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

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   [Music] w hi and welcome to another edition of lore makers Guide to the Galaxy I'm your lore maker for this week William weom and I'm happy to be sharing with some of you the insights to one of our many solar systems featured throughout the Universe of Star Citizen and we give you kind of an Insight of what's going on here and some of the lore and astronomy that goes into creating all our really cool system systems so today's system is Keel so let's head over there now from

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   Earth so we'll do a handy little search here now for if you haven't discovered yet what I'm using right here is the star map and it is fantastic and a great way to browse our universe so let's go take oh we should do a route so we can see all the jumps let's do that from Earth to Keel it's even better yeah Keel calculate loading oh I found it eight jumps so let's do it let's get there we're going to hop a couple distances away oh heading on through Ellis now

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   we're in Magnus then we're going to jump to Stanton we're going to go to Terra and then from there to hadrien and then finally we're going to jump on Through the Wormhole and arrive at our destination of Keel so Keel has six planets all of them wonderful and interesting as you're going to find out uh the K system was first discovered in 2514 it's got a white main sequence fstar holding on right there look at it shine it's beautiful and it was for most of its history a major military Hub during the Cold War with the Shian and only recently has it started to kind of

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   Define itself in this post Cold War era when we're starting to develop peace with our Shian neighbors um it was discovered in 201514 as I said by a Merchant Marine ship that was out delivering f fuel uh in the Hadrian system and the ship's Captain like to take different routes every time they were making a delivery to keep his crew on their toes as well as kind of make sure that the Outlaws couldn't predict where they were going to go um so when one day when they were taking one of these new and different routes they picked up something on their scans and lo and behold it was a jump point to kill and there was only one system that was proved terraform ring uh ready which was Keel 3

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   seus but there was a lot of resources in the system people rushed in and started trying to take advantage of it and when more jump points were found to Baker and Horus the system grew even more popular and things were looking up and that is when in the nearby system of Horus the one and only Marie Sant discovered a jump to Shion space and and so if you want to find out more about what happened in the horse system you can go back to our earlier L makers that Sherry did that was absolutely wonderful and she talked all about this but um by opening up a neighboring system to Shon space that suddenly changed how the government viewed Keel so the upe all of a sudden said wait let's put a break in

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   all that private sector building and the switch over the purpose and made it a major military Hub due to its connection to the border systems which would become known as the Perry line around uh in the 29 sorry 2540s let me get my dates correct that's the least I could do and so once the Parry line was in place Keel served as a major military Hub where a lot of the ships were stationed to move out all over the front and K was a major part of Ivar messers expansion of power uh there was a lot of kind of anti-alien sentiment going on the time we just had our war first war with the Taran was kicking off people were very wary of the Shian who we had a very difficult start with when we accidentally tried to

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   terraform one of their planets so tensions were already high and Ivar messar used that to kind of generate and and kind of draw to him a lot of the power that he wouldn't have otherwise and a lot of money got dumped into the K system to expand military bases and Military stations and that went on for hundreds of years until the messers finally fell uh and when the uh peace Act was eventually signed uh that ended the cold war between the shons and the uee uh the system kind of lost Focus as all the military money dried up and all the forces pulled out of the system is because you know the uee was kind of trying to present a different picture of

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   itself less military focused and ke was kind of left holding the Short Straw on that one so for a long time the system after the Cold War ended didn't quite have a self identity didn't have a lot of money coming in it was facing really hard times a lot of the civilian population that was there left when the military left but in very recent times Keel has seen kind of a reversal of Fortune and has had a great uptick and the most of that's been focused in on seus which we'll talk about in a little bit but in the meanwhile let's start going through the planets and taking a look at what we have we're going to start with k one which is this little guy over here and this is a rocky mesop planet it's uninhabited and it is tidy locked uh so ignore the fact that it's

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   rotating in our storm map eventually we'll tidally lock these things um and so it's heavily heated and Pock marked on one side very fun some mining going on but not much else next up we have ke 2 we'll zoom in here so Kel 2 is a rocky uh terrestrial planet it's uninhabited uh and it's not suitable for terraforming but there is a good amount of resources on the planet and if people have tried to get Mining rights to those resources but unfortunately the military has said no and has completely restricted access to the surface and they haven't given a clear reason why and a lot of people have kind of conspiracy theories going about what might be happening on the planet some people think that there's probably a secret military base there where they

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    could be you know cloning MERS or maybe that's where the military actually created the vuel in a secret program to drive the War uh that's probably not true at all but still from there we're going to head on to the main named planet in the system cus which is Q 3 now seus is a rocky planet that's been terraformed and it has a moon known as Amelia hello Amelia we'll focus on the planet the main capital is AA City and the planet is named after a famous Admiral who had distinguished himself during the second Taran war and this was

