The Mortlekk system was a star system at the very edge of the Outer Rim Territories that held a total of five planets, of which one remained inhabited.
Planets[]
The closest planet to the central sun was a highly unstable, volcanic planet that had constant ash, smog and lava in the atmosphere, giving it a glowing orange-red tint when observed. The surface had very little land that wasn't taken over by volcanoes and the land above the lava seas was also unstable, constantly cracking, breaking and reforming, formed of barren rock with no life capable of living there.
The second planet was a smallish gas giant which had three large storms constantly spinning around the planet, much like electrons orbiting an atom's nucleus. The gas was formed of yellow, green and red gas that was constantly flowing around it.
- See also: Mors
The third planet was called Mors and was the sole inhabited planet in the system. Travellers often referred to it as “The Planet of Whispers” due to its people’s odd nature. The planet was perpetually shrouded in green acid fog and acid storms were a common occurrence on the planet. It had a vast acid sea which was referred to as the ‘Sea of Drowned Sorrows’. The land was stained a deep black due to the toxicity and acid, which also caused the species that evolved on the planet to be extremely hardy and resistant to the hostile environment.
The fourth planet was a large, barren desert world which was once inhabited by a different race. This race were small, grey people with large heads and two huge, black eyes. They liked to build their homes in cliff sides, with the remains of large, spacious cities, all carved into the cliff sides. However, the planet had low gravity and a thin atmosphere. At the edge of the system was a large asteroid belt and sometimes they flew away from the belt into the system. Mors remained largely unaffected by this as the atmosphere and acid rain burnt and dissolved the rocks before they could hit the planet. However, this planet had a thin atmosphere, so the rocks rarely burnt up in the atmosphere, hence why they built their cities in the mountainsides. However, one day, a large meteorite fell and smacked into the planet, creating huge dust and sandstorms which buried and trapped a large amount of them inside their cliff side homes. Those that weren’t trapped were killed by the raging dust storms or the rivers of magma that were flowing from cracks in the planet’s crust from the meteorite impact. Many centuries later, the cracks had resealed themselves and the meteorite had been buried under layers upon layers of rock and sand. However, all the inhabitants died from in the incident and there was a large, sunken crater plateau that had been created.
The fifth and final planet in the system was an uninhabited ice planet. The planet was permanently covered with kilometers of snow and ice, with temperatures rarely raising above -100 degrees centigrade. Due to this, any and all water on the planet was frozen, and it was a barren wasteland, with no trees or any vegetation of any kind, leaving it a flat and deserted place.
Other features[]
At the edge of the system, surrounding it, was an asteroid belt that caused occasional comets and hazards to the planets in the system as one sometimes broke off and flew into the system, threatening to crash into one of the planets. When the Morsians were introduced to space travel by the Jedi in 10,000 BBY, they started to construct various facilities in the asteroid belt, including deep space telescopes and listening posts that allowed them to look outside the system for threats, scientific research stations and laboratories for all sorts of testing as well as asteroid mining facilities to harvest the resources found in the various asteroids.
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