Fau (world)

Fau/Shallows (Dagudashaag 0217) Milieu 1116 B423766-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 7 Moderate (30 million) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K5 V M7 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	6949
Army Size (BEs)	15
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	96B+1 Resources 9 Moderate Labor 6 Moderate (3 million) Infrastructure B Very extensive Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	594
GWP (BCr)	70
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	6,685
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	30,000
Port employees	16,765
Port passengers (annual)	24,100

Fau has a very thin, tainted atmosphere and a minimal available surface water. The system has a population between 10 million and 100 million sophonts. The governance of this world is from Adaskaglu (Dagudashaag 0320). It is a member of Third Imperium in the Shallows Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Fau, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight and the fiefdom of a marquis. Both are members of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. 100% of the world's population is the Minor Human Race Ziadd. During the Long Night this world was named Nishi.

Astrography and planetology

Fau is located on the Vilani Main.

Binary Solar System

Fau Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Fau K5 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.7	4300 - 4440	0.28697
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0033	0.0444	0.56 - 1.01	0.33	3.3
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	5
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Fau M7 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.09	2630 - 2680	0.00022
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0006	0.0012	0.02 - 0.03	0.06	0.6
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	2

History and background

Fau is a viable Ziadd colony thanks primarily to the support and assistance given by S'mrii during the initial re-colonization. As a result most Ziadd consider the S'mrii close allies and friends, a feeling that is not returned. Fau is primarily known for its war memorials, seafood delicacies, and very active anti-universalist press.

Fau was initially colonized by Ziadd during the Rule of Man and remained a stable if small colony until -692. Then, during the period of expansion by the Ushran Empire, missionaries from the Universal Church of God arrived and started to try and convert the colonists. Unfortunately under Canon law Ziadd are not considered 'true' humans but 'artificial' and therefore are not considered to possess a soul. When informed by the missionaries that they would have to reconcile themselves to being second-class citizens in the Kingdom of God the Ziadd colonists grew extremely angry and apparently killed them.

In response the Universal Church retaliated by forming what Pope Innocent XXI was, centuries later, to describe as an 'unholy' alliance with the Ushran's to attack Ziadd colonies. Within months the Ziadd colony at Fau was crushed under the military heel of the Ushran Empire. The few survivors colonists were enslaved. A Dominican mission was established on Fau to enforce the will of God upon the savages. A task the order of warrior priests accepted with relish.

In -672 the Ushran's gave orders to pull out. The full horror of the occupation will probably never be known but a S'mrii ship visiting the planet a mere six months after discovered the streets filled with decaying and mutilated corpses. Less than twenty-one colonists survived out of an initial population of one hundred and twenty thousand. Unfortunately the survivors were so badly traumatized by their experiences that they were never able to give a full account of what happened. The Church blamed the incident on the Ushran troops and the Empire blamed the 'missionary' zeal of the Universal Churches' House of Inquisition.

Urbanization

Ziadd structures tend to be solid and blocky and are usually heavily decorated. Many fly flags and banners declaring allegiance and status.

References and contributors

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.

• Jae Campbell. "Library Data: Shallows." Signal-GK 09 (1994): 53. Via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 79.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 110.