Zeta 2 (world)

Zeta 2/Vilis (Spinward Marches 0919) Milieu 1116 X6B0000-0 Starport X No Starport Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere B Exotic (corrosive) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 0 Barren (0) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 0 Pre-Industrial (primitive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M0 V
Worlds	13
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	No government
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	0000
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	0
Economic Extension	200-5 Resources 2 Very scarce Labor 0 Barren (0) Infrastructure 0 Non-existent Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	0
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	0
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-X
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Zeta 2 is a barren hellworld with a tainted atmosphere and a lack of available surface water, making habitation by sophonts difficult. As a barren world it has no overt population, government, or law level. This world designated as a Red Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it extremely dangerous to visitors. Everyone is forbidden to travel here.  The world has been set aside to preserve indigenous life forms, to delay resource development, or for other reasons. It is a unclaimed Non-Aligned world in the Vilis Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. This is the homeworld of the Viji, a Minor Race.

Zeta 2 (world)/Vilis (Spinward Marches 0919) New Era X6B0000-0 Starport X No Starport Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere B Exotic (corrosive) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 0 Barren (0) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 0 Pre-Industrial (primitive)
See also	UWP
Cultural Details
Government	No government
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	0000
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	0
Economic Extension	200+2 Resources 2 Very scarce Labor 0 Barren (0) Infrastructure 0 Non-existent Efficiency +2 Good
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	0
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	0
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-X
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Era: New Era

Zeta 2 is a barren hellworld with a tainted atmosphere and a lack of available surface water, making habitation by sophonts difficult. As a barren world it has no overt population, government, or law level. This world designated as a Red Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it extremely dangerous to visitors. Everyone is forbidden to travel here.  The world has been set aside to preserve indigenous life forms, to delay resource development, or for other reasons. It is a member of Regency of Deneb in the Vilis Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. This world is an Interface world, with a quarantine inspection facility for all ships. This is the homeworld of the Viji, a Minor Race.

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• Zeta 2 is rumored to be inhabited by sentient minor race named the Viji.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

The planet is a barren hellworld designed as a reserve and classified as a Red Zone. Zeta 2 has a corrosive atmosphere composed mainly of fluorine compounds, with 60% of the planet's surface covered by hydroflouric-acid seas.

• The Railen Institute, a private research group, has established small orbital facility over Zeta 2 to study extreme-condition survival for vessels and probes.

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

0919 Zeta 2 (Independent)

Starport: Class 0.

Diameter: 5,646 miles (9,000 km).
Atmosphere: Corrosive.
Hydrographics: None.
Climate: Hot.
Population: None.
Government: None.
Control Level: 0.
Tech Level: 0.
World Trade Number: 0.

Native Sophont: Viji

The Viji are allegedly small crystalline creatures somehow capable of surviving in Zeta 2's extremely harsh environment.

Other Data

Non-canon: Zeta 2 is an Imperial Navy target range. The heavily cratered and pock marked planet is extremely radioactive. Six Navy 400 ton SMU-4C automated interdiction satellites have been place to warn off any intruders.

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

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), .
• Classic Traveller IISS Ship Files
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 41.
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 61.Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 61.
• Mongoose Traveller: Spinward Marches
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science