Berlichingen (Re 1621) (world)

Berlichingen/New Islands (Reft 1621)
Classic Era (1116)	D500437-8 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (70 thousand) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
New Era (1200)	X500000-0 Starport X No Starport Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 0 Barren (0) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 0 Pre-Industrial (primitive)
Fourth Imperium (1300)	X500000-0 Starport X No Starport Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 0 Barren (0) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 0 Pre-Industrial (primitive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	0

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Jump map from Travellermap.com

Berlichingen is a nonindustrial vacuum world, which warrants hazardous environment precautions.

• Life in a vacuum requires great discipline. After all, it only takes one forgotten seal on a vacuum suit to spell death. Those who survive tend to be very methodically-minded and attentive to small detail.
• As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the New Islands Subsector of Reft Sector.

Astrography and planetology

Monostellar System

Berlichingen Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Berlichingen M2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0021	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.21	2.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	4

History and background

Berlichingen was colonized from Neubayern (Reft 1822) during the slow-ship colonization of the Islands Cluster.

Briefly a holding of Serendip Belt after that system was the first to receive jump drive, Berlichingen was soon made an independent world under political pressure from other emerging powers of the Islands Cluster.

In the 1100s, a rather blatant economic programme was put in place, dumping Serendip goods on the market of Berlichingen at discount prices in the hope of creating dependence. This was backed up by increasingly frequent shows of force and 'courtesy visits' by Serendip warships.

New Era

During the Regency era, the system was abandoned, marked as a Red Zone while the Regency Quarantine Service scanned the system for the presence of Virus.

References

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.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 12. (map)
• John Harshman, Marc Miller. Trillion Credit Squadron (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 46.
• Gary L. Thomas, Joe Fugate. "Reft Sector." The Travellers' Digest 20 (1990): 26-28.
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb System Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 57.
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 33,72.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 164-167.
• Martin Dougherty. Reft Sector (Mongoose Publishing, 2010), .
• The Trillion Credit Squadron campaign - Berlichingen by Alex Tingle
• New Islands by Peter Gray