Planets of 'Saga of the Seven Suns'

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This article describes fictional Planets featured in The Saga of Seven Suns, a series of science fiction novels written by Kevin J. Anderson. To see the Main Page of the series click here: Main Page

Contents 1 Terran Hanseatic League 2 Theron 3 Ildiran Empire 4 Roamer 5 Klikiss 6 Other

[edit] Terran Hanseatic League

• Earth - The Capital of the Hanseatic League, Earth is the centre of Human culture and economy.

• Mars - Mars is controlled by the Earth Defence Forces, and used as their primary base for administration and training purposes.

• Relleker - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League mainly known as a resort world. Due to its reliance on imports the residents of Relleker were hard hit when ekti supplies dwindled. Therefore the planetary governor of Relleker - Jane Pekar - was loathe to lend aid to Davlin Lotze when he arrived requesting help in rescuing the citizens of Crenna and spend any of Relleker's vital resources in the process. When the Voracious Curiosity and the Blind Faith returned to Relleker with the rescued humans from Crenna, Relleker grudgingly gave the refugees sanctuary for a short time. Though when the last of them left with Rlinda Kett, Relleker suffered grave misfortune as it became the site of a Hydrogue attack which wiped out the human settlement.

• Ramah - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League mainly known as an Islamic religious haven.

• Dremen - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League known for its dismal climate. However, the world had enough usefulness in the form of growing crops, though not in great abundance. Although a plan was forwarded to use orbital mirrors to warm the surface of the world, it was dismissed as 'impractical'.

• Yreka - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League, Yreka was the site of a trap engineered by General Lanyan to catch the Roamer pirate Rand Sorengaard and his gang. The planet was later the site of a blockade by the Earth Defence Forces after it was discovered that the Yrekans had been hoarding ekti. The blockade ended when remoras struck food stores and fields of cereal crops, thus giving the Yrekans no choice but to give up their stored fuel. Due to their bitterness at the Terran Hanseatic League for stealing their cache of fuel, the Yrekan governor Padme agreed to set up a black market were the colony could trade covertly with the Roamers. This proved to be beneficial not only for the denizens of Yreka, but also nearby planets (who had been abandoned by the Hansa following the Soldier compy revolt) who desperately needed food and ekti supplies.

• Boone's Crossing - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League that was attack by the hydrogues due to its forested surface while the Hydrogues were searching for the verdani worldforest.

• Corvus Landing - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League and the site of Beneto Theron's death.

• New Portugal - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League, New Portugal is known for its production of wine.

• Palisade - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League.

• Usk - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League that was made an example of after it broke away.

• Paris 3 - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League.

• Cotopaxi - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League.

• Rhejak - An ocean world, famed for the native algae that is an essential ingredient in anti-ageing treatments.

• Crenna - A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League. Crenna was formerly an Ildiran planet on the very edge of the Ildiran Empire. The splinter colony thrived happily until a disease spread amongst the colonists claiming many Ildiran lives, including the planet's Designate. The disease renders victims blind; a nightmarish condition to Ildirans who are essentially 'afraid of the dark', eventually driving them mad to the point of death. Adar Korin'h evacuated the remaining colonists, as the population was unable to sustain 'thism'. Because the blindness plague only affected Ildirans, Crenna quickly became a new Hansa colony. The Hansa used Davlin Lotze - under the guise of a colonist starting a new life - to covertly search existing Ildiran buildings and items in an attempt to find out more about their Ildiran neighbours, although ultimately yielded nothing. Later, Crenna was the site of an outbreak of non-lethal "orange spot", which was not related to the earlier Ildiran disease. Crenna was eventually rendered uninhabitable when the system's star was extinguished by hydrogue activities.

• Oncier - A gas giant with four large moons. It was selected as the world on which the Klikiss torch was tested in hopes of transforming it into a star and making its moons habitable. After the torch was deployed, an unknown craft - piloted by a race of elemental beings later calling themselves 'Hydrogues' - attacked and destroyed the four moons as well as the nearby Hansa research station. Later a huge battle raged between the Hydrouges and Faeros, eventually extinguishing the new star. The four moons of Oncier were named George, Jack, Christopher and Ben and were pre-emptively named as colony worlds of the Terran Hanseatic League.

