Aries (world)

Aries/Nightrim (Reaver's Deep 2816)
Classic Era (1116)	B310444-D Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (20 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
New Era (1200)	C110232-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 1 Small (1,600 km, 0.05g - 0.09g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 2 Low (100) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 2 Low Law (no energy weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F1 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	4

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Aries is a nonindustrial world, that requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.

• In a technological universe, societies without industrial capability generally suffer as nearly all manufactured and high tech goods must be brought in at significant cost.
• As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Nightrim Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.
• This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

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History & Background (Dossier)

Aries is a nonindustrial world, that requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.

• In a technological universe, societies without industrial capability generally suffer as nearly all manufactured and high tech goods must be brought in at significant cost.
• As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Nightrim Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.
• This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Note: The BARD version of the world is not Imperial, but part of the Solomani Confederation.

• T5SS makes the world Imperial.
• The BARD version was an "As Va" asteroid vacuum world. T5SS makes it "Ni".

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Aries, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Nobility overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.

Other Data

Non-canon: Though the entire population of Aries perished during the collapse, the system has recently been resettled for intensive salvage operations. Most of the new colonists are the descendants of refugees that had fled to Stonehaven some eighty years before. Prior to the Collapse, Aries was only one of a series of Imperial Naval facilities protecting the Imperial side of Reaver's Deep.

• The Facility is really little more than a hollowed out asteroid in orbit of the system's largest gas giant, a brooding red orb known as Cerabus. Originally more than 20,000 naval personnel and support staff inhabited this massive fortress. Presently Aries is being salvaged by a mere 857 Stonehaven Technological Recovery Service Technicians (STRST). Currently less than twenty per-cent of the facility has been surveyed and there are high hopes that the remainder will be opened up soon. Unfortunately there is the very real problem of Virus controlled robots in the unexplored regions of the base. Recently the Confederation has issued a number of limited access permits to freelancer's hoping to strike it rich in the remains of the facility.
• On 09/VI/1200 a large portion of the starport facilities were dedicated to the freshly equipped, Confederation Scout Base, Sunfire. Future exploration missions into Reaver's Deep are to be launched from the Facility.

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.

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