Sting (world)

Sting/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 1525) Milieu 1116 B645796-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 7 Moderate (70 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M0 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Impersonal bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	6B49
Army Size (BEs)	15
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	B6D+3 Resources B Abundant Labor 6 Moderate (7 million) Infrastructure D Comprehensive Efficiency +3 Improved
Importance Extension	4
Resource Units	2,574
GWP (BCr)	307
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	6,615
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	80,500
Port employees	1,000
Port passengers (annual)	133,100

Sting is an agricultural world with a tainted atmosphere but still a near-ideal environment for producing foodstuffs. The system supports a population of tens of millions of sophonts. It is a member of Sword Worlds Confederation in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Sword Worlds. This world supports a Sword Worlds Military Base and the system supports a Sword Worlds Naval Base.

Sting (world)/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 1525) New Era B645887-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 8 Moderate (400 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	6B4B
Army Size (BEs)	120
Economic Details
Technology Level	11
Economic Extension	B7D+4 Resources B Abundant Labor 7 Moderate (40 million) Infrastructure D Comprehensive Efficiency +4 Advanced
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	4,004
GWP (BCr)	805
World Trade Number	5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	45,608
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	242,000
Port employees	4,350
Port passengers (annual)	52,900

Era: New Era

Sting is a moderate population world, too many sophonts to be an agricultural world but not enough to be an industrial world. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. This world hosts a Regency Military Base for support of military ground forces.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Sting's thin atmosphere is tainted only in low-lying areas, where concentrations of heavy gases -- chlorine among others -- can be lethal to unprotected breathers.

• Sting is tidally locked to its primary, Bilbo, and orbits at a distance of 0.14 AU. Sting's continents have ground to a halt and erosion is gradually smoothing the planet flat and filling its seas with sediment.

Monostellar System

Sting Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Sting M0 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0027	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.27	2.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	0	5

History & Background (Dossier)

The majority of the planet's population lives in underground cities near the north and south poles. Sting's capital and starport, Vinduri, is located on the northwest corner of the Lyseside (light side) continent, near the north pole.

Prior to the Fifth Frontier War, Sting was a member of the Sword Worlds Confederation, but in the aftermath of the war Sting became part of the Imperial Client state known as the Border Worlds Confederation, and was the original capital. In 1116 the capital was moved from Sting to Beater (Spinward Marches 1424).

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), 45.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 72.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 72.
• GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds
• External Link: Landgrab by: Author & Contributor: Peter Trevor