Velis
The Garden Moon
An Ilyran-chartered resort moon whose engineered garden basins, mineral springs, quiet seas, and private retreats sell carefully managed restoration.
Overview
The Record
Velis sells environments designed to make ordinary life feel effortless. Landscaped basins, mineral springs, quiet seas, gardens, and protected views of Oranth turn a small managed moon into the Embrace’s best-known resort destination.
The ease is engineered. Atmospheric compactors, circulation towers, shutters, water systems, and garden crews keep the inhabited basins mild through the extended light and dark. Highlands and the outer face remain colder and thinner-aired, which is why private retreats can promise seclusion only by charging for the infrastructure that makes it safe.
Garden houses and hospitality syndicates govern resorts, employment, and local access under an Ilyran charter. Ilyra enforces health, labor, and environmental standards and validates external agreements. A house may close a private basin, but it cannot lower charter standards or act as a sovereign authority.
Quickeners maintain the public gardens and compete for contracts as openly as chefs or physicians. Gloam retreats occupy quieter districts farther from the main basins and do not appear in the same brochures. Velis can offer restoration, privacy, and controlled beauty; it cannot offer them without continuous systems, labor, and permission.
Political Relationships
Standing
Standing at a Glance
- Political Status
- Chartered Dependency
- Civilization Status
- Inhabited
- Heraldic Standing
- Institutional Emblem
- Principal Power
- Ilyra
Velis is an Ilyran-chartered resort moon. Garden houses and hospitality syndicates govern settlements, operate resorts, and control local access. Ilyra enforces health, labor, and environmental standards, represents the charter externally, and may invalidate a local rule that conflicts with those obligations.
Garden houses and resorts use institutional marks. Velis has no sovereign crest, and binding external acts are made in Ilyra’s name.
Physical Characteristics
Ground and Sky
- Diameter1,460 km
- Mass0.0008185 Earth masses
- Gravity0.06 g
Velis maintains breathable, temperate air within inhabited resort basins using atmospheric compactors and circulation towers. Highlands and the outer face are colder and thinner, requiring breathing support and thermal protection. A pressure failure closes a basin regardless of reservations or status.
Orbit and Time
Path Around Oranth
- Orbital Order188
- Orbital Radius2,550,000 km
- Orbital Period15.197 days
- Rotation364.73 hours
- Inclination0.25 degrees
- Eccentricity0.006
Velis rotates once during each 15.197-standard-day orbit and is tidally locked to Oranth, which remains fixed above the inner basins. Shutters, managed gardens, stored energy, and civic clocks carry resorts through the extended stellar light and dark phases without requiring guests to follow the exterior cycle.
Culture
The Twofold
Velis employs more Quickeners than any world outside Aurel, chiefly in gardens and managed resort ecologies, and houses compete publicly for their contracts. Gloam retreats operate farther from the main basins, emphasizing privacy and controlled withdrawal. Neither practice overrides medical, labor, or environmental rules.
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