Khashpel (world)

Khashpel/Kuriishe (Dagudashaag 2819) Milieu 1116 B553457-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 4 Moderate (40 thousand) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Feudal technocracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	455C
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	12
Economic Extension	A34+1 Resources A Abundant Labor 3 Low (4 thousand) Infrastructure 4 Very limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	120
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	640
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	45
Port passengers (annual)	0

Khashpel has both an unbreathably thin atmosphere and a lack of surface water making habitation by sophonts difficult. The system has a population between 10,000 and 10 million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. This is a high technology world with available technology over the standards for Charted Space. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Kuriishe Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Khashpel, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member 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 Guuesh Gir.

Astrography and planetology

Khashpel is a member of the Sylean Main.

Monostellar System

Khashpel Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Khashpel 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

History and background

Khashpel is an extremely technologically advanced world, which has chosen from early days to capitalise on the mental resources of its citizens. All children are assessed and tested from an early age, and placed in training and educational programmes tailored to their individual talents, with no regard to their inclinations or their parent’s wishes. As far as possible, the family group is not broken up until the child reaches ten standard years of age, although sometimes this is unavoidable if the children’s talents cannot be nurtured locally.

Government is based around a hi-tech version of the medieval Guild system; each trade and profession having its Guild (the archaic name has been retained) the leaders of which provide the planetary government. There is a hierarchy within the professions, with pride of place going to the most technologically advanced sciences. The arts, while not neglected - a citizen whose talents lay in artistic directions is trained just as thoroughly as one who is skilled in, say, micro-electronics - are regarded as more humble endeavours, and even the most skilled practitioners do not rise far within government.

To the visitor, it appears to be a highly regulated society; the turmoil of power struggles within and between the Guilds is kept firmly behind closed doors. It is illegal to offer any kind of services without membership of the appropriate Guild, or to sell goods which have not got a seal of approval showing that they have, at least, been inspected by the relevant Guild. Even then they still will not get as good a price as those actually made by Guild members. Intending settlers will have to satisfy the Guild for the trade or profession, which they wish to pursue that they are competent; a system of examinations will ascertain their place within the hierarchy.

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.

• Leighton Piper. "Library Data:Kuriishe." Signal-GK 13 (1997): 13-14. via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 85.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 192.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science