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    the key military hub for the system um and it's been covered in a lot of various military bases and stuff and all those once the military pulled out kind of went unused and we're in desperate need of repair and things were looking at a really hard time and the person who's been able to turn it around for them is a recent governor who was elected in 2903 which is Governor tour he's a descendant of um centuries of sewers who've lived on the planet his great grandmother served in the Army on the planet and decided to stay after she left the service um we give a lot of love and attention to the Navy because that's the focus of Squadron 42 and the Navy flies all the cool fantastic ships so we talk about various squadrons a lot of time but the armies out there are doing their part to help defend the

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    Empire you know they they were kept on high alert for a lot of time because the up and then the uee didn't know if they were going to have to invade a Shion planet or whether they were going to have to defend a planet that the Shon were invading so the Army were going to be a major part of that defense and so there was a lot of drills and training done during that time so when Governor sewer came into Power the the main thing he did was rather than just trying to draw businesses in in a general sense which a lot of his predecessors have been doing he very specifically sought out companies and tried to match them with services that he offered so one of the first major coups that he did was be able to recruit RSI to come and open up a Thruster plant and that was kind of his first big success and from there he took the profits that were coming in

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    from that new plant and reinvested it heavily into kind of a beautification program a major makeover of era city of putting in parks and green SP spaces and opening up like nice apartment buildings for rent and giving a lot of kind of uh tax credits and stuff for investments into the City and it slowly started to work um and people came around and with workers and other factories being drawn here the the major thing that happened as well was is Sor was able to convince The Intergalactic Aerospace Expo who we watched recently just had it is based out of Keel now that wasn't always the case the Expo used to hop from system to system floating around the Empire but Su was able to say look we have these large

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    gigantic hangers they'd be perfect for you we're willing to put in a bunch of credits into upgrading them if you agree to let us house the expo here on a permanent basis and the Expo had just been running into troubles with different various locations not being able to support them and other such things so they left at the chance and Keel has been the home of the Expo for several years now which is great and that's just drawn a ton of people and like a ton of fancy hotels that sprouted up and the restaurants here are growing quite into a well-known dining scene and going along with that now that these people here there's also trying to make more ariable land to start cultivating their own food and produce on the planet so that's exciting so it's really on the cusp of blowing up into a really great planet to go along with that the just

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    earned representation in the Senate and it was uh s's daughter Jan thille was elected very recently as the first senator for the planet so that was exciting but coming along with the Expo and all this added attention is that there was during the downtimes there was a lot of you know criminal elements that kind of sprouted out to go along with it now that there's this influx of cash finally happening uh or credits as it were the Outlaws are striking like there have been a problem in recent Expos where you have all these fancy ships flying in and the ow are trying to take advantage of that so there's a lot of good opportunities for Mercenaries at this time as the advocacy infrastructure still being built out um a few years ago there was a k and along with all the other border systems were part of operation simitar which was a focus

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    assault by the advocacy on kind of cleaning up all these systems though some people suspect that that was less about stopping crime and more showing the Shion who were watching at the time that we meant business because tensions had recently ratch ratcheted back up when the Shion had captured a human that was accused of being a spy so things were very tense and so there was this big push to show the might of our advocacy in the system going on from Keel 3 we have the Kel belt there still even though it's been mined by the military for a while there's still a good amount of resources to be found there that are now mining operations are really starting to kick

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    in um full speed and there's also a lot of Salvage to be had in the area because of how long the military operated here though they cleaned up a lot of their trash so to speak the belt was harder to clear up so military exercises various accidents and stuff have left some kind of ated military machinery and ships floating out there so some people would making a good go at it through Salvage moving on from the belt we're going to head to Keel 4 so ke 4 is a gas dwarf it's a deep blue planet has a high amount of methane and it spins very fast it only takes 16 standard Earth hours for it to make a

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    complete equatorial rotation so it's just whizzing along and then we also have Keel 5 which is another gas planet but this one is a gas giant there it is and it has huge radius of over 57,000 km as well as planetary Rings which are shimmering Lov in the star map this time of year we go there to our last planet in system which is Keel six which is going to be way out there we find it there you are so K six is a

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    protoplanet and just like Kel 4 has a very fast rotation this one has equally interesting parameter where Kel six uh takes about 122 years to make one trip around Keel around the Sun um and so it's a big deal so there's a festival being planned right now for when it reaches perihelion um which is when the orbit of the planet is closest to the Sun so when it reaches that point there's going to be a big festival and it will probably take advantage of C's all its uh spaces to hold that festival and it will be a big economic Boon to the system so that's something to look forward to so the system was named by the captain of the Merchant Marine he named the system after his good friend back on Mars who refused to

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    ever leave the planet so he thought by naming this whole star system after his good friend ke that he would convince him to finally leave and explore the Empire a little bit more but that was not the case um Keel died on Mars without ever having left so as part of his will he ented his body into a small small satellite that travels around Keel in kind of memory of the system that was named after him that he never got to see when he was alive so that's kind of fun so that sums it up for Keel so for a long time major military complex and then the military left and it fell in hard times and now it's found this complete new rebirth and it's very exciting so hopefully you'll get to check it out for yourself sometime soon thank you so much for joining me here

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