Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Septiim (section)

===Septiim Secundus===

Secundus is a buzzing hive of industry, travel, and military expenditure.  Though possessing of a relatively small population for a modernized Garden World, Secundus is the primary military training ground for the system’s various surface fleets, riverine forces, and limited paratroop forces.  The planet also hosts the main Navy anchorage for the Zone, the large orbital platform called Waterscale.  The supreme commander of local SDF and Navy assets resides here as a matter of course.  Elsewhere in the planet’s orbit, Secundus also hosts the local Black Ship and Imperial Tithe infrastructure, though Secundus doesn’t pay the lion’s share of the Tithe.

The planet plays host to the only [[Adeptus Sororitas]] convent in the Zone, or indeed in the Subsector, and one of only four in the Sector.  A tiny convent, possessing of only 40 Battle Sisters and a few hundred [[Sister_Hospitaler|Hospitallers]] and [[Orders_Famulous|Famulous Sisters]], this small offshoot of the Sacred Rose Majoris is the star and darling of the system Ecclesiarchy, who hold the convent up as an icon of the ideal lifestyle.  The Sisters there are objects of veneration for the people of the Septiim system.  Their relationship with the Blue Daggers is cordial to their faces and acrimonious behind their backs.  Economically, the planet is dependent on its textile production, which flies straight to Thimble.  It also collects massive amounts of scrap and slag from other industrial bodies in the system, to harvest for its precious materials, though Solstice surely is going to shut down that industry for itself eventually.

Most cities on Secundus sit on plateaus that jut from the massive equatorial mountain range.  The Mechanicus, when tasked with building the planet’s infrastructure, elected to drop massive pre-fabricated cities from orbit, using the barges normally employed for tithe collection.  As a result, many of the buildings in these pre-built cities are identical to each other and those in other cities.  Not all homes and workplaces are pre-made, of course, and many are the product of organic growth on the continents farther from the equatorial mountains.

Secundus’s orbits hold dozens of satellites and platforms, like most Imperial Garden Worlds, and also serve as convenient anchorage slots for the system’s Navy.  Waterscale is large enough to handle all routine Navy traffic, but Solstice and Decani handle most general repairs.  The planet also enjoys an orbital spire.  The orbital spire anchors to Waterscale, which is built into a nickel-silicon asteroid monitor, and houses roughly two thousand crew.  Expansion plans for Waterscale include an Aquila shuttle factory, a Defense Laser, and a Mechanicus sensor suite to detect incoming Glasian Cylinders, though that is far in the future.

The planet also plays host to the manufactorae wherein the pre-fabricated military structures used in the Septiim system’s defense are built.  These buildings can be dropped from orbit in ablative heat shells, the slam into the ground and begin assembling themselves.  The process can be expedited by Servitor construction teams or members of the Adeptus Mechanicus, working onsite with their enginseering tools.  These buildings range from simple bundles of computers, antennae, and metal plating to full-service garages and orbital communication dishes, and can be neatly broken down and disassembled after use.  The Imperial Guard makes common use of them to create local command posts to repel Glasian landing sites, but their cost of transport prevents them from being common outside the Sector.

Because of the constant threat of pirates and Glasians, the orbital defenses of Secundus have to be robust.  The world has fourteen small docks for governmental use, outfitted with some residence suites and cargo storage chambers.  They serve as a convenient place to relay psykers and tithe goods to wherever in the system those are being picked up.  They also serve as staging areas for government travels between worlds, a long and boring affair in Cloudburst.  A much larger cargo well, nearly four kilometers long, accumulates non-perishable goods in lots, and loads them into bulk freighters bound for Thimble directly, dutifully itemized by the [[Adeptus Administratum|Administratum]].  Defensively, these platforms are of little value.  However, three massive laser platforms also orbit the world farther out, along with another, far larger one.  The larger one orbits opposite the Waterscale platform, and sports a cruiser-weight torpedo array and two Defense Lasers.  The Navy and SDF would both very much like more defenses, and jockeying for precedence has already begun.

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|worldtype=           Garden Planet Septiim Tertius
|satellite=     Two, both inhabitedL Equinox and Solstice
|troposphericcomposition=      74.5%, Oxygen 24%, Argon .5%, Water .3%, Carbon Dioxide 0.07%
|religion=      Imperial Cult
|governmenttype=     Adeptus Terra
|planetarygovernor=   No
|adeptpresence=   Adeptus Administratum, Adeptus Ministorum, [[Adeptus Astra Telepathica]], Adeptus Arbites, Adeptus Astartes, Adeptus Mechanicus
|climate=   Climate is temperate, mostly with cold oceans and heavy annual winds
|geography=             Cold, low saline oceans, thick polar ice, heavy rainfalls every standard month, deep polar crater, lengthy peninsular spurs into the main ocean with fine sand and thick salt buildups
|gravity= Tertius has .95 Terran Gravity
|daylength=    46 Terran Hours
|economy=      Gelt Thrones and Silver Thrones
|principalexports=     Fish, Ores, Seaweed, Sand, Herbs, Grains, Vegetables, Leather, Bedding, Aircraft, Small Spacecraft, Manpower
|principalimports= Ammunition, Construction Equipment, Machine Parts, Paper
|countriesandcontinents=   Tertius has no country borders, and three major continents
|military=       Septiim Defenders (high quality PDF), Adeptus Sororitas
|contactwithothersystems=          Constant, thanks to Economic Zone tithe payment center
|tithegrade=   Decuma Particular (theoretically, system could exempt itself from paying the tithe as an Astartes homeworld, but elects not to)
|population=    4,200,000
}}