Setting:Cloudburst/Septiim
| System | ||
|---|---|---|
| Galactic Position | Cloudburst Sector, Delving Subsector | |
| System Overlord | System Lord Jonas Neverember | |
| Worlds in the system | Six, three inhabited | |
The Septiim System is one of the breadbaskets and warehouses of the Imperial Frontier.
There was, at the time of the establishment of the Subsectors that eventually defined the politics of the region, a push to make the Septiim system a Subsector Capital World. This motion did not make it far in the Naxos and Drumnos peerage, since the obvious possibility of a Pasture Gate system putting its own priorities above all others and neglecting the rest of the region was impossible to ignore. More to the point, the systems near Septiim are largely useless beyond bare-bones mining, and cannot support life. It would be a Subsector Capital with no nearby worlds to administrate, whereas Delving is both a bustling economic hub and at the middle of a large cluster of habitable worlds. Thus, the Septiim Economic Zone, over which the system does rule, is awkwardly crammed into a corner of the Delving Subsector, despite having a larger economy and a vastly more numerous military than Delving.
As a whole, the system has a well-deserved reputation as a navigational hazard. The Warp currents leading to the system are weak and thready, while the currents leading away are shockingly fast. While this has obvious benefits for exporting goods and sending the Blue Daggers on missions to other systems, it does make imports time-consuming. The system also has an asteroid belt and many thin belts of comets, which occasionally knock loose and fall towards Septiim itself. Finally, the dual moons of Septiim Tertius make approaching that planet a chore for inexperienced helmsmen.
Also of note is that the system’s culture leads them to discount Servitors from their population totals, thanks to peculiar interpretations of Ecclesiarchal doctrine about the value of human worth. Thus, there is no official record of servitors in the system anywhere, including in the Gargantuan. This is not unique to Septiim, either, and many of the worlds in the Sector with Septiimi colonists share this quirk.