Efate (world)

Efate/Regina (Spinward Marches 1705) Milieu 1116 A646930-D Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 9 High (8 billion) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 0 No Law Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K4 V
Worlds	8
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Self-perpetuating oligarchy
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	4E18
Army Size (BEs)	1000
Economic Details
Technology Level	13
Economic Extension	B8H+1 Resources B Abundant Labor 8 Moderate (800 million) Infrastructure H Very comprehensive Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	5
Resource Units	1,496
GWP (BCr)	65,632
World Trade Number	5.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	59,092
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	7,200,000
Port employees	8,760
Port passengers (annual)	1,254,200

Efate is an industrial world with a tainted atmosphere. The system has a population over one billion. This world contains an archaeological site with artifacts suspected to be from the now-vanished Ancients. This is a high technology world with available technology over the standards for Charted Space.  This is a temperate world, with a climate of average temperatures. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Regina Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Efate, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight and the fiefdoms of a count and a minor duke. All three are members of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. The system supports both an Imperial Naval Base and Way Station.

Astrography & Planetology

Efate is a member of the Spinward Main. It is part of the Regina Cluster.

It is an Imperial-aligned world that serves as the spinward connection in the vital Express Boat link to the Jewell Subsector.

Monostellar System

Efate Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Efate K4 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.73	4440 - 4600	0.33238
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0033	0.0478	0.58 - 1.07	0.33	3.3
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	5

The Efate system contains the following worlds:

Orbit	Name	UWP
1	Enur
2	Jor
3	Efate	A646930-D
4	Stur	H8A5463-5
4.1	Solon	X300FFF-B
5	Lun	F510621-C
5.1	Kru	H530100-8
5.2	San	H500115-A
5.3	Tun
6	Yor Shar

Point of Interest: Ancients Site

An Ancients site was discovered on Efate in 354, though it had been robbed of all useful artifacta. Today the site is used as a historic monument maintained by the IISS. The site consists of a partially restored grid of walls spaced about two meters apart and extremely massive fortifications at random intervals.

History & Background (Dossier)

Efate is a high-population, high-technology, heavily industrialized planet with a cold but otherwise garden world environment.

In addition to Efate Startown, other major settlements on Efate include Anlisha, Makish, Kheker, Arden, Irir, and Gasharr.

The system also contains a Naval Base that is the home of the 213th Fleet.

The starship manufacturer General Shipyards has a subsidiary yard on Efate;

Historical Data

In the run-up to the Fifth Frontier War Efate was subject to bitter anti-Imperial guerrilla activity, supported by the Zhodani.

On 204-1107, as part of the opening of the war, Efate faced a Zhodani siege, followed by heavy planetary fighting.

The Siege of Efate proved one of the crucial campaigns of the entire war.

Other Data

Efate has been settled almost as long as Regina and has always been its rival for the position as most important system in the Regina Cluster. It passed Regina in population long ago and its technology is also better (space technology is up to Imperial standards), but political considerations still keep it in second place. In the last decade, civil disturbances have contributed to this; the Imperium has been forced to introduce martial law and the system is currently governed by the Imperial Navy.

Name

Note that the name "Efate" is one that is common to both Anglic and Gvegh. It is not known from which language the name derives.

Sources

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 20-21.
• Loren Wiseman. "A Dagger at Efate." Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 08 (1981): 6-7.
• Marc Miller. Secret of the Ancients (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 37.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Marc Miller. MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy (Paragon Software, 1990), .
• Marc Miller. MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients (Paragon Software, 1991), .
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 38. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 79.
• Hans Rancke-Madsen. "Worlds Within Jump-6 of Regina", JTAS Online (July 18, 2006)
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 103. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Michael Taylor. Spinward Salvage LIC (Avenger Enterprises, 2009), 31-34.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 40-45. (UWP only)
• Matthew Sprange. "A Dagger at Efate." Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society volume 4 (2020): 76-79.
• Gareth Hanrahan. Secrets of the Ancients (Mongoose Publishing, 2010), 253.Gareth Hanrahan. Secrets of the Ancients (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 253.