Aite

Aite
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Orbital Distance	1.4 AU
Orbital Period	1.7 Earth Years
Radius	5,941 km
Day Length	24.9 Earth Hours
Atm. Pressure	0.8 atm
Surface Temp	20 °C
Surface Gravity	0.88 g
Mass	0.758 Earth Masses
Satellites	2
Capital	Adrasteia (disputed)
Colony Founded	2104 CE
Population	1,540,000

Aite is an Earth-like world with a variety of habitable land ranging from deserts to jungles to tundra. It also possesses faint rings, an unusual feature for a non-giant planet. The rings contain rocks up to a meter in length and a wide dust cloud that stretches nearly 23,000 km from the center of the planet.

This impressive celestial phenomenon, however, is dwarfed by the fact that Aite's largest moon, Litae, is in an unstable orbit and is predicted to impact the planet within the next two centuries. Knowing that any Aitian venture is living on borrowed time, colonial population and investment has been orders of magnitude less than other garden worlds.

Settlements

• Adrasteia (Capital - disputed)
• Freedom Falls
• Linissa

Satellites

• Litae
• Unnamed Moon

Travel

Aite is a very sparsely populated colony, which incurs challenges when it comes to transport and travel for the average colonist.

Hiring Transport

Those not sent to Aite on behalf of a large off-world corporation with a system set out beforehand is bound to discover the difficulties of traveling around the planet, let alone off world. It's rare to find any centralized infrastructure for customers to find transport companies and vice versa, let alone a timetable.

Traveling between colonies would thus require contacts or knowledge of what channels they use to connect with customers. It's inherently risky to conduct business on Aite, which means that small transport companies rely on their network to connect with new customers are a slow and steady pace.

For longer distances, airborne transports start to become less uncommon. However, the risk of operating makes the contacts harder to find and many refuse passengers outright due to the higher value of their transports.

Waterborne vessels exist in coastal colonies, but durable transport vessels capable of traveling quickly or long distances are rare to find expect in colonies. Due to the distances between each colony, transports capable of safely reaching others are very infrequent. Even then, they are likely small crafts with limited capacity for passengers or freight.

Vehicle Ownership

The planet's undeveloped nature is reflected in the vehicles available to the average person living on the planet, namely wheeled vehicles with capabilities to brave the regional terrain. Many of them contain modern technologies that are not difficult to manufacture for a well equipped frontier colony.

Shuttles are much, much rarer. Even a large colony like Freedom Falls has very few of them due to their steep import price. Larger ones, let alone space worthy vehicles are mostly the property of off-world corporations exploiting the planet for its resources.