Golden Sun
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The Golden Sun
- Called Varijaia, a name which means "the Golden Sun."
- System of 9 planets.
- Considered the cradle of civilization because it is the source of thevaqan, the strange gold that is reactive to the solar winds.
- Dominated by the Rastram Kanaqa, a spacegoing empire.
Adhivirajate
First Band • Desert • Rastram Kanaqa • 0 Moons
- "Surpassing in Brightness."
The planet closest to the sun, considered holy for its proximity to the Golden Sun.
- The faithful make pilgrimages here, and only those aligned with the Suryavarna may dwell here.
- The original homeworld of the gevana (all gevana are born into the Suryavarna by default).
- Very sandy, the sand of which is used to craft qamani, the colored glass iconic of the Rastram.
Tejabrabha
First Band • Mountains • Rastram Kanaqa • 1 Moon
- "Sword's Lustre."
- A military industrial planet, headquarters of the Rastram's shipyards and munitions factories.
Kanaqa
Second Band • Riverplains • Rastram Kanaqa • 3 Moons
- "Golden."
- The homeworld of the Rastram Kanaga.
- Home to the Kanaqa Sajkara, the Imperial Emanation, who is an emanation of the Golden Sun itself.
- It is also the source of thevaqan.
Alambusa
Second Band • Water • Rastram Kanaqa • 0 Moons
- "Garden."
- A water world where a great deal of agriculture takes place in great floating garden-barges, each acres across and turned into their own miniature biomes.
Grahpana
Second Band • Mountains • Rastram Kanaqa • 3 Moons
- "The Bazaar."
- A small mountainous world that acts as the headquarters of the Sunwrights.
- Connector point to the Ravimarga.
- Almost entirely covered in industrial or mercantile settlements.
Suksetra
Second Band • Plains • Rastram Kanaqa • 0 Moons
- "The Good Fields." The breadbasket of the Rastram, where most common food items are grown.
Lagudyavati
Third Band • Plains • Rastram Kanaqa (Colony) • 3 Moons
- "New Home."
- A still largely-wild colony world with a handful of settlements.
- Lawbreakers who do not warrant imprisonment may instead find themselves assigned dwellings at the edges of these settlements and expected to do work for the community as a whole while demonstrating their fitness to rejoin society.
Bandipala
Fourth Band • Barren • Rastram Kanaqa (Colony) • 0 Moons
- "Keeper of the Imprisoned."
- A world with a very thin atmosphere, dotted with various prison complexes.
Vadyazila
Fourth Band • Barren • Rastram Kanaqa (Colony) • 1 Moon
- "Execution Stone."
- An uninhabited protectorate world with an almost non-existent atmosphere.
- Once a place where criminals being executed were abandoned, but that practice has gone out of use in the Rastram.