Saffron (Da 3018) (world)

Saffron/Kuriishe (Dagudashaag 3018) Milieu 1116 A646110-D Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 1 Low (10) Government 1 Company/Corporation Law 0 No Law Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Company or Corporation
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	1218
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	13
Economic Extension	401-3 Resources 4 Scarce Labor 0 Barren (1) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -3 Poor
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	3
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	7
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	130,490
Port passengers (annual)	0

Saffron supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. This is a high technology world with available technology over the standards for Charted Space. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Kuriishe Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Saffron, 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 Kaagii Shim.

Astrography and planetology

Saffron is a member of the Sylean Main. The naval base hosts elements of the 185th Fleet.

Monostellar System

Saffron Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Saffron Primary M1 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0023	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.23	2.3
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	5

History & Background

The planet Saffron, or New Saffron as it used to be called, is a private research facility owned by Saffron Tech, subsidized heavily by Imperial coffers. Saffron Tech is headed up by Professor Bej Siwel, one of the Imperium's foremost scientists. Corporate visitors will be well served by the excellent starport, and will be unaware of the Imperial Navy ships in orbit. The Navy maintains a presence at Saffron to thwart untoward attempts by outsiders to obtain the advanced technology available on the planet.

Until 1099, only high ranking military officials and the Emperor himself were aware that Saffron was under the indirect control of the Imperium, via the back door subsidy that Saffron Tech received from it. Professor Siwel and all at Saffron Tech were also unaware that the Imperium had designated it as an Imperial Research Station -- designation; Lambda-3. Siwel's assistant Marla Gray was revealed, by an undercover INDISS Reporter, to be an Imperial agent. INDISS uncovered that the Imperium was considering taking over the facility and using their scientific discoveries for military applications. When the truth of the Imperium's involvement was uncovered, Saffron Tech managed to arrange for the Imperium to back out while maintaining its core funding. Public opinion was such that they also agreed that Saf-Tech discoveries in future would only be used in non-military applications.

Since then, Saffron has made a deal with Naasirka to develop some of their research for civilian use.

World Starport

Saffron has a Class A Starport, an excellent quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Technology Level

Saffron possesses a Technology Level of TL–13 or TL-D in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovideo recorders.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, prototype collectors, advanced fusion plants.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-4.

World Government

Saffron is governed by a Corporate Polity with a single corporation with a typical corporate structure as a government. A company town, or world. The typical corporate run world usually has a single purpose. Examples include mining, agriculture, or other kinds of resource extraction. But rather than a simple base of operations, there are facilities for housing workers and their families including hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure. How, or if, the children of the workers are incorporated into the workforce varies with companies. The corporation running the world may be a subsidiary of a larger interstellar corporation.

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.

• Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Kuriishe." Signal-GK 13 (1997): 22. via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 86.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 301-302.