Bakhuma (world)

Bakhuma/Sapphyre (Dagudashaag 1733) Milieu 1116 D5367A5-6 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 7 Moderate (20 million) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V M4 V M9 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Charismatic dictatorship
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	5534
Army Size (BEs)	30
Economic Details
Technology Level	6
Economic Extension	965-4 Resources 9 Moderate Labor 6 Moderate (2 million) Infrastructure 5 Limited Efficiency -4 Very poor
Importance Extension	-2
Resource Units	162
GWP (BCr)	17
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	175
Starport Details
Classification	Class-D
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	24,000
Port employees	10
Port passengers (annual)	0

Bakhuma system has a population between 10 and 100 million sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Sapphyre Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Bakhuma, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. This world contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel. During the Long Night this world was named Kikhi Li.

Astrography and planetology

Bakhuma is a member of the Dagudashaag Main.

Bakhuma possesses a harsh, windswept environment, which is almost totally incompatible with humans. The plants and wildlife are inedible and the soil lacks the appropriate nutrients to support imported crops.

Trinary Solar System

Bakhuma Trinary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Bakhuma M1 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0023	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.23	2.3
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	5
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Bakhuma 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
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Bakhuma M9 V	Tertiary	Main Sequence		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0005	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.05	0.5
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	1

History and background

A relative backwater, the only item of interest is the IISS base which runs a surveillance operation on the indigenous aquatic lifeforms.

The substantial human population is dispersed along the equator, where they are concerned with their low-tech subsistence farms.

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.

• Jae Campbell. "Library Data:Sapphyre." Signal-GK 07 (1993): 5.
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 83.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 44.