Elixabeth (world)

Elixabeth/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1532) Milieu 1116 B426467-8 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 4 Moderate (20 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V M5 V
Worlds	8
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	4358
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	732-1 Resources 7 Few Labor 3 Low (2 thousand) Infrastructure 2 Extremely limited Efficiency -1 Average
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	38
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Elixabeth has a population between 10,000 and 10 million sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. The governance of this world is from Dallia (Spinward Marches 1435). It is a client state of Third Imperium in the District 268 Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. This world has a nearby Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Astrography & Planetology

Elixabeth is a member of the Spinward Main.

With its low gravity (0.3G), thin, tainted atmosphere, and cool climate (average surface temperature -2°C) Elixabeth is hardly a Terran-Prime world. Yet, with its wide-open spaces, wave-tossed seas, and extensive native flora and fauna, it looked like a virtual paradise to the colonists from lifeless, overcrowded and perpetually icebound Forine (Spinward Marches 1533) who arrived in 975.

Binary Solar System

Elixabeth Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Elixabeth 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
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Elixabeth companion M5 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.162	2930 - 3060	0.00171
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0009	0.0034	0.04 - 0.09	0.09	0.9
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3

History & Background (Dossier)

Elixabeth is the location of an Imperial Naval Base.

Elixabeth is considered an Imperial client state because it is a colony of Forine, itself an Imperial client state. In 990, both Elixabeth and neighboring Talchek also became Imperial client worlds as a result of Imperial pressure on Forine.

Other Data

With its low gravity (0.3G), thin, tainted atmosphere, and cool climate (average surface temperature -2°C) Elixabeth is hardly a Terran-Prime world. Yet, with its wide-open spaces, wave-tossed seas, and extensive native flora and fauna, it looked like a virtual paradise to the colonists from lifeless, overcrowded and perpetually icebound Forine (Spinward Marches 1533) who arrived in 975. The colonization effort was backed by the government of Forinean dictator Chorni Norep, who had come to power just two standard years before. She saw it as an opportunity both to develop Elixabeth as a source of raw materials for homeworld industries and to rid herself of political opponents who were too prominent to simply “disappear” en masse. Thus, many of the roughly 2,000 colonists who settled on Elixabeth were political and religious dissidents, and the same was true of the Forinean colony that was simultaneously being established on Talchek (Spinward Marches 1631).

In theory the Elixabethan colonists recognized the titular authority of the government ‘back home’, but in practice were determined to assert as much independence as possible. The Forinean government, glad to be rid of these ‘troublemakers’, pretty much left them alone for 15 standard years. However, in 989, Norep announced plans to relocate Forine’s surplus population to Elixabeth. The Elixabethan colonists, horrified that their ‘Eden’ was going to become a dumping ground for millions of impoverished immigrants, rallied together in opposition. All of the colonists working on a Forinean government project to upgrade Elixabeth’s starport (then an E-class facility) walked off the job. When Norep sent Forinean troops to Elixabeth, the colonists responded with a campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience that frustrated efforts to resume starport construction — a key element in Norep’s ‘relocation’ plans. Furthermore, the events on Elixabeth inspired similar acts of protest and resistance by the colonists on Talchek.

Worse yet, from Norep’s point of view, open defiance to her policies in the colonies was threatening to undermine her authority on Forine itself. Therefore, she authorized the commanders on Elixabeth and Talchek to use deadly force to break up protests and force the colonists back to work. This led to considerable bloodshed as several hundred colonists were killed. Open resistance was broken, but the colonists in both systems continued to oppose Forinean rule by means of sabotage and low-intensity guerrilla warfare. Mass arrests by the Forinean military created an absurd situation where nearly half the adult colonist population on Elixabeth was imprisoned in military stockades (given the small population, no proper prison had ever been built on the planet).

Their feisty and -- at least initially -- non-violent resistance to Norep’s oppressive rule had made the Elixabethan colonists a cause célèbre throughout many Imperial systems in the Spinward Marches. As inmates in the hastily-constructed and unsanitary Forinean military stockades began to fall ill and die in substantial numbers, calls for Imperial intervention began to be heard. The Imperial authorities, who had been antagonized by Norep’s pro-Sword Worlds rhetoric and policies, saw the situation as a welcome opportunity to clip her wings. Therefore, in mid-990, they threatened to intervene “for humanitarian reasons” if the Forinean government did not begin negotiating with the rebels under Imperial arbitration.

The peace agreement signed several months later required major concessions by both sides. The settlers on Elixabeth and Talchek had to abandon their aspirations for independence, since both systems were to remain Forinean colonies under the rule of governors appointed by the homeworld. Norep, for her part, had to grant the colonists autonomy in a broad range of “internal” policy arenas (including immigration) while retaining total control over “external” matters such as defense, and extrastellar relations and trade. Furthermore, the two colonial worlds were given representation in a newly-created ‘Forine Assembly’ that was proportionally much greater than their relative populations in comparison to that of Forine itself. Finally, in order to ensure that all parties abided by the terms of the agreement, Talchek and Elixabeth both became client states of the Imperium and an Imperial naval base was established in the latter system.

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.

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• Contributor: Vendarth