Miana (world)

Miana/Sapphyre (Dagudashaag 2140) Milieu 1116 C649442-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 9 Wet World 90% Population 4 Moderate (90 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 2 Low Law (no energy weapons) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M2 V
Worlds	8
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1315
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	9
Economic Extension	A32-5 Resources A Abundant Labor 3 Low (9 thousand) Infrastructure 2 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	30
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Miana has a population between 10,000 and 10 million sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. The world has a climate with temperatures at the upper range of human endurance. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Sapphyre Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Miana, 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. During the Long Night this world was named Laamuunsand.

Astrography and planetology

Miana is a member of the Dagudashaag Main.

Monostellar System

Miana Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Miana M2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0021	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.21	2.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	4

System Data

Miana is a dying world. Orbiting at the ice-bound margins of its systems. Miana was given a brief lease when its primary star evolved off the main sequence. Organisms evolved at a dizzying pace, colonizing the newly-melted oceans and skies in a few million years. As the star continued to increase in luminosity, Miana's surface temperature rose, and the climate shifted. Violent storms wracked the planet's surface and many species became extinct.

Mainworld Data

At certain points on Miana's equator the temperature now approaches the boiling point of water, and the quantities of ocean being lost into space are so vast that a visible halo of ionized hydrogen and oxygen has been created around the planet. Even in the temperate regions the thin atmosphere is so loaded with scalding water vapor that it is un-breathable without artificial assistance.

As the ocean is being lost, the peaks of the submarine volcanoes and mountain ranges are becoming exposed, and the mineral riches they offer has attracted humans to this hellish planet.

Native Lifeforms: Siebowski's Spinehawk

Siebowski's Spinehawk is an avian predator native to Miana. Adult specimens mass 10-20kg and have a wingspan of up to 7 meters. The jagged spines on the leading edges of its mantis-like wings are used to good effect in crippling its prey.

History and background

Sternmetal Horizons and DagMet AG have invested billions of credits in establishing heavily automated mining operations on the surface of the world. Initial surveys of the late 600s revealed meteoric lodes of numerous naturally occurring elements. These elements are invaluable as trace doping agents in the production of superdense alloys.

The system population approaches ten thousand at times, although almost all of these are corporate mining crews working six-month tours of duty. Surface crews are commonly paid hazardous duty rates. In addition to the fearsome climate and the danger of handling radioactive ores, they must face the surviving local fauna which includes many formidable avian and aquatic predators.

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: Sapphyre." Signal-GK 07 (1993): 14-15. via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 84.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 242.