Orowan (world)
| Orowan/Orowan (Halcyon 1933) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | B300746-B
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | K4 II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Orowan is a non-agricultural, pre-industrial vacuum world, which warrants hazardous environment precautions.
- Life in a vacuum requires great discipline. After all, it only takes one forgotten seal on a vacuum suit to spell death. Those who survive tend to be very methodically-minded and attentive to small detail.
- It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
- It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
- Its economy and population are slowly growing and living conditions are expected to improve in the near future barring outside forces.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Orowan Subsector of Halcyon Sector.
- This world-system hosts a Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces, which may be located on or off-world.
Astrography and Planetology
This star system is detailed using the Fringian Variant System Description.
Monostellar System
Orowan Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Orowan K4 II
Primary Supergiant 13.4 3400 - 4300 2138 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 1.02354 3.83521 36.76 - 59.92 102.354 1023.54 Orbit # 3 5 9 10 14
System Data
Amadur-Orowan System
The primary is Amadur, a gigantic orange bright giant star. It has a luminosity of 2138 Sols, a mass of 13.4 Sols and a diameter of 153 million km – the corona extends as far as 1.02 AU, to orbital position (IV). The inner system consists of (IV) an extremely hot large gas giant orbiting close to the surface of the star, (VIII) a sparse stony planetoid belt, and (IX) a vacuum inner world – orbital positions (V), (VI) and (VII) are empty. (X) Perrin, a small gas giant, orbits within the habitable zone; (Xb) Orowan is its outer moon and is designated the mainworld. (XI) a small gas giant, (XII) an exotic atmosphere bigworld, (XIII-I) a vacuum worldlet, and (XIII-II) a vacuum iceworld form the outer system. Many of the worlds retain satellites.
(X) Perrin
(X) Perrin is a small gas giant that orbits Amadur at a mean distance of 37.6 AU (orbital position (X), 5.62 billion km), within the habitable zone, and has an orbital period of 63 years. It has a diameter of 39,000 km and is a heavily banded reddish-brown colour. It retains a family of two major satellites of which the outer, (Xb) Orowan, is designated the mainworld.
Mainworld Data
(Xb) Orowan
(Xb) Orowan is the outer of the two major moons of (X) Perrin and is designated the mainworld. Orowan orbits its parent world at a mean distance of 30 diameters (1.18 million km), with an orbital period of 6 days 9 hours and a rotation period of 6 days 9 hours: Orowan is tidally locked to Perrin. It has an axial tilt of 3 degrees. Orowan has a diameter of 4,643 km, a density of 4.43 g/cm³ and a surface gravity of 0.29 G. Tidal stresses caused by the gravitational pull of Perrin cause occasional geological activity. The atmosphere is rated as Vacuum. It has no hydrosphere. Mean surface temperature: 170°C in sunlight, -10°C in shadow.
Mainworld geography and topography
Total surface area: 68 million km².
Native lifeforms
No world in the Orowan system is known to have native life.
History & Background (Dossier)
No information yet available.
World starport
Orowan has a Class B Starport, a good quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.
World technology level
Orowan possesses a Technology Level of TL–11 or TL-B in Hexadecimal Notation.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
- Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
- FTL: Jump Drive-2.
World government
Orowan is governed by a Representative Democracy where government leadership is representatives elected by eligible voters. What determines an eligible voter varies. The representatives determine policy, including selecting members of the bureaucracy. There can be referendum, votes by eligible voters on specific subjects.
World military
There is one army Protected Forces battalion equipped with forty imported TSF 3T Moccasin class Grav APCs and carrying 120 crew and 360 troopers clad in TL–11 Combat Armor.
World economy
No information yet available.
Trade data
No information yet available.
World demographics
No information yet available.
World culture
No information yet available.
Historical data
No information yet available.
World timeline
No information yet available.
UWP listing
No information yet available.
References & Contributors / Sources
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com