Hkassiizk (world)

Hkassiizk/Hikaru (Amdukan 2415)
Classic Era (1116)	C520877-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 8 Moderate (00 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F5 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Hkassiizk is a non-agricultural, pre-industrial world with few economic prospects.

• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.

• It is a member of the Hhkar Sphere in the Hikaru Subsector of Amdukan Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Monostellar System

Hkassiizk Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Hkassiizk F5 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.33	6350 - 6550	2.71319
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0069	0.1366	1.49 - 2.6	0.69	6.9
	Orbit #	*	0	4	2	6
	Remarks
	None

History & Background (Dossier)

A member of the Hhkar Sphere, but retaining a Vargr population as well.

World Starport (St)

Hkassiizk has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which includes amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

Population

700,000,000, around 50% Hhkar, 50% Vargr.

World Culture

Hhkar society is centered on the ssaaahk, a group of Hhkar with common physical characteristics. Every Hhkar places the needs of his ssaaahk above his own, and obeys without question the orders from the ssaaahk patriarch. Conflict between groups is common, but the interstellar Hhkar government imposes rules and limits on such feuding.

The dominant language is Hhraki, also known as Hhkarn to humans.

Trade

Hhkar products are incredibly durable, because their equipment has very few moving parts; most movement is provided by magnetics, which is the basis of much Hhkar technology. However, Humans and Vargr often find these products undesirable, since they tend to be very heavy and look unusual. Menderes Corporation has contracted with the Hhkar to make products more compatible with their Human and Vargr customers in the wider Julian Protectorate. Hhkar gauss weapons are in particularly high demand.

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• -50,000: For reasons unknown, the Hhkar leave their homeworld using ramscoop-equipped vessels and colonize Skkyhrk (which will be known to Vargr as Urinir) and other nearby planets.
• -10,000: Again for unknown reasons, Hhkar migrate away from Skkyhrk.
• -222: The Hhkar return to the region in a great migration, attacking the Vargr society present on Urinir.
  • Over the next 500 years, the Hhkar expand their sphere of occupied worlds.
• (175 to 191): Julian War; the region unites to fight off the Third Imperium as it attempts to incorporate Amdukan, Mendan and Meshan sectors by force.
• 377: Commodore David Lindquist of the Julian Protectorate Star Legion almost defeats a Hhkar force at Kargar. The Hhkar are so impressed by Lindquist's tenacity and cleverness that he is given an honorable execution, and the Hhkar withdraw from the system in spite of their victory.
• Early 600s: After centuries of increasingly common peaceful (if wary) interaction, the Hhkar Sphere joins the Julian Protectorate.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Periodical: Challenge49
• Periodical: Challenge52 in Article: "Contact Hhkar"
• GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 4
• External Link: Skkyhrk WriteUp on Zhodani Base
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science