Red Quarry
Industrial or Resource · Irregular Moon
An airless Shatter body being dismantled for bulk stone and metal as its licensed consortium continually moves shelters, anchors, and working faces.
Overview
The Record
Red Quarry is not merely mined; it is being taken apart. A licensed commercial consortium removes bulk stone, metals, and construction feedstock from successive sections of the small airless body, moving its works as each face is consumed.
The 4,800 workers live in temporary pressure shelters and equipment vaults relocated ahead of excavation. Extraction changes the body’s mass distribution, so navigation markers and industrial anchor points require periodic correction. A route or fixture that was reliable during one working phase may not remain so during the next.
The consortium’s license grants extraction rights, not sovereignty. Red Quarry has no permanent civic authority or unified mark, and its value will diminish with the body itself. No accepted evidence currently identifies it as a fragment of Kalemdil.
Political Relationships
Standing
Standing at a Glance
- Civilization Status
- Industrial
- Heraldic Standing
- No Unified Mark
A licensed commercial consortium conducts extraction on Red Quarry. The license grants working rights over the operation but does not establish sovereignty or a permanent territorial claim. The consortium controls access to active cuts and industrial anchorages; Red Quarry has no civic government or unified mark.
Physical Characteristics
Ground and Sky
- Diameter290 km
- Mass0.0000028 Earth masses
- Gravity0.01 g
Red Quarry is airless. Its 4,800 workers live in temporary pressure shelters and equipment vaults that are moved as excavation consumes successive sections of the body. Exterior work requires full pressure protection, and no surface district can be treated as permanent.
Orbit and Time
Path Around Oranth
- Orbital Order660
- Orbital Radius9,950,000 km
- Orbital Period117.078 days
- Rotation13.2 hours
- Inclination4.8 degrees
- Eccentricity0.039
Red Quarry rotates every 13.2 standard hours, but excavation changes its mass distribution over time. Survey crews periodically correct navigation markers, approach solutions, and industrial anchor points; operations follow the current survey rather than relying on an older map of the body.
Travel
Travel Notes
Approach requires current clearance from the operating consortium and a current set of navigation markers. Use the assigned industrial anchorage; excavation may have moved shelters, working faces, or safe attachment points since a previous visit. Arrivals without an updated approach solution are held clear of active cuts.