Ababat (world)

Ababat/Lentuli (Empty Quarter 0127) Milieu 1116 B7576BA-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 6 Moderate (2 million) Government B Non-Charismatic Dictator Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K0 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	3
Cultural Details
Government	Non-charismatic dictatorship
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	887C
Army Size (BEs)	15
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	F56+4 Resources F Extremely abundant Labor 5 Moderate (200 thousand) Infrastructure 6 Limited Efficiency +4 Advanced
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	6
GWP (BCr)	1,800
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	2,947
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	2,200
Port employees	245
Port passengers (annual)	10,000

Ababat is an agricultural and garden world with an ideal environment for producing food from plants, animals, or other forms. It supports a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system hosts a population between 100 thousand and 10 million sophonts. This world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions make it dangerous to visitors.  This is a temperate world, with a climate of average temperatures. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Lentuli Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector and in the Domain of Antares. Ababat, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight and the fiefdom of a baron. Both are members of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. This world has a nearby Naval Base, capable of handling warships. Less than 10% of the world's population is the Major Race Vargr.

Astrography and Planetology

Part of the Marhaban Cluster.

Monostellar System

Ababat Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Ababat K0 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.88	5170 - 5270	0.63928
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0038	0.0663	0.78 - 1.4	0.38	3.8
	Orbit #	*	*	3	1	5

History and Background

Thanks to a Vilani resupply post in -4914 Imperial (394 B.C.), Ababat has the honor of being the first world in the sector settled by men. Thousands of years later, it still serves the (latest) Imperium, as the home of a naval base. The current population is dominated by retired Imperial servicemen and their descendants.

Ababat has a moderate population supporting a type B starport a Navy base and is settled by Bwaps. Ababat builds spaceships in the one-kiloton range and then sends them to Saffron (Empty Quarter 0128) sublight, taking about five years to get to Saffron this way. Once the spaceships reach Saffron, they are refitted with jump-1 drives and become starships.

Ababat is located in the Marhaban Cluster, at the edge of the sector close to several powerful Bwap] systems. Ababat is a pleasant world, where the dominant Sunni population has peaceful relations with the Ovaghoun Vargr minority.

Muslim Arab worlds in the Empty Quarter have a reputation for violent parochial ignorance, a reputation that is justly earned upon occasion. But not on Ababat: a Muslim world next to the heart of Bwap space, with a large Vargr minority, the Ababatans simply don’t meet the profile of the typical Emptyhead. By focusing on trade rather than war, they have managed to build up their world to an impressive level, even becoming the home of an Imperial Naval Base, and hosting a good number of Naval veteran settlers. As they develop, they have not lost touch with their religion, welcoming the Muslim Brotherhood as much as the Imperial Navy - so long as the credits flow. Finally, education is more highly respected here than elsewhere, with a fair amount of physicians, technicians and engineers graduating from the local colleges and universities: some of whom are good enough to catch the eye of visiting Tech Tyrants.

Ababat has a substantial population of Vargr. Unlike most Moslem worlds, relations between the local Arabs and the Vargr are good, if formal and distant. “We live with us, and they live with them.” Joint activity is limited to business and joint military operations against raiders and pirates.

UWP Listing

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

• T20 - 993 - Ababat 0127 B7577BA-9 N AgVarg1 334 Im - Third Imperium
• CT - 1105 - Ababat 0127 B7576BA-A Ag Ni Varg0 234 Im - Third Imperium
• MT - 1125 - Ababat 0127 B7575DB-7 Ag Ni 934 La - League of Antares (Regent Brzk's faction)
• TNE - 1201 - Ababat 0127 X75756A-8 Ag Ni B 334 Wi - Wilds

References and Contributors

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.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), .
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11,47. - {dot map provided}
• Jason Kemp. "Gamma Quadrant Of The Empty Quarter Sector- Lentuli Subsector." Stellar Reaches 01 (2005): 7. - UWP Only
• Jason Kemp. "Sector In Review: Empty Quarter 993." Stellar Reaches 05 (2006): 37. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "Hegemony, Republic, Duchy: Part I." Stellar Reaches 10 (2010): 8. - Minor Write-up
• Alvin Plummer. "Maps and UWP’S for the Empty Quarter: 993, 1105, 1125, and 1201 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 17 (2011): 16. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "A Gazetteer to the Worlds of the Empty Quarter." Stellar Reaches 18 (2012): 5.– Minor Write-up
• Alvin Plummer. "The Great Tribal Census of 993." Stellar Reaches 19 (2012): 5.– Minor Write-up
• Alvin Plummer. "Data Dump: Updated Maps and UWPs for the Empty Quarter, 993 and 1105 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 19 (2012): 48. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "The Preferred Worlds of the Empty Quarter, 993 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 21 (2013): 62.- Write-up
• Alvin Plummer. "A Haji for the Fallen." Stellar Reaches 20 (2012): 40.
• Author and Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
• World page generated by AB-101
• Data compiled by ’’MIMIC’’ - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication