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

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   [Music] Oh, Hello and welcome Welcome to another

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   edition of Lore Makers Guide to the Galaxy. I'm your host for today, Will Weiss, senior writer here at CIG in beautiful sunny Los Angeles, California. On today's episode, we'll be taking a look at Alisium, which is a fantastic system for all its history. Let's go take a look at it now. So, we're starting off on Earth, this beautiful blue marble we all call home, but not for much longer as we're going to expand out through the stars. Let's go to Alisium. How about that? Magic. So it is a fiveplanet system that was discovered way back in November 15th,

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   2541. And what was so noteworthy about this system upon its discovery was that it was inhabited. It was not an empty system. We quickly learned that there was another space fairing race who called themselves the Tvarin living on Elissium 4 or as they called it Kaith or Kaith depending on whether you want to use the right or incorrect pronunciation. So the UPE, the United Planets of Earth, the government at the time were very excited to discover a whole new race. They were space fairing technology-wise but not quite as advanced as us humans. And we thought it was a great opportunity to expand our reach and incorporate an entirely new alien species into our civilization. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out

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   that way because the Tavarin attacked us. They wanted what we have and it was a full allout war. Our first interecies war and it was terrible. But what came out of it was the rise of a young colonel Ivor Messar who rose through the ranks and became the hero of the war at the famous battle of Idrris 4 where he managed to turn the tide of the offensive and really stick it to those tvar and even though the tvar weren't as technologically advanced as we were they were brilliant strategists and were able to hold out much longer than anyone thought even taking over human systems and driving our forces back. So by the end of these four years, we were able to

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   conquer them. We sent them fleeing out into the verse, hiding in various places in Banu and Shian space. So after that moment, we started colonizing and terraforming worlds that were formerly part of the Tavaran Empire were now part of the human empire as Ivar Messer had now become the impertor and had transformed the United Planets of Earth eventually into the United Empire of Earth. Now, everything seemed to be going well as humans settled into Alisium until around 2603 when the Tavvarin returned with vengeance. And they had a new leader. And they had a new leader called Carthal who was dead set on reclaiming the Tvaran home world for his people.

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   and he burned a path through the stars, fighting his way towards Alisium. There was in Centauri, the famous battle of Centauri, where Squadron 42 had their first major victory ever in shutting down the Tavarian offensive after a grueling seven years of fighting. Rather than accept the defeat there, the Tavarin pushed through the jump in Centauri and fought their way towards their home planet knowing that it was a doomed effort until they finally turned down their shields. Oh, whoops. That was null. They did not they did not go to null. However, they did go to Elisia.

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   where eventually they turned off their shields and crash landed onto the planet, burning up in the skies of Alisium 4, which some of you may have seen in the the famous painting that commemorated the moment that was called Tears of Fire. Some of you may have seen the famous moment of the ships crashing into the planet's atmosphere and burning up in the famous painting tears of fire that commemorated this historic moment. So after the second Tavvar war, the Tvarin were pretty much shattered and humanity was kind enough to offer them a place amongst us as a subjugated people, which catches up to 2610. So that's a little bit of the

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   backstory that marks Alissium. Let's go now and start looking at the system itself. Currently, it's got four known jump points. one between Alisium and Centauri, another between Alissium and Lear, an Alisium Idrris jump point, and an Alisium Vanguard jump point, which is a little bit telling about how the the system works. Uh the Vanguard one, of course, is Van Duel space, which has a a threatening area. Centauri itself is a pretty happening system. It's home to Misque, so there's a lot of business traffic that flows through there. in Lear. Lear is kind of an outsider system, home in fact to the outsiders. So, traffic to there is a a little bit odd to say the least. And finally, there's Idris, which still is trying to regain its footing after the battle of

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   Idrris 4, which left it terribly scarred. So, a medium amount of traffic heading in and out of the system, which is Alisium is still today trying to find its footing in the empire. It's known mostly for its historical significance, but it's trying to forge ahead and define itself in the world of 2946. So, let's look at the sun now. So, the Alissium star is an F-Type main sequence star. It's 1 to 1.4 times the mass of our sun with a white to yellow light. um it burns hotter and faster than our sun. So, it's going to give it a little bit of a shorter lifespan than you would

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    expect for our system. But of course, a shorter lifespan in terms of the galaxy is still billions and billions of years. Two to four billions to be precise or unprecise as I gave a range of numbers instead of an exact one. Now next up moving away from the star is we have Alisium one which is kind of a cool planet in itself in that it is a hot Jupiter in classification also known as uh a migrating gas giant that was believed to have been formed in the outer reaches of the system and then migrated inward sweeping up loose planets and stuff in its path until it settled and very close to the star itself only about 0.1 AU away. This

