Kardin (world)

Kardin/Darrian (Spinward Marches 0429) Milieu 1116 E553123-6 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 1 Low (40) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	F7 V
Worlds	10
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Participating democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1123
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	6
Economic Extension	301-5 Resources 3 Very scarce Labor 0 Barren (4) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	2
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	1
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-E
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Kardin has an unbreathably thin atmosphere and very little surface water. The system supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. This world contains an archaeological site with artifacts suspected to be from the now-vanished Ancients. It is a Human dominated Non-Aligned world in the Darrian Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Kardin (world)/Darrian (Spinward Marches 0429) New Era E553203-7 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 2 Low (300) Government 0 No Government structure Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	No government
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1113
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	311+0 Resources 3 Very scarce Labor 1 Low (30) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency +0 Average
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	3
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	1.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-E
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Era: New Era

Kardin has an unbreathably thin atmosphere and very little surface water. The system supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. This world contains an archaeological site with artifacts suspected to be from the now-vanished Ancients. It is a Human dominated Non-Aligned world in the Darrian Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

Monostellar System

Kardin Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Kardin F7 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.21	6180 - 6280	1.94872
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0062	0.1158	1.29 - 2.24	0.62	6.2
	Orbit #	*	0	4	2	6

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

0429 Kardin (Independent) - Amber Zone

Starport: Class I.

Diameter: 4,351 miles (7,000 km).
Atmosphere: Thin oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 26%.
Climate: Cool.
Population: 40 (from the University of Zlodh on Darrian).
Government: Athenian-style democracy.
Control Level: 2.
Tech Level: 6.
World Trade Number: 1.0.

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

History-Milieu 1120

Kardin was an unpopulated system until a research team discovered the ruins of an Ancient outpost in the mainworld’s rocky mountains in 1115. The system has since been rated an Amber Zone.

References & Contributors (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 Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), .
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 44.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 48.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 48.
• Mongoose Traveller: Spinward Marches (UWP only)
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science