To give everyone an example of my chart in action here is a planet that I built a game around. Discipline System Blasted Wasteland (Hermian, Dense Inner System World) Longdead (Brown Dwarf) The Hermian world has no atmosphere (and reaches a frigid -200'C during it's night cycle) and the gate site is located within one of many deep craters that scar the planet. A cluster of fragments from a moon, or several moons orbit this world and as the planet swings in close to it's star every few cycles the gravity pulls more of these fragments into the planet. The planet is 60% of the size of Venus and has a gravity of 0.7G. Lacking an atmosphere and bathed in radiation from the dying star make this planet dangerous to those who lack good shielding. Of interest on the world is it's nature, only a thin layer of rocky substrate covers a large, mostly cool core and the heavy metals beneath the surface. In one place not even that, and the planet's current close orbit can likely be attributed to a massive collision that has opened up the planet and has led to common earthquakes that shake the surface. It is known that other visitors have come to this world as scattered at random around are small polyhedrons made of non-reflective metamaterial that fluoresces under certain radiation, they can be seen (difficult check) in orbit around the world under the right circumstances and though they have no immediately visible purpose, are in fact alien probes/satellites. Academics: Xenotechnology or something similar will determine that each small (2cm) polyhedron are highly compact QE devices, 97% of them have nothing left and only those that have entangled electrons actual have any programming left, all other self-delete and become more debris. Somewhere in the dust belt around the planet are a series of now mostly ruined factories designed to building more of these. Even if these could be reached they too have self-wiped due to damage and can no longer contribute useful information on the production of entangled electrons in these states. More interestingly is that there are craters on the world not caused by asteroid impacts and the truth of the matter is that within the remnants of the solar system long dormant alien weapon systems are trained on the world and it's gate occasionally slagging it. While the bulk of these are inactive/dead all are so well hidden that only with years of combing through the dangerous system might one find these. In essence the planet serves as both a testing ground and is quarentined. Out of interest the weapons trained on the planet are largely advanced mass driver factories (most are the size of small asteroids) that process the ambient dust and debris they pass through in their highly erratic orbits form them into charged material and launch them at the world. For reference the system is in a distant section of the galaxy, in one of the inner arms. Notes on player interaction; Feedstock for replicators is plentiful (24hrs to acquire bulk of material) Satellites orbiting suffer heavy interferrence from the heavy radiation of the dying star Satellites also risk being bought down by the heavy orbital swarm of meteorites and charged dust Radiation Shielding required, organic morphs not in cover of a heavy vehicle with shielding will perish after 72hrs of constant exposure. World is occasionally visited by Exsurgents (wearing synth shell ranging between 3m and 4m in height, with multiple rotating disks about 30cm thick. These vertical segments are irregular in shape and some layers can manifest grappling limbs, weapons, etc. Primary form of movement is hovering, but walker-limbs can manifest on top or bottom. The Ziggynaut Exsurgents are largeless harmless unless confronted or disturbed, each Ziggynaut layer is a different personality. Armour 14/14, WT 15, DR 120). Hermian (Dense inner system world), 1 sun (Dark Brown), Alien artefacts (trivial), Cosmic phenomenon (dangerous!), Interesting Natural Phenomena Alternatively here is another; Pandora System Pandora's Ark (Asteroid) Pandora (Red Giant) This asteroid in the main belt of a Red Giant not too distant to our own contains two gates and a large gate complex. The address is especially difficult to dial and more often than not results in an error and emergency shut down, gates that do open are prone to terminating unexpectly or causing other horrific consequences. This complex is made entirely of the same organic metal that comprises the gates and so poses a psychological hazard. The winding corridors are devoid of much in the way of technological remnants and only trace organic residue. Inhabiting the facility was a post-human clade descended from an Ultimate research collective led by one Adolph Schraebler. The clade having successful led many gatecrashing missions and recovered many significant alien technologies stumbled onto the remnants of a second gate that was partially started but left abandoned, though the remnants looked like TITAN or at least exsurgent infected the clade dedicated a lot of time to researching this. Over a period of years they severed ties to the Ultimates, the split was not mutual and the clade used their knowledge of gatecrashing and research to thwart hostile attempts at reintegration. Once alone they began radically altering themselves in ways that would allow them to better understand and manipulate molecular structures. From this they created the 'Schraebler Morph', in it's early forms the result was a remade body that ran hot but was optimised for inuitive identification of molecular structures. Over a series of rapidly grown generations the morph became more an more alien blurring the line between organic and cybernetic, but also human and alien. The latest iteration of the bodies stands between 2 to 2.5m tall, an appear as large, bipedal insectoids with a thick chameleonic carapace exoskeleton. The head contains no orifices, save for highly modified tear ducts and two giant compound eyes that take up the bulk of the head. Their torso is roughly trapezoidal in shape and holds four arms with multi joined limbs and fine manipulatory digits that can manifest fractal tools or claws for defence and digging if need be. The bain of the Schraebler Morph is a decentralised nervous system as much contained within the spongy, flexible 'bone structure' as within a nerve/brain cluster distributed through the lower torso. All breathing and nutrient consumption is conducted via nutrient tubes located in the arm pits and each morph is dependent on this for survival as they contain no stomach and limited ability to store reserves of 'fat' or 'air'. Similar 'access' ports exist for uploading and resleeving purposes. All morphs are vacuum adapted and can put themselves into a state of hibernation if required. All Schraebler Morphs designed for low-gravity, low temperature environments and are prone to over-heating and severe stress on bodies with a gravity of greater than 0.6G. These most recent bodies are too alien for normal transhumans to inhabit as their sensory suit is so complex and requires an understanding of molecular structures far in excess of current thinking, but also because they lack any sort of frame of reference being in the Schraebler Morph will drive them mad within a matter of hours. Communication within the new post-human clade is done largely via mesh, but if need be members of the clade can use their chameleonic exoskeleton to communicate in a manner not dissimilar to the way octopi communicate natively. Asteroid, 4 Stars (White, Yellow, Red, Red), 4 Traits (Archaeological Dream Site – Dangerous, Exploitable Resource – difficult, Post Human Outpost – Abandoned, Cosmic Phenomenon – Dangerous, Sculpted Terrain)