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

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   [Music] w hello I'm Sher hyberg the archist at Cloud Imperium games and I'm here with the first episode of the lore makers Guide to the Galaxy which is a new segment about the lore and science

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   behind each system and planet in our game so now that we're here let's get started our first system and one of my personal favorites is the Horus system which is a uh M type main sequence star also known as a red dwarf with three planets two asteroid belts and uh four jump points two going to Shian space and two going to UE space now Horus was discovered whoops there we go let's go right back there Horus was discovered in um 2528 by a young Explorer named Marie Sante uh she

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   ran away from home at a very young age stealing a ship from her parents called the Horus which she later named the ship after um she explored for some time it's rumored that she discovered the system when she was around 14 years old and spent the intervening years charting everything there like these two planets the asteroid belts and this outer planet right here when she first discovered the system two of the jump points were as yet undiscovered those were the two ones that were going to Shion space so as far as she knew at the time when she reported the system as being discovered to the up it would be just a new system in regular upe space without any political importance

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   whatsoever which was of course completely thrown out of whack in 2542 when she herself discovered the jump Point TOA which where do we have that boop boop boop right here this goes to a close by Shon system I may as well just jump through it so we can see it with this giant star and all these planets and and of course that made it immediately militarily important because this was during the Cold War during The Messer era when the Shian and the humans were very calmly at each other throats the uh resulting Kur fuffle from that Discovery

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   led the upe to declare Horus a totally military quarantine system and so the few settlers who were on the first planet they just didn't really care they said fine we won't fly around just stay here on our planet but Marie Sante was very upset because the system was her baby so she refused to evacuate and just took her ship into the outer reaches of the system and continued to explore which led to an incident with the military uh a Navy Explorer a Navy ship found her in the system and reported an unidentified ship and reported that to the upe which resulted in this this military Skirmish no no casualties or anything but the incident was so obnoxious that they really wanted to pressure her to leave the system and that's when they started to do that in Earnest so duly

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   pressured in around 2545 Marie Sante vanished Without a Trace she believed that the system had more secrets to discover and she vowed that she would never share them with anybody so who knows whether she did discover a new secret uh the mystery of Marie Sante is something that draws tourists to the system like people who are interested in in un solved Mysteries just like we are today Marie Sante was right about one thing though that there was another jump point to Shion space Kaaya which is right there looking all valuable to the military strategically valuable anyway after the Cold War ended uh the system that was once considered a really boring place for military ships

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   to you know fly around and make sure no Shen we're invading became all of a sudden a really economically valuable system because it had these two jump points that were going straight to Shan space great for commercial interests and so sirling this first planet right here which is only settled along the solar Terminator let's talk about the star itself Horus this is an mtype main sequence star which is popularly known as a red dwarf you may have seen or heard of a show called red dwarf um these stars are interesting they're some of the most common in the Galaxy they are the longest live by far I believe that we've never actually seen one die which is an in insane thing they're billions and billions and

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   billions of years old and we've seen all kinds of other stars die but never a red dwarf when they first start out they're often really unstable and have lots of flares uh which is the the situation in pyro just to have a little incidental piece of knowledge there um and the flares will go out like really really far and they'll Scorch planets and they'll make systems just totally uninhabitable and really uh hostile to any kind of person who wants to make a living there or exploore there but the star in Horus is long since settled it's uh it's adolescent period I guess uh the the flare star period tends to last around 1.2 billion years and then they settle down into something really steady and really good for the possible devel element of Life they're cool they tend

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   to be about half the temperature of stars like our sun which are gtype main sequence stars yellow dwarfs we really really wanted more systems that had this type of star since the star is so common and we had tended to lean towards G and F Type stars in the other systems and so this was one of the earlier ones that we came up with that had this this type of habitability model the first planet in the system is sirling and I'm sure that a lot of you picked up that it was named for rod rod sirling the host of The Twilight Zone because it is only habitable along the Twilight band of the planet ah

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    um this was added to the game because we had recently discussed with uh local scientists and read a little bit about these particular type of planets that are really that Circle very very close to mtype stars and they are in fact tidally locked to the planet um the animation so far doesn't reflect that but it will in the future that's one of the goals for making the star map more visually accurate to reflect the lore that we have in the game um Sterling itself it's it's locked around the equator and so one side of the star is one side of the planet is just permanently facing the star and it's it's warm and it's got lots of driving winds and it's full of there's a lot of storms especially on the point that's closest to the star

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    there's storms constantly and then on the other side of the planet is permanent night Zone it's a polar ice cap there's really not not anything that lives there um the Abundant oceans on Sterling again this is something that we will correct in the future visually will make make uh the habitable zone possible without the Abundant oceans might just be this really weird planet that's baked on one side and ice on one side and nothing would happen but luckily for life we have this this one little strip of planet where people can live the people who live on Sterling they tend to commute from the night to day side to simulate the night day cycle that Sterling totally lacks and that they'll work on the day side and they'll sleep on the night side

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    this is just along the solar Terminator by the way this isn't going to be these people won't be stuck in storms Forever on one side and Ice Forever on one side is generally a it's more temperate on the priman than anywhere else on the planet um a lot of people who are natives of Sterling who have been there um for many many generations don't really care too much about going back and forth between the day and night cycle they're used to living in this permanent Sunset which is pretty cool person I think there is a study going on at the University of atan which is located on Sterling that's kind of assessing the effects of what this cycle does to people how it affects their mood how it affects their productivity how it affects their quality of life because the habitable zone of suring is so narrow uh it's it's got a pretty low population and businesses

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    that want to get a foothold in the system so that they can trade with the Shion more easily have kind of a tough time musling their way in which brings us to the second planet in the system Horus 2 has no name because it has no settlement it is currently a desert Planet there's no water that we know of on it but it is a viable terraforming candidate it sits just at the edge of the green zone and because of this a lot of the businesses that want a foothold in Horus are really pushing the government to try to get this terraform so that they can settle in and open up trade relations with the Shion um it's a little bit more massive than a lot of small

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    planets um which would give it a better chance of being terraformed since it's right on the edge of the green the green band now zooming out we can see the first asteroid belt both asteroid belts in the system are pretty sparse which is honestly really common for a lot of asteroid belts there um are probably going to be some mining opportunities there in the future uh certainly mining opportunities that you can exploit to uh further trade relations with the Shion for example since they're right there um the system does see a good bit of shon traffic sometimes um oops I went all the way out

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    again all right our last planet in the system is uh chus 3 right over here this planet is special it's a super Jupiter uh super Jupiters are they are gas giants that are more massive than Jupiter that's the definition of them but this gas giant is about four times as massive as Jupiter it is one of the most massive super Jupiters that are in our game which could be very interesting uh in gameplay it kind of sits on the outskirts of the system uh being large being in charge being desolate because there's no life there but uh it could be a place to refuel that kind of deal so anyway um that's about it for

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    Horus I hope you enjoyed this uh behind the scenes look at one of my favorite systems because of it the cool science behind it um it's got a rare tidy loged habitable planet it's got four jump points and it's got a rare super Jupiter so got some neat science going on good culture Horus yay anyway um thanks for tuning in um I had a really good time talking about the system and I hope to see you guys again um thanks as always for being awesome people uh for subscribing and for making all this possible