Querion (world)
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Primary | G6 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Worlds | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cultural Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Government | Civil service bureaucracy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Law Level | High | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cultural Extension | 7A59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Army Size (BEs) | 150 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Technology Level | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Economic Extension | D6C+3
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Importance Extension | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Resource Units | 2,808 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GWP (BCr) | 351 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Trade Number | 4.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trade Volume (MCr/year) | 2,026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classification | Class-B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port Size | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Building Capacity (Tons) | 88,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port employees | 4,875 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port passengers (annual) | 1,500 |
Querion is an agricultural world with an ideal environment for producing food from plants, animals, or other forms. The system has a population between 10 million and 100 million sophonts. This system serves as the capital for the subsector. It is a member of Zhodani Consulate in the Querion Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Province of Iadr Nsobl. This world supports a Zhodani Military Base and the system supports a Zhodani Naval Base. This is the homeworld of the Sheol, a Minor Race. In the Zhodani Consulate this world was named Shiadlia.
Astrography & Planetology[edit]
It is protected by a military base that takes up all of Querion’s sister planet, Erioque.
Native Lifeforms[edit]
One of the gas giants in the system is named Sheol and is the homeworld of the minor alien race also known as the Sheol.
Monostellar System[edit]
Querion Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Querion G6 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.97 5550 - 5600 0.89888 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0044 0.0786 0.91 - 1.61 0.44 4.4 Orbit # * * 3 1 6 Remarks None
IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey[edit]
0614 Querion (Zhodani Subsector Capital)
Starport: Class IV.
Diameter: 2,113 miles (3,400 km).
Atmosphere: Thin oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 40%.
Climate: 40.
Population: 82.362 million.
Government: Civil service bureaucracy divided into 16 Bureaus, or councils.
Control Level: 4.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 4.5.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Querion serves as the Zhodani capital of the subsector.
Querion’s main industry is the bureaucracy of the subsector, with a large number of ambassadors based here before going to the various neutral worlds. Imperial agencies claim that the Tavrchedl' (Thought Police) keep a large contingent of agents here.
Sheol[edit]
Commercial ships normally refueled at the system's larger gas giant, so Sheol was rarely visited. For centuries, those rare starship crews who had been there relayed stories of strange, vast creatures sighted within the atmosphere. While gas giant atmosphere-dwellers had been previously observed elsewhere in the Spinward Marches, e.g. at Komesh in the Boughene system, and at least one starfaring gas giant race existed (the Jgd-il-Jagd), no-one expected to find a civilization on Sheol.
Sheol has an estimated population of 10 billion "messengers" and several hundred million "squid mothers", though exact figures for both Sheol races are uncertain.
During the Fourth Frontier War, the Imperial Navy frontier cruiser Haunting Thunder was lost while attempting refuel at Sheol. Three vacc-suited Human crewmen were recovered by the natives, and first contact was made.
References[edit]
- Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 6-7.
- Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
- Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP)
- Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP)
- Dave Nilsen. "Traveller News Service." Survival Margin (1993): 92.
- Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 40. (UWP)
- Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 44.
- David L. Pulver. Alien Races 1 (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 122-133.
- Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 99. (UWP)
- Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
- Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 56-60. (UWP)
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com