Golden Seed
Attributes
T-2: Industrialization
E1: One garden world and some barren worlds
R4: All you could want
Aspects
The Pulsar Only Cooks One Hemisphere.
“They Think That Nothing Bad Can Happen To Them!”
[Endemic Aliens!]
Description
Only recently discovered, Golden Seed orbits a distant pulsar. Its pulsar is its guardian. It is almost impossible to approach in force of numbers: It is protected from fleet invasion or occupation by extremes of gravity, dense asteroid fields and nebulae, and lancings of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Golden Seed shows extreme, conspicuous luck in supporting life at all. In fact, though, life is relatively comfortable. Even non-native species tolerate its high gravity fairly well, though they tire more quickly.
Tidally-locked, its proximal, pulsar-facing-side is scorched in x-rays and high-energy particles, but its distal, outward-facing side experiences nearly no harmful effects. The soil is naturally enriched; minerals rare elsewhere are incorporated into basic architecture. Golden Seed awaits only the right genius or entrepreneur to rapidly accelerate past its pre-atomic technological level and become a dominant force in the cluster.