hello and welcome to another edition of lawmakers Guide to the galaxy my name is
Adam Weiser I am associate writer at cloud Imperium games based here in the
Los Angeles office and for those of you who've never seen the show before this
is a chance for a member of the lore team to sit down and basically give you
a guided tour of one of the hundred systems that you'll be seen either in
squadron either in the game star citizen or in squadron 42 there's just a chance
for us to kind of show the the depth that we're giving to these through the
history and the astronomy that goes into everything that we're doing here so
today we're going to a an interesting system for a handful of reasons and a
kind of a contradictory system to in a few ways as we'll be discussing
it's a system that's in a fantastic location but it has a real real terrible
reputation yeah it's also probably today best known as the home world for the
headquarters of Drake interplanetary today we're gonna go off and we're gonna
go visit the Magnus system so we're just gonna go into the search bar here type
in Magnus and let's just zoom right over and see where at now when I say it's in
a great location it's because when we go to this this big level here you're gonna
see exactly what I mean so we're gonna turn on a large jump point it's got
three jump point connections which are very important you've got one to Ellis
you've got one to Stanton which you're already familiar with playing the person
universe and going to port olisar and then it's got a medium jump point here
connection to Terra but the reason why this is such a such an important and
kind of great location to be in because if I drop off the the medium jump point
we just focus on that you'll see that Magnus is right in the heart of the
large jump point run between Seoul and the Terra system so there's a lot of a
lot of shipments are gonna be going through here which makes you think like
this would be a very important system or it could be a
very economically strong system considering its location to Staunton and
Terra Ellis and and everything else that's that's that on this path air but
for four years now for for a century and a half
this system has mainly almost been known as a dangerous frontier system it's the
official one of the official kind of like slogans for the system is Magnus on
the edge of the unknown even though here it is right between two the most
important systems in the UAE now as we go into Magnus again it's it's strange
that it's a frontier system considering where it's located but one of the
reasons for that is because it has kind of a a convoluted history to it when it
was first discovered the UE the UPE took a great interest in it this was a
happened in 29 44 20 excuse me $24.99 the system was first discovered so it's
been about around for a little over four hundred and fifty plus years but when it
when we first came about it the government really really was interested
it because of the star at the center here now if we zoom on in this is a
main-sequence k-type star also known as an orange dwarf and even today
scientists like to focus on these stars as being the potential home for
extraterrestrials for for for alien life-forms now the reason this is is
because the these stars are very stable they have an extended life period even
compared to the Sun at the center of the soul system these stars the K types live
for about fifteen to thirty billion years on average while our Sun lasts
lives closer to ten billion years so it's here for a long time which means
there's a chance for life to develop it's also smaller it's it's cooler it's
less luminous this one in particular it's the luminosity is like point
three four points to what our soul is if our if our son is one this is point
three four luminosity when it when it gets compared to that it also start K
type stars like this also emit less ultraviolet radiation which is also a
good way to you know another thing that's not helping impede the
development of life in this system now unfortunately when the the government
start to look at the the wider Magnus system even with this promising star at
the center they did not find life they found three planets only one of them
aboard which we'll get to in a little bit was it was even habitable for us but
they they still it needed to be terraformed but it still had the
potential to be habitable that said the the UPE still decided to
hold on to this system because of a handful of factors the first being right
here magnus one now this is described as a kind of a small rocky planet it
doesn't have an atmosphere but what it did have were tons of valuable minerals
and this really kind of got the the government's interest so the make up of
the minerals that they were starting to pull off this planet has actually led
scientists to believe that it's just not another small rocky world that this is
actually potentially a toothed oni inprint planet NOW Ciccone
IMPLAN 'it's are interesting because they are former gas giants or in this
case most likely a hot jupiter that was within the frost line of this system and
the orbit migrated in until it got stuck here close to the sun now when it get
got this close to the sun basically the heat burned off the the gaseous outer
layer of the planet just leaving the rocky core at the center now this is a
process known as hydrodynamic i dro dynamic escape which which led to this
mineral rich core of this former hot jupiter sitting here at the magnus
magnus one at the at the center of the system next to the sun so uh that that
was one of the reasons they decided to to hold on to this system the second was
because Borya could be terraformed and that happened pretty much right away as
they as they started to dig into it a little bit they realized there's no life
here but we can still make something of it
it's a terrestrial rocky planet with a with a number of different climates
locations on it so they began the terraforming process and 25:33 and they
decided to leave this as a military classified system so not a lot of extra
foot traffic or ship traffic excuse me could could kind of flow through this
system now the rest of this if we just back out here for a second when we talk
about the history of the Magnus system we're really talking about boreal we're
talking about this second planet here there is a third one out in the on the
fringes here this is Magnus 3 it's a super Jupiter with the beautiful
multicolored atmosphere to it and and some rumors that pirates kind of like to
collect in the LaGrange port the points there for for a little pirate meetups
but that's that's kind of the standard stuff here for the system when we're
talking about Magnus we're talking about Borya and what has really happened here
over the subsequent centuries basically so in 25:33 the you the UPE starts to
terraform this system and as soon as it's habitable they begin to move people
in to turn it into the Navy shipyard for for the for the UE the UPE Navy at the
time so they're building ships here there they're bringing in people to
populate these factories and it's it's going great here it's it's kicking off
it's like a good 50 60 years of straight boom where this is basically the the
center for for ship for for shipbuilding for for the military for the Navy here
well as as the years kind of went on obviously the people were coming in they
were starting to have kids and a natural homegrown population started to emerge
on boria even though it was still pretty contained because again it's military
classified - you're not just getting people flying in from all over the place
you have to be selected to come here and settle down but one of the people that
that kind of up on bori at this time was a woman by
the name of was Ava's elk Ruger and kind of coming from this very blue-collar
