[U][B][Center]THE LOREIGNIS SYSTEM[/B][/Center][/U]

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[B][U]Binary Star System Overview:[/B][/U] The Loreignis system is a binary star system consisting of two white stars orbiting each other with a separation of about 20 astronomical units (roughly the distance between the Sun and Uranus) and a period of 50.1 years. The brighter star, Loreignis I, is a main-sequence star of spectral type A1V, with an estimated surface temperature of 9,940K. Its companion, Loreignis IV, is a star that has already evolved off the main sequence and become a white dwarf. Currently 10,000 times less luminous in the visual spectrum, Loreignis IV was once the more massive of the two. The age of the system has been estimated at around 230 million years. Early in its lifespan it was thought to have been two bluish white stars orbiting each other in an elliptical orbit every 9.1 years. The system emits a higher than expected level of infrared radiation, this may be an indication of dust and debris from the inner system nebulae and is considered somewhat unusual for a binary star.

[B][U]Loreignis I (Li I) also "Ignis I" :[/B][/U] This is the primary star in the Loreignis binary system. Loreignis I is a class A, “blue dwarf” star that is slightly more than twice the mass of Sol & 4 time Sol’s volume. It is 25 times more luminous than the Earth’s sun but has a significantly lower luminosity than other bright stars such as Canopus or Rigel. The star system is between 200 and 300 million years old. It was originally composed of two bright bluish stars. The more massive of these, Loreignis IV also called Ignis II, consumed its resources and became a red giant before shedding its outer layers and collapsing into its current state as a white dwarf around 120 million years ago. The projected rotational velocity is a relatively low 16 km/s, which does not produce any significant flattening of its disk and a weak magnetic field has been detected on the surface of Loreignis I.

Stellar models suggest that the star formed during the collapsing of a molecular cloud, and that after 10 million years, its internal energy generation was derived entirely from nuclear reactions. It is predicted that Loreignis I will have completely exhausted the store of hydrogen at its core within 800 million years. At this point it will pass through a red giant stage, then settle down to become a white dwarf. The Loreignis I star shows deep metallic absorption lines indicating an enhancement in elements heavier than helium, such as iron. When compared to the Sun, the proportion of iron in the atmosphere of Loreignis I relative to hydrogen is 316% of the proportion of iron in the Sun's atmosphere. The high surface content of metallic elements is unlikely to be true of the entire star, rather the iron-peak and heavy metals are radioactively levitated towards the surface.

[B][U]Loreignis IV (Li IV) or "Ignis II":[/B][/U] With a mass nearly equal to the Sun's, Loreignis IV is one of the more massive white dwarfs known; it is almost double the solar-mass average. Yet that same mass is packed into a volume roughly equal to the Earth's. The current surface temperature is 25,200 K. However, because there is no internal heat source, Loreignis IV will steadily cool as the remaining heat is radiated into space over a period of more than eighty million years. A white dwarf, like Loreignis IV, forms only after the star has evolved from the main sequence and then passed through a red-giant stage. This occurred when Loreignis IV was less than half its current age, around 120 million years ago. The original star had an estimated 5 solar masses and was a B-type star when it still was on the main sequence. While it passed through the red giant stage, Loreignis IV may have enriched the metallicity of its companion.

This star is primarily composed of a carbon–oxygen mixture that was generated by helium fusion in the progenitor star. This is overlaid by an envelope of lighter elements, with the materials segregated by mass because of the high surface gravity. Hence the outer atmosphere of Loreignis IV is now almost pure hydrogen—the element with the lowest mass—and no other elements are seen in its spectrum.

