Xhosa (world)

Xhosa/Querion (Spinward Marches 0115) Milieu 1116 EA95124-5 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 1 Low (90) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M0 V
Worlds	8
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Participating democracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	1133
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	5
Economic Extension	301-5 Resources 3 Very scarce Labor 0 Barren (9) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	2
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	1
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-E
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Xhosa supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. This a low technology world with technology competency below the standard for Charted Space. It is a Human dominated Non-Aligned world in the Querion Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Astrography & Planetology

The planet has a warm climate and a dense oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere tainted by a very high humidity, making disease and fungal infections a constant threat. Xhosa's enormous jungles teem with flora and fauna.

This world is part of the Yiktor Cluster.

Monostellar System

Xhosa Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Xhosa M0 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0027	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.27	2.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	0	5
	Remarks
	None

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

0115 Xhosa (Independent)

Starport: Class I.

Diameter: 9,820 miles (15,700 km).
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen, tainted by a very high humodity.
Hydrographics: 52%.
Climate: Warm.
Population: 90.
Government: Athenian-style democracy.
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 5.
World Trade Number: 1.

History & Background (Dossier)

Xhosa is a non-aligned world only populated by a research team from the Querion xenobiology department.

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), 6-7.
• 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), 40. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 42.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 99. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 56-60. (UWP only)