SERENITY Travel Time and Comm Lag

SERENITY Travel Time and Comm Lag

Core

Border

Nirvana

Skyplex

Bernadette (20)

Ariel (36)

Sihnon (43)

Londinum (58)
Osiris (64)

Dyton Colony (86)
Bellerophon (100)
Boros (144)
Paquin (173)
Newhall (186)
Persephone (158)
Verbena (173)
Santo (186)
Hera (288)
Beaumonde (359)

Angel (559)

Dandelion (453)

Domino (410)

Jiuxing (568)

Reno (326)

Sanctuary (403)

Springfield (682)

Xinglong (308)

Rim SE - Georgia

Rim SW - Mao

Rim NE - Arden

Rim NW - Burnham

Deadwood (453)

Highgate (355)

New Melbourne (390)

Regina (372)

Salisbury (457)

Three Hills (425)

Whittier (397)

Ezra (646)

Greenleaf (575)

Higgin’s Moon (618)

Ita (675)

Jiangyin (535)

St Albans (665)

Triumph (603)

Harvest (561)

Kerry (559)

Liann Jiun (410)

Muir (425)

Silverhold (566)

Aberdeen (762)

Athens (805)

Beylix (748)

Border Moons (806)

Haven (825)

Lilac (733)

Miranda (863)

Shadow (796)

Whitefall (806)

Step 1: Subtract the larger world value from the smaller to determine the Distance (D).

Step 2: Roll 1d6 and add 4 to determine the Relative Location Multiplier (RLM). This presumes a direct flight path along charted nav-sat routes. A ship can fly further “out in the black” to avoid running across other ships by rolling an extra 1d6 for the RLM.

Step 3: Multiply D by the RLM to get the base number of hours travel time.

Step 4: Divide the product by the ship’s Speed Class to determine how many hours it will actually take to travel from one world to another at the current time.

Step 5: If traveling “across the ‘Verse (IE NW to SE or SW to NE, compute the total time by adding the time between start point and Sihnon and end point and Sihnon. Example: flight is from Whitefall to New Melbourne. Figuring an average 7.5 for RLM for both legs the difference between Whitefall (806) and Sihnon (43) is 763 X 7.5 = 5,722.5. The difference between New Melbourne (390) and Sihnon (43) is 347 X 7.5 = 2,602.5 for a total of 8,325 hours. Dividing by a Firefly-Class speed of 4 equals 2,081.25 divided by 24 for a total of 86.7 days.

Step 6: If crossing a quadrant NW to NE, NE to SE, SE to SW, SW to NW calculate the travel time from start point to nearest mid-point Skyplex. Example: Figuring an average 7.5 for RLM for both legs the difference between Ezra (646) to Juixing (568) has a difference of 78 X 7.5 = 585 divided by Firefly-Class speed of 4 equals 146.25. The difference between Athens (805) and Juixing (568) is 237 X 7.5 is 1,777.5. Dividing by a Firefly-Class speed of 4 equals 444.375 and adding the first leg’s 146.25 = 590.625 hours or 24.61days or 24 days and 15 hours.

As the Skyplexes are in a fixed location, there is no RLM roll. If moving through the Core such as from Sanctuary to Juixing, calculate the two legs using Sihnon’s RLM. If traveling between other Skyplexes, they have fixed distances: Dandelion/Juixing 832 hours, Dandelion/Springfield 1,192 hours, Dandelion/ Xinglong 1,172 hours, Domino/Juixing 1,896 hours, Domino/Reno 896 hours, Reno/ Sanctuary 780 hours, Reno/Xinglong 848 hours, Sanctuary/Xinglong 712 hours, Springfield/ Xinglong 1,156 hours. Divide by Speed Code to find actual travel time. Traveling directly between Skyplexes rather than through the Core takes less time due to the heavy traffic in the Core.

Step 7: Divide the result from Step 3 by 600 to determine the comm lag or how long broadcast waves take between the worlds at the current moment; treat less than 1 minute as "real time" communication.

Astrogation: Moving from one location to a desired destination requires an INT + Pilot / Astrogation Skill roll. The Difficulty is calculated by dividing the base travel time from Step 3 by 150 (rounded down).

Planet Listing

1 - Aberdeen: A Rim farming moon that picked up a boost in their economy when Shadow was rendered uninhabitable. Not as populous as Hera and along with Harvest is attempting to break the stranglehold the more established Hera has on the food market of the ‘Verse.

2 - Ariel: A wealthy Core planet with exemplary medical facilities (if not exemplary security).

3 - Angel: A Rim planet recently opened to settlement and currently only supports a single colony, still under control of the Terraforming Consortium, but is intended to be for agriculture.

4 - Athens: A Rim planet with four moons, consisting of the Border Moons and Whitefall, with a well developed light industrial base and an even better agricultural base.

5 - Beaumonde: A wealthier, more civilized Border planet that is a common trading point between the Core and Rim, in addition to having an extensive industrialized sector of its own. .

