Sheffield (world)
Sheffield/Nightrim (Reaver's Deep 2513) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | C667575-8
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | M2 V M4 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 1 |
Sheffield is an agricultural, nonindustrial, pre-rich garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts, but still lacks an adequate population to expand its economy to a rich status.
- 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.
- Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Nightrim Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
This system is part of the Gerim Trace.
Binary Solar System[edit]
Sheffield Binary Star System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Sheffield M2 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.44 3470 - 3560 0.0565 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0021 0.0197 0.25 - 0.48 0.21 2.1 Orbit # * * 1 0 4 Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Sheffield M4 V
Secondary Main Sequence 0.23 3110 - 3210 0.00584 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0013 0.0063 0.08 - 0.16 0.13 1.3 Orbit # * * 0 0 3
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Sheffield has become an Imperial defence forces retirement world.
- It is a pleasant, tropical island world, with each island governing themselves.
- Each island tends to be specific to one branch of the defence forces and personnel retire from the many military bases in Nightrim and adjacent subsectors.
- Although each island is fiercely protective of their independence of the other islands there is never any conflicts between islands, except every two years when the interforces games occur.
- During this two week long period, bones have been known to be broken.
Ahead of the Solomani Rim War, a small Solomani Confederation task force led by Commodore Fidel Scheinberg slipped into Imperial space at Sheffield. Employing cruisers disguised as Aslan ships, this Task Force Scheinberg launched a series of hit-and-run raids on shipping in Nightrim Subsector and Woomera Subsector, which diverted Imperial resources.
Imperial High (Landed) Nobility[edit]
Sheffield, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of three members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.
- It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
- It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
- It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.
- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 27. (dot map)
- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11. (dot map)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 11, 50. (dot map)
- Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 22.
- Brett Kruger. Into the Deep 1 (BKP, 2010), 29.
- Randy Dorman. The Deep and the Dark (Mongoose Publishing, 2023), .
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com