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Rampart 1 Beta - XC00000-0
The innermost Gas Giant
in the system, 1 Beta is a fairly normal small gas giant; in
practical terms, wilderness refuelling may be conducted here, but
caution should be exercised, as the wind velocities here are
astonishingly high (the average wind velocity in the upper
atmospheric reaches can be as high as 3,450 k/ph, making for some
very hard work for ships flight stabilising equipment.
This gas giant has seven natural satellites;
- Rampart I Beta Ay,
- Rampart I Beta Bee,
- Rampart I Beta See,
- Rampart I Beta Dee,
- Rampart I Beta Ee,
- Rampart I Beta Eff and
- Rampart I Beta Gee.
There are also a number of unmanned space traffic tracking stations on 1 Betas See, Dee, and Ee; Primarily, these are for safety of flight operations at the Inner System Flight Control Centre at 1 Beta Gee, but they serve a secondary purpose of being a Naval defensive early warning tracking network as well, as they don't just monitor transponder codes on inner-system traffic, they also use active 'skin painting' scanners in tandem with transponder tracking and passive Jump Event energy detection sensors, to provide a complete inner-system tracking capability for the Imperial Navy.
Beta Ay, essentially a smallish asteroid, known locally as "Rock", is also home to a supply base for one of the two System Defence Boat Squadrons. Part of Rock was mined out, forming a pressurised secure space within the body of Rock, which houses a supply cache and basic maintenance facilities, with hangarage for the entire squadron, while doubling as a 'squadron hide'. It's not much of a hide, but it's better than nothing, and does give SDB crews a place to relax and unwind after each sortie mission.
Beta Bee is home to a solar observatory, which monitors Rampart 1, a fairly typical M3v red giant, that in the wording of one solar specialist in the Imperial Navy, "has yet to show us any unexpected bad habits".
Beta Eff is a restricted moon, and is off-limits to civilian traffic; there are orbital warning and interdiction satellites in orbit here, armed with missiles and energy weapons, to further deter the curious. Nothing is publicly known about the facility there.
Beta Gee is a smallish airless moon, and home to the Inner System Flight Control and Tracking Centre. Access is restricted to naval vessels only, and a number of tracking and interdiction satellites orbiting the moon enforce this restriction, it obviously being a rather sensitive site for the Imperial Navy.
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