Gliese 687

Gliese 687, or GJ 687

known as  The Coop  in Union Catalogs

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Union System 5 Rock Core planets, 2 moons

The Planets are:


 * Lava


 * Radiant


 * Rot


 * Steinig

It had been colonized during the Second Exodus and Radiant is a marginal Garden world with it's own bio sphere and the ruins of a TL3 civilization./ The Radiant Ruins)
 * Kleiner Ball

All planets and system objects are colonized and utilized .including the Star itself. It features a Colony of Non Corps and a Non Corp City with star gating facilities. ( Colony 687 )

The system is a busy well developed Union System with 1 Class A Space Port, 2 Class C and 2 Class D ports.

Main Industry are Chicks and Chicken. Radiant and Root export billions of chicken chicks all across the Union as Life Stock core, to farms and ranches, Chicken is the single most produced meat product in the Union and every business and company in the system has something to do with Chicken. From Institutes, Variety DNA banks, specialty breeders, manure and feed brokers and everything in between.

There is a dedicated Chicken Zoo on Radiant with every chicken breed imaginable, A Chicken museum on Rot. The Radiant Roosters are a Union Wide known Vaccu Ball Team.

The system is not the only Chicken source in the Union (There is Sanders System. Poultry Star and Roosters among others) but among the oldest so called specialty systems. [1]

(Gliese–Jahreiß 687) is a red dwarf in the constellation Draco. This is one of the closest stars to the Sun and lies at an approximate distance of less than 15 light years. The star has a high proper motion across the sky, advancing 1.304 arc seconds per year. It has a net relative velocity of about 39 km/s.Gliese 687

Constellation Draco

Right ascension 17h 36m 25.8999s

Declination +68° 20′ 20.909″

Apparent magnitude (V) 9.15

Characteristics

Spectral type M3.5 V

[1] Specialty Systems are very common within the Union and virtually unknown anywhere else. Solar systems where not just a planet but the entire system is focused or dedicated to one product or type of product.