Moons of Maf

⚠️ ChatGPT export source — flagged for accuracy review. The creator has noted that ChatGPT began generating errors, hallucinations, and inaccuracies in nearly every export conversation. Treat facts on this page as provisional, not settled canon, until reviewed. See ChatGPT Source Reliability — Review Tracker.

Type: Location — Astronomical Reference Status: Canon (confirmed via ChatGPT export material)

Overview

Maf has 22 confirmed moons (revised up from an initial 21). Maf orbits a sun named Allotrox.

Named Moons

5th moon — Magruder: 7,700 miles diameter, essentially a "second Earth" — natural flora/fauna, lakes, oceans, no native intelligent life. Claimed by Empire at war's end (first landed on 10 years before WW3). Home to an Empire colony, promoted to war refugees as a fresh start.
6th moon — Varsalla: 6,900 miles diameter, toxic atmosphere, very limited native flora/fauna, oceans cover ~40% of surface. Hosts a domed research colony of 2,500 plus three smaller research facilities (300, 75, and 14 people). The Empire has operations here but has not formally claimed it.
7th moon — Shale Rock: 2,900 miles diameter, mineral-rich, no sustainable atmosphere. Claimed by The Empire. Four connected domes (more under construction), strip mining operations, ongoing mineral/ water/oxygen research.
17th moon — Tenforgay: 1,160 miles diameter, claimed by Syridova (a rival nation to The Empire and Helvatica, located on the opposite side of Maf).
19th moon: 2,301 miles diameter, home to the Joint Space Command's "Genesis Station" facility.
21st & 22nd moons — Kenudgem & Retarguim: A unique binary pair, co-orbiting each other in an intricate spiral dance while both orbit Maf.

Maf's Physical Anomalies

Maf itself is described (in this source, before later creator correction) as having a diameter "just over 100,000 miles" with gravity of just 1.09 G — flagged in-universe as scientifically anomalous and a subject of ongoing research. ✅ Note: the creator has since corrected Maf's actual diameter to ~56,000 miles with gravity 1.0987 g (see Maf (Planet)) — this source's "100,000 miles" figure matches the same imprecise estimate later corrected via the Ark Royal material, not a new/separate discrepancy.

Maf's atmosphere is ~400 miles thick. Sunsets and sunrises can glow green and gold; on some days, the air itself appears to sparkle gold — an unexplained optical phenomenon under ongoing in-universe scientific study.

Early Discovery History (1897)

Source: conversations-001.json, conversation #92, "Maf Game Overview" — see RAW SOURCE. In 1897, only 12 moons were visible to Jonesboro's early astronomers — of these, 2 are confirmed Earth-sized and 2 Mars-sized (a fact Jonesboro deliberately keeps from the wider public), with the rest smaller. By this same period Jonesboro had already identified over 20 moons in total, some only a few hundred miles in diameter and not visible from Maf's surface at all. Publicly, Jonesboro frames the additional "new lights" appearing in the night sky over time simply as small moons that have become newly visible — concealing the true scope of its astronomical knowledge from the native population.

Appearances

ChatGPT export ("Government to Commercial Shift")

Open Questions

Names/details of the remaining unnamed moons (1st–4th, 8th–16th, 18th, 20th) not yet given
Explanation for Maf's gold-sparkle atmospheric phenomenon not given — may be an intentional in-universe mystery