System Details
Age: 2 Billion years
Primary: Netali M0V
Companion: Netali Bis Dwarf M orbiting at 10 AU
		(10% eccentricity)
0.35 AU: Terrestrial world - Ficant
0.75 AU: Terrestrial world - Netali II
1.15 AU: Terrestrial world - Netali III
1.95 AU: Terrestrial world - Netali IV
3.35  AU: Planetiod Belt

World Details - Ficant
Moons: Nil
Orbital Eccentricity: 0.02
Diameter: 8,402 km (5,222 mls)
Density: 5.1g/cucm
Mass: 0.264 Earth
Gravity: 0.609g (5.97m/s/s)
Orbital Period: 106.954 Std days
			(35.651 local days)
Sidereal Day: 70.036 Standard hours
Local Day: 72.000 Standard hours
Axial Tilt: 5°
Atmospheric Pressure: 1.1 Earth
Atmospheric Gasses: Nitrogen 76.5%
				Oxygen 22.7%
				Other 0.7%
Hydrosphere: 69%
Albedo: 0.250
Greenhouse Factor: 0.295
Temperature at 40°: 5.277° C
	(41.169° F)
Temperature at Equator: 10.499° C
	(50.569° F)
Temperature at Poles: -43.026° C
	(-45.777° F)
Local Ecosystem: Simple Animals
	(compatible with Earth norm)
Resources: Average
	(very poor in hydrocarbons)

Ficant is a quiet border world on the frontier between the Imperium and the Sword Worlds. The most remarkable thing about the system is that it is only 2 billion years old. It is this fact that has prevented it from become tidally locked to its primary. However it is expected that it will become tidally locked within the next 500 million years, at which point its atmosphere’s volatiles will freeze out on the night side and the planet will die.

Despite this, the world has evolved a thriving ecosystem with a wide range of primitive flora and fauna (very roughly equivalent to Earth’s early Carboniferous period) and is of considerable interest to biologists. As might be expected, life on Ficant originated in the seas and they posses an rich variety of life forms. However, the "invasion" of the land has only just begun and Ficant has very few native land animals other than invertebrates. Most of the planet’s landmass is covered with massive "forests" of tree sized spore propagating plants (similar to terrestrial club-mosses, ferns and horsetails). It is expected that the world’s combination of low gravity and high atmospheric pressure will lead to the evolution of a wide variety of ariel life, but as yet only a few species have taken to the air (mostly invertebrates). This combination of low gravity and high pressure has also lead to the evolution of triphibian animals.

Physically the world is divided into five separate continents. Human colonisation has been limited to one of the smaller continents straddling the equator. The first human settlers are thought to have arrived around 450. It is not known were these settlers came from, as no records of any organised colonisation effort have been found. This form of disorganised settlement continued for the next 150 years and by 600 the population had grown to around 1,000. It was during the First Frontier War that the world first came to official notice. At this time a substantial proportion of the population were of Sword Worlds decent and Imperial forces came to regard it as a potential security threat. In response Grand Admiral Plankwell ordered the annexation of Ficant and the world was absorbed in 596. With its annexation an official colonisation program was envisaged and in 602 1,500 Imperial colonists arrived. It was intended that these were to be just the first wave of an intensive colonisation program, but with the outbreak of the Civil War this program was abandoned and no further official colonisation was to ever take place. From this point onwards, Ficant lapsed back into obscurity. Despite this official apathy, Ficant’s population has continued to grow slowly and according to the census of 1120, it has a population of 9,250.

Even with less than 10,000 human inhabitants, settlement has had a significant affect on the world. With human settlement came numerous off- world plants and animals, most far more "advanced" than native life. These imported species are rapidly replacing native species on the settled continent, fundamentally changing the ecosystem. As yet, these imports have not spread beyond this single continent, but a number of biologists are concerned with the possibility of an ecological disaster if they do.