Picard's Belt (world)

Picard's Belt/Cinder (Gateway 2440)
Classic Era (1116)	C000510-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 5 Moderate (900 thousand) Government 1 Company/Corporation Law 0 No Law Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F6 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

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Picard's Belt is a ring of many small worldlets (planetoids AKA an "asteroid belt"), not capable of retaining an atmosphere or water, and nonindustrial in nature.

• Life in a vacuum requires great discipline. After all, it only takes one forgotten seal on a vacuum suit to spell death. Those who survive tend to be very methodically-minded and attentive to small detail.
• The worldlets require extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Cinder Subsector of Gateway Sector.

• The worldlets contain several xeno-archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished Ancients precursor race.

Description

A vast cloud of asteroids circles this F6 star in numbers so great the star itself seems lost in a thick, smokey haze. Several hundred asteroid colonies have been established in the outer fringes of the system, which sustains itself by mining various ores for export, primarily to the Viyard Concourse.

Monostellar System

Picard's Belt Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Picard's Belt F6 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.25	6280 - 6350	2.18366
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0063	0.1226	1.36 - 2.36	0.63	6.3
	Orbit #	*	0	4	2	6

Point of interest: Mystery of Picard's Belt

Of particular interest are the ruins, artifacts, and anomalies discovered on numerous planetoids within the belt.

• None can be identified, and the intelligence behind them is unknown.

Examples include:

• A featureless 20-cm sphere of unknown alloy and purpose
• Pyramidal buildings with no accessible entrances
• A 50-km asteroid which has been cored by some process which left only a ring of nickle iron with mirror-polished inner walls.

It has been suggested that the artifacts are the product of an alien civilization inhabiting asteroids deeper within the Belt, but the theory remains unproven and speculative. Some suggest they are of Faar origin.

History & Background (Dossier)

Picard's Belt is situated at the rimward end of the Morell Scatter.

World Starport (St)

Picard's Belt 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 Population (P)

900,000

World Technology Level (T)

Picard's Belt possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land & Water: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government (G)

Picard's Belt is governed by a Corporate Polity with a single corporation with a typical corporate structure as a government. A company town, or world. The typical corporate run world usually has a single purpose. Examples include mining, agriculture, or other kinds of resource extraction. But rather than a simple base of operations, there are facilities for housing workers and their families including hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure. How, or if, the children of the workers are incorporated into the workforce varies with companies. The corporation running the world may be a subsidiary of a larger interstellar corporation.

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.

• Periodical: MegaTraveller Journal 4 in Article: 'Gateway Systems'
• T20 QuikLink Interactive Gateway to Destiny
• Mongoose 2nd: The Trailing Frontier