Danelag (world)
| Danelag/Eakoi (Reaver's Deep 1136) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | E686889-5
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | M2 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danelag is a pre-agricultural, moderate population rich garden world with over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in population size.
- Garden worlds are known for their near-ideal utopian environments conducive to most sophonts, plants, animals, and other forms of life.
- It is a pre-agricultural world with an environment suitable for large scale agricultural and livestock industries that have not yet been widely developed.
- This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
- Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
- This is a "low technology" world with technology competencies well below technology standards for Charted Space.
- This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Eakoi Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
This system is part of the First Law Triangle.
Monostellar System[edit]
Danelag Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Danelag 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
System Data[edit]
No information yet available.
System Importance (Ix)[edit]
No information yet available.
Mainworld Data[edit]
Danelag has a population of 400 million organized in 303 regions of roughly 1 to 1.5 million inhabitants centered on cities of 100-150,000 inhabitants. The largest region is Valhalla on Asgard with 3,000,000 inhabitants centered on the city of the same name with 800,000 inhabitants. Most political and administrative activities take place on the regional level. What qualifies Danelag for a class 8 government rating is the number of supra-regional organizations that blanket the planet. Such organizations include the Legal Standards Committee, which ensures compatibility between the various regional legal systems, the Interregional Police Coordinating Agency, the Trade Balance Board, which compiles trade statistics and offers advice to the differing regions about what future crops will be most profitable, the Uniform Weights & Measures Commission, the Cultural Exchange Committee, as well as others not listed.
Mainworld Size (S)[edit]
No information yet available.
Mainworld Atmosphere (A)[edit]
Danelag 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.
Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)[edit]
No information yet available.
Mainworld Geography & Topography[edit]
- Asgard: The largest continent, Asgard,
- Valhalla, the largest city (three million inhabitants)
- Vanaheim: The second largest continent
- Jotun Mountains
- Mimersby (city)
Mainworld Map[edit]
No information yet available.
Native Lifeforms[edit]
No information yet available.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Danelag was settled during the Rule of Man by a group of believers in racial purity from Scandinavia/Terra (Solomani Rim 1827) (...tall, blue-eyed blonde humans only). Since the Rule of Man did not permit member planets to control immigration it was necessary to move outside its borders. During the Long Night the planet was plagued by Reaver attacks due to a technology high enough to be tempting and too low to allow an effective defense. Eventually the planet switched to less portable (and thus less attractive) energy sources, especially wind and water driven electric turbines. Overall technology also declined and stabilized around TL–5. After this they were left alone, except for occasional slave raids, until invaded by Aslan of the Eakoi Corporation around -900.
The Aslan left the humans pretty much alone, but their high-tech industry inevitably reduced the humans to a much-resented second-class status. During the Eakoi Trade Conflict, the Solomon Hegemony overran the Aslan on Danelag and established an advance base there with the enthusiastic support of the local humans. For over a hundred years Solomon poured trillions of credits into the world. Then, when the Eakoi Corporation withdrew from eponymous Eakoi, the overextended Solomon Hegemony pulled out of Danelag and as a result caused a massive recession. Since then the population of Danelag has been very insular, thoroughly convinced that Outsiders (they spell it with a capital "O") are nothing but trouble.
This attitude is not helped by the fact that Danelag is still, even today, the occasional victim of slave raids -- although seldom twice by the same slavers. Nearly all cities, villages, and individual farmsteads are connected to deep tunnels filed with various traps and, while no one except the police and hunters carry weapons outside their homes, every household has one or more heavy weapons hidden away. These weapons can include anything from crunch guns to rocket launchers, and each high-tech heirloom is lovingly preserved and maintained, as is anything that can give an armored raider a hard time. Raiding Danelag is seldom cost-effective. After an attempted raid the planet is usually left alone for a decade or two until the rumors are forgotten and the lesson has to be taught to a new generation of slavers.
World Starport (Sp)[edit]
Danelag has a Class E Starport, a frontier quality installation with few expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of a downport.
World Population (P)[edit]
400,000,000
World Demographics[edit]
Humaniti, population 95%
- Other, population 5%
World Government (G)[edit]
Danelag is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. The bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucracy or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence like the military.
World Law Level (L)[edit]
No information yet available.
World Technology Level (TL)[edit]
Danelag possesses a Technology Level of TL–5.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Electricity, hydrocarbon internal combustion, and the most fundamental atomic energy.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Ground cars or automobiles and tracked vehicles.
- Water: Large ships and submersibles with steel hulls.
- Air: Early aircraft including seaplanes and very early unmanned rockets.
World Military[edit]
No information yet available.
World Economy (Ex)[edit]
No information yet available.
Trade Data[edit]
No information yet available.
Urbanization[edit]
No information yet available.
World Infrastructure[edit]
This world possesses TBD infrastructure.
World Culture (Cx)[edit]
No information yet available.
World Language/s[edit]
Historical Data[edit]
No information yet available.
World Timeline[edit]
No information yet available.
UWP Listing[edit]
No information yet available.
References[edit]
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- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 27. (dot map)
- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11. (dot map)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 11, 50. (dot map)
- Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 38.
- Hans Rancke-Madsen. Hellion's Hoard (Cargonaut Press, 2001), 3-7.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com