The blue dwarf Dulcinea lies at the edge of the accretion disk spiraling around HCSS-1185’s center of mass. A trickle of plasma lit by the occasional flare in the direction of the event horizon signals the star’s gradual sacrifice of mass to astral physics. Some great calamity reduced the dominant civilization in this system to fragmented shadows of their former selves.
Images. The dazzling corona of Super Massive Black Hole-1185’s accretion disk, illuminating the void with pulses of stellar radiation. Forgotten husks of half-made artificial satellites cluttering planets throughout the system. Cold shapes flickering briefly in the radar shadow of an ice giant.
Rules: Powerful magnetic currents in the accretion field play havoc with electronics in-system, while sensors must peer through dense Lorentz scattering or be blinded by exposure to the radioactive bursts periodically flaring from Dulcinea’s millenia-long process of matter transference. All actions made relying on craft sensors and comms have reduced effect, and Tech plans have -1d to the engagement roll.
Points of Interest
The white ice giant Menat, home of the Sifter’s Guild.
Pantheon, a partially-constructed Stanford Torus orbiting Dulcinea-Cyrene’s L5. Headquarters of the fading society of New Dawn.
The abandoned asteroid colonies of the Lacrima Belt.
Wherever it is that the secretive Outer Council convenes (?)
Great roll20 screen! Excited to start work on my A Nocturne screen. I really like the clocks you have here.