Gipkikhar (world)
Gipkikhar/Mekee (Core 1317) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | B203462-D
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | K4 V M7 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 2 |
Gipkikhar is an icy, nonindustrial vacuum world, warranting hazardous environment precautions.
- Its surface is ice-capped with little or no atmosphere and nearly all of its water frozen.
- It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
- This is a cold world with an overall climate that is at the lower temperature range of human-congruous sophont endurance.
- This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
- This world toils under the control of a military government with conditions reflecting that situation including curtailed civil rights and limited freedoms.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Mekee Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
- This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
- It also contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.
Description / Astrography & Planetology
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Binary Solar System
Gipkikhar Binary Star System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Gipkikhar 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 Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Gipkikhar M7 V
Secondary Main Sequence 0.09 2630 - 2680 0.00022 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0006 0.0012 0.02 - 0.03 0.06 0.6 Orbit # * * * * 2
System Data
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Mainworld Data
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Mainworld Geography & Topography
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Native Lifeforms
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History & Background / Dossier
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Imperial High / Landed Nobility
Gipkikhar, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Nobility overseeing the world.
World Starport
Gipkikhar 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
Gipkikhar 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
Gipkikhar has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. A colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.
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
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World Timeline
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UWP Listing
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References & Contributors / Sources
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- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), TBD.
- Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 8 (Core Subsector)
- Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 9 (Cemplas, Bunkeria Subsectors)
- Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 10 (Cadion, Chant Subsectors)
- Michael Berry, David Burden. Milieu 0 Campaign (Imperium Games, 1996), TBD.
- Marc Miller's Traveller T4 Psionic Institutes
- Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), TBD.
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com