Denotam (world)

Denotam/Vilis (Spinward Marches 1413) Milieu 1116 B739573-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics 9 Wet World 90% Population 5 Moderate (300 thousand) Government 7 Balkanization Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M2 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Balkanization
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	2627
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	D45-2 Resources D Very abundant Labor 4 Moderate (30 thousand) Infrastructure 5 Limited Efficiency -2 Fair
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	208
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,007
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	1,265
Port passengers (annual)	1,500

Denotam has a population between 10,000 and 10 million sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Vilis Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Denotam, 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.

Astrography & Planetology

Its large commercial port handles significant traffic from high-jump freighters, and specializes in their maintenance.

Monostellar System

Denotam Primary Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Denotam Primary M2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0021	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.21	2.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	4
	Remarks
	None

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1413 Denotam (Imperial)

Starport: Class IV - Naval base.

Diameter: 6,850 miles (11,000 km).
Atmosphere: Very thin oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 85%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 370,000.
Government: Military (Navy) at the starport, tribal elsewhere.
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 4.0.

History & Background (Dossier)

An Imperial non-industrial world, Denotam has about 300,000 residents and a naval base. The population is almost entirely clustered around the downport. Both the downport and most of the useful land is on a single small continent. The remainder of the surface is covered by ice under which can be found highly saline oceans.

The naval base host elements of the 193rd Fleet. And it is an important x-boat link.

Denotam is under the government of the Seven Clans as well as multiple smaller tribes. The Seven Clans arose on the first Vilani colony vessel which came to Denotam. The seven sections of settlers were originally denoted as Ay, Bee, Cee, etc. For amusement, they took names of Old Earth’s Scottish clans and engaged in competitions. The Seven Clanheads of Denotam and their Clans are:

1. The Arnstruther, Head of Clan Arnstruther
2. The Bannatyne, Head of Clan Bannatyne
3. The Clelland, Head of Clan Clelland
4. The Durie, Head of Clan Durie
5. The Erskin, Head of Clan Erskin
6. The Fleming, Head of Clan Fleming
7. The Glas, Head of Clan Glas

References & Contributors (Sources)

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)
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 100. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Gregory P. Lee. Cirque (Greylock Publishing, 2014), 172-174.
• Andrea Vallance, Donald McKinney, Gregory P. Lee, James Kundert, Robert Eaglestone. "Traveller news service bullitens." Imperiallines 6 (2014): 14.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 61-66. (UWP only)
• Tony Jones - The Denotam system - Memory Lapse Megatraveller campaign