[edit] Theron

• Theroc - Though a human-populated world, Theroc is a sovereign world not part of the Hanseatic League. Theroc boasts lush vegetation and a variety of large insect animal life. The planet occasionally exported its foods and fibres as luxury items to other planets. However, trade rapidly diminished as the the hydrogue war flared. Theroc is the world most heavily populated by the verdani, or Worldforest, and is the cultural and spiritual home of the Green priests. Theroc is ruled as an independent state by its Father and Mother, and usually takes a neutral political stance. The planet and the Worldforest was greatly wounded by an attack by the hydrogues, who were searching forest-covered planets in hopes of exterminating their ancient enemy. The verdani were spared from utter extinction by the timely intervention of the faeros (who arguably made the situation worse), and the native Therons spent many years in a salvage operation, and later with the help of the Roamer clans.

[edit] Ildiran Empire

• Ildira - The Capital of the Ildiran Empire, heavily populated primarily due to the fear of isolation. Ildira is in a binary system, however its unusually close proximity to two other star systems, results in seven individual suns being clearly visible with a high degree of magnitude in the Ildiran sky, as a result the planet experiences no night.

• Dobro - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the second born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator. The most notable feature of Dobro is its human population. The humans from the generation ship Burton were taken to Dobro by Ildirans, and initially both species co-existed on the planet in peace. However, after a disturbance on the planet that killed several people the Ildirans imprisoned the humans to be used for their breeding experiments, with the aim of using human DNA to produce hybrid offspring with telepathic abilities superior to that of an average Ildiran. These experiments have been kept secret from all humans.

• Hyrillka - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the third born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator. Hyrillka is located in the Horizon Cluster. It is notable for being the centre of production of the potent stimulant drug Shiing, which has a disruptive effect on an Ildiran's connection to the telepathic web of thism. Hyrillka's populace suffered greatly at the hands of the hydrogues, and again when Designate Rusa'h attempted to rebel against Mage-Imperator Jora'h. The resulting warfare over the planet caused much collateral damage. When a clean-up operation began, lead by the young, newly appointed Designate Ridek'h, the planet was endangered again by a faeros-hydrogue battle at the system's star. The faeros won the battle, thus sparing the system, but Hyrillka was deemed unsafe for habitation.

• Colusa - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the fourth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

• Scotia - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the fifth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

• Alturas - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the sixth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator. Alturas was the third planet to be targeted by the false Imperator Rusa'h for induction into his thism.

• Galt - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the seventh born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

• Kamin - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the eighth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

• Shonor - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the ninth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator. During the insurrection of the false Imperator Rusa'h, Shonor was the fourth world targeted by the Ildiran, and followed Alturas.

• Heald - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the tenth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

• Vondor Qe - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the eleventh born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

• Hrel-oro - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire; its Designate is traditionally the twelfth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator. Hrel-oro is a dry and warm planet with very few vegetation though the world is rich in minerals and is mined by the Ildirans for desirable metals. Due to the arid climate, it is populated mainly by members of the 'scaly' kith. Power is supplied to Ildiran settlements by solar-power stations and wind turbines.

• Dzelluria - A splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire; its Designate is traditionally the thirteenth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator. During Rusa'h's insurrection against Mage-Imperator Jora'h, the false Imperator travelled to Dzelluria with his captured warliners to absorb the planet's population into his thism network. Although the Designate refused to cooperate with Rusa'h, the planet was taken by force and Rusa'h killed the Designate, coercing the Designate-in-waiting to join him.

• Maratha - A planet used as a resort world by the Ildiran Empire with a splinter colony located permanently at the Maratha Prime complex. Maratha has an extremely long day/night cycle, with the day cycle comparable to that of Ildira, and is therefore prized by the Ildiran Empire. A second complex, Maratha Secda, was being constructed by commissioned Klikiss robots on the other side of the planet so that the visiting population can utilise the resort world throughout the year. When the hibernating hive of Klikiss robots buried deep below the surface were awakened, both complexes were destroyed and/or disassembled to build ships and weapons. They were later wiped out by the Ildiran Solar Navy and the original Klikiss race.

• Comptor - A forested planet and is home to a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire. A former Designate of Comptor, the favourite of the then Mage-Imperator, is remembered in the Saga of the Seven Suns due to his death in a forest fire on the planet.

