Lhshami (world)
Lhshami/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 2111) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | C477794-8
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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.
- As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
- As a preindustrial world, this planet cannot yet manufacture enough high-technology resources to support a modern, star-faring society. Having to import many manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Caledon Subsector of the Reaver's Deep Sector.
- The planet is the homeworld of the Lhshana, a Minor Race.
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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- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 27. (dot map)
- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11. (dot map)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 11,50. (dot map)
- Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 22.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com