Altanorch is a small but typical hydrogen-helium gas giant with no outstanding features. Its combination of strong magnetic field and relatively shallow gravity well make it a popular stopover world for discharging FTL drive cores.

At the third-floor level runs a band of varying ornament, including projecting panels of glazed terra cotta surrounding roughened, sandpaperlike rectangles.

What some lament of, we rather should rejoyce at, should rather praise this pious forwardnes among men, to reassume the ill deputed care of their Religion into their own hands again.

All these, with many more, she deftly wrought Into gay wreaths and posies passing fair; Then from the inner sacristy outbrought Vases of simplest clay, but shapes most rare, And round the statue's base, as quick as thought, …