Jan (world)
| Jan/Celebes (Antares 2639) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | E200445-8
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary | M1 V M5 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan 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 member of the Third Imperium in the Celebes Subsector of Antares Sector in the Domain of Antares.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
No information yet available.
Binary Solar System[edit]
Jan Binary Star System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Jan 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 Remarks None Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Jan M5 V
Secondary Main Sequence 0.162 2930 - 3060 0.00171 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0009 0.0034 0.04 - 0.09 0.09 0.9 Orbit # * * * * 3 Remarks None
System Data[edit]
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System Importance (Ix)[edit]
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Mainworld Data[edit]
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Mainworld Size (S)[edit]
This world is a Small World between 2,400km and 4,000km in diameter. The world has low gravity between 0.1G and 0.17G. The horizon will appear about 2.5km away.
Mainworld Atmosphere (A)[edit]
This world has a pressure of less than 0.001 atmospheres which requires the use of a Vacc Suit. TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.
Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)[edit]
This world has no free-standing water or ice on the surface. Wilderness refueling isn't possible on this world. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are classified Desert World or a Hell World depending on their atmosphere.
Mainworld Geography & Topography[edit]
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Mainworld Map[edit]
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Native Lifeforms[edit]
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History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
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Imperial Landed Nobility (N)[edit]
Jan, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Nobility overseeing the world.
World Starport (Sp)[edit]
Jan 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]
This world has a population of 10,000 sophonts (tens of thousands).
- This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
World Demographics[edit]
Humaniti, population 95%
- Other, population 5%
World Government (G)[edit]
Jan is governed by a Representative Democracy where government leadership is representatives elected by eligible voters. What determines an eligible voter varies. The representatives determine policy, including selecting members of the bureaucracy. There can be referendum, votes by eligible voters on specific subjects.
World Law Level (L)[edit]
This world has a moderate level with laws covering many areas of government and interaction. These laws are simple enough that most people can act as their own advocate, though for serious issues a professional is recommended. Law enforcement officials will be present, but not in great numbers. Personal concealable firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.
World Technology Level (TL)[edit]
Jan possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Advanced automobiles.
- Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
- Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
- Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
World Military[edit]
No information yet available.
World Economy (Ex)[edit]
No information yet available.
Trade Data[edit]
Trade Classifications for this world:
- No information yet available.
Trade Lines with other worlds:
- No information yet available.
Urbanization[edit]
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World Infrastructure[edit]
This world possesses TBD infrastructure.
World Culture (Cx)[edit]
No information yet available.
World Language/s[edit]
Historical Data[edit]
Non Canon, unpublished, unofficial, and wildly unsanctioned.[2]
A small collection of installations and primitive bases dot the surface of this pock marked world. Surface domes gleam amid traces of violence from a nearly forgotten past. The domes have retractable, steel micrometeorite shutters to protect two layers of heavily polarized panes of real glass cast from silicates from the powdery dust covering the plains of this sterile body. These greenhouses supply the much of the oxygen and some of the food the various bases require to sustain the population of the world. Solar power arrays supplement the deeply buried fission power stations. Finding fissionable materials within the system and on this world are a constant struggle. Long cylindrical bulk storage modules are buried near the crude frontier port. This area of imperial control is the refuge of the knight assigned to enact the emperor’s will. In reality, the imperium is just one faction, among many, competing for the attention and support of the democratically enfranchised citizens. Each adult who posts a worker’s bond, decides on all policies and procedures. Committees form to address specific problems and challenges. A very true form of democracy, with high levels of enfranchisement controls the politics of the world. The current status quo is a result of some, tragic and bizarre ancient history.
