Location: Milky Way / Artemis Tau / Knossos System / Fifth planet
Description
A small hydrogen-helium gas giant, Archanes has been developed as a full-featured, if modest, stopover for ships hauling refined materials from Therum. In addition to a powerful magnetic field to dump drive charge, Archanes has a largely automated infrastructure of helium-3 refining and deuterium mining on its many water ice moons.
Assignments
- Survey: UNC: Valuable Minerals: Gas Deposit ×1 (Nitrogen)
Properties
Archanes is too small to be a "hydrogen-helium gas giant" (William Hubbard, The New Solar System 4th ed, 1999; p. 194). It is more likely a dense "ice giant" like Neptune or Gliese 436 b.
Trivia
- Archanes is named after an ancient Minoan settlement on the island of Crete.