Introduction

Long known as an average star, for most of Humanity's existence this was a relatively ignored star.  Known to be of average age and attributes, few colonization or astronomy programs paid it much attention.  Its distance, over 90 light years away, largely precluded it from colonization until the League began to mature.  however, the growing League fostered a growth in communities and groups willing to travel as far as was necessary in order to start new lives.  HD 199476, as a Sol-like star, soon picked up interest.

The star, renamed Parisi after the astronomer to first chart its planetary system from Sol, possesses a relatively unassuming set of planets.  Curiously, there are some indications of a tumultuous past in this system.  The second world, Baalen, is of a high mass and density, and yet is an airless and heavily cratered world, as if at some point early in its history it had suffered a loss of the atmosphere that it must have had.  The fourth planet, Laran, is known to have once been Gaian in nature.  However, today it is a thin atmosphere planet with no surface water at all.  Somehow, perhaps through long term atmospheric loss, the planet became Arean in nature.  The sixth planet, Aita, has at some point been completely decimated by impacts.  Evidence suggests that it was once a relatively normal ice world, but today it is irregularly shaped, great chunks of its surface having actually been blasted away by massive impacts.  The cause for all of this mayhem remains a mystery, and the possibility remains that these catastrophic events may have occurred over hundreds of millions, even billions of years.  But there is a world in this system, named Mania, which is in a highly eccentric orbit reaching out from the Kuiper belt to the inner system.  Itself a Kuiper object, every 78 years it becomes perhaps the largest comet known to science.  Over 1,000 kilometers in radius, Mania develops a truly massive cometary tail as it passes through the inner system, stretching nearly the breadth of the entire system.  Whether Mania has any connection to the catastrophes that seem to have befallen this system, or whether it is another victim of them, is not known.  What is known is that this world is a dynamic place, and that disaster can occur at any time.