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Bolo Strike
By William H. Keith
Copyright (c) 2001
Prologue
IGC S-83,938,253. Perseus Arm, Columbian Sector.
Sallos A,B. Stellar class: both F9, radius: 1.07 Sol, radius: 1.14 Sol,
luminosity: 1.9 Sol.
Estimated time remaining on the main sequence: 3.5 x 109 years.
Planetary System: Seven major planetary bodies . . .
V, Dis. Mean orbital radius = 4.85 a.u.,
period = 10.004 years.
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Orbital eccentricity = .0312.
Apastron = 5.00132 a.u.; periastron = 4.69868 a.u.
Equatorial diameter = 198,673 km.
Density = 1.034 g/cm3.
Surface gravity = 2.92 G.
Axial tilt = 2.03§.
Rotational period = 9h 12m 27.112s.
Magnetic field = 6.4 gauss.
Atmosphere: H2, 84% ñ 3%; He, 16% ñ 3%; CH4, 0.15%; NH3, 250 ppm; C2H6, 15
ppm; H2O, 2 ppm; HCN, .08 ppm; C2H2, .034 ppm; CO, .003 ppm; GeH4, .0004
ppm.
Satellites: 25 with diameters > 100 km, 3 with diameters > 5,000 km. . . .
One major satellite, Caern, is of special note. . . .
Satellites: Sallos Vf, Caern.
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Orbital semimajor axis = 1,002,354 km, rotational period = 4d 8h 46m
6.87s,
orbital eccentricity = .0004. . . .
Equatorial diameter = 8368 km.
Density = 6.228 gm/cm3.
Surface gravity = .74 G.
Planetary mass = 1.91232 x 1027 g.
Axial tilt = 0.04o.
Rotational period = tidally locked at 4d 8h 46m 6.87s.
Magnetic field = 1.21 gauss.
Surface area = 219,985,074.4 km2.
Surface temperature: 12% of incidental thermal radiation is derived from
the primary.
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Temperature = locationally variable, -30o C.
(anti-Dis side) to 50o (sub-Dis point).
A habitable band exists between the hemispheric regions of permanent ice
and desert.
Atmosphere: Mean surface pressure 0.8 bar.
N2, 77.08%; O2, 21.04%; Ar, 1.02%, H2O, 0.05-1.5% (mean 1%); CO2, 350 ppm;
Ne, 12.2/ppm; He, 6.34 ppm; CH4, 1.9 ppm; Kr, 1.98 ppm; CO, 1.3 ppm; SO2,
3.4 ppm; H2, 0.4 ppm; N2O, 0.33 ppm;
O3 .05-1.9 ppm; Xe, 0.09 ppm; NO2, 0.03 ppm.
Notes: A habitable satellite of the gas giant Dis with its own native
biosphere, Caern was colonized by Terran-human stock late in the
Concordiat age. Military depots and communications centers at Paimos and
Grendylfen gave the planet some minor strategic import in that struggle,
but the system was located far from major areas of conflict and not
directly involved in the fighting. Cut off from all contact with human
space during the final phase of the Melcon Armageddon and the subsequent
Dark Era, Caern was eventually absorbed as an outpost of the then-unknown
Aetryxha Reach. Recontact with Caern in cy 375 has led to a period of
steadily escalating tension between the Confederation and the Reach. . . .
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Space Navigator's Ephemeris
Confederation Technical Press
37th Edition, cy 378
Six Confederation naval vessels, huge, irregularly patterned in swaths and
stripes of black, gray, and blue, decelerated into Disian space, weapons
charged, spiked snouts clawing at the clotted stars. Ahead, the ringed,
back-lit globe of the gas giant loomed vast within its necklace of
crescent moons. Sallos A and B, the local suns, glowed hot, white, and
arc-light dazzling, made tiny by distance.
On board the battlecarriers Esan and Helias, the command cruiser
Galahedron, and the three destroyers that made up the battle group, nearly
ten thousand Confederation naval personnel waited at their stations,
waited to see what shape the Aetryx response to their arrival in-system
would take. At this point, little was known of the aliens. All that could
be said with certainty was that their reaction would likely be . . .
alien. In truth, little of the xenosophontological reports garnered thus
far from the planetside merchant factors and X-Corps scouts made sense.
Making sense out of the situation-and ascertaining the fate of some
hundreds of millions of humans resident on Caern-was the Battlecarrier
Task Force's primary mission.
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