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    means that its surface gas is very hot, creating a lot of wind circling around and a very even surface temperature. Uh so it'll be interesting trying to fly there to harvest things because of its proximity to the sun. From Alisium 1, we're going to head on out to Alisium 2, which is a corless planet. uh coreless doesn't mean that it's hollow on the inside. It means that it just doesn't have a magnetic core. So, it's solid throughout without a spinning core like Earth has. This means it's kind of a bit of a dead lifeless rock in the system floating around. Um some mining to be done there, but it still hasn't been heavily developed yet. Its surface is heavily impacted by craters which have led many scientists

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    to speculate that there was some significantly large impact in its past. But the Tibaran records don't indicate anything during their time and scientists are still trying to work out exactly what happened through research. So heading out from Alisium 2, we're going to head over to Vosska Elisium 3 which is a desert planet which is really cool. When we took over this system from the Tavarin, this world was pretty much left alone. It was desert, arid, really warm, very little water. And it seems that the Tvarin did not have terraforming technology like we did. So when the UE took over, one of the things he did was terraform the planet. Now, a lot of its surface is sparssely inhabited. It's still, even though it's

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    terraformed, it's still a very rough place to live. um very little when it comes in terms of water. Uh there is some water mining going on at the polar caps, but they're pretty small. A lot of the water has to be either shipped in uh on haulers or from water harvesting units that are sprouted throughout the desert. Uh one of the major landing zones on the planet is uh Res's Landing, which is an archeology uh built by Rayari, Inc. used to mine some of the resources in the planet. It's been digging itself deeper and deeper as the years goes, as it struggles to find more and more resources, more and more resources to harvest. It is represented in the Senate. So, even though it's sparssely populated, it does have

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    representation in the Senate. Moving on from this desert world, we're going to head probably to the highlight of the system, which is Jalan. Now Jalan is formerly for the Tavvar kaleith. It was their home world and to date it probably houses more Tvarin architecture and historical sites than any other planet in the system. uh big part of this is doing to the Tavvarian purge where after the second Tvarian war a lot of the remaining Tvaran sought to free themselves from their connection to their past is that it failed them so much and a lot of these important sites were destroyed by the Tibaran themselves. However, because Jan was in human control at the time a lot of these sites were preserved for future generations to appreciate. Uh the

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    main city of Hanjalan is the capital Gemma which hosts a major temple upon a mount which from searching through the Tavvar records we know he chose the site because of its strategic importance that it was well fortified and easy to fend rather than any kind of beautiful vista or religious significance. The temple is a Rejoran temple which was the battle religion of the Tavarin. It's a major tourist site today and a lot of preservation efforts are currently going on to save the Tavvarian artifacts from being destroyed just from ship traffic and people walking around. So there's a major effort right now to conserve the sites even though that goes against kind of one of the major industries on Gemma

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    which is tourism. So trying to balance those two is an issue that's going on. Uh, landing in Gemma will appear different than landing in other worlds because the landing port is designed to blend into the Tavvarian architecture. So, that's kind of neat. One of the major things that you might have been reading about recently is the upcoming election that's happening on Jalan for a Senate seat. Uh, the elections coming up on May 3rd. So debates are starting to heat up across the spectrum as people decide which candidate to support of note is the fact that it's the first tavar running to be senator uh sujosi and he is an ex military man served in the navy and he has a criminal background himself

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    before he earns citizenship. So he's offering a lot of hope to the out there for bettering their lives in the UEE. uh a lot of people are still holding grudges for those two wars. So it'll be interesting to see whether he's able to gain the seat or not. Uh he is a centralist and has a lot of core beliefs and believes in the strength of the military and then the central government. He's going against two other candidates. one sake marryold who's more of a transitionalist and is looking to curtail military spending in light of the new war with the Vandal and really focus in focus in on rebuilding the social structures that are needed. There's a lot of unemployment and poverty going on in Jalan as the the system itself hasn't

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    really struck its economic foothold yet outside of its devarin artifacts and tourism. The third candidate is Gabrielle Garian who is a centralist. She served on the governor's council for a while and has the backing of the current administration. Um, a little people a lot of people are a little bit wary of electing her because they fear that it'll be a return to the norm, but she has a lot of experience whereas the other two candidates don't as much. So, moving on from Jalan, we're going to head way out, 12.6 6 AU out to Elisium 5 which is a dwarf planet lurking way out in the stretches of the system and

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    it is a small rocky body. So there you are. That is the Alisium system. And I hope I was able to enlighten you on some of its finer points today and that you enjoyed taking this Lore Makers Guide to the Galaxy journey with you. Thank you so much.