NAME OF LOCATION - Terra Nova System
DESCRIPTION -
The Terra Nova System orbits a stable, young yellow star in Sector K-16. After their original attempt to gain a foothold in the Initiative Territory was thwarted by some small Federation Ships and a certain Ferengi Merchant, the Klingons found another foothold in the Terra Nova System. Just a few sectors away from another Klingon-held system, Terra Nova is rich with resources and life. The planet called Terra Nova is the third planet in the system and is a full M-Class world with a variety of climates and habitable zones.
LOCATION - The Terra Nova System is located in Sector K-16.
PEOPLE -
There are no native people on this planet, but primitive creatures do live here. The Klingons will often pass the time by hunting the more dangerous ones, or engaging them in some form of unarmed combat to prove their mettle.
CLIMATE -
Being an M-Class world, the climate is incredibly varied in all forms. Icy mountains and frigid peaks to thick humid jungles and vast deserts. Various landmasses are clumped together into large super-continents where the temperature allows for a more humid climate than most M-Class Planets. This makes the oceans wide and ripe for creating powerful storms that crash against the shorelines. However, the Klingon colony here is located safely inland.
RESOURCES -
Terra Nova has a single moon, named Praxis II. The original Praxis was a key mining and energy production facility for the Klingon homeworld before it was destroyed by a massive explosion. The resulting problems on Kronos caused the Klingons to accept peace with the Federation. Praxis II is equally rich in materials, mostly Dilithium Ore.
ASTRONOMICAL DATA -
The system is home to a "Nebula Belt," a ring of gas and dust following a large orbit around the system's star. Oddly enough, this massive area of gas and dust is in approximately the right position for a gas giant planet, however no such planet exists. It is theorized that the system did have a large gas giant planet in the orbit, but it was stuck so hard by an orbiting body of some sort that it completely destroyed the planet, scattering its remains throughout the planet's former orbit. This "Nebula Belt" effects both cloaking and sensors. It makes cloaked ships easier to find ( +1 to cloak detection rolls), but requires that ships recalibrate their sensors to cut through the interference before they can effectively scan anything inside the belt (can't scan for 3 turns). This same type of anomaly is also found in the Suhall System.
The Klingons plan on staying in the Terra Nova System for quite some time, and as such they have heavily fortified it. The System has a Type III Defensive Station in orbit around the planet, 8 Pulse Phaser Turrets, 4 Torpedo Turrets, 4 Drydocks for producing and refitting ships, as well as two Type II Mining Stations orbiting around Praxis II with cloaked patrol ships watching the system's borders at all times. In addition, 2 Communication Arrays boost the range of the weapon platforms by a whopping 200%, making the system very heavily defended indeed.
