Collace (world)

Collace/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1237) Milieu 1116 B628943-D Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 9 High (1 billion) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	F1 V M3 V
Worlds	5
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	6D2A
Army Size (BEs)	1000
Economic Details
Technology Level	13
Economic Extension	C8G+1 Resources C Very abundant Labor 8 Moderate (100 million) Infrastructure G Very comprehensive Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	4
Resource Units	1,536
GWP (BCr)	8,204
World Trade Number	5.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	16,900
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	850,000
Port employees	2,225
Port passengers (annual)	293,000

Collace is an industrial world with a tainted atmosphere. The system has a population over one billion. It is a client state of Third Imperium in the District 268 Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. This world contains a Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel.

Collace (world)/Plankwell (Spinward Marches 1237) New Era A628943-E Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 9 High (2 billion) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	6D2B
Army Size (BEs)	700
Economic Details
Technology Level	14
Economic Extension	C8G+0 Resources C Very abundant Labor 8 Moderate (200 million) Infrastructure G Very comprehensive Efficiency +0 Average
Importance Extension	4
Resource Units	1,536
GWP (BCr)	17,062
World Trade Number	5.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	68,034
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	1,105,000
Port employees	11,995
Port passengers (annual)	1,000,000

Era: New Era

Collace is an industrial world with a tainted atmosphere. The system has a population over one billion. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Plankwell Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. This world is an Interface world, with a quarantine inspection facility for all ships. This world contains a Regency Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

Binary Solar System

Collace Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Collace F1 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.5	6820 - 7020	4.13351
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0078	0.1686	1.8 - 3.11	0.78	7.8
	Orbit #	*	0	5	2	7
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Collace M3 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.37	3270 - 3430	0.03081
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0017	0.0146	0.18 - 0.35	0.17	1.7
	Orbit #	*	*	0	0	4

System Data

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Mainworld Data

The atmosphere is very thin, providing little protection against the glaring sunlight of the system’s primary star, and is also badly tainted. Accordingly, those who wish to move around in the open must use filter respirator combination and wear thorough protection against sunburn.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

Collace is a world of water, with huge oceans that cover a full four-fifths of its surface.

Mainworld Map

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Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

Some suspect that there was a population on this world by the 400's, who were descendants of marooned Sindalian Empire miners.

World Starport

Collace has a Class B Starport, a good quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Technology Level

Collace possesses a Technology Level of TL–13 or TL-D in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovideo recorders.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, prototype collectors, advanced fusion plants.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-4.

World Government

Collace is governed by a Representative Democracy where government leadership is representatives elected by eligible voters. What determines an eligible voter varies. The representatives determine policy, including selecting members of the bureaucracy. There can be referendum, votes by eligible voters on specific subjects.

World Law Level

Visitors should be aware that Collace is a high-crime planet (including many violent crimes involving firearms) and that offworlders are preferred targets.

World Military

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World Economy

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Trade Data

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World Demographics

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World Culture

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Urbanization

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Historical Data

Collace was the site of a Sindalian Empire mining colony that was cut off by the fall of the empire. The population was in serious decline when it was found by Darrian scouts in -1310. The Darrians provided enough technological advice to let Collace develop a stable, self-sustainable infrastructure that would keep them alive.

Over the past two millennia, Collace has experienced steady growth and its population now stands at approximately a billion. Population pressure could well have become a problem, given the planet's large population and relative lack of dry land on which to build. However, this problem was solved by housing most of Collace’s inhabitants in arcologies, often built in clusters. A baneful consequence of “clustering” is that the middle- and upper-classes have tended to gravitate into newer, more expensive, high-security arcologies, leaving the older and less expensive structures to the working class and poor. Many of the lower-class arcologies have become increasingly run-down and experience high levels of criminal activity, much of it ‘run’ by organized criminal gangs.

Despite this, Collace is the wealthiest and most important world in District 268. It has the largest population in the subsector, is a major industrial world renowned for producing low-cost, high-tech goods, and is also the site of a major SuSAG pharmaceutical factory. Moreover, settlers from Collace have colonized Inchin and Avastan, which occupy strategic positions on the J-1 main running between the Glisten and Five Sisters subsectors (though Collace’s government has effectively disowned their governments). Collace is the prime candidate for permanent subsector capital (replacing the temporary one at Mertactor) if and when District 268 is integrated into the Imperium.

Collace has sought to join the Imperium and hosts the largest Imperial scout base in District 268. Indeed, the term “scout base” does not accurately convey the vast scale of the IISS presence, which includes facilities (training sites, supply depots, early warning stations, etc.) on half a dozen other planets and satellites in the system in addition to the main base on Kirkton -- Collace’s principal moon. The intimate relationship between the Imperial and local military is demonstrated by the fact that elements of Collace’s armed forces provide ground and close orbit defense for both themselves and the IISS facilities.

The only reason why Collace has not yet joined the Imperium is the opposition of nearby Trexalon (Spinward Marches 1339) - with which it is in a state of "cold war." Trexalon is dominated by the Trexalon Technical Consortium (TTC), a large interlocking corporate trust which controls the starport and has monopoly on industry in that system. The TTC is vociferously anti-Imperial because it perceives the Imperium as an impediment to its expansionist ambitions in District 268. Since the Imperial authorities are reluctant to risk inflaming the situation, Collace’s admission to the Imperium has been "put on the back burner."

One of the key points of contention between Collace and Trexalon is the Pavabid (Spinward Marches 1238) system, which lies directly between them just one parsec away. Ever since iridium deposits were discovered there, the TTC and Collace have been competing for influence with the ruling religious dictatorship to secure mineral exploitation rights. To date, however, the xenophobic offshoot of the Church of the Stellar Divinity on Pavabid has rejected both parties’ advances due to fears that introducing large numbers of off-world miners would irrevocably pollute its pure theocratic society.

World Timeline

• 502 -- Tarsus (Spinward Marches 1138) and Collace (Spinward Marches 1237) open new markets.
• 1105 -- Pro-Imperium Collace (Spinward Marches 1237) enters into a "cold war" with pro-Sword Worlds Trexalon (Spinward Marches 1339).

UWP Listing

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