Wed Feb 01, 2017 11:33 pm
'The Big Dozen' are thematic other than Aurum, which has a bunch of gold on it (pg70-71, DZC 1.1).
Ferrum has "immense wealth in natural resources", and is an industrial planet (think 40k Forge World)
Chromia is "the UCM's premier source of cobalt, molybdenum, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhenium, rhodium, and tungsten"
Maganum is a food world
Cuprum is highly populated, home of the manufacturers of Foldspace drives
Niccolum is the site of the shipyards, a massive gas giant. "Countless mineral rich rocks" are found in it's rings.
Stannum is a moon of Niccolum, exports mostly water and LOx
Platina is a tourist planet and source of many gems
Titania is a desert planet, with "considerable mineral wealth"
Aluminia is an ocean planet, and exports fish
Argenta "hosts a wide range of industries", and is one of the few planets with prexisting alien life
Wolfrum is a volcanic planet (think Mustafa or Io). It has "rivers of molten metal, surface deposits of rare minerals and chemical lakes"