Tizon (world)

Tizon/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 0922) Milieu 1116 B586887-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 8 Moderate (300 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K2 IV M3 V
Worlds	15
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	8C5A
Army Size (BEs)	1500
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	F7D+4 Resources F Extremely abundant Labor 7 Moderate (30 million) Infrastructure D Comprehensive Efficiency +4 Advanced
Importance Extension	4
Resource Units	5,460
GWP (BCr)	1,756
World Trade Number	5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	13,557
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	330,000
Port employees	3,390
Port passengers (annual)	688,100

Tizon is a rich world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system supports a population in the 100's of millions, which makes it too urbanized to make an agricultural world. It is a member of Sword Worlds Confederation in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Sword Worlds. This world supports a Sword Worlds Military Base and the system supports a Sword Worlds Naval Base.

Astrography & Planetology

Tizon is a member of the Spinward Main.

Tizon has two stars, the primary El Cid, and its companion Bucar. Tizon orbits at a distance of 2.0 AU. Tizon has two small moons, though neither have significant installations.

Tizon's primary is an evolving K2 IV star, which has become considerably brighter in the last 100 million years. Tizon was once uninhabitable, a Mars-like ball of rock that was well outside the system’s habitable zone; it only warmed as the primary brightened.

Binary Solar System

Tizon Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
El Cid K2 IV	Primary	Giant		1.608	3700 - 4600	2.834
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.02053	0.13963	1.34 - 2.18	2.053	20.53
	Orbit #	*	0	4	4	8
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Bucar M3 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.37	3270 - 3430	0.03081
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0017	0.0146	0.18 - 0.35	0.17	1.7
	Orbit #	*	*	0	0	4

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

0922 Tizon (Sword Worlds)

Starport: Class IV - Military base.

Diameter: 3,002 miles (4,800 km).
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 61%.
Climate: Cold.
Population: 372 million.
Government: Civil service bureaucracy.
Control Level: 3.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 5.

Mainworld Data

Tizon has two continents: the larger one, Treskaginir, covers most of the northern hemisphere, while a smaller one, Noeglen, takes up half of the south. The world is rich in minerals, with mining communities scattered all over the planet. Tizon's climate is chilly, so the population is concentrated near the equator, particularly around the Athskilinn Sea, a large inland sea that separates central Treskaginir from Noeglen.

Tizon has a dense oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere with almost perpetual cloud cover (only 10% of the planet receive direct sunlight at any given moment), resulting in a chilly climate. Tizon was subject to a fairly successful terraforming program by the Darrians before being abandoned in the wake of the Maghiz disaster. As such, Tizon actually supports some of the last surviving populations of native Darrian species that are extinct on their own homeworld.

History & Background (Dossier)

Historically Tizon has been one of the most important of the Sword Worlds, and in the past it has built an empire big enough to make it a power almost comparable to Gram (Spinward Marches 1223). Today Tizon pours its energy towards trade, science, and art. The capital city is Ny Eital; its Downport is Osgihamn Starport.

Trivia

Military personnel from Tizon came to live in the region of Tarsus known as Regiment.

Followers of Beriel Andreesen, a failed claimant to the throne of the Tizon Empire, colonised the world named Beriel, in Beyond Sector, in his honour.

Tizona (also Tizón) is the name of one of the medieval swords carried by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, according to the Cantar de Mio Cid.

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 16-17.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 44-45. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 68.
• Paul Drye, Hans Rancke-Madsen, Robert Prior. Sword Worlds (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), 27-29.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 89-92,96-97. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. Sword Worlds (Mongoose Publishing, 2020), .