Capital (world)

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Capital/Core (Core 2118)
Milieu 0
A586A98-C
StarportA Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g)
Atmosphere8 Dense
Hydrographics6 Wet World 60%
PopulationA High (30 billion)
Government9 Impersonal Bureaucracy
Law8 High Law (controlled blades)
Tech LevelC Average Stellar (robots)
Classic Era (1116)
A586A98-F
StarportA Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g)
Atmosphere8 Dense
Hydrographics6 Wet World 60%
PopulationA High (60 billion)
Government9 Impersonal Bureaucracy
Law8 High Law (controlled blades)
Tech LevelF High Stellar (anagathics)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary G2 V
Planetoid Belts 0
Gas Giants 5

Capital is a high-population world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

  • Central world of the Imperium and seat of government since its founding. Situated in the center of the Imperium, Capital's astrographical position has proven of prime importance as a communications hub, a cultural center, and an industrial focus.
  • Capital is home to the Imperial Guard, Imperial Palace, Moot, and the Moot Spire among other well-known points of interest within the Third Imperium.


Monostellar System

Capital Monostellar System
Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol)
Capital

G2 V

Primary Main Sequence 1 5720 - 5770 1
Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0047 0.0829 0.95 - 1.68 0.47 4.7
Orbit #  *  * 4 1 6

System Data

No information yet available.

World Data

The planet is a pleasant world, 7,600km in diameter and with a surface gravity of approximately 0.7G.

  • The atmosphere is a dense mixture of oxygen and nitrogen.
  • Three fifths of the planetary surface is covered by water oceans, with five major continents and one minor continent including five large islands and nine archipelagos.
  • Capital has a rotational period of 24h 4m 1s and an orbital period of 364.97 standard days, with an axial tilt of approximately 20.5°.

World Geography

Capital (the planet once known as Sylea) is a moderate-sized world with a lot of people, compounded by the fact that a little more than half its surface is water. A lot means eighty billion; moderate-sized means, after subtracting water, about eight billion hectares.

  • 10% A tenth is devoted to food production (long ago, that was two-tenths, but that was long ago): it is impractical (if not impossible) to import food for billions of people.
  • 20% Two-tenths is mountain, canyon, rock, and crag.
  • 20% Another two-tenths is snowlands: both support scattered communities, but certainly no appreciable population density.
  • 50% Half the land is urban, four billion hectares for 80 billion people: perhaps 20 per hectare, 2,000 per square kilometer. Terribly crowded, oppressive, single-level urban areas make do with such densities over a few hundred square kilometers. Capital maintains such densities across all its settled lands. Yet. For many, Capital is a pleasant environment, an attractive community. High-rise and plunging arcologies house millions in high-density comfort and safety: the masses of the bureaucracy that drive the engines of the empire must live in comfort and safety.

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

Native Sophont (NIL): Syleans

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

A high population world in Core Subsector of Core Sector.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Capital, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of five members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

World Starport

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World Government

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World Military

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World Economy

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Trade Data

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World Demographics

Fourteen billion sentients inhabit Capital, a number which has remained fairly constant through the entire Third Imperium.

  • Of these, eighty percent are primarily racial Vilani, eleven percent are Solomani and six percent are native Syleans, and the remaining three percent consists of a mixture of various human and non-human minor races.

World Culture

  • Progressiveness: Conservative and Indifferent
  • Aggressiveness: Unaggressive and Peaceable
  • Extensiveness: Harmonious and Friendly

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

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History-Era: Rebellion

Under the divided Imperium, with no emperor officially proclaimed by action of the Moot, Capital is a head without a brain, and the separate domains of the Imperium have been forced to fend for themselves under the independent leadership of their local archdukes.

  • Once the current political turmoil has settled down and the Imperium is reunited, Capital will again take its place as the centerpiece of human civilization.

Points of Interest: Places & Buildings

  • Capital has 5 primary cities:
  • Benca (Class A starport / population 6 billion)
  • Cleon (Class A starport / population 4 billion)
  • Mifa Lanco (Class A starport / population 3 billion)
  • Turthu (Class A starport / population 9 billion)
  • Ton Vorn (orbital complex) (Class A starport / population 5 billion)
  • Capital has 28 secondary cities (Class F spaceports / population 500 million total)
  • Capital has 135 tertiary cities (Class H spaceports / population 50 million total)

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