industrial labor force that was very prominent there at this time she started
a custom machine park shop here and called it a name you're probably
familiar with Krueger intergalactic now Krueger and galactic has recently made
the foray into into doing ships and and other items like this but back when they
first started they just specifically made very specific items for larger
manufacturers this was ideal when you're here working with all these we working
with the the Navy building these ships and these other these other larger ship
companies maybe it's easier for for Kruger to actually make some small parts
right here on the planet so that way it relieves the stress on some of these
bigger conglomerates it also is a great way for Kruger to get their name out
there and to work with some of these kind of like empire-wide companies and
they they were able to do this because their stuff was was so it was so precise
and and done so well they they make everything from like the firing pins
that are in the burying p-8a are which is a ballistic rifle used by the by the
UAE Marines now this like I said this was all well and good until about the
mid 27th century so around 26 C in the mid 2600
a lot of stuff has happened and one of the things that the the u ee government
at that time decided to do was to move the ship manufacturing away from Borya
and into the killing in system now when they did this they basically killed the
entire economy of the the borya planet because that's that's really what they
had their people basically fled the system in droves because there weren't
other a lot of inter industries there and population dwindles and reports have
it down to less than a hundred thousand people actually living on that on this
planet about this time and again there were a lot of factors here that led to
the shipyards moving away from boria this is the middle of the 27th century
the first ever Devoran war has has come to an end
Messer has ascended there's all these other factors that kind of play into it
but boria definitely bore the brunt of that decision somebody who did benefit
from that decision was Krueger intergalactic and that's part of the
reason why youyou even know their name is because as the ship manufacturers and
all and eysies industrial powers basically left to go to Killian there
was all this excess space and high-tech equipment that they could buy up cheap
and expand into they could also afford at this point to get some very highly
skilled workers to come in and basically work for them so while the rest of the
economy suffered Krugerrand a galactic actually prospered at this time and kept
growing he became a more and more respectable name now remember again it's
it's still military classified at this time so no new people are are coming on
in until a 2751 when the military finally decides to get rid of the
military classification system for Magnus and let people kind of enter now
remember at the beginning when I had told you that Magnus even though it was
kind of in the center of things would still consider the frontier system well
this is part of the reason why even though it was discovered 450 plus years
ago it really had its landrush its first
chance for the common citizens and civilians of the UAE to come flooding in
in 2751 so in that regard that that's how the frontier spirit here has has
kind of persisted in this system now when they open up the system and people
finally start coming in it's it's not necessarily it it becomes a bit more
rough-and-tumble people are rushing in to get land there's not a lot of natural
industry there so people have to be creative as to how to generate their
income this unfortunately became a problem for Kruger inter-galactic
because they quickly realized as piracy as outlaws as illegal activity increased
in the system that they were systematically spending more and more
with each budget on mercs protecting their shipments leaving the system and
that was starting to draw concern eventually in 2785 a Kruger shipment of
vital components that was intended for RSI gets hijacked in this system and it
causes a major disruption to our size production supply chain this is this is
bad business all around because not only do they have to remake the part but it
just kind of like throws a cog and everything and it makes ours I realize
that they need to diversify their their production facilities so this wouldn't
happen again and it just it becomes such an issue that the one thing that the
magnet system could be proud of Kruger intergalactic they finally decide they
need to move and they pick up and they go to the Castro system because there
was plenty of cheap land there and it was it was great supply routes and it
was just safer in general so once again come 2785 Olson there's even less about
boria in the magnet system a magnet system to be to be proud about now this
kind of malaise went on for for a while but again this is a very resilient blue
collar industrial planet that's kind of what it's always been and out of the
ashes came this this little company that was fighting for
basically the chance for a military contract and that company was one called
drank a Drake interplanetary and what they had was a idea for a ship that
could be highly modifiable and modular so that it could be easy to repair and
cheap to make and would be perfect for for the UAE unfortunately that ship the
Cutlass which is getting a revamp by Josh Coons right now and is looking
fantastic that ship did not win the military contract that instead went to
went to a ship which is basically all but been forgotten since then and it is
now the Cutlass was then basically changed and kind of directed towards the
civilian market once again the shipyard Levine career
intergalactic Levine left a lot of skilled workers left a lot of machinery
lets a lot of like production spaces there and available which Drake
inter-planetary has since moved in and taken over and turned into the the
company you know so well that that makes the caterpillar that makes the Cutlass
that makes the Buccaneer a lot of these these great ships some that you can even
already fly when you go to Pope port olisar so it is still the the Hoke the
home of Drake interplanetary stuff has gotten better the them bringing the
industry there has has has definitely improved kind of stuff within the system
but it's still far from I would say safe the the capital of boria is a town
called Newcastle but people aren't allowed to land at Newcastle right now
because of an attempted assassination of the Governor's Council there this
happened a few years ago and ever since that that incursion they've decided it's
better to direct all space-bound traffic to Odessa which is where Drake
inter-planetary and Kruger galactic are we're headquartered or where they saw
their their main their main headquarters being Justin also a fun little
interesting note the Speaker of the Yui Senate Marshall
Madrigal is from Borya here in the Magnus system as is the famed musician
who disappeared gal Dugan was also first born here on the the Borya on Borya in
the Magnus system so there you go there is a quick introduction to the Magnus
system again a three three planet system here with the most of the main action
happening here on Borya very important part of the Empire that this is located
right on some main trade routes between salt and the terrace system and it's not
the best place to visit if you're not careful so just keep that in mind if you
feel like going to visit the Drake interplanetary headquarters thanks for
watching today getting to learn a little bit more about the Magnus system I'm
Adam Weiser thanks for joining us for this installment to lawmakers guide to
the galaxy thank you for watching so if you want to keep up with the latest and
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