V’ren is a temperate terrestrial world orbiting the Alphecca system (α Coronae Borealis / Gemma), an eclipsing binary dominated by a blue-white A0V primary with a smaller G-type companion. The A-type star provides the overwhelming share of the system’s output, giving daylight a slightly harder, whiter character than Earth’s Sun even where total heating is comparable.
The planet completes one circuit around the binary in 14.7 Earth years (≈ 5,360 Earth days), at an average distance of roughly 9.1 AU. At that range the received energy is about 0.90× Earth’s, establishing a cool baseline that favors persistent cloud cover, frequent light precipitation, and broad regions of comfortable habitability. V’ren’s axial tilt is 10°, producing seasons that are prolonged but moderate—defined more by slow shifts in storm tracks and rainfall belts than by violent temperature swings.
V’ren rotates slowly by human standards. Its solar day lasts 29.15 Earth hours, stretching dawn and dusk into long transitions and giving weather systems time to build layered overcast decks and lingering fogs. Surface gravity measures 0.85 g. With an Earthlike rocky composition this corresponds to a smaller-than-Earth planet: mean radius approximately 5,415 km, diameter 10,831 km, circumference 34,064 km, and a mass near 0.61 Earth masses.
The atmosphere is breathable and notably humid. Its bulk composition maintains a roughly 4:1 ratio of nitrogen to oxygen (about 80% N₂ and 20% O₂), accompanied by a slightly elevated fraction of heavier noble gases that lends the air a subtly denser feel. Moisture is a defining trait: the lower atmosphere spends much of the year in a high-humidity regime, with frequent saturation events that generate low cloud decks, mist, and persistent drizzle across much of the temperate belt. Most inhabited latitudes remain within a broadly comfortable range—roughly 40°F to 90°F for much of the year—under a sky where sunlight is commonly filtered through layered cloud and haze.
The surface is organized into four major continents and two smaller ones, with broad coastal margins and extensive interior drainage basins that sustain wetlands, lakes, and long river systems—enough evaporative surface to keep the air damp even where open-ocean coverage is not dominant.
V’ren is attended by four moons, a configuration well within long-term dynamical stability at the planet’s distance from the Alphecca binary. One is a primary moon that dominates the night sky and tides, accompanied by three lesser moons that add frequent conjunctions and complex tidal rhythms. A representative stable architecture places the moons comfortably inside the planet’s satellite-stability zone, for example: an inner moon at ~250,000 km (period ~18 days), a second at ~500,000 km (~52 days), a third at ~1,000,000 km (~147 days), and an outer moon at ~2,000,000 km (~415 days). The result is a sky marked by frequent multi-moon nights, regular eclipses and occultations, and tide cycles that rarely repeat exactly—an ever-shifting cadence that becomes as culturally important as the long, measured turning of the year.
