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Starport	B	Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	5	Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g)
Atmosphere	5	Thin
Hydrographics	0	Desert World 0%
Population	5	Moderate (200 thousand)
Government	6	Captive Government/Colony
Law	3	Low Law (no automatic weapons)
Tech Level	A	Early Stellar (jump drive)

Astrography and Planetology

Part of the Irash Cluster.

Binary Solar System

Aisha Binary Star System
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Aisha G0 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.06	5860 - 5930	1.22623
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0051	0.0918	1.04 - 1.83	0.51	5.1
	Orbit #	*	*	4	1	6
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Aisha M6 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.102	2740 - 2810	0.00034
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0006	0.0015	0.02 - 0.04	0.06	0.6
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	2

History and Background

A pleasant desert world within the Six Subsectors, Aisha - named after the Prophet Muhammad’s nine-year- old bride - is the site of a long-standing Imperial Ministry of Colonization project. Some ‘touchup’ terraforming was conducted, especially on the planned site for the first city. While colonists are solidly orthodox Sunni Muslims, they are not related to the local Arab cultures, but have been brought in from Arab Muslim settlements from the important world of Conda (Daibei 2718) a century before the Imperial Civil War.

Aisha is the site of an Imperial Ministry of Colonization project, financially assisted by the important Islamic theocracy of Conda (Daibei 2718). Residents are closer to the ‘Standard Imperial Culture’ than most of the Six Subsectors. They also retain strong ties to the Solomani Sphere, and look down on local Muslims as being superstitious peasants, compared to their own pure form of Islam.

As most of Aisha’s inhabitants still maintain long-standing family and business links to Conda, there is a strong market for Rim War news, and freelance couriers have made Aisha one of the most informed worlds in the Empty Quarter.

The world itself is still ruled by the Imperial Ministry of Colonization, and there is a substantial (and largely deserted, due to the war) Imperial Scout base sited on the world. The system administration envisions their system to be a model for the rest of the Six Subsectors to follow, but most knowledgeable Imperial nobles and scouts see this as a failed project. The primary reason it’s still funded is due to prestige reasons: Conda is fairly important in the realm of Imperial-Solomani culture and politics, after all, and keeping the Aisha colonization project funded flatters Conda while tying it closer to the Imperial government, drawing it away from the Solomani temptation of secession.

There are other reasons to keep the project going. A reasonable percentage of Imperial personnel who retire within the sector choose to make their final residence on Aisha, thanks to her decent technology, civilized culture and comforting amenities. Pirates avoid the system, as the MoC has enough pull to keep a squadron of Imperial Navy System Defense Boats insystem, supplemented with starmercs as needed. And Aisha reminds the rest of the subsector what ‘a properly civilized Imperial world’ looks like.

Local Aishaites view most other Muslims within the Quarter as Emptyheaded heterodox peasants, so wrapped up in their ignorance and superstition as to be barely Muslim. Naturally, the rest of the Islamic ummah within the Six Subsectors see the Aishaites as uppity snobs, still fantasizing that they are in the heart of human interstellar civilization, instead of being on the ragged frontier of Imperial rule.

This system is rather different than other nearby systems, being Arab Muslim rather than American Indian Christian/Animist/Hindu. It’s also more closely tied to ‘Standard Imperial Culture’, rather than distinctively Emptyheaded ways of thinking. The locals like to think of themselves as an up-and-coming system, but excluding population growth, there hasn’t been much progress made in the three centuries since the initial colonization. On the other hand, there hasn’t been a lot of declension either, as new money continues to be pumped into the local economy, from both their distant homeworld and the Imperium herself.

UWP Listing

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

T20 - 993 - Aisha 1836 C450563-B S De Ni Po 410 Im
CT - 1105 - Aisha 1836 B450563-A De Ni Po 210 Im
MT - 1125 - Aisha 1836 B450565-7 De Ni Po 210 Ou - Outlands - Failing - a declining life support system
TNE - 1201 - Aisha 1836 E450545-7 De Ni Po B 910 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.

Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 2 - UWP Only
Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 5 - UWP Only
Alvin Plummer. "Adventure: Sixteen Tons." Stellar Reaches 13 (2011): 49.- Write-up
Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 18- Short Write-up
Citation Missing - Stellar Reaches No. 19 - UWP Only
World page generated by AB-101
Data compiled by ’’MIMIC’’ - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication

↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com

[1] "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com

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