| Tom Kalbfus |
Here is my idea for a star system, which could exist within the Starfinder Galaxy, this time its just planets, as I'm exploring a different concept. First and foremost this system features two identical sunlike stars, one is called Helios, the other one is called Apollo. Helios has three planets orbiting around it within the life zone of the star, they are Aphrodite, Gaia, and Ares.
Aphrodite is a world we once thought Venus was, it is shrouded with clouds, most of its surface is covered with Ocean (80% of its surface) or Tropical rain forest, there are areas near the poles where its only a Temperate rain forest, and the planet has no seasons in any case. The primary inhabitants of Aphrodite are lizardfolk and drow elves, these are not the standard drow, as they live on the surface and they worship a different deity other than Lolth. Aphrodite also rotates backwards and has a 31 hour day. another feature is that it boasts a large moon, one third larger than Selene and it is called Hermes.
Gaia shares many features in common with Earth, it as its Moon Selene which is similar in size and distance to Earth's Moon, the primary inhabitants of Gaia are humans, halflings, and merfolk, it has four large Oceans: The Atlantean, the Pax, the Austral, and the Boreal Oceans, the largest continent is named Terra-Romulous, another continent across the Atlantean is called Terra-Nova, the form of government for Gaia is a Republic, its has dual heads of state called Consuls, its chief legislative body is called the Assembly, and the upper chamber is called the Senate. Gaia has a 24-hour day, a 365 day year and four seasons
Ares is about the size of Earth, it has two moons named "fear" and "Terror", its chief inhabitants are Orcs, goblins, giants, and evil dragons. Ares has 50% water coverage, and is dominated by two very large ice caps at its poles. The Orcs like to live underground during the long winters this world has.
Beyond Ares is an asteroid Belt
Orbiting Apollo is a large gas giant Zeus. Zeus is a large blue and white gas giant with a large surably cyclonic storm in its southern hemisphere, its diameter is 140,646 miles, unlike most gas giants, this one is breathable at a certain level, the secret is that inside is a spherical gate to the Elemental Plane of Air, all sorts of ariel creatures native to the elemental plane of air also inhabit the atmosphere of this planet, the environment is similar to the elemental plane of air except that the direction of down is toward the center of this planet and towards the center of this planet is a gate to the elemental plane of air, if you fall down too far, you end up in the elemental plane of air.
In orbit around Zeus is four satellites Hephaestus, Kronos, Ouranos, and Poseidon. Orbiting separately beyond Zeus is the planet Hades.
| Tom Kalbfus |
I am not familiar with the Pathfinder Pantheon, I don't have the sourcebook for the setting, I have the core rulebook, and two bestiaries, I tend to use them in my setting. I'm proceeding on the assumption that the Greek-Roman gods are refugees from the Solar System/Earth when they humans of that world rejected the worship of them in favor of monotheistic deities, those gods had to go somewhere, so they came here, and made imperfect or improved models of their worlds. I made an unfinished and crude map of Gaia if you would like to see it. It is unfinished at the moment, basically what I did is take a crude pixel map of Earth and roll up some random coastlines at a finer resolution, the goddess in charge not being concerned with fine details, This planet copies all the established biomes of Earth, and has a continent for each of them. I also rolled up some random islands in the four oceans. The Boreal Ocean copies the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantean Ocean copies the Atlantic Ocean and is also where there is a kingdom of Merfolk - they tend to be distrustful of technology and more heavily reliant on Magic., There is the Pax Ocean which is a copy of the Pacific, and the Austral Ocean which is a copy of the Indian Ocean. Humans are the primary inhabitants of this not quite Earth, they worship the Roman gods in this corner of the Galaxy, the greek names are reserved for their planets to avoid confusion. But if you want to use Gorlarion gods, you would have to find some with similar portfolios to the ones I listed. I would not know which ones they are. Does Gorlariaon have gods similar t Aphrodite, Selene, Gaia, Ares, Zeus, Hephaestus, Kronos, Ouranos, Poseidon, Hades, Apollo, and Helios? I find it useful that Greek Mythology has two Sun gods, in Greek Mythology Apollo displaced Helios, but here they exist side by side as two separate stars with each having their own "Sun Chariots" so to speak.