6 - Bellerophon: A Border planet that is a rich man’s paradise. By crude definition, each estate is self-contained on a floating island above the oceans of Bellerophon. Each estate has all the trimmings; grass lawns, landscaping and multi-code locks to keep out any unwanted visitors. There are also local police patrols that cover the area. Durran Haymer owns an estate here.

7 - Bernadette: Home of the only remaining Exodus Ark from Earth-That-Was and was the first planet in the Core to be terraformed after Londinum and Sihnon. Bernadette is a major staging location for ships of settlers headed for the Rim or Border planets

8 - Beylix: A Rim planet with large farming areas, but is best known as being the garbage dump of the ‘Verse. Heavily under the influence of United Reclamation there are also extensive recycling facilities.

9 - Border Moons: These three moons of the Rim planet Athens were terraformed in order to make them habitable enough to not require vacc suits for the independent mining crews that make up the only inhabitants that are unfortunate enough to live here. These moons are so barren that they never merited individual names and are just called Alpha-1, Alpha-2, and Alpha-3.

10 - Boros: A civilized Border planet with both an agricultural and industrialized base. The moon Ares is Iskellian Technology Solution’s primary ship yard for the Alliance and is strictly patrolled and protected to guard the no less than five capital ships building at any one time.

11 - Deadwood: A hardscrabble Rim planet that had its terraforming subsidized by Corone Mining Consortium giving them a total monopoly on all mineral rights to all mining on the planet. Security is run by the Consortium and is notoriously corrupt giving Deadwood a deserved reputation for lawlessness.

12 - Dyton Colony: A Border world made habitable and colonized through judicious use of convicts looking to reduce their prison sentences. Natives of Dyton can be identified fairly easily due to their notable accent. Dyton is a heavily industrialized world supporting both the Rim and the Core with both industrial output and as a trade center.

13 - Ezra/Georgia System: A heavily developed Border system with a large number of moons and asteroids valuable for mining (and/or equally useful for clandestine dealings). Paradiso and Hancock are located on Ezra and the planet is the source of Bowden’s Malady a degenerative connective tissue disease endemic to working in the mines. The Georgia system is the base of operation for Adelei Niska; his privatized Skyplex orbits Ezra controlling the mines.

14 - Greenleaf: A civilized Rim planet (or at least one with good medical facilities) not far from several border worlds. Greenleaf is the major source medicines in the ‘Verse to include the illegal narcotic Highleaf. It is an eighteen-hour flight from Higgins' Moon and a ten-hour flight from Jiangyin.

15 - Harvest: Another agricultural Rim moon along with Aberdeen that is competing to break the lock Hera has on the title of ‘Breadbasket of the ‘Verse. Harvest has likewise picked up a boost in economy with the decimation of Shadow.

16 - Haven: A small mining Rim moon and not much else. The one small colony is independent of the mining guild and intends to stay that way.

17 - Hera: The agricultural breadbasket of the ‘Verse, this Border planet is also the site of Serenity Valley, the defining and last major battle of Unification War.

18 - Higgin’s Moon: A Rim moon whose major export is mud and building supplies, peopled mostly by indentured workers, living in squalor. Canton is located here.

19 - Highgate: A Rim mining moon currently independent of the Corone Mining Consortium. The independent miners are facing increasing pressure from the Consortium who has used any means necessary to gain a toe hold and are just as ruthlessly exploiting their initial acquisitions.

20 - Ita: A Rim mining moon independent of Corone Mining Consortium. The remote location of this moon makes acquisition unlikely as profit margins are too narrow. The other half of the moon’s location means it is largely neglected by the Alliance, breeding a strong self-sufficiency in the residents making it a hotbed of smuggling and other illegal activities. (Birthplace of the Neo-Browncoat movement)

21 - Jiangyin: A struggling and backward Rim agricultural planet where hill folk have the charming habit of kidnapping skilled folk they need.

22 - Kerry: Another independent Rim mining moon that is everything that Muir is not. If not for bad luck this moon would have no luck at all, a struggling economy and no real prospects to make things better on their own. Times have gotten hard enough that the locals have open negotiations with Corone Mining Consortium.

23 - Liann Jiun (Trans: Allied Forces) This Rim planet is the largest Alliance military base outside of the Core. Used for basic training with a wide variety of climates to provide the most in depth training environment possible. While the primary function of this planet is dedicated to the military, there are enough areas of farming lands to make Liann Jiun nearly self-sufficient.

24 - Lilac: A small crop Rim moon that suffers from high heat and a shortage of water. The moon is self-sustaining but only just.

25 - Londinum: The Anglo-centric half of the two capitals of the Alliance features the same level of sophistication and technological advances as Sihnon, but lacking the stunning planetary landscaping.

26 - Miranda: Not listed in any Cortex entry or navigation database. A few people will remember when it was declared a blackrock after a failed terraforming more than a dozen years ago.

