Kestona (world)

Kestona/Gadde (Dagudashaag 3027) Milieu 1116 B576322-8 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 3 Low (3 thousand) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 2 Low Law (no energy weapons) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M3 V
Worlds	12
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Participating democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1214
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	621-5 Resources 6 Few Labor 2 Low (300) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	6
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Kestona supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Gadde Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Kestona, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships. During the Long Night this world was named Nurdishpuu.

Astrography and planetology

Kestona is a member of the Pukh-Shea cluster. The naval base hosts elements of the 219th Fleet.

Monostellar System

Kestona Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Kestona M3 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.37	3270 - 3430	0.03081
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0017	0.0146	0.18 - 0.35	0.17	1.7
	Orbit #	*	*	0	0	4

History and background

The northern-most continent of Kestona remains a radioactive wasteland following a nuclear accident involving a navy cruiser. The cruiser, the Ae'Yehg, on exercise with the 218th Fleet in 1065 was practicing the orbital bombardment of imaginary, well dug-in ground forces. Dummy missiles were to be fired at the target site with computer simulating the effects of multiple nuclear strikes. Unfortunately the wrong missiles were launched resulting in the devastating destruction of life and features within a 200 kilometer radius of the blast epicenter.

Luckily the loss of human casualties was relatively slight considering the size of the strike. There were 1,265 deaths at the time of the incident, with 10 to 20 times that number succumbing to various radiation-sponsored diseases. The captain of the Ae'Yehg, Lent Tostvig, was court-martialed along with several senior officers and ratings operating the missile batteries.

Such was the public outcry that the naval base in the system was wound down to a tenth its size to become no more than a minor administrative center. Naval personnel are still actively discriminated against and abused on this world.

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: Gadde." Signal-GK 06 (1993): 10. via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 86.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 187.