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Arlioux is an orange dwarf whose outermost worlds became a fine dust a few million years before the modern day. While this makes placing stations in the outer system difficult, it represents a valuable store of resources. Arlioux has a small population, but a fairly large economy thanks to the extractive ventures of the outer system and financial centers in the inner system.
Thalsiedeln
Thalsiedeln was the first world Humans stepped foot on beyond their home system. Their arrival was immediately problematic as native Kalar and Kristal populations had resided on the planet for generations. Centuries of settler colonialism, civil war, and foreign occupation gave way to an independent Thalsiedeln. A small constitutional monarchy ruled by oligarchs who, despite domestic rule, pillaged just as much as before. Thalsiedeln was the first planet in Aylathiya where a successful socialist revolution took place, leading to a, mostly human but incorporating others, socialist state called the Confederacy of Borealis.
Thalsiedeln is currently jointly-administered by the Confederacy and the Aurora Commission.
Klepse
Klepse is a desert world, whose windswept surface is covered in dunes hundreds of meters in height, some of which span from pole to pole. Its atmosphere, thin but breathable by most, is maintained by the photosynthesis of its sand grains. The sands of Klepse is a fine powder of microorganisms with a hard glass-like shell. As its oceans dried billions of years ago, the microbes evolved to retain as much water as possible. All of the planet's oceans ended up contained within these microbes, including valuable deposits of dissolved lithium. Despite the dangerous conditions, Klepse is a hotly-contested world split between several baronets who report to the Klepsen Count.
Thanatos
Thanatos is an airless world. Ancient settlers from the Triumvirate Civilization, reinforced its largest lava tubes and pressurized them, creating dark caves perfect for intelligent species who evolved in dark cold environments. Most of the population today are Vrede, who prefer inert atmospheres free of oxygen. More remote tunnels have been lit and filled with various atmospheres of every gas imaginable. The province of Amalga rules much of Thanatos, giving the Commonwealth of Aggregate Aylathiya rule of this world.
Ivotsh
Ivotsh is the site of multiple ongoing projects. One of the longest terraformation efforts in history, states have been changing the world on and off for five thousand years. Currently, Lowyzyol rules the planet, an important factor in its second project, a cultural one. With a small minority of Zythyns, it was hard for Lowyzyol to justify its rule. The planet's population, a mix of Skladyvat, Vrede, and Arkhosians, has a strong identity, a different religion, and society. This mostly rural population has opposed, often militantly, the introduction of seas that would destroy their settlements. The last project is the compromise, brokered by the Commonwealth of Aggregate Aylathiya, that seeks to create a robust ecosystem despite the lack of seas.