Mars (world)
Mars/Sol (Solomani Rim 1827) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | F43056A-F
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | G2 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 4 |
Mars is an industrial, high-population desert hellworld, with a billion or more sophonts struggling to survive in a inhospitable environment.
- Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants.
- This world has no free-standing water.
- As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
- This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
- This world toils under the control of a military government with conditions reflecting that situation including curtailed civil rights and limited freedoms.
- This world has a research station engaged in the scientific pursuit of knowledge.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Sol Subsector of Solomani Rim Sector in the Domain of Sol.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
No information yet available.
Monostellar System[edit]
Mars Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Sol G2 V
Primary Main Sequence 1 5720 - 5770 1 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0047 0.0829 0.95 - 1.68 0.47 4.7 Orbit # * * 4 1 6
System Data[edit]
The primary of the Terra system is Sol, an ordinary yellow main sequence star. It has a luminosity of 1 Sol, a mass of 1 Sol, and a diameter of 1.391 million km. Sol retains a family of four inner rocky worlds, a stony planetoid belt, and four outer gas giant worlds. The Kuiper Belt, an outer icy planetoid belt, exists at the system fringe but is rarely counted as a distinct world, despite containing a number of significant bodies. The system is named for Terra, the mainworld, the third world out from the star and orbiting within its habitable zone.
- Mercury
- Venus
- Terra (including Luna)
- Mars
- Asteroid Belt (including Ceres)
- Jupiter (including Ganymede)
- Saturn (including Rhea)
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Kuiper Belt (including Pluto-Charon)
- Mars is the outermost of the four inner rocky worlds.
Mainworld Data[edit]
No information yet available.
Mainworld Geography & Topography[edit]
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Native Lifeforms[edit]
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History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Mars is the fourth planet from Sol in the Terran system in Sol Subsector of the Solomani Rim.
- Several attempts to terraform the world have been undertaken and abandoned over the years.
Imperial High / Landed Nobility[edit]
Only the mainworld of a system possesses an officially appointed or landed Imperial Noble.
World Starport[edit]
Mars has a Class F Spaceport, a good quality secondary installation for handing expected in-system traffic. It can supply amenities like brokerage services for passengers and cargo and refined fuel. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Spaceports usually consist of a Downport.
World Technology Level[edit]
Mars possesses a Technology Level of TL–15 or TL-F in Hexadecimal Notation.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Meson Communicators and Pseudo Reality Communications.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, improved collectors, and advanced Fusion+.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land & Water: Advanced gravcraft.
- Air: Advanced gravcraft and speeders.
- Space: Advanced gravcraft and G-Carriers.
- FTL: Jump Drive-6.
World Government[edit]
Mars has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. A colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.
World Military[edit]
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World Economy[edit]
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Trade Data[edit]
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World Demographics[edit]
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World Culture[edit]
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Historical Data[edit]
A large scientific and later industrial colony was established on Mars during Terra’s interplanetary period.
- The Mars colony thrived during the early Interstellar Wars period, reaching a population of 25 million and achieving the status of an independent state within the Terran Confederation in -2395.
- Mars was besieged and bombarded during the Third Interstellar War and never fully recovered; by -2200 the base had been virtually abandoned.
Around 400 the Old Earth Union revived the old terraforming program, which was then continued under successive Imperial and Solomani Confederation governments.
- The Confederation undertook an aggressive program of economic revitalization and resettlement in parallel with terraforming.
- The Confederation also established a major Naval Base on the moon of Deimos.
During the Solomani Rim War the invading Imperial fleet faced fierce resistance from the base on Deimos.
- The Imperials deployed a squadron of battle tenders to tow planetoids as ‘nutcrackers’ to break Deimos open, destroying the moon.
- The government on Mars surrendered quickly and the capital at Candor Chasma was occupied.
Mars has been under military rule ever since, with the Ministry of Colonization taking responsibility for the terraforming project until Terra achieves self rule.
- An Imperial Marine garrison is stationed at a former Solomani Army base on the Elysium Plateau.
World Timeline[edit]
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UWP Listing[edit]
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Image Repository[edit]
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References[edit]
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- Board Game: Imperium
- Classic Traveller Signal GK (book)
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- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11,47. (dotmap provided)
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- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com