Once upon a time, this world was much more developed and quite cosmopolitan. Not a lost colony, in the traditional sense, the decline occurred for reasons other than abandonment. The resilient survivors have deep traditions and mores to ensure they never go back to the bad old days. The current level of sustainment is a conscious effort to prevent the disasters and horrors of the now distant past, almost three generations ago. In a rasher, more arrogant time, near sentient AI and robots worked hand in hand with colonizers, miners and settlers. At the time vacuum world colonies presented few obstacles. Large imperial colonial organizations and Megacorporations pushed the units out the door, charters, documents, promises to pay imperial taxes, et al. For reasons wholly unrelated to the more famous, much latter Virus, courtesy of the silicates of Cymbeline (world), this was a simple case of routine AI run amok.
Long standing protocols for the prevention of emergent properties in large distributed networks where allowed to lapse and an over reliance on certain computer and automation sub-contractors, led to the vulnerable openings. A few nihilistic employees, disgruntled over pay and/or conditions, historians are not really sure, let the proverbial genie out of the bottle. The war, as it is romantically referred to, was abrupt at first with massive civilian casualties at the onset. A naval blockade from the 228th Fleet was ordered into position, to prevent all traffic in or out of the system. The admiralty was taking no chances. A detailed report was filed, and apparently ignored. Old lessons had to be relearned, painfully, from this limited scale harbinger of things to come in the far distant future. Ah, the lessons of history gone unheeded, and forgotten, under military top secret classifications. The survivors plead for evacuation, which were categorically refused after a particularly nasty Trojan horse ambush. A flight of AI compromised “survivors” wiped out a marine company and were in the process of commandeering a fleet transport, when the captain ordered the ship be scuttled, and the thermonuclear fusion reaction atomized the AI's attempts to escape.
The resistant, a tiny number of half lunatic survivors, did eventually receive drop shipments of weapons, armor and supplies. It took them almost twenty years to eradicate the last traces of machine weapons. The horrors, and insane tactics of the ruthless AI would fuel nightmares for a lifetime. The battle hardened humans refused to surrender. Even when the navy offered a more secure evacuation, and prepped for ortillery using advanced EMP weapons, the humans refused. This had become a matter of near suicidal pride. It is now suspected, that many of the survivors had begun using advanced cybernetic combat chassis to survive encounters with the unholy creations of the infernal AI. They knew that, for them, there was no going home, no retreat, no surrender, only victory and death.
Eventually, the colony went completely silent a year later. Remote imperial scout NAS probes established that only human brains were present. The victorious cyborgs, battered, weary and half mad, unanimously elected to terminate operations once their human charges had been awoken from the secure, isolated vaults. The first in survey teams discovered vaults of lowberths and frozen embryos. All networks had been disabled, and only the crudest, unhackable technology was allowed to persist. A detailed log of the defiant ones, mandated that this victory they had won, entitled their survivors a legacy free from the tyranny of thinking machines. Every sentient organic brain is permitted free will, as manifest in the love of democracy and free speech. Trust and respect must be earned here. Titles count for nearly nothing here. Outsiders who rely on advanced machine witchcraft are always carefully watched by undercover members of the local security forces. Any persons attempting to bring any form of robot, android, cyborg or advanced computer systems to the surface is subject to immediate death sentence, without reprieve. This law is clearly broadcast across all frequencies and bandwidth by an array of satellites. Lengthy customs inspections and scans at the spartan arrival and departure points tend to delay flights with great regularity. More advanced ships must remain at the 100 diameter line and wait to be serviced by a tiny group of TL–8 service craft, which are stubbornly flown, “stick and rudder” so to speak, by highly trained local “bush pilots”. No automatic pilot approaches are permitted by traffic control.
World timeline[edit]
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UWP listing[edit]
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References & Contributors / Sources[edit]
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- Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
- Classic Traveller Alien Module 3: Vargr (named but no further data)
- Classic Traveller Solomani (Alien Module)
- MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr {dot map provided}
- MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
- Periodical: MegaTraveller Challenge 69 (Shurlarlem Subsector information)
- Marc Miller's Traveller T4 Milieu 0 Campaign
- Marc Miller's Traveller T4 T4 First Survey
- Novel: Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Ronald B. Kline, Jr.