Harrow
Industrial or Resource · Irregular Moon
An airless Shatter moon where short-term charter crews mine impact-exposed deposits whenever moving debris leaves a safe working corridor.
Overview
The Record
Harrow is an irregular, airless moon worked for deposits repeatedly exposed by impacts and the shifting debris of the Shatter. Extraction follows damage: a strike or fresh movement may uncover material, but it may also erase an access route or close an entire work face.
Its 3,600 residents live in buried, compartmented shelters and go to the surface only while local tracking stations can hold a safe corridor. The camp therefore runs by warning status as much as by shift clock. Machinery can wait through a closure; exposed crews cannot.
No charter gives its operator permanent tenure. Work proceeds under short-term commercial charters, which keep extraction divided and provisional while debris movement continually changes what can be reached. Harrow matters because impacts expose deposits that would otherwise remain inaccessible. The same impacts prevent any charter holder from treating that access as secure.
Political Relationships
Standing
Standing at a Glance
- Civilization Status
- Industrial
- Heraldic Standing
- No Unified Mark
Extraction rights on Harrow are granted through short-term commercial charters. A charter authorizes an operation for its stated term; it does not establish sovereignty or a permanent claim over the moon. Control is therefore practical and temporary, limited to the works an operator can keep supplied and safely open.
Physical Characteristics
Ground and Sky
- Diameter330 km
- Mass0.000004246 Earth masses
- Gravity0.01 g
Harrow has no breathable atmosphere. Its 3,600 residents live in extraction shelters buried beneath reinforced regolith, with independent pressure compartments intended to keep a single breach from opening an entire shelter. Impacts and moving debris are the primary exterior hazard, so surface work depends on protected access and continuous tracking rather than pressure equipment alone.
Orbit and Time
Path Around Oranth
- Orbital Order692
- Orbital Radius10,700,000 km
- Orbital Period130.562 days
- Rotation28.4 hours
- Inclination7.3 degrees
- Eccentricity0.064
Harrow orbits Oranth at an average radius of 10,700,000 kilometers once every 130.562 standard days and completes one rotation every 28.4 standard hours. That rotation sets the local light cycle, but it does not set a reliable workday: moving debris can produce unplanned eclipses, impact warnings halt exterior activity, and crews remain below whenever local tracking stations cannot maintain a safe corridor.
Travel
Travel Notes
Secure clearance from the crew holding the current short-term charter and remain inside the corridor maintained by local tracking stations. Impact warnings suspend descent and surface movement immediately. Visitors may not cross a closed work face, depart the tracked route, or treat an expired charter’s instructions as current access.