Galatea (world)

Galatea/Inverness (Far Frontiers 3228)
Classic Era (1116)	E685600–5 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 6 Moderate (5 million) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F3 V D
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Galatea is a rich, agricultural, nonindustrial garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts and high-grade living conditions due to a bustling economy.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• 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 Inverness Subsector of Far Frontiers Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

Binary Solar System

Galatea Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Galatea Primary F3 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.44	6670 - 6750	3.58318
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0073	0.157	1.7 - 2.94	0.73	7.3
	Orbit #	*	0	5	2	6
	Remarks
	None
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Galatea Companion DA	Secondary	White Dwarf		0.36	14000 - 14000	0.005
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00016	0.00587	0.06 - 0.09	0.016	0.16
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	0
	Remarks
	None

Mainworld Topography and Geography

Rough estimates suggest that close to 5,000 mountainous islets are spread across most of the southern hemisphere, while three or four larger land masses are located in the colder northern regions. Regular typhoon activity hampers accurate orbital mapping.

Native Lifeforms

Galatea's high atmospheric density allows for large inhabitants and particularly strong flyers. Violent storms are the biggest threat to naive animals.

• Asaii: Bird-like creatures that nest in the cliffs of Galatea's islands, and feed out at sea.

• Muqath: A creature like a shelled jellyfish, but equipped with powerful gas sacks used for flight and defense.

• Nsene: A mobile creature, part-plant and part-animal. Its barbed points are poisoned, though the poison is not toxic to the human system.

• Thiduii (plural Thiku): Looking like a cross between a kangaroo, a horse, a lizard, and a bat, this animal has been domesticated by the native Jessa.

Native Sophont (NIL): Jessa and Satha

Two sapient life forms exist on Galatea, but one is completely ocean-going and uncommunicative (the Satha), while the other, (called the Jessa), are of no tech level higher than 0.

History & Background (Dossier)

Galatea is named for its vast oceans and storms.

• Discovered in 439 by independent explorer Mathias Farnha, the planet possesses over 5000 islands which are mostly unstable due to geologic "tides" in the planet's crust.
• Though rich in minerals and possibly some heavy metals, mining is virtually impossible because of the violent activity of the faulting crust.

World Starport (Sp)

Galatea 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)

No information yet available.

World Demographics

• Humaniti, population = TBD%
• Jessa, population = TBD%
• Satha, population = TBD%

World Government (G)

Galatea has no central government for the world, 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.

This rating refers to the Human outposts established here.

The native Jessa have reached a feudal state. This resulted from the need for a strong central authority to oversee the distribution and use of the planet's dwindling resources.

World Law Level (L)

No information yet available.

World Technology Level (TL)

Galatea 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

No information yet available.

World Economy

The influential corporation Genem has officially slated Galatea for future colonization.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

Urbanization

No information yet available.

World Infrastructure

This world possesses TBD infrastructure.

World Culture

No information yet available.

World Language/s

• Anglic
• Vilani (language)
• Native Jessa languages

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Classic Traveller FASA Rescue On Galatea
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science