[B][U]Loreignis II & III also known as Shield & Shield II:[/B][/U] Shield and Shield II are two super dense and small terrestrial planets that orbit Ignis I. Their orbits are highly erratic and elliptical due to the heavy gravitational field of Ignis I's companion star Ignis II (Loreignis IV). Particle analysis has determined that the two planets have nearly identical geological makeups and also share a molecular commonality with the particles of matter that make up the inner system nebula. This fact has lead many scientists studying the Loreignis system to theorize that there was once a larger single planet that orbiting between Ignis I and Ignis II. As Ignis two devolved off the main stage and became a denser white dwarf the gravitational forces ripped this inner planet apart. The debris from this cataclysm created the inner system nebula and as the binary stars became more stable two new orbits developed, collecting debris from the original planet and forming two new, smaller and denser twin planets. Shield and Shield II are for most intents identical and shall be discussed as a matched pair. Shield & Shield II are the smallest and closest planets to both Ignis stars. Shield maintains an orbital period of about 68 Earth days and Shield II keeps an orbital period of 88 days; each period is faster than any other planet. Both Shield planets have been named such because their extraordinarily dense metallic surfaces act like a load-stone for the waves of radiation emitted from the Ignis stars thus shielding the planets in the outer zone from a great deal of the binary star system's radiation. Each shield planet has almost no atmosphere to retain heat and the surface of each experiences the greatest temperature variation of all the planets in the system, ranging from 100 K (−173 °C; −280 °F) at night to 700 K (427 °C; 800 °F) during the day, however due to minimal axial tilt the poles are constantly below 180 K (−93 °C; −136 °F). 

The surface of each planet is heavily cratered and similar in appearance to the Earth Moon, indicating that each has been geologically inactive for billions of years. Shield and Shield II are gravitationally locked, Shield to Ignis I and Shield II to Ignis II, and as such rotate in a way that is unique in the system. As seen relative to the fixed stars, the Shield twins rotate exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around its orbit. Due to the radiation, lack of atmosphere, extreme temperature range, and violent gravitational effects Shield and Shield II have been deemed utterly inhospitable and are only cataloged as possible mining operations.

[B][U]Loreignis V or Surt:[/B][/U] Surt is the third planet from Ignis I and the first from Ignis II, orbiting Ignis I every 200 Earth standard days. Surt, like Shield and Shield II has no natural satellites. It is named after the Norse mythological Fire Giant that will arise and cover the world in flame. Surt is a terrestrial planet and is of a similar size, gravity, and bulk composition to Earth and the planet closest in size to Earth in the Loreignis system. However, it has also been shown to be very different from Earth in other respects that have made it "inhospitable" according to the PCC. It has the densest atmosphere of the known planets, consisting of more than 96% carbon dioxide. The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 192 times that of Earth's. With a mean surface temperature of 735 K (462 °C; 863 °F), Surt is by far the hottest planet in the Loreignis System. It has no carbon cycle to lock carbon back into rocks and surface features, nor does it seem to have any organic life to absorb it in biomass so it all exists in the atmosphere at astronomical pressures and temperatures, a "super greenhouse planet". 

Owing to its namesake Surt is shrouded by an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid and other compounds, preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light and casting a red and black swirling cloud mix over the world. Surt may have possessed oceans in the past but these would have vaporized as the temperature rose due to a runaway greenhouse effect created by the planets proximity to Ignis II. The water has most probably photodissociated, and, because of the lack of a planetary magnetic field, the free hydrogen has been swept into interplanetary space by the solar wind. Surt's surface is a dry desertscape interspersed with slab-like rocks and constantly refreshed by volcanism. The surface of Surt is extremely geological active with volcanoes continually erupting and tectonic shifts pulverizing the surface crust into molten oceans. When Surt and Ignis II's orbit come to the closest point the gravity from Ignis II strips away some of the carbon and hydrogen filled atmosphere from Surt providing a boost in fuel to the star which results in a "brightening" effect that occurs every 5 years and lasts from roughly an Earth Standard year.

[B][U]Loreignis VI or Sardona (A brief, see the next post for details):[/B][/U]

[B][U]Loreignis VII also called Lore:[/B][/U]

[B][U]Loreignis VIII or Wardruna:[/B][/U]

[B][U]Loreignis IX also known as Tok:[/B][/U]