The planet closest to the sun, Om Lamis is an inhospitable world that contains immense amounts of metals and minerals. The Veon Federation has gone to great lengths to build and maintain automated mining facilities and transport systems to harvest these resources, turning the planet into the supply backbone of their production capabilities. Om Lamis is so important that the Federation stations an entire fleet around it whose sole purpose is its defense, forgoing all other duties except where Kvesma itself is under threat.
The second planet in the system, Cthoque is slightly more hospitable than Om Lamis but devoid of any resources plentiful enough to warrant extraction. Instead, it houses miles-long subterranean production facilities that refine and process the spoils of Om Lamis. The workforce of these facilities is mostly automated, though enough organic employees are retained to require housing in orbiting stations. The surface is used for the development and testing of technology where there is no fear of harming ecosystems or populations.
The true homeworld for all people of the Yggweh System and the beating heart of the Veon Federation, Kvesma is a lush, bountiful world and a veritable paradise. The most affluent and wealthy in the system call the planet home and strict measures are taken to ensure that nobody enters or leaves who shouldn't be. As such, Kvesma has become exclusive and within that lack of access by the masses has been born legends and myths, many upheld by the Federation as useful propaganda. The surface is divided between teeming cities rising into the clouds and expansive nature preserves that ensure the majesty of the natural world is not lost.
Vesma's moon, Esthtrych was once barren and cold but through the efforts terraforming it has since been turned into a suitable, if chilly environment. It is where the majority of the middle and upper-middle class of the Federation lives, and the scant ecosystem that has been established exists solely to feed the atmosphere and keep its waters clean. Esthtrych is known as “the bureaucrat's den”, primarily because it is where the majority of the Federation's governmental workers and secondary departments and agencies reside, as well as numerous military bases and several corporate shipyards that produce the fleets of Veon's army.
For centuries, the Throne of Kvesma sat in the imperial palace planetside, until Veon's Peak was constructed and it was placed there. Since that day none have sat upon it, instead leaving it empty to symbolize the advancement from such singular, and fragile, systems of power. The Peak is the single largest structure ever made, miles in length and housing the most important government functions for the Federation. It is where the Advocates of the Federation convene to draft and pass laws and where military leaders plot, as well the main stage for ceremonies and announcements. It is often referred to as “the second moon” by those whole live on Kvesma or Esthtrych.
Maneccas is a planet terraformed from a dusty, barren landscape to a vibrant world, it surface covered in rolling hills, lush forests, and beautiful beaches. Its pleasant beauty sits second to its role as the breadbowl of the inner ring, producing the vast majority of all food in the region. As such, it enjoys a comfortable relationship with the rest of the Federation and can dictate demands with much more success than other Federation territories. In a clever move to capitalize on its image, Maneccas offers “boot-on-the-ground” citizenship, meaning that anyone who lands on the surface is eligible for such. This pilfers opportunity seekers from all over the system and ensures that new recruits for the Federation military are never in short supply. This initiative has created a cultural melting pot that, paired with its idyllic environs, makes it the most popular vacation spot anywhere in the system and brings in trillions per fiscal year from that sector alone.
Unlike the planet it orbits, Phraica is less than ideal, being cold, snowy, and relatively barren. It is where all the people who can't find a place on Maneccas wind up and sees a high rate of poverty and crime, as well as rampant corporate exploitation. Despite this harsh reality, the people of Phraica are proud and make the best of what they have, managing to compliment their neighbor's notable food production with a culture heavy in a tradition of cooking and cuisine. This unique cultural niche is contrasted by the unrest that thrives on Phraica, rebellions against the Federation, against corporations, and against government leaders. Veon has long sought to quash this frequent anger with all manner of tactics but has never quite managed to succeed, instead stoking the embers of anger into open flames with their efforts and ensuring that the cycle of violence continues.
