Rangent (world)

Rangent/Vilis (Spinward Marches 1411) Milieu 1116 E67A612-7 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population 6 Moderate (5 million) Government 1 Company/Corporation Law 2 Low Law (no energy weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K8 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Company or Corporation
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	2313
Army Size (BEs)	2
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	851-5 Resources 8 Moderate Labor 5 Moderate (500 thousand) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	20
GWP (BCr)	4
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-E
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	4,000
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Rangent is a water world with 90% or more of its surface covered in an ocean of water. The system has a population between 10,000 and 10 million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a Human dominated Non-Aligned world in the Vilis Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Astrography & Planetology

Rangent’s people are primarily belters, pirates also are known to seek safety within the system.

Rangent is a member of the Spinward Main.

Monostellar System

Rangent Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Rangent Primary K8 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.62	3930 - 3990	0.18766
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0029	0.0359	0.45 - 0.84	0.29	2.9
	Orbit #	*	*	2	0	5

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1411 Rangent (Independent)

Starport: Class III.

Diameter: 6,360 miles (10,200 km).
Atmosphere: Standard oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, with very high carbon-dioxide levels.
Hydrographics: 100%.
Climate: Tropical.
Population: 7.341 million (mostly in the orbital habitats or small belting communities throughout the system).
Government: Bureaucracy (Port Authority).
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 7.
World Trade Number: 3.0.

History & Background (Dossier)

Great ships harvest the warm seas for plankton to be processed at the floating port.

References

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 14-15.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 40-41. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 66.
• Hans Rancke-Madsen. "Worlds Within Jump-6 of Regina", JTAS Online (July 18, 2006)
• Rich Weissler. "Rangent, Revolutionary Water World", JTAS Online (May 4, 2010).
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 100. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 61-66. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. Showing the Sunburst (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 10.