Gileden (world)

Gileden/Rhylanor (Spinward Marches 2514)
Classic Era (1116)	C583103-6 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 1 Low (20) Government 0 No Government structure Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M1 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	3

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Gileden is a low-population world with a population of less than 10,000 sophonts in size.

• This world has yet to take off economically or otherwise and the population remains low for reasons largely unknown.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Rhylanor Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector in the Domain of Deneb.
• It is a mainworld which is a satellite of either a gas giant or another world.
• This is a cold world with an overall climate that is at the lower temperature range of human-congruous sophont endurance.
• Gileden is a member of the Spinward Main.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Gileden has a solitary primary star.

• It is a red main sequence.

Gileden has a solitary primary star.

Gileden
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x9 secondary rocky worlds.
• x3 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Gileden is a moon of a gas giant.

The mainworld and its gas giant primary orbit within the star's Habitable Zone.

• They lie within the zone's colder outer H- region.
• They receive lower levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Gileden is a Meso World between 7,200km and 8,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.4G and 0.57G. The horizon will appear about 4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Gileden has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

• Gileden is a cold world. Temperatures rarely get above freezing during the day, and in the depth of the local night often result in "air freezes", when the carbon dioxide precipitates out of the atmosphere.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Gileden has 25-35% of its surface covered by liquid water. It has a few small seas. Wilderness refueling is possible. Water for the inhabitants will be recycled.

• The seas are crusted with pack ice.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

Native Lifeforms

Abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

• Native lifeforms are cryophilic – they thrive in low temperatures.

History & Background (Dossier)

Gileden was uninhabited until just before the Third Frontier War. A group of settlers from Deneb Sector started a colony even as Zhodani fleets were crossing the frontier.

The settlers received little attention until the Navy decided to establish a small resupply base in the system. Naval vessels found the colonists and their ship gone, and their base camp deserted. A brief inquiry ended in a "probable enemy action" verdict, but this was later disproved by Zhodani records. The base was closed soon after the war, but was quickly occupied by settlers. The current inhabitants eke a small living from the traffic along the Spinward Main, and some small scale mining.

World Starport (St)

Gileden has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

• There is an abandoned Naval Base on the world.

World Population (P)

Gileden has a population of 20 sophonts (tens).

• This is a Low Population World and the population would be too low to sustain itself without significant outside assistance. This may represent a transient population such as the crew of a starship, the final survivors of a dying colony, an advance team setting up to receive colonists, or a small outpost where establishing a colony is not the primary objective.

Urbanization

Gileden is a quiet, backwater world, consisting of a small village around the starport, and a scattering of migratory prospectors.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are most commonly heard:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

Gileden possesses a Technology Level of TL–6.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fission power generation, advanced water and wind generation of electricity.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, early ATV's, and dedicated AFV's.
  • Water: Amphibious vehicles, improved submersibles, and early SCUBA gear.
  • Air: Early jet aircraft and rotorcraft VTOL's.
  • Space: Early unmanned rocket delivery systems and early manned orbital rockets.

World Government (G)

Gileden has no central government or substantial government apparatus; an Anarchy. The largest governmental structure would be a family, tribe, or single clan. The largest group will be between 50 and 100 individuals, and there may be dozens to hundreds of them. This governmental structure can be stable over long periods of time if the population remains small or geographically separated.

World Law (L)

Gileden has a low law level. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate. Machine guns, other automatic weapons, portable energy weapons, and other military weapons, body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Gileden, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.

Trade Data

• Importance: -2 (very unimportant)

World Economy

• Resources: 3 (very scarce)
• Labor: 0 (none available)
• Infrastructure: 0 (non-existent)
• Efficiency: -5 (extremely poor)

Gileden is famed for giant aquatic arthropodoids used as foodstuffs.

• These are periodically harvested by expeditions sponsored by interests on Porozlo and Rhylanor.

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 1 (monolithic)
• Acceptance: 1 (extremely xenophobic)
• Strangeness: 2 (typical)
• Symbols: 3 (very concrete)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

Additional Data

Starport

The starport and "capital" occupy the deserted naval facilities. These are prefab domes and modules connected together. Snow and ice are piled around and over them as insulation. There are also exterior parking and storage areas surrounded by ice walls. The starport is well-equipped, with a shuttle and some techs, but has very small capacity (100 tons). Parts can be backordered for months.

The Imperium maintains a small office run by whichever Starport Authority official got the short straw that year - Gileden is a prime punishment post in the SPA. The overall feel is probably close to a small airfield deep in the Yukon. The town is obviously quite small. There is one combined general store/assay office/broker/etc, plus a fusion heating plant & facilities, and some residences.

Prospectors

What little industry there is on Gileden consists of independent prospectors. They roam the glaciers and hills in tracked ATV's. Their equipment is usually decrepit, and they are often deeply in debt to the General Store. The Rift West of the starport is an enormous canyon known as the rift. It is very deep (2-5km), with sheer walls and treacherous edges. It runs due Southwest in a more-or-less straight line for some 500km.

The bottom is choked with snow, ice, and fallen rock. The walls are notable for the extensive deposits of a brittle, glassy mineral. To date, the "rift quartz" has found no useful application.

Ruins

The remains of the first colony are some distance to the west of the starport, north of the rift. They sit at the opening of a canyon leading deeper into the mountains. They consist of some weathered prefab huts on crumbling concrete foundations. A vehicle park, landing pad, and the stub of a comm/sensor tower are also visible. All are drifted with snow and debris.

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IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

2514 Gileden (Imperial)

Starport: Class III.

Diameter: 3,872 miles (6,200 km).
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 31%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 23.
Government: None (science station).
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 6.
World Trade Number: 1.5.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

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• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 43. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 106.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 104. (UWP only)
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• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 76.
• Uncredited - The Zhodani Base