A dense layer of asteroids and debris that separates the inner and outer rings, the Belt was the first great hurdle in the days of colonization and has since been soundly tamed and settled. An abundance of resources contained within has long incentivized mining operations and the difficulty of traversal allows independent groups to live unmolested and hidden. As such, the Belt is a hotbed of criminal activity and houses the majority of the system's pirate population, making travel outside curated corridors a risky proposition. Major travel corridors owned and operated by corporations allow for secure and easy passage but come with steep costs and restrictions, strangling trade between the inner and outer rings and effectively separating them.
An independent colony cluster owned and operated by the Unified Creationist Church, Faro's Garden is the center of faith for the Yggweh System. Pilgrims travel from far and wide to pray to the Creators at elaborate chapels or even seek blessed visions from the carefully guarded sainted serpents that live within. It is also a popular place for arbitration between groups as the Peace Court has ruled it neutral grounds due the Church's longstanding neutrality in national and political disputes.
Itex Ba Rya is a world born of failure, only partially terraformed before the company overseeing the process was dissolved in a corporate war. This left the planet's budding ecosystem incomplete and stranded untold colonists on its surface, leading to chaos and mass death. Those that survived fell to primitive organization and a new dark age. While these colonial remnants languished in the inhospitable environment, corporations and governments debated on what to do. The ecosystem was technically in place and stable, if extremely harsh, but could fall apart if altered too much, leading to certain extinction. In the end, it was left as it was and abandoned, until the various planetary leaders that emerged came together and struck a deal with the then fledgling Coalition. The Coalition would serve as their overarching governing body and supplier of resources and the people of Itex Ba Rya would build their ships and weapons and serve in their army. So has this arrangement continued, allowing the Coalition to blossom into the system power it is today.
The environment of Itex Ba Rya is mostly devoid of oxygen, necessitating breathing assistance to survive longer than a few hours. This has left the surface barren and lifeless except for what people or scant wildlife can eke out an existence. The surviving creatures initially introduced to kickstart the ecosystem have adapted to their harsh climate, becoming ferocious, opportunistic, and extremely hardy, another danger on an already dangerous world. Due to this, most of the population lives on orbiting stations, with only the poorest or most unfortunate left to inhabit the surface.
If Esthtrych belongs to the bureaucrat, then Dyshla belongs to the capitalist. A gas giant that produces most of the system's gaseous resources, the many rulers of the planet have long held a position of importance in both the inner and outer rings. Dotted throughout the upper atmosphere and orbit of Dyshla are innumerable stations, run by independent billionaires, corporations, or groups of wealthy investors, each one separate but working in tandem to turn the region into a free market haven. Everything from casinos to slave markets exists, out of the reach of broader system powers and secure in their position by way of mutual benefit and resource monopoly. Even the Coalition, holding sway with companies, politicians, and criminals alike, has not been able to turn this tight-knit cabal to their side, though they have long tried.
A frozen moon of Dyshla, Wex Va is mostly unremarkable except as a spot to harvest fresh water. Thousands of companies dot its atmosphere and surface, mining ice, melting and purifying it, or shipping it elsewhere. Wex Va once held more prestige as a major contributor to terraforming efforts, but with the colonial days long gone it has since become a niche market force. Planets like Itex Ba Rya that have no natural fresh water hold its services in higher esteem but for the those that do not require its resources, it is little more than a corporation-run extraction hub mostly under the Coalition's control. There does exist a stable tourist economy as the surface is quite unique but it remains solidly secondary.
A moon of Dyshla and one of the most successful cases of terraforming, Yeri went from an arid wasteland to a lush jungle environment in little under a century. Most notable is its subterranean ecosystem of fungi, the vast networks of caves the perfect place to grow them to be used for medicine and food. Yeri is also a major farming hub, producing primarily lumber with various produce as a second major crop. It serves as a major vacation destination for the outer ring as well, a contrasting companion to Wex Va's frozen beauty. While technically independent, Yeri's leaders are close with the Coalition and it is usually treated as one of their territories by the system at large.
A relatively barren but habitable moon under the flag of the Coalition, Aygon has become a major population center for the outer ring and a home for corporate offices. Its proximity to Dyshla makes it the perfect spot for companies and criminals to discuss and strike deals and it is often used as a mid point for travel to and from the outer ring. Aygon's surface is primarily a sprawling cityscape with the few bits of unsettled territory housing barren, lifeless expanses. A few hardy species of plants and some insects call it home, feeding off the waste of civilization to survive.
