Orsasch (world)

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Orsasch/Pax Rulin (Trojan Reach 2008)
Classic Era (1116)
E541364-7
StarportE Frontier - no facilities
Size5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g)
Atmosphere4 Thin (tainted)
Hydrographics1 Dry World 10%
Population3 Low (2 thousand)
Government6 Captive Government/Colony
Law4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons)
Tech Level7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary M1 V
Planetoid Belts 2
Gas Giants 3

Orsasch is a poor, low-population hellworld with a population less than 10,000 sophonts struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

  • Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often form intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
  • This world toils under the control of a military government with conditions reflecting that situation including curtailed civil rights and limited freedoms.
  • It is a member of the Senlis Foederate in the Pax Rulin Subsector of Trojan Reach Sector.
  • This world-system hosts a Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces, which may be located on or off-world.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]

No information yet available.

Monostellar System[edit]

Orsasch Monostellar System
Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol)
Orsasch

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

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

Orsasch is a poor, low-population hellworld located in the Pax Rulin Subsector of the Trojan Reach.

  • It is a member of the Senlis Foederate and contains a military base.
  • The government is under military rule.
  • Orsasch is a dry world, and the rulers of the Foederate carefully control the water supplies, adding psychotropic drugs as necessary to manipulate the world's population to meet political needs.

World Starport[edit]

Orsasch has a Class E Starport, a frontier quality installation with few expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of a downport.

World Technology Level[edit]

Orsasch possesses a Technology Level of TL–7.

  • Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early video and early satellite communication networks.
  • Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fuel cells, solar energy, and geothermal power sources.
  • Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
    • Land: Improved automobiles, hovercraft, and bullet trains.
    • Water: Hydrofoils and early triphibians.
    • Air: Hang gliders and supersonic jets.
    • Space: Deep space probes and interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

World Government[edit]

Orsasch has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. A colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.

Population[edit]

2,000

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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