets and yet it still has a somewhat sizable population it is home to Smugglers criminals Pirates and the brins of the Galaxy um the system you know even even though it's not very friendly it's it's it's fun for for pirates to be in they they like it they have a good time they

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   control what's going on it's pretty nice however it is a very dangerous system to be in because of the star at the center being a flare star which I'll get into in a moment um firefights are not uncommon there's no political stability unlike spider which has you know spider's pretty pretty stable but uh the pirate settlement in pyro is known for being a place where you can go and get Shady Shady jobs and maybe get in a good fight if you want to get in a good fight anyway oh oh also one second this this system is the basis of a level and Wing Commander however the game designer took a little bit of Liberty with the design of the system because there is no such

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   thing as a prolonged Nova phase that is made up the Nova is an instantaneous event but I think they thought it would sound a little bit more Jazzy for the video game so let's get started this here is pyro it is the star at the center of the Pyro system like I said it's a red dwarf which is an mclass main sequence red star what a flare star is is it's a star that exhibits unusually violent solar activity solar flare activity most of the ones that we know of are red dwarf stars there can be there can be others but the vast majority that we know of are our red dwarfs and what happens is that the luminosity and the brightness of the star which are more or less the same

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   thing engage in such sudden flares of brightness that they can get 10,000 times more powerful than any solar flare that sun has ever produced so there are definitely like wicked wicked Flames that happen sometimes um let's say let's put it this way so the flares are so powerful you'd get way way way way way more than a particularly interesting Aurora like we would on our own Planet uh flare star Ursa Major increased in brightness 15-fold on 2013 for 3 minutes and then return to normal like which is kind of the thing that you get here on pyro it creates you know an incredible amount of X-ray radiation like ultraviolet radiation like anything

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   that would make life the development of life completely anical to what happens in this solar system you know good times therefore you can take it for granted that pyro one is a terrible place to live it's a blacken Little Rock it's very small it's sort of like mercury in that it it orbits close to the Sun and is just like totally burned out and maybe it had a surface at one point but it certainly doesn't anymore it's just kind of like this this horrible Char level rock floating in space you're not really going to get anything out of it um same with the airo cluster or the akido cluster depending on who you're asking it's just a little cluster of asteroids that chills out here kind of near the L grangian point

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   of pyro one uh there's nothing nothing much to be found there it people say that the mining has been that the strip mining has taken everything from the planet I mean not the planet the the asteroids you guys know what I mean so it's not really worth your time I would say let's go over here to pyro 2 which is a coreless planet now Corless planets are interesting it's not that they um are Hollow which is a common misconception it's that they don't have a differentiated metal core so like our planet has a core it's got like a core and then a mantle and then with crust and like different layers so like if you slic the planet open it would look like a really cool layer cake but if you

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   sliced pyro too open it would just be an undifferentiated Mass sort of like a cake with no layers um any again like any minerals that would have been worth mining of the planet have been Stripped Away sadly but you know it doesn't hurt to try from time to time here is pyro 3 it is a lava Planet it has unusually strong tectonic activity it has Seas of lava crisscrossing the system criss-crossing the entire planet uh it's possible that it was caused by a collision like uh a piece of a planet-sized body broke off and hit the surface and just caused so much uh damage and energy that the whole

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   surface melted and it really has not been the same sense now the reason that we think that this is probably what happened is because of what happened to its neighbor pyro 4 which used to be a planet in the system just kind of chilling out having its own regular orbit until a plane sized body hit it and it was knocked out into this totally ridiculous orbit and it is slowly settling into the orbit of pyro 5 which is all the way over here so we're going to have to adjust that later it should be closer let's zoom in right here to pyro 5 which is a gas giant it doesn't have a

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    pure hydrogen atmosphere so it's not really you know it's not really a good place to refuel but it does have a bunch of really cool moons all are named after various Concepts that are related to fire like vatra and ver and rior ignis and fyro and Fuego yeah that's an easy one none of them are inhabitable all of them are decently hot um it they kind of vacillate between hot and cold really because they're far enough away from the star that they should be pretty cold but the Sol flares do reach all the way out to this point sometimes and that doesn't really make it a very good place to park your ship because you never know when a solar flare will

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    hit and let's see here here's the last planet in the system pyro 6 now pyro 6 isn't interesting because it's a little planet on the outskirts of the system it is interesting because of what is around it which is ruin station the home to all piracy and Pyro this is the base that is always under contention for who is the true ruler usually a couple of gangs kind of go back and forth between who's who's the one in charge and who's the one who's fighting to be in charge this a nice little bar on it where you can go that's more or less stable but you know you're going to get the occasional bar fight there it was once a gold Horizon terraforming platform no one really knows why there's a terraforming platform around a planet

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    that is completely unreformable but gold Horizon didn't go bankrupt because of their Sound business decisions it can be an excellent place to make connections with other pirates with other Smugglers and perhaps other Outlaws if that's what you care to do but you need to beware be aware that you will most likely get involved in a firefight of some kind I know I've emphasized this point more than once but I just want you to know if you want to find crime you're going to find it in pyro thank you for tuning in to this week's episode of Laur marker's Guide to the Galaxy and once again I'm Sher hyberg the archist with the lore team and I'd like to thank our subscribers for making this program possible and you all have a wonderful rest of your day goodbye thank you for watching so if you

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