A sort of copy of Veon's Peak, Yggweh's Forum, or the Yggweh Forum to most, is the seat of power for the Coalition. Lesser than the Federation's construct in almost every way, the Forum is still an impressive engineering marvel that orbits Dyshla. Its proximity to the corporations and criminal organizations of the gas giant is not an accident and the close association between the two sides is a major reason that Veon Federation does not attack it directly. The Leaders of the Forum are housed and work from here, protected by innumerable defenses and fleets of Coalition ships.
Kappis is the Yggweh System's second gas giant, though Dyshla's cousin is far more tumultuous and moody. While gaseous resources exist within it, the frequent and violent storms that wrack its atmosphere make harvesting next to impossible and an inferior option when Dyshla is so much calmer. This has left Kappis mostly untouched, with the majority of people to be found in its orbit consisting of independent groups formed of refugees from the Corsic theater of war or pirates and mercenaries feeding off it. This has lent it the nickname “scavenger's roost” and it is considered a dangerous place to travel by all system powers. Its two moons, Hedirun and Mazoch, are ironically held in higher esteem than their parent planet.
Hedirun is the unofficial homeworld of the Coalition, housing a majority of its military and secondary governing sectors as well as the second highest population of Coalition citizens after Itex Ba Rya. Terraformed from a desolate moon to a chilly but entirely habitable world with its own stable ecosystem, Hedirun is the meeting point for the Coalition, its people, corporate interests, and associated criminal elements. Most of the moon's economy is held up by Coalition contracts and associations, leaving the common people there to work company service jobs, in government or military positions, or menial labor on the scattered farming communities that mostly grow regulated drug crops. The sheer number of military bases ensures that order is constant, Coalition needs are met first, and the Forum's word is law.
Mazoch is the singular oceanic world in the entire Yggweh System, a moon of Kappis dominated by deep oceans and home to a native ecosystem. Though its life was limited to simple plants and microorganisms, implanted species from Kvesma were introduced and meshed well, allowing for seas full of bounty, ready to be harvested. Due to the nature of the environment, most of the populace lives either in stations in orbit or in underwater cities, the staple wonder of Mazoch. These “sea cities” are contained complexes of a massive scale that remain connected by way of a system of rapid rail transport that spans the globe. Likewise, the most affluent sea cities are connected to orbiting stations by way of space elevators that can ferry people from the ocean floor to the upper atmosphere in under an hour. The majority of Mazoch's economy consists of food production and mining the sea floor for minerals, a series of global conservation focused initiatives ensuring that animal populations remain sustainable and healthy.
The outermost planet of the Yggweh System, Corsic is cold, snowy, and harsh. Like Itex Ba Rya, the terraforming processes never reached completion, though in this case it was near done when the company behind it went under. The main appeal of Corsic is the planet's massive cache of mineral resources, eclipsing every other world in the system in that regard. This has led to near endless wars between innumerable nations, companies, and system powers who all seek to get rich off Corsic's natural bounty. It is common for inhabitants to go to bed in one country and wake up in another as governments are overthrown and borders shift overnight. Since the days of colonization it has been wracked by conflict and left to flag behind the curve of technology and advancement in all sectors. Recently, a concerted effort by the Veon Federation and planetary leaders briefly united Corsic under a single banner before the Coalition's agents sowed discord and broke this unity apart. The planet is currently blockaded by the Federation and the Peace Court, limiting traffic and allowing them to isolate the conflicts on its surface.
Corsic's moon Isic was once primed for terraforming but abandoned to become the dumping ground for the refuse of war. It has served as the host for many militia and military bases over the decades and now belongs to the scavengers, mostly ignored for a lack of accessible resources and the trouble it would take to clear out the current inhabitants to claim the ones that do exist. Criminal organizations have taken root as well, though the Veon Federation regularly ensures that any large structures or settlements that pop up are thoroughly bombed.