Shiwonee (world)

Shiwonee/Shiwonee (Massilia 1430)
Milieu 0	BA86A77-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population A High (40 billion) Government 7 Balkanization Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
Classic Era (1116)	AA86831-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 8 Moderate (400 million) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F7 V M9 V
Planetoid Belts	3
Gas Giants	3

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Shiwonee is a rich, pre-agricultural world with a moderate population over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in size.

• The world's agricultural industry is growing and some economists forecast an explosion in this world's agribusiness in the near future as new agro-technology and a more capable labor force are imported.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• This world has high-grade living conditions with a good climate and a non-harmful environment. As such, this world is much sought after with large queues for immigration here.
• This world contains an archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished Ancients precursor race.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
• This world has a research station engaged in the scientific pursuit of knowledge.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Shiwonee Subsector of Massilia Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• During the Long Night this world was named Asadug.
• It is the homeworld of the Geonee, a sophontic species and minor race.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

It is the subsector capital, homeworld to the Geonee, and contains a Naval Base.

Binary Solar System

Shiwonee Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Alliana F7 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.21	6180 - 6280	1.94872
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0062	0.1158	1.29 - 2.24	0.62	6.2
	Orbit #	*	0	4	2	6
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Alliana Companion M9 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0005	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.05	0.5
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	1

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

Massilia 1430 Shiwonee (Imperial)

Starport: Class V - Naval Base.

Diameter: 10,300 miles (16,500 km). Gravity: 1.3g.
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 61%.
Climate: Warm.
Population: 470 million (95% Geonee).
Government: Oligarchy (The Meeralo Council).
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 13.
World Trade Number: 5.5.

System Data

This also serves as the home port to the Geonee Self Defense Forces.

• They work as colonial auxiliaries to the imperial 6th Fleet. The system is also part of the Geonee Cultural Region.

Mainworld Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

The semi-nomadic Geonee divide their homeworld into distinct regions that their ancestors wandered. No matter where a modern Geonee lives, the last part of their full name will always trace back to one of these regions of Shiwonee. All Geonee who share this name see each other as very distantly related. Regions include:

• Bartonde
• Brygant
• Geranto
• Lakantee
• Mirtanto
• Natante
• Pangont
• Takaske

Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

Native Sophont (NIL): Geonee

The Geonee are a Minor Human Race, famed for their claim to be the Ancients. While this claim is generally not accepted, they do have one of the oldest human interstellar cultures in Charted Space, behind only the Suerrat and Vilani, and some of the highest technology.

History & Background (Dossier)

Shiwonee is a rich Imperial world located in Shiwonee Subsector of Massilia Sector.

• Some of the richest Ancient sites have been discovered near Shiwonee.
• Home of Research Station Theta (Massilia).
• The world is believed to have a large population of Chirpers.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Shiwonee, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of four members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

World Starport

Shiwonee 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

Shiwonee possesses a Technology Level of TL–12 or TL-C in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• 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-3.

World Government

Shiwonee is governed by Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy. A single family or small group provides the leadership and important positions in the government. These positions are inherited by member of the group or their family members. The organization may be monarchy, with titles passed to family members. Or a plutocracy where inheritance of the family fortune includes government position. Or the organization may be more typical organization with positions of power inherited.

The traditional ruling body is the Meeralo Council, which is also the ultimate court of appeal for all worlds in the Geonee Cultural Region.

World Law Level

No information yet available.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Demographics

Geonee, plus a large population of a subspecies of Chirper. These are toward the lower end of the Chirper intelligence spectrum, though they are greatly important to traditional (and private) Geonee family and marriage customs.

World Culture

Geonee are a patriarchal culture with a belief in their supposed descent from the Ancients (something non-one else accepts as true). They are also noted for a strong desire to know where ownership lies in any given context; to the Geonee, the most crucial function of government is to create a general framework to guarantee property rights.

World Language/s

• Irkonee (see also Genosha)

Urbanization

Family housing is traditionally designed to be two separate wings, joined by a central courtyard.

• The front part of the house, the "public home", is the abode of a male and any unmarried sons or male relatives. This is where visitors are received and males rest and relax.
• The rear is the "private home", where the females live. The only males permitted in this part of the house are the husband -- as all the women are under his protection -- and immediate male relatives.
• The courtyard is frequented equally by both men and women of the family. A secluded section of the courtyard is kept aside for the home of the selweeda – the Chirper (cerosee) that serves as a symbol of the legitimacy of the patriarch's marriage.

World Infrastructure

No information yet available.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

• -15000: Modern Geonee, Homo sapiens geonensis, emerges.
• -14500: Animal husbandry develops
• -14000: Agriculture develops, primarily as a food source for livestock at first (Geonee being more carnivorous than most Humans).
• -13800: Founding of the earliest known Geonee civilisation, the Pordongee Empire.
• -12750: The Pordongee Empire is conquered by a smaller but more technologically advanced civilisation from the north, the Eowaree Republic.
• -12000: The effort to control the vast territories of the fallen Pordongee leads the Eowaree Republic to collapse.
• -11695: The earliest signs of the Dowaree Republic, a highly successful nation.
• -11000: Geonee at TL-3
• -10800: Geonee at TL-6.
• -10700: Simultaneous eruption of several large volcanoes causes ecological disaster; Dowaree Republic collapses.
• -10500: Effects of the volcanic winter diminish; survivors start to reconstruct their culture. Technicians become some of the most important members of society.
• -9500: Geonee regain TL-5. Nomadic communities form the Meeralo Council.
• -9300: Geonee achieve early TL-9. The Council sponsors a space service.
• -9270: An expedition finds a derelict starship of the Ancients -- whom the Geonee suppose to be their ancestors -- in one of the system’s planetoid belts.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

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• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
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