Endrite System

Segmentum: Obscurus
Sector: Calixis
Sub-Sector: Drusus Marches
System Designation: Endrite Sub-XI-73
Primary: Sanguis Minor — M-class red dwarf

Overview

The Endrite System orbits a dim, aging red dwarf star known as Sanguis Minor, whose sluggish fusion cycle bathes its worlds in perpetual ruddy twilight. The system is ancient and gravitationally stable, its inner orbits scarred by aeons of asteroid collisions and slow orbital decay. Though largely barren, it contains several bodies of note to Imperial cartographers and Rogue Traders alike.

Celestial Composition

I. Scoria Prime

A scorched rock world without atmosphere, orbiting close to Sanguis Minor. Its surface is a plain of vitrified basalt and frozen metal oxides, perpetually irradiated by stellar flares. No life exists here; only the melted carcasses of ancient mining probes from past expeditions.

II. Endrite

The second planet and the only habitable world of the system—a dense, humid feral world sheathed in unpassable jungles. Once the site of a starship impact in the distant past.

Its two moons, Ichoris and Pallina, are small and irregular:

Ichoris, the inner moon, is tidally locked and reflects the star’s red light like a dull ember. Tribal myths describe it as “the Eye that Watches.”
Pallina, outer and paler, is riddled with canyons and impact scars; it serves as the preferred orbital anchorage for star vessels.

Endrite’s surface rotation and weak magnetosphere create intense auroral storms visible even at low latitudes—these phenomena are interpreted by the planet’s feral tribes as manifestations of the “Bettlefield of the Ancestors.”

III. Volturn Axis

A gas giant of ochre and turquoise bands occupying the system’s outer orbit. It possesses at least seven major moons and a thin, icy ring system. Volturn Axis serves as both navigational reference and fuel-harvesting point for passing star vessels with cloud mining facilities.

IV. The Halo Cometary Cloud

Beyond Volturn Axis drifts a vast cometary halo of fragile ice bodies and dust remnants. This cloud marks the boundary of Sanguis Minor’s gravitational dominion. The comets follow long, slow orbits; some periodically plunge toward the inner system, their tails briefly illuminating Endrite’s sky as crimson arcs.

System Notes

Astropathic Traffic: Minimal and intermittent; red dwarf emissions has some distort on long-range vox communications.
Warp Translation Point: Approx. 9.4 AU (equal to flight time of a one day) beyond ålanetary orbits.
Navigational Hazards: High micro-meteor density within inner star system
Imperial Presence: Nominal; recorded as “Unclaimed, Undeveloped.” Occasional visits by Rogue Traders and Imperial Navy seeking organic catalysts or relic alloys.

Summary Table

Body	Classification	Distinctive Features	Notes
Sanguis Minor	Red Dwarf Star (M-Class)	Variable flare output, low luminosity	Source of unstable EM fields
Scoria Prime	Barren rock world	No atmosphere, molten surface	Mining relics, slag plains
Endrite	Death World	Jungle-choked, post-collapse ecology	Two moons (Ichoris, Pallina)
Volturn Axis	Gas Giant	Ochre bands, seven moons	Resource potential, orbital debris
Outer Halo	Comet cloud	Long-period ice bodies	Occasional comet clouds approach inner system