27 - Muir: Unusual for an independent Rim mining moon, the economy here is thriving. The proximity to Liann Jiun and skillful negotiation by the council of mine owners has lead to Muir having an exclusive contract to supply the huge base with all their mineral needs. A by-product of this agreement is the frequent Alliance patrols in the area to prevent hijackings.

28 - Newhall: Another largely water Border planet dedicated to fishing and exporting water, recently terraformed and in need of workers.

29 - New Melbourne: A Rim planet that's known for its heavily fishing-oriented economy. It's also a layover point for most of the systems both in the Core and border.

30 - Osiris: A very wealthy Core world. The planet is 'advanced' enough to have developed truly disreputable areas in the urban sprawl -- places known as Blackout Zones where loyal Alliance citizens simply do not go. The main city on Osiris is called Capital City.

31 - Paquin: A Border planet given over largely to entertainment of all sorts. Known as the ‘Gypsy Planet’ in addition to traditional carnivals and circuses, there are a state of the art opera houses and theaters.

32 - Persephone: Civilized Border planet specializing in trade saddled with a heavily stratified societal structure and, as a result, a large slum population bordering on the Eavesdown Docks.

33 - Regina: A mineral rich Rim planet with most of the mines under the control of Corone Mining Consortium. The fact that all the mines are not under the control of the Consortium is a never ending source of friction, with the Consortium working very hard to bring the entire planet under their control.

34 - Saint Albans: An ice world on the Rim that is little less than two day’s hard burn from the Space Bazaar Skyplex. In addition to the miserable independent mines that are the bread and butter of this world, there is a Fed Station located here to curtail smuggling.

35 - Salisbury: A Rim moon optimized to produce a large portion of the meat for the ‘Verse. Large steppes featuring almost endless grazing land provides the bulk feed for cattle in the millions. Indeed the finest meat in the ‘Verse is under the ‘Salisbury Steak’ brand.

36 - Santo: An extremely successful terraforming project with a robust agricultural base, this Border planet was a resort world renowned for its casinos and other tourist venues. The tourist market was severely disrupted during the war and has only just begun to recover, but with a more adult orientation than before the war. .

37 - Shadow: This Rim planet was massively bombed during the war in an attempt to break the Browncoats, Once the cattle producing center of the ‘Verse, today, Shadow is a ghost planet. No one lives there. No one can.

38 - Sihnon: The crown jewel of the Core worlds, Sihnon far surpasses the sophistication and technology level of any of the planets in the ‘Verse, with the possible exception of Londinum, one of the two capital planets and based on Chinese culture.

39 - Silverhold Colonies: An agricultural planet with a corrupt Fed Station resulting in a world even more meager than is typical for the Rim. Law and order can be purchased by the highest bidder, which makes this planet also more lawless than is typical for the Rim as well, as honest folk can’t make enough money to get any justice.

40 - Three Hills: A Rim agricultural planet with minimal Alliance presence, great for smugglers and other folk attempting to avoid unwanted official entanglements.

41 - Triumph: A primitive Rim planet where fringe religious sects with very strange teachings and practices govern even the most civilized townships.

42 - Verbena: Due to this Border planet's heavy involvement in the Independents’ side of the Unification War, Verbena is scarcely surviving, barely more than a piece of barren rock. Recently, the Alliance has been making an effort to show the population the error of their ways by leading them back into prosperity through government-funded improvements to the planet's economy.

43 - Whitefall: Fourth moon of Athens, a large percentage of which is owned by a woman named Patience. Mines independent of Corone Mining Consortium make up the bulk of the moon’s exports, but the agricultural output is increasing every year.

44 - Whittier: Another in a large number of Rim mining planets to feed the voracious appetite for raw materials to sustain the massive growth of the Core and the Alliance. Completely under the thumb of the Corone Mining Consortium, Whittier is part of that corporation’s increasingly growing monopoly.

SE – Georgia Quadrant

Deadwood, Highgate, New Melbourne, Regina, Salisbury, Three Hills, Whittier

3 Agricultural, 4 Mining (Total 7)

SW – Mao Quadrant

Ezra, Greenleaf, Higgin’s Moon, Ita, Jiangyin, St Albans, Triumph

2 Agricultural, 4 Mining, 1 Specialized (Medicines) (Total 7)

NE – Arden Quadrant

Harvest, Kerry, Liann Jiun, Muir, Silverhold

2 Agricultural, 2 Mining, 1 Specialized (Military) (Total 5)

NW – Burnham Quadrant

Aberdeen, Athens, Beylix, Border Moons, Haven, Lilac, Miranda, Shadow, Whitefall

3 Agricultural, 3 Mining, 3 Specialized (1 Garbage), (1 Dead), (1 Hidden) (Total 9)

Nirvana

Angel

1 Specialized (new colony) (Total 1)

Border

Beaumonde, Bellerophon, Boros, Dyton, Hera, Newhall, Paquin, Persephone, Santo, Verbena

2 Agricultural, 8 Specialized (Total 10)

Core

Ariel, Bernadette, Londinum, Osirus, Sihnon

5 Specialized (Total 5)