The Hwon System is a large star system with two habitable planets, Gangwon and Kaesong. It lies approximately eleven light years from Earth, within the Republican Star Cluster.
Demonym: Hwonese.
Discovery
The Hwon system was discovered in 2105 by member of the Goryeo mission sent to search for habitable planets by the University of Seoul. When the explorers arrived, they named the two habitable worlds for administrative divisions in Korea. Rumor was that the Goryeo mission also discovered Darwin before the Australians but that they continued on to this system before returning home to report their discoveries. This would explain the different names given to the New Darwin System for a few years after. The United Nations in the end decided to split the difference, crediting each nation with a discovery of their own. And since the Koreans had discovered a richer system with two habitable worlds, they were not inclined to argue.
While some Korean presence is, of course, on the planet, the majority of the population is made up of people from the Indian sub-continent in Asia and Central America as well as a large number of Americans from the United States. The primary language on Gangwon is Spanish infused with various Indian languages while on Kaesong it is the more typical Colonial English.
By the time independence was declared in 2169 the combined Hwon worlds had a population of just over 72 million.
Astrophysics
The Hwon system contains an amazing fifteen bodies that can be classified as planets. Within this diversity are two habitable planets and three habitable moons.
The planets orbit a main sequence red star. Because of it's weakness, the habitable planets lie unusually close to the star and are the second and third planets in the solar system.
The Hwon System is host to five gas giants in the center of the system and another four smaller gas worlds further out. Scientists remain puzzled as to the number of gas giants but because of their gravity, few comets or asteroids have reached the inner star system.