• Orryx - A former colony world of the Ildiran Empire that was virtually forgotten after its fall. Orryx was, according to Ildiran apocrypha, the first Ildiran world to be vanquished by the Shana Rei who covered the entire world and the septa of warliners that was sent to defend it in a blanket of darkness, killing the Ildirans.

[edit] Roamer

• Rendezvous - Although not an actual planet, Rendezvous is a connected collection of structures and hollowed asteroids in the Meyer system and is the Roamer central seat of government. Rendezvous was started when the generation ship Kanaka stopped in the Meyer system to collect vital resources required to continue on their journey, but some of the colonists decided to remain in the system. Rendezvous served as the Roamer seat of government until it was attacked and destroyed in a raid by the Earth Defence Forces.

• Osquivel - A gas giant occupied by hydrogues; its rings are the site of a Roamer starship manufacturing site managed by Del Kellum. These shipyards produced vessels such as the Erphano skymine and were for a long while safe from discovery by the Terran Hanseatic League. They were disguised when the Roamers were notified that the Earth Defence Forces would be sending a battle group to Osquivel after Robb Brindle traced the hydrogue warglobes that attacked Boone's Crossing back to the gas giant. In the battle between the Earth Defence Forces and hydrogues at Osquivel, the humans were soundly beaten and retreated from the planet. Roamers from the Osquivel shipyards managed to recover survivors from the wrecks of Earth Defence Forces ships after the battle, and were subsequently barred from leaving the facility to return to Earth. A complete hydrogue sphere/warship was also found at Osquivel and Kotto Okiah was pulled out from Jonah 12 to study the find. The hydrogue sphere was moved further away from Kellum's shipyards after it expelled high-pressure atmosphere when accidentally opened, sending it careening around. Some time after the battle against the hydrogues at Osquivel, families of the casualties of the battle journeyed to the planet to witness the destruction and construct a memorial. However, the group arrived at the gas giant amid the chaos of a Soldier compy rebellion - engineered by Kiro Yamane - against the Roamers at the shipyards.

• Plumas - An ice-bound planet where Roamer operated water mines are located. Run by the Tamblyn clan, the main settlement on Plumas was deep under the icy surface in caverns lit by artificial suns. The underground lake around which the Roamer settlement on Plumas was built was populated by blood red nematodes. After the death of Bram Tamblyn, the Plumas water mines were inherited by Jess Tamblyn although he left it in the hands of his experienced uncles. Under the administration of the Tamblyn brothers, Plumas served as the base for a short-lived pirating endeavour that started and ended with the capture of traders Rlinda Kett and Robert Branson. Much of the colony's subterranean grottos were destroyed by a possessed Karla Tamblyn - who was infused with the energy of a tainted Wental - and the world was abandoned soon after.

• Braddox - A mentioned planet that is occupied by a Roamer clan.

• Constantine III - A Stormy primordial planet; site of a Roamer facility that extracted certain raw materials, such as long chain molecules (which are difficult to synthesize), from its thick atmosphere.

• Forrey's Folly - A briefly mentioned planet occupied by a Roamer clan.

• Hurricane Depot - A facility used by the Roamers consisting of an artificially constructed station located at the centre of a pair of orbiting planetoids. During its management by Roberto Clarin, the Hurricane Depot's artificial complex was destroyed in a raid by the Earth Defence Forces.

• Isperos - A planet that orbited close to its system's sun and was rich in precious minerals. The Roamer Kotto Okiah planned to build a settlement on the planet in the hopes of mining the minerals, and travelled with Jess Tamblyn to inspect the planet. Kotto's plans were later approved by the Roamer Speaker Jhy Okiah, and a Roamer settlement was built on Isperos, complete with a railgun launcher that sent 'bricks' of material far out into safer zones of space for pickup by Roamer ships. After a meteor passed close to the planet and misaligned the railgun, causing a number of subsequent problems that compromised the safety of the facility and its inhabitants, the Roamers were forced to abandon the settlement.

