Orry

Orry

(Cosmos)

Type

Terrestrial planet

Adjective

Orrian

Diameter

1/2

Mass

1/4

Gravity

×1

Atmosphere

Thin

Year length (PST)

2 year

Day length (PST)

28 hours

Inhabitants

Phentomites

Source: Core Rulebook, pg(s). 467

Orry is a shattered planet in Near Space inhabited by the phentomites, descendants of a technologically and magically advanced society.

Geography

Orry is not a planet in the traditional sense, but simply 10 massive landmasses and several dozen smaller formations that orbit the gravitic anomaly at the former core of the planet. Some take a full Pact Standard year to make a full orbit. These landmasses never collide and their bottom sides always faces the anomaly, which also keeps the atmosphere intact but thin. Due to their slow orbit, it's possible for elite acrobats, known as bridgers, to swing from landmass to landmass and fashion temporary rope-and-wood bridges to facilitate trade between them. However, journeys through such bridges are still incredibly dangerous and can take months to complete, as the largest, slowest landmasses only approach each other for a short time each year. A traveller that slips will find only death when they plummet into the gravitational anomaly. Roads of an unknown material crisscross Orry's landmasses, remnants of its advanced past.

Because of the gravitational anomaly along with artifacts left behind from Orry's golden age, landing starships on Orry is extremely dangerous. Offworld vessels are only allowed to land in a phentomite-designated area outside of Zisfahani, the largest city on the planet; further travel must be done on foot with the help of phentomite bridgers. Teleportation magic and technology are also unreliable for the sam reason.

History

Thousands of years ago, Orry was a technomagical utopia until a spaceflight research project designed to harness gravity went awry and created a gravitc anomaly at the planet's core. Orry's crust shattered, vast chunks of landmass were thrown into space, and millions of inhabitants were killed, but enough unscathed land and air remained for the shattered planet to remain inhabitable. As time passed, the native phentomites forgot their technology and magic, reverting to a primitive agrarian society.

Orry was recently discovered by the Pact Worlds and AbadarCorp has constructed the small space station named Harmony-One in orbit around it.