Pourne (world)
Pourne/Tlaiowaha (Trojan Reach 2324) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | A9B2887-A
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | F3 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 2 |
Pourne is a moderate population fluidic hellworld with over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in population size, who are struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.
- A fluid world has an oceanic geography of a liquid other than water such as ammonia, methane, hydrocarbons, or other exotic liquids.
- Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often form intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Tlaiowaha Subsector of Trojan Reach Sector.
- This world has a colony at Asim (TR 2123) (world).
Description (Planetology)[edit]
Pournelle is a large, cold, unpleasant world with a corrosive atmosphere of methane and ammonia. Its hydrographics (20%) consist of Ammonia ice-caps at the poles.
Monostellar System[edit]
Pourne Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Pourne F3 V
Primary Main Sequence 1.44 6670 - 6750 3.58318 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0073 0.157 1.7 - 2.94 0.73 7.3 Orbit # * 0 5 2 6
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Pourne (Alternate name: Pournelle) is a non-aligned fluidic hellworld located in the Tlaiowaha Subsector of the Trojan Reach.
- Pourne was formerly a member of the Kingdom of Drinax, until the Kingdom was shattered in a war with the Aslan Hierate.
- Pourne hopes to negotiate entry into either the Imperium or the Hierate as equal trading partners.
World Starport (St)[edit]
Pourne has a Class A Starport, an excellent quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.
Pourne maintains a large downport with trade and ship repair facilities, but its main star port is at Pournelle Station-1, one of the colonies at the L5 orbit point. The planet has a large (3000 km diameter) moon, Baen, orbiting at 400,000 km distance. There are a total of 30 stations at the L4 and L5 points, all of a similar design, housing the rich members of Pourne's society.
Population[edit]
Pourne has a population of 931 million, of whom 5 million live in orbiting space colonies.
Government[edit]
The government is a civil service bureaucracy, in which officials are chosen for their expertise. Thus all officials are (supposedly) the best available, and the ruling council of three is highly efficient.
Economy[edit]
Pourne's main industries are mining and the construction and export of all manner of electronic items, from computer chips to starships. It is renowned for its well-built space colonies.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- Mike Jackson. "Tlaiowaha Subsector." Third Imperium 02 (1986): 8-9.
- Mike Jackson. "Code of Honor." Third Imperium 02 (1986): 10-11.
- Gareth Hanrahan. Aslan (Mongoose Publishing, 2009), .
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com