Chiauk (world)
Chiauk/Mimu (Dagudashaag 0803) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Milieu 0 | A431355-E
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Classic Era (1116) | A431557-F
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | M2 V M4 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 3 |
Chiauk is a poor, nonindustrial world.
- As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
- This world has few prospects for economic development.
- This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
- This world contains an archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished Ancients precursor race.
- This world has a research station engaged in the scientific pursuit of knowledge.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Mimu Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector in the Domain of Vland.
- During the Long Night this world was named Ashuukhuugu.
Description (Planetology)
Chiauk’s arid surface is a true wonder when seen from space – its desert sands are streaked with a multitude of vivid colours as deposits of rare metal salts are eroded by the relentless winds.
- The origin of the tenuous oxygen atmosphere is a mystery, as no life has ever been detected on the world.
Binary Solar System
Chiauk Binary Star System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Chiauk M2 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.44 3470 - 3560 0.0565 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0021 0.0197 0.25 - 0.48 0.21 2.1 Orbit # * * 1 0 4 Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Chiauk 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
Point of Interest: S'mrii ConSentiency PanPhylum Research Facility
The complex of ground based and grav-supported buildings comprises the S'mrii ConSentiency PanPhylum Research Facility, a huge multidisciplinary science center conducting cutting-edge research into a wide range of endeavours.
- The infrastructure is devoted to serving S'mrii phylum researchers, but Human academics are able to use the facilities on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
- The PPRF’s facilities for physical, biological and behavioural sciences are among the best in the entire Domain, and non-S’mrii researchers often have to wait years for the privilege of testing their theories in Chiauk’s laboratories.
Point of Interest: Ancients Site
Palaeotechnologists visiting Chiauk have a unique opportunity: in addition to the superior research facilities on planet, there is a significant Ancient site 500 kilometers north of the PPRF site.
- The Pavement occupies almost 250 square kilometres of barren high desert.
- A field of ten-metre wide hexagonal columns laid out in precise interlocking geometrical pattern, the Pavement’s purpose is unknown.
- The passage between the columns once carried some kind of equipment, long since removed.
History & Background (Dossier)
The world’s sole starport and major population centre is built atop a mesa in the centre of the one of the few highly saline equatorial lakes.
References & Contributors (Sources)
- Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
- Author & Contributor: Jae Campbell - MegaTraveller Periodical: Signal-GK Issue #5 - HIWG
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com