• Jonah 12 - An incredibly cold planet and the location of a Roamer colony designed by Kotto Okiah after the unfortunate demise of the mining facility on Isperos. Roamers on the planet mined the gases frozen on its surface for use in Roamer industry. The facility was later destroyed when the colonists inadvertently uncovered numerous Klikiss robots hibernating deep within the ice. The robots swiftly attacked the Roamer base and levelled it with ease. Only Nikko Chan Tylor and wounded Cesca Peroni escaped the base alive.

• Sunshine - A photon-bathed planetoid settlement run by the Tomara clan. The settlement consisted of subterranean warrens for habitation whose energy demands were provided by solar collectors. Work was done on the planetoid's surface by the inhabitants only by night.

• Golgen - A gas giant occupied by the hydrogues and the site where they were first encountered by humans when they destroyed the Roamer skymine Blue Sky Mine - owned by Ross Tamblyn. After the death of Ross, his brother Jess Tamblyn staged an attack against Golgen by sending asteroids along carefully calculated decaying orbits from the system's Oort cloud to collide with the gas giant. Golgen was later rendered safe for skymining again when Jess Tamblyn unleashed wentals into its atmosphere, preventing the hydrogues from ever returning (they were presumably driven away by the bombardment of asteroids).

• Ptoro - A gas giant occupied by the hydrogues, and previously the site of a Roamer skymine owned by the Tylar clan before the hydrogues ultimatum, after which it was pulled from service. Later, Ptoro was the site of the first offensive use of the Klikiss Torch by the Earth Defence Forces. Crim Tylar describes it as "cold, windy, bleak."

• Glyx - A gas giant mined by the original Ildiran skymines. Some time after the Ildirans passed over skymining to Roamers, the facility at Glyx was managed by Berndt Okiah.

• Erphano - A gas giant occupied by hydrogues and was the site of a Roamer skymine managed by Berndt Okiah. This skymine was one of the earliest to be destroyed by the hydrogues.

• Welyr - A gas giant occupied by hydrogues and was the site of a Roamer skymine managed by Shareen Pasternak. This skymine was one of the earliest to be destroyed by the hydrogues. Welyr was also the site of a Roamer blitzkrieg raid that took place five years after the destruction of the Roamer skymine and a bombing run performed by Del Kellum which seeded the atmosphere of the gas giant with wental.

• Franconia - A gas giant and site of a Roamer skymine managed by Boris Goff which was probably withdrawn after the hydrogue ultimatum. This gas giant suffered from moon-sized hurricanes.

• Haphine - A gas giant occupied by hydrogues and was the site of an Ildiran skymine that was one of the first two leased to the Roamers. This skymine was the fourth Roamer skymine to be destroyed by the hydrogues. Haphine was also the site of a wental-hydrogue battle after the atmosphere of the gas giant was dowsed in a bombing run led by Cesca Peroni.

[edit] Klikiss

The Klikiss race was thought to be extinct and many Klikiss worlds were settled by colonists from the Terran Hanseatic League after the transgate network was reactivated.

• Llaro - The ancient capital of the Klikiss race. "It's not exactly the garden spot of the galaxy, EA, but at least it isn't a hellhole." - Tasia Tamblyn to EA on arrival at Llaro. The ruins of the Klikiss city were discovered by planet prospector Madeleine Robinson and her sons. After the Klikiss transportal network was reactivated by humans, Llaro was one of the worlds picked for colonisation and it was also the site where Roamer prisoners of war were detained after capture.

• Corribus - The world where it was thought the Klikiss race were finally exterminated by an unknown foe and where Margaret and Louis Colicos discovered the Klikiss Torch. It was later repopulated by humans after it was rediscovered by Hud Steinman (through the use of a Klikiss transportal). The colony was attacked by Hansa warships, in the command of the Klikiss robots, who scourged the planet of all humans aside from Hud Steinman and Orli Covitz.

• Rheindic Co - The world where the first Klikiss Transportal was reactivated by Louis Colicos and the hub of the Hansa colonisation effort.

• Pym - A desiccated world that was once inhabited by the Klikiss.

[edit] Other

• Iawa - Ildirans transported the human colonists from the generation ship Kanaka here. However, after becoming accustomed to a different way of life onboard the Kanaka and their cereal crops suffering from an awful blight, the colonists left Iawa to reunite with the community that had been left to form Rendezvous.

• Dularix - A uninhabited forested world that was attacked by the hydrogues when the gas giant dwellers were searching for the remnants of the verdani.