Ka Min (world)

Ka Min/Natar (Far Home 0811)
Classic Era (1116)	C767676-5 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 6 Moderate (3 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G0 V M5 VI
Planetoid Belts	4
Gas Giants	2

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Ka Min is an agricultural, nonindustrial, and very rich garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world. However, a rich world like this one can afford the cost of importation.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Its economy and population are growing and living conditions are expected to incrementally rise barring outside forces. The world will grow even quicker when its industrial sector begins to develop.
• This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
• It is a member of the Firstworlds in the Natar Subsector of Far Home Sector.

• It is one of the New Members

Description / Astrography & Planetology

This star system is detailed using the Fringian Variant System Description.

• It is a part of the Risa Cluster.

Binary Solar System

Ka Min Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Ka Min G0 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.06	5860 - 5930	1.22623
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0051	0.0918	1.04 - 1.83	0.51	5.1
	Orbit #	*	*	4	1	6
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Ka Min M5 VI	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.104	2000 - 2900	0.002
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00097	0.00371	0.04 - 0.06	0.097	0.97
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3
	Remarks
	2380 AU from primary

System Data

Proclamon-Ka Min System

The primary is Proclamon, an ordinary yellow main sequence star. It has a luminosity of 1.21 Sols, a mass of 1.04 Sols, and a diameter of 1.433 million km. The inner system consists of (I) a vacuum worldlet, and (II) an exotic atmosphere stormworld – orbital position (III) is empty. (IV) Ka Min orbits within the habitable zone and is designated the mainworld. (V) a thin atmosphere hospitable world, (VI) a sparse stony planetoid belt, (VII) a ringed large gas giant, (VIII) a large gas giant, (IX) a small gas giant, and (X) a trace atmosphere iceworld form the outer system. Many of the worlds retain satellites.

Kivulor Subsystem

The companion is Kivulor, a dim red main sequence star lying approximately 2,380 AU from Proclamon. It has a luminosity of 0.007 Sols, a mass of 0.331 Sols, and a diameter of 498,000 km. (I) a standard atmosphere hospitable world orbits within the habitable zone. (II) a ringed small ice giant and (IV) a dense icy planetoid belt form the outer system – orbital position (III) is empty. The gas giant retains satellites.

Mainworld Data

(IV) Ka Min

(IV) Ka Min is designated the mainworld. It orbits Proclamon at a mean distance of 0.92 AU (137.6 million km), within the habitable zone. It has an orbital period of 316 days 1 hours and a rotation period of 31.5 hours. The axial tilt is 22 degrees. Ka Min has a diameter of 11,512 km, a density of 5.88 g/cm³, and a surface gravity of 0.96 G. The world is geologically active. Its atmosphere is rated as Standard, with a mean surface pressure of 1.11 bar and a composition of 78% nitrogen (N₂), 21% oxygen (O₂), and 1% argon (Ar), water vapor (H₂O), carbon dioxide (CO₂), neon (Ne) and other trace gases. Approximately 69% of the surface is covered in seas of liquid water: average tidal ranges exceed 0.4m. Mean surface temperature: 18°C. The climate is rated as Temperate-Prime and experiences minor seasonal changes during the local year. The atmosphere is dynamic and strong weather systems driven by the star surge across the globe. The climate is seasonal.

Satellite

Ka Min retains a single natural satellite, a very thin atmosphere worldlet named Cho:

(IVa) Cho (UWP Y220000-0, orbiting Ka Min at 35 Diameters/403,000 km)

Mainworld Geography and Topography

Total surface area: 416 million km², Water surface area: 287 million km², Land surface area: 129 million km².

Native Lifeforms

Proclamon-Ka Min System

Ka Min, the mainworld, has extensive, abundant native life, with complex organisms inhabiting every ecological niche. Their metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal. Ka Min is sometimes referred to as a "jungle world", although it has a wide range of local environments. It has large equatorial continents and small polar icecaps. The continents are warm and densely vegetated. There are many types of fauna that tend toward gigantism.

• The Batha Beast, a large grazer native to the world, is found throughout the Distant Fringe. It is a strong and dangerous livestock animal with a foul disposition and reputation for intransigence, but its meat is quite tasty.

The cold marginally hospitable world lying in orbital position (V) has primitive native life, consisting entirely of microscopic cyanobacteria-parallels that exist in any location where they can find even a minimal trace of shelter and warmth. Their metabolic functions maintain the process of atmospheric renewal.

No other world in the system is known to have native life.

Kivulor Subsystem

No world in the subsystem is known to have native life.

History & Background / Dossier

Ka Min (0811 Far Home) is one of the New Members, systems that have provisionally become members of the Firstworlds. The world is divided into enormous family-run ranches raising Batha Beasts, temperamental grazers valued for their meat. Each ranch is effectively a state headed by the family patriarch. Feuds, particularly over border grazing rights, are common.

World Starport

Ka Min has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which includes amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Technology Level

Ka Min possesses a Technology Level of TL–5.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Electricity, hydrocarbon internal combustion, and the most fundamental atomic energy.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Ground cars or automobiles and tracked vehicles.
  • Water: Large ships and submersibles with steel hulls.
  • Air: Early aircraft including seaplanes and very early unmanned rockets.

World Government

Ka Min has a Balkanized Government. There is no central world government. The world has several governments competing for control of the world. These may be allies, cooperating, competitors, or at war with each other. The world is divided into enormous family-run ranches raising Batha Beasts, temperamental grazers valued for their meat. Each ranch is effectively a state headed by the family patriarch. Feuds, particularly over border grazing rights, are common.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Demographics

Population: 2,800,000

• Humaniti (Human races)
  • Solomani (Major Race): 2,300,000 (82% of the population). They refer to themselves as Terrans.

• Native Non-Human Races:
  • Hoppers: 500,000 (18% of the population).

World Culture

The preferred mode of transport for Batha Herders are Horvath's Ponies. Herds of Batha Beasts are corralled by riders who use ultrasonic horns to direct the animals. Batha Herders may spend months in the saddle moving herds between their grazing lands and transport hubs. Herders generally employed by a large commercial ranch and have a reputation for working hard and playing harder.

Urbanization

Ka Min is dominated by 40 vast open ranches, each covering millions of square kilometers and raising huge herds of Batha Beasts. Each is owned by a hereditary Five family who run it according to their own peculiar customs and traditions. Each ranch contains a number of Ranchtowns, busy commercial hubs built around fortified mansion complexes, and typically with many tens of thousands of inhabitants. Ranchtowns are surrounded by smaller outlying Burgs with hundreds or even thousands of inhabitants. Each Ranchtown has slaughterhouses and processing plants and is served by a rail depot. The rail network is used to transport both living Bantha Beasts or processed Beast products to the hungry markets of Drovehead.

Drovehead, with a population of 2.2 million sophonts, is the only major city on Ka Min, lying close to the downport and serving as home to all of the worlds' major financial and commercial institutions. A rail network fans out from Drovehead to terminals near to Ranchtowns. Many ranches choose to drive their herds directly to Drovehead instead.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

• (2256 AD): First settlement founded on Ka Min.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors / Sources

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science