Argiluu (world)
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Primary | K8 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Worlds | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Government | Impersonal bureaucracy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Law Level | Moderate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cultural Extension | 9C5C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Army Size (BEs) | 12000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Technology Level | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Economic Extension | G8E+3
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Importance Extension | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Resource Units | 5,376 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GWP (BCr) | 4,688 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Trade Number | 5.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trade Volume (MCr/year) | 127,890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classification | Class-B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port Size | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Building Capacity (Tons) | 1,150,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port employees | 98,315 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Port passengers (annual) | 362,500 |
Argiluu is a water world with 90% or more of its surface covered in an ocean of water, and an short-sleeve breathable atmosphere. The system has a population over one billion. This world is a satellite of a gas giant or another planet in the system. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Ushra Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Argiluu, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of an Imperial knight and a baronet, and the fiefdom of a count. All three are members 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 Argiluu.
Astrography and planetology[edit]
Argiluu is a member of the Dagudashaag Main. The naval base hosts elements of the 188th Fleet.
The world of Argiluu is literally a "molten snowball": the crust, and much of the mantle of this formerly icy outer gas giant satellite, melted when its primary star evolved off the main sequence. Argiluu’s world-ocean is at least 60 kilometres deep, according to current estimates, its depths beyond the range of the most advanced densitometers. Terraforming has converted the original ammonia-water vapour atmosphere into a breathable nitrogen-oxygen mix.
The world has no land-masses as such - major settlements are tunneled into huge naturally-occurring rafts of foamed carbonaceous material known as "tarballs". Valuable organic chemicals are extracted from the tar, and the seawater is also rich in dissolved minerals.
Monostellar System[edit]
Argiluu Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Argiluu 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
History and background[edit]
Argiluu derives from the Old High Vilani for "no sound ocean" – the primitive sonar systems used in the earliest Vilani surveys produced no returns in many areas of the world-ocean.
References and contributors[edit]
- Jae Campbell, Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Ushra." Signal-GK 03 (1989): 49. via HIWG
- Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 82.
- Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 34.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com