Balpan (world)

Balpan/Core (Core 1819)
Classic Era (1116)	B505345-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 3 Low (6 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M1 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	0

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Balpan is an icy, low-population vacuum world, with a population less than 10,000 sophonts in population size, warranting hazardous environment precautions.

• Its surface is ice-capped with little or no atmosphere and nearly all of its water frozen.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Core Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• It also contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.
• This world was once known as Unkuu.

Description (Planetology)

Monostellar System

Balpan Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Vesii M1 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0023	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.23	2.3
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	5

History & Background (Dossier)

In the early decades of the Third Imperium, the world's biggest claim to fame was a seasonal research lab, which was studying a recently discovered ecology around the planet's icecaps.

The Famelian Research Lab was located here.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M)
• Classic Traveller The Traveller Book
• MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 8
• Marc Miller's Traveller Milieu 0 Campaign
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
• Christopher Griffen. The Third Imperium (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), .