Nikhuskir (world)

Nikhuskir/Kuriishe (Dagudashaag 2515) Milieu 1116 C310779-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 7 Moderate (60 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K0 IV
Worlds	12
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Balkanization
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	886B
Army Size (BEs)	15
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	96A+2 Resources 9 Moderate Labor 6 Moderate (6 million) Infrastructure A Extensive Efficiency +2 Good
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	1,080
GWP (BCr)	175
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	8,730
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	60,000
Port employees	685
Port passengers (annual)	13,500

Nikhuskir has an unbreathably thin atmosphere and very little surface water. The system has a population between 10 million and 1 billion sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Kuriishe Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Nikhuskir, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight and the fiefdom of a marquis. Both are members of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. During the Long Night this world was named Inzir Ri.

Astrography and planetology

Nikhuskir is a member of the Sylean Main.

The planet itself is in an inclined eccentric orbit, showing that it is a captured wanderer. From the proportion of heavy minerals, radioactive ores and gems, it is thought that the planet is actually the core of a once much larger planet, shattered in some catastrophic collision and knocked out of its original stellar system. The low gravity and stripped core make mining operations particularly easy.

Monostellar System

Nikhuskir Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Nikhuskir Primary K0 IV	Primary	Giant		2.3	4000 - 5000	4.67
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.03071	0.17924	1.72 - 2.8	3.071	30.71
	Orbit #	*	0	5	5	9

History and background

Nikhuskir has a rich industrialized mining economy, exporting refined products and manufactured equipment with high material content. The population is divided between six huge domed cites, the Free Cites, each housing around ten million people. These six cites are fiercely independent and great rivals, each forming its own Government, controlling all activity within 500-mile region. Over their long history the Free Cites have evolved distinct traditions and government styles, so that for instance while Asuhuur has an egalitarian society, with extensive computer moderated democracy, Emsahibith has a highly stratified society where people are born into Castes which determine their role and occupation.

References and contributors

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.

• Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Kuriishe." Signal-GK 13 (1997): 20-21.
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 84.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 263-264.