Ekli (world)

Ekli/Shallows (Dagudashaag 0718) Milieu 1116 C5437A9-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 7 Moderate (80 million) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V M5 V
Worlds	10
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Charismatic dictatorship
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	8669
Army Size (BEs)	20
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	B67+1 Resources B Abundant Labor 6 Moderate (8 million) Infrastructure 7 Generally available Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	462
GWP (BCr)	146
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	2,682
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	96,000
Port employees	215
Port passengers (annual)	2,000

Ekli has a scarcity of water and a sparse, tainted, atmosphere. The system has a population in the 10s of millions of sophonts. This world contains an archaeological site with artifacts suspected to be from the now-vanished Ancients. This world contains an archaeological site with artifacts suspected to be from the now-vanished Ancients. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Shallows Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Ekli, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight and the fiefdom of a marquis. Both are members 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 Seganku.

Astrography and planetology

Ekli is actually a double planet: it and its large, close moon (Ekaliam, UWP H201000·0) spiral around a common centre of gravity as they orbit the close binary stars. Ekli also retains a highly reflective ring made up from the fragments of a shattered second moon.

See also: Three Moons of Icarbus

Binary Solar System

Ekli Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Ekli 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)
Ekli M5 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.162	2930 - 3060	0.00171
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0009	0.0034	0.04 - 0.09	0.09	0.9
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3

History and background

Although Ekli has little to offer from a commercial point of view, the world has some breathtaking views and a wide range of exotic local lifeforms.

Local citizens and officials may not welcome offworlders, and dangerous animals are found in many unsettled areas: visitors are advised to travel with a professional guide.

Important tourist attractions include the whispering jungles, the sunset seas. And any of the vast chasms In the Fracture Valley. One of the best sights is said to be a double sunset with Ekaliam rising, and the ring system glittering overhead.

Point of Interest: Ancients Site

Access to the outer reaches of the Ekli system is prohibited: the two narrow planetoid belts, four planets and three large satellites that make up the outer system are strictly off limits to casual travellers, by authority of the Scout service. No official reasons have been given, but speculation is rife. Icarbus, the system's outermost world, is a well-known Ancients site, and local rumour has it that a major find of some kind has taken place. Other stories maintain that there has been a strike of lanthanum ore, and still others hold that a deadly Ancients disease has been released. In truth no one really knows what the scout service are up to.

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.

• Citation Missing - Signal-GK 9 via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 80.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 88.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science