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* It is a [[Non-Aligned]] world dominated by [[human]] [[sophont]]s located in the [[Scotian Deep Subsector]] of the [[Reaver's Deep Sector]]. | * It is a [[Non-Aligned]] world dominated by [[human]] [[sophont]]s located in the [[Scotian Deep Subsector]] of the [[Reaver's Deep Sector]]. | ||
Revision as of 23:52, 20 November 2017
Hoffman/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 1818) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | D3218A8-8
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Primary | M3 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 2 |
Hoffman is a poor, moderate population non-agricultural and pre-industrial hellworld with a population, over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts, struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.
- Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often form intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
- It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
- It is a world working towards greater industrial capability, but currently lacks an adequate population to expand its industrial sector.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Caledon Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector.
Description / Astrography & Planetology
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Monostellar System
Hoffman Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Hoffman M3 V
Primary 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
Primary: Hoffman's Star, spectral class M3V. ICN S4G0208M3V. Mass 0.394 standard. Diameter 0.434 standard. Luminosity 0.020 standard.
Planetary System: Three major bodies. One inhabited world (Hoffman, I). Two gas giants in system. No planetoid belts in system.
Mainworld Data
I Hoffman: Mean orbital radius, 59.84 million kilometers (0.4AU). Period 59.3 days. No satellites. Diameter, 6166 kilometers. Density, 1.04 standard. Mass, 0.055 standard. Mean surface gravity, 0.39G. Rotation period, none (tidal lock with primary). Axial inclination 39°11’12.8”. Albedo, 0.26. Surface atmospheric pressure, 0.20 atm. Composition, oxygen-nitrogen mix with sulfur and sulfur compound taints. Filter respirator combination required to breathe atmosphere. Hydrographic percentage, 10%; composition, frozen water-ice. Mean surface temperature (dayside), -109°C. Protective clothing required in open atmosphere.
Mainworld Geography & Topography
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Mainworld Map
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Native Lifeforms
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History & Background (Dossier)
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World Starport
Hoffman has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.
World Technology Level
Hoffman possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Advanced automobiles.
- Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
- Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
- Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
World Government
Hoffman is governed by a Charismatic Dictatorship. Charismatic governments justify their ability to rule by simply asserting their right to rule. Charismatic dictatorships are young governments, coming as a recent change and rely on the leader(s) to supply head of government.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Scotian Deep Subsector of the Reaver's Deep Sector.
World Law Level
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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
The colony on Hoffman was originally an accident; the colony vessel Germania, outward bound from Caledon (Reaver's Deep 1815) in search of a new colony site crash-landed on Hoffman after a severe drive malfunction. This was in the period shortly before the Long Night, prior to Caledon’s loss of interstellar travel. The stranded colonists on inhospitable Hoffman were thoroughly cut off; Hoffman’s Star was an uninteresting red sun which, in Caledonian books, rated no more than a catalog number. (Hoffman and its sun were named for the captain of the colony ship, who died when the bridge of his ship was destroyed during the landing. His skill and heroism saved the rest of the ship, however).
The mortality rate on this bitterly cold colony world ran over 90% in the first three years, but, somehow, shelters were built and the colony established. Improvised hydroponics systems were gradually improved, and, ultimately, the colony went underground in a cavern complex discovered by pioneer explorers. Thereafter the colony flourished, albeit marginally, expanding their underground cities slowly and building their technology as they could. The struggle for survival made their progress slow, and, when a Caledonian merchant ship discovered them in 126, they were still far from sophisticated.
Hoffman welcomed trade with the Principality of Caledon, but an ingrained tradition of independence and self-sufficiency has caused the inhabitants to maintain a separate identity outside the Principality. Likewise, they have rebuffed attempts by Germaine (Reaver's Deep 2019) to form a federation of worlds to offset the power of the Principality. Hoffman is the lynch-pin of such a Federation; Skye (Reaver's Deep 2018) is not particularly important, and Santiago (Reaver's Deep 1718) (in the Linda star system) unreachable except by way of Hoffman. For this reason, political intrigue sponsored by the government of Germaine (and backed by the Maxwellian claimants to the Caledonian throne) is common; plots to replace the hereditary Captain of Hoffman with a puppet more pliable to Germaine’s interests are often said to be in the making.
World Timeline
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UWP Listing
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References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Classic Traveller Alien Module 1: Aslan (named but no further data)
- Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
- Classic Traveller Cargonaut Press Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook
- Classic Traveller Gamelords Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector (data-generated)
- Periodical: Classic Traveller FASA Far Traveller 1
- Periodical: Classic Traveller FASA Far Traveller 2
- Periodical: Classic Traveller Traveller's Digest #16
- MegaTraveller Alien - Solomani & Aslan (dot map provided)
- MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr (dot map provided)
- Periodical: MegaTraveller Challenge54 (pg. 20)
- Periodical: Traveller Chronicle 5 in Article: 'Pilot's Guide to the Caledon Subsector'
- Periodical: Traveller Chronicle 6
- GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 4
- External Link: archive.org RingSurf Reavers' Deep Net Ring by Author & Contributor: Keven R. Pittsinger of the RingSurf Reavers' Deep Net Ring
- External Link: Non-Canon Traveller Library (defunct)
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com