Aspiration

Aspiration
Stellar Cartography
Region	The Borderlands
Sector	Thama Sector
System	Tilanna System
Sun(s)	Eta Zeta
Moon(s)	1 (Moaas)
Eccentricity	1
Class	M
Physical
Diameter	14,102
Atmosphere	Oxygen/Nitrogren/Hydrogen Mix
Hydrosphere	42% (Subterranean)
Climate	Temperate
Gravity	1g
Primary terrain	Wasteland (following reactor breach)
Points of interest	Former Thama colony world.
Length of Day	28hr
Length of Year	388 days
Native species	None (formerly Thama).
Other species	None
Societal
Official Language	None
Population	None
Technological Classification	not applicable
Major cities	None
Exports	marzium, frangicite
Affiliation	Thama
Government	Thama Scientific Sovereignty (until 2398), Nascaik Defence Coalition (2398 onwards)

Aspiration is a former colony world of the Thama Scientific Sovereignty. In 2391, the colony was destroyed by an accidental reactor core breach- which devastated the entire ecosystem on the planet, rendering it uninhabitable. Following a terrorist attack on the USS Resolution and representatives of the Nascaik Defence Coalition, Aspiration was ceded to the Nascaik in exchange for two conquered Thama colonies.

	Minerology

Aspiration was rich in marzium and frangicite, minerals were vital to gene therapies designed to increase the number of Nascaik hypermales (a dying sex of Nascaik). These minerals were not negatively affected by the destruction of the colony's reactor.

	Satellites

Aspiration had one natural satellites- Moaas. Moaas was approximately twenty kilometres in diameter and was locked into a geosynchronous orbit around the planet. Marzium and Frangicite were not present in its crust, leading some to suspect that it was originally an asteroid from elsewhere in the system

	Thama-Nascaik Dispute

The Thama Scientific Sovereignty believed that the Nascaik were responsible for the destruction of Aspiration, a claim which was not refuted at time. However, Shres Ar-Dev, a leading Nascaik was the only person aware that the reactor breach was entirely accidental and was not part of a military strategy. A covert probe looking for frangicite in the planet's crust overloaded, setting off a chain reaction that destroyed the fusion generators of the colony. The resultant thermal shockwave destroyed almost all of the planet's biosphere and killed millions of Thama.

Living on Aspiration at the time of the reactor breach were the family of Ashal Koas, who all perished in the blast. Koas would later become a terrorist and kidnap Ar-Dev. She absconded to Aspiration and attempted to force him to reveal his believed complicity in the destruction of the family.

Following Ar-Dev's rescue, he revealed that the Nascaik Hypermales were a dying sex and that the marzium and frangicite in the planet's crust were crucial in gene therapies designed to increase Hypermale birth rates and could be used to turn Nascaik males in to Hypermales. After some negotiation, Aspiration was formally ceded to the Nascaik in exchange for two worlds that had once been Thama colonies.