Ornimorn is the Ornis’ system’s star- a G type star relatively late into its lifespan. It’s energy is currently being harvested by one of three dyson spheres in the Local Systems. A plan is being put in place to harvest some of its mass, too, which will both provide a huge amount of resources and extend the star’s lifespan for hundreds of millions of years.
Scorch is a super-earth- a very large rocky planet- that is unusually close to its star, considering its size. It’s upper layers have been stripped off to provide building material for the system’s dyson sphere, which has been an unpopular move among traditional Pennacertian cultures, many of whom include the planet in their religion and so have not enjoyed watching it grow smaller in the night sky.
New Mercury is a small rocky planet, too close to its star to be habitable.
Pennacerti is a mid-sized rocky planet, slightly smaller than Earth, with a beautiful native ecosystem. It also has two small moons. It’s native life is similar to Earth’s, with green plants, insects, and tetrapods. Much of its life’s resemblance to Earth’s theropods has earned it the moniker of ‘the planet of dinosaurs’.
It is home to a native sapient species known as the beamen. Their cultures, mostly unconnected by an internet, are thus some of the most diverse in the Local Systems. To defend their interests, many of these cultures have come together to create a legal entity known as the UBC. Other nations with jurisdiction over parts of Pennacerti include the UHALE and Martian Union.
Rhonnamin is one of the largest gas giant planets in the Local Systems, with almost twice Jupiter’s mass. It is home to a whopping 120 moons; 18 of which are larger than the largest moon in the Solar System. It’s large system, presence in Ornimorn’s habitable zone, and close proximity to a rich asteroid belt make it an ideal area for establishing non-planetary cities. It is thus home to a large number of nations, some of which have even terraformed several of the larger moons in the system.
The Ceres belt is an asteroid belt rich in metal and intensively mined by the inhabitants of the Ornis system. It has a large number of dwarf planets, like New Ceres and New Pluto.
Huk is a large, frozen super-earth. Though it has no present life, a scant fossil record indicates it was briefly inhabited by a sapient alien species, some two billion years ago. It is among the few pieces of evidence that give clues on the life and sudden extinction of a seemingly prosperous empire that inhabited the Milky Way Galaxy billions of years before the present.
Gias is a large gas giant with a small ring system and almost 80 moons. It’s most notable moon is New Europa, an icy moon with a subsurface ocean that teems with life. From this moon comes a sapient species known as the lomanos. To survive outside of their cold ocean home, the lomanos have fashioned versatile robotic bodies that can allow them to survive in virtually any environment, fuelling their expansion across space. Today, most lomanos live in the Rhonnamin system- not the Gias one.
The Karcken belt is an asteroid belt rarely utilised by sapient life. This area of the Ornis system has seen a remarkable number of disappearing spacecraft, which has fueled the superstition that traveling at low speeds through the outer edge of a star system is bad luck- or somehow cursed.