Ploba Region Milky Way / Hades Gamma / Antaeus Planet View Orbital Distance 6.93 AU Orbital Period 20.4 Earth Years Keplerian Ratio 0.8 Radius 74,221 km Day Length 17.3 Earth Hours

Location: Milky Way / Hades Gamma / Antaeus System / Third planet

Description Edit

Ploba is the second, and by far the larger, of Antaeus' two gas giants. Active scans by survey ships have returned tantalizing indications of massive, solid structures deep within the atmosphere, too regular in pattern to be anything natural.

Some believe Ploba is a "Jupiter Brain," a planet-sized supercomputer. Adherents of this theory have fruitlessly beamed signals toward the sunken megastructures, hoping to get the machine's attention.

Others believe that an ancient spacefaring race disposed of their weapons of war by dumping them into the planet. The last attempt to reach and salvage Ploba's "Deep Anomalies" went tragically wrong, and ended with a crew of 12 being trapped and crushed in the gas giant's lower atmosphere.

Survey Text Edit

“You discover a strange object orbiting Ploba. Chief Engineer Adams and Tali tried unsuccessfully to determine its origin. They did find one of Matriarch Dilinaga's writings stored within.”