SubWorld2400/Planets

This article details the planets of the Tauri System.

Rubicon
Rubicon is a relatively small planet, known for its shallow murky seas from where it gets it name. The planet also has a lush tropical belt, where many tropical fruits can be grown, it is also a major location in the farming of planets for medicines and the smuggling of these plants has become a problem recently, causing the authorities to step up security and restrict landing on the planet, however pilots who know the planet can find a way to land in the wilderness.

Rubicon is part of the League of Autonomous Planets, with its main source of income and industry being the manufacturing of medicines and exporting of fruits to the wealthier planets.

Dragon's Egg
Dragon's Egg is a brown dwarf ignited into an artificial sun to extend the habitable zone of the system, and the star has two moons.

Osiris and Isis
Osiris and Isis are a double planet orbiting at a barycenter approximately 33,700 km above the surface of each planet. Osiris and Isis are husband and wife in Ancient Egyptian mythology.

The two planets are part of the Commonwealth, mainly due to their proximity to Memphis, a Capital World in support of the Commonwealth. Both Osiris and Isis, are relatively undeveloped planets with a small representation in the Commonwealth Parliament on Albion. While Osiris is a relatively poor agricultural planet, Isis is a wealthy planet known for its resorts and beautiful scenery.

Pheonix
The former Brown Dwarf Pheonix, was helioformed into an artificial sun, much like Dragon's Egg in the Yellow Sun, and the star has three moons.

Djinn's World
Djinn's World is a relatively large Helium-3 gas giant located at the edges of the system. The gas giants moons resisted Commonwealth control, and formed the Sultanate of Red Sun, and each moon is represented as an Emirate in the Council of Emirates in its capital, Alexandria City on Alexandria. The Yutanyi Corporation has the mining rights to the gas giant while the Sultanate claims it, however the Commonwealth has in the past wanted to 'buy' the planet, however with the denial of the Sultanate, and increased tensions between the two institutions.