Lhshami (world)

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Lhshami/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 2111)
Classic Era (1116)
C477794-8
StarportC Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g)
Atmosphere7 Standard (tainted)
Hydrographics7 Wet World 70%
Population7 Moderate (60 million)
Government9 Impersonal Bureaucracy
Law4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons)
Tech Level8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary G0 V M4 V
Planetoid Belts 0
Gas Giants 0

Lhshami is an agricultural world with the potential to become an industrial power.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Lhshami is home to a sophont race.

  • Lhshana are small (1.2 meters in height), trilaterally-symmetrical, intelligent sophonts with tentacular appendages over each of their three legs.
  • They are generally passive, contemplative, and rather fatalistic in nature.

Binary Solar System

Lhshami Binary Star System
Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol)
Hsmeilha

G0 V

Primary Main Sequence 1.06 5860 - 5930 1.22623
Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0051 0.0918 1.04 - 1.83 0.51 5.1
Orbit #  *  * 4 1 6
Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol)
Ekhana

M4 V

Secondary Main Sequence 0.23 3110 - 3210 0.00584
Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0013 0.0063 0.08 - 0.16 0.13 1.3
Orbit #  *  * 0 0 3

System Data

Primary: This is often considered a trinary system, as the primary, Hsmeilha (spectral class G0 V; ICN S4G0501F0V; Mass 1.04 standard; Stellar diameter 1.7 standard; Luminosity 1.21 standard) has a dwarf companion in its first orbit, named Shleihsi.

  • The far companion is Ekhana, spectral class M4 V.

Planetary System: Primary: Itsmeilha

  • Eleven major bodies.
  • One inhabited world (Lhshami, VI).
  • Dwarf companion in close orbit (Shleihsi)
  • No gas giants.
  • No planetoid belts.

Mainworld Data

  • Mean orbital radius: 324.63 million kilometers (2.17 AU).
  • Period: 696.5 days.
  • No satellites.
  • Diameter: 6634 kilometers.
  • Density: 0.98 standard.
  • Mass: 0.123 standard.
  • Mean surface gravity: 0.49G.
  • Rotation period: 19 hours, 17 minutes, 10 seconds.
  • Axial inclination: 25° 47' 44.6".
  • Albedo: 0.41.
  • Surface atmospheric pressure: 0.95 atm. Composition, oxygen-nitrogen mix with oxygen imbalance.
    • WARNING: HIGH OXYGEN CONTENT CAN CAUSE OXYGEN INTOXICATION. Filter masks advised for atmospheric breathing.
  • Hydrographic percentage: 70%; composition, water and frozen water-ice.
  • Mean surface temperature: 5° C.

History & Background (Dossier)

Unlike the Yn-tsai of Tsanesi, the Lhshana people are definitely native to their world, and their evolution and history can be traced with some confidence.

The pre-civilized ancestors of Lhshana the were enslaved by the Saie (and much of what is known about that race is derived from oral traditions of the Lhshana, distorted over the centuries into a body of folklore and mythology). They received a considerable boost in civilization thanks to Saie technology, and also absorbed knowledge from Reaver spacecraft which visited the world during the Long Night. When first contacted by Caledonian merchants, the Lhshana had a flourishing tech level 9 civilization, though they had no knowledge of (and little interest in) space flight.

World Starport

Lhshami 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.

World Population

60,000,000

World Technology Level

Lhshami 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

Lhshami is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Culture

While representational arts are all but unknown among Lhshana, their touchstone sculpture techniques produce items in high demand on other worlds. These crystals are shaped by the thought process of the artist in a very concrete, non-abstract manner.

References

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