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

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   [Music] hello and welcome to another edition of lawmakers guide to the galaxy if you haven't seen the show before this is a chance for one of the members of the lore team to sit down give you a personal tour of one of the systems that'll be appearing in star citizen or potentially squadron 42 will give you a little insight to the astronomy that went into creating the system and a little bit about the history of where it is and how it exists in the world and

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   all that fun stuff now this time around we're gonna be visiting a system that's always been shrouded in controversy well technically it started more as having a lot of kind of like political government secrecy around it which then evolved into controversy so today we're gonna go off to the system of Chronos now to help visualize this this journey we're going to use the Handy star map which we have here centered on earth we're gonna go to the search bar and let's head on out to Chronos now Chronos is from Earth all the jumps I believe I looked at it yesterday would be if you're taking a large large jump points only it'll take you about 12 jumps to get to Chronos which is a bit of a trip let me back out

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   here and just show you where it is because it is off on the the fringes of the UAE and that's one of the reasons why after the system was discovered in 2863 people wondered why in the world the UAE would even want to hold on to it now as you can see here these I turned down the large jump points and it shows you it's connected to Kellogg and this is where the system was discovered from in 2863 reportedly by the 18th battle fleet now just just you know that discovery is in dispute in a court case that's currently going through the UAE legal system there's a lawsuit by the family of Cantrell II as the last name of the family who credits their

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   grandfather with actually discovering the system from Kellogg and actually submitting official paperwork to say such but the UAE government kind of covering it up and using the fact that contrail EU basically had a number of warrants out for his arrest for basically poaching arms which are a kind of like sentient species that do live and Kellogg to and the fact that he was basically a wanted criminal at the time that the UAE has denied him and his family the right to be the the rightful kind of discoverers of this system now if for those that are familiar with Kellogg not only is it protected planets there because of the kind of like sentient species that are on one of the planet it's also home to

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   quarterdeck which is the the massive UAE prison that's there so there's really not a lot of reasons to go to Kellogg in the first place which made it interesting why even though it's connected Acronis is connected to it that the UAE would hold on to it there's one other jump point that connects Chronos and it goes to Branaugh which is an unclaimed system that's just sitting out here so as you see if I grab the star mat and kind of move it around you've got it's out here in the middle of nowhere it's not really connected anything so what what about the system made the UAE so interested in it well let's go in and take a look at it right now as you'll first see is that the Sun is a g3 v-type main sequence star it's yellow white and it's very similar to

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   this some that said in the center of the Sall system so that was one of the appealing things to start off with is that it it looks very similar it has a very similar mass and luminosity as what we have in seoul so there was a general familiar familiarity with it the first thing that is kind of close to it is you'll notice is that the the two planets that are in the system are really close to the star they're actually inside the green line here the first one is brooder this is a rocky meso planet and this is only about 0.3 away from the Sun it does have a lot of metallic ores in the planet surface but being only 0.3 au away from the Sun means that the surface temperatures are

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   extreme and basically make any mining operations there virtually impossible now the second planet in the system as we spin this way is fester right here and this is a little further away it's about 0.5 au away but it's actually warmer than brooder because there are a lot of gases that and a very thick atmosphere here which trapped the heat from the Sun and basically build up a a greenhouse gas effect on the planet that makes it even more inhospitable to humanity than than brooder so why keep it why if this system upon discovery had a son like this two planets very close to the center of the system and that it well there were conspiracy theories

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   about exactly why for years and years and years some you know believed that there they would track these military shipments and haulers going in and out of the system from Kellogg some assumed that there were they were working on some kind of secret doomsday device others you know more creatively maybe suggested some kind of invisible States Space Station it ran the gamut of possibilities and even drove one conspiracy theory of theorists to actually stowaway aboard one of these kind of like ships that were taking supplies into the system she went in she came back out and she basically announced that she hadn't seen anything there were there was nothing there that seemed out of the ordinary it just seemed like another system that they were making a run to back and forth now of course the conspiracy theory circles meant thought that this meant that

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   they've gotten to her and that there was something very very big a dramatic there that the UAE was hiding and that they had to basically you know cover up but only it only intensified the conspiracy theories even though there was literally not a shred of evidence that anything really crazy was going there well eventually in 2872 the imperial court bin' Salette he sat down and explained exactly why the ue he had to decide to hold on to the system and as we back up the map here i'm finally can bring it into view what what we had decided to do here and that is basically create a world from scratch the project was known as project ark chang'd our archangel and the world is

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    as you'll know is synth world which is right here it's this representation of it is is just a first pass it's literally being constructed and put together right now but this system where there were two planets on the inner part where there would be no population there there would be no industry going on there seemed like a perfect test ground to try this very very kind of ambitious project because it wouldn't be disturbing any local inhabitants and wouldn't be impeding on any economic value that the system would provide it had a star at the center which we were familiar with and could could deal with ascend and being able to have this vast expanse past Wester to be able to find the exact right point to be able to build this planet kind of seemed to make sense for impurity Salahi and and this

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    this project now project archangel was the came about because of something called the clark committee and the clark committee was was kind of brought together after the downfall of the messers and the the massacre of guarantee where an entire kind of like planets ecosystem was wiped away by terraforming just so humanity could economically take advantage of it and humanity realized the ue he had a bad reputation with the ban you and the xi'an for the way that they handled themselves so they wanted to try to think a very ambitious positive project that they could focus on the most extreme the basically proposal that the clark committee put out there was creating our own world that way we don't need to terraform anything anymore we can literally just build the world populate

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    it Deno to our specifications and it would solve those problems when this plan first came forward it was as extreme and crazy but imperative Sally he was absolutely convincing he was he had kind of rose to the empiric on a wave of positive kind of open and ambitious government people at the time were we're sick of the you know kind of like getting over the messers they were sick of this entrenched corruption that was still a part of the system and he kind of countered that message came in brought this kind of like positive message with him and basically convinced the political and the public that this would be a this would be a worthwhile project now for years this project did go on with the full support of the you

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    EE in the population haulers were more than willing to bring shipments to this like far corner of the galaxy for not a lot of profit because they know it was going to some greater good and some greater purpose as the decades wore on and the the synth world was still being constructed and billions upon billions and billions of credits being spent on it the the appetite for it kind of lessened a little bit this was really kind of like it really had a turning point and 2922 when in corbin sally he who has who was no longer impurity at the time had had kind of like moved on with his life was still the main advocate for the synth world he ended up dying unexpectedly due to complications to his artificial pancreas

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    now when the synth world's biggest cheerleader passed away all of a sudden the positivity and the the idea that this could be something humanity could achieve kind of wilted wilted at the same time what happened shortly thereafter in 29:25 made things even worse basically chef Esther here they had with the greenhouse gases the beta the part of the synth world project were to put refineries and different or stations on this planet to help trap the gases and use in the construction of synth world so when an independent auditor went to fester to look at these refineries they discovered that they weren't there one of the project managers le canis

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    basically had skimmed billions of dollars of credits off the off the project and just never built the refineries on fester now what happened to that is the Terra Gazette and other and other papers that were against the massive massive government spending on the synth world splashed headlines across the front pages showing how many credits had been wasted on on this this basically embezzlement plot and for the first time the citizens and civilians of the Empire finally got an idea of exactly how much money was being spent to create a planet that didn't really seem to be coming together as fast as as they had hoped or had been promised this

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    is when basically a lot of the kickback to the synth world started to go into high gear for those who are interested in the the political breakdowns of the current Yui one of the parties is called the transitional list their Center is in Terra they they believe that Terra should be the the center of humanity in the center of the UE going forward that it that the Terra has always been on the forefront of where humanity needs to go they are firmly against spending more money on the synth world they have called it something akin to a financial vampire on the Empire and part of the reason why the u ee in 29:47 faces so many looming budgetary crisis is because of the money being spent on this in fact

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    last year Rachel Lester who is a transitional Esparta member who's in the Senate as a representative from Van in Carrozza actually put forward a sensible synth world amendment which would basically take the the the funding for the synth world is mandatory in the UAE budget the sent the sensible synth world of men men would have made it discretionary meaning every single year it would have had to face it would have been on the chopping block and would have been up for vote as to whether we keep funding this project or not so there is there is some heavy opposition growing strong or everyday within even the the halls of the Senate and other parts of the UAE government that this ambitious synth world project which was meant to show what humanity

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    could achieve when we came together and focused on the good of a side of things to basically put that by the wayside now you'll notice here the synth world orbiting it is archangel station now this is basically the main hub for for the synth world this is where the researchers this is where the the people who are building it this is where they're stationed this is where if you're gonna bring in a bunch of war or minerals or something to help the project this is where you're gonna be dropping it off visiting synth world right now while under construction is well the 18th battle fleet which still patrols this system and is based at our change'll station would not take to that kindly so this is where you're going to want to go to drop off look for missions drop off any anything you're hauling

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    into the system for them it is also besides being the home to the 18th battle fleet it is also home to the nine nine nine test Squadron which if you are familiar with the history of that has been around since the earliest days of human space travel this goes way back to even before there was a navy that patrolled the skies these goes back to some of the people that tested the very first space ships for Humanity that were able to go and visit the the deep corners of the the the soul system and test a lot of the experimental spaceships that would eventually then become commonplace thanks to their testing of their

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    component and stuff like that so the 999 test squadron also known as the reckless reckless with the wwr e ck le SS they're all about making sure that when they do test these ships and new components that they don't wreck they're there they're very dedicated to staying safe and secure but with this vast expanse of space out here on the outer reaches of the system it is the perfect location for a test squadron to be based so they can have all this surrounding space to test different ships and stuff like that with a minimal interference from the public or anything else the 99 tes quadrant is a fascinating story but that is a story for another time one which

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    you can also find on the RSI website amongst our other lower position of lore posts and stuff like that so that is the Chronos system for you to to get to know a little bit again nothing nothing a too crazy except for the fact that we're trying to build a planet there so yeah thank you for watching this episode of lawmakers guide to the galaxy and we'll see you next time thank you for watching so if you want to keep up with the latest and greatest in star citizen and squadron 42 development please follow us on our social media channels see you soon you