Ababat (world)

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Ababat/Lentuli (Empty Quarter 0127)
Milieu 1116
B7576BA-A
StarportB Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g)
Atmosphere5 Thin
Hydrographics7 Wet World 70%
Population6 Moderate (2 million)
GovernmentB Non-Charismatic Dictator
LawA Extreme Law (no weapons)
Tech LevelA Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also UWP
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System Details
Primary K0 V
Worlds 14
Gas Giants 4
Planetoid Belts 3
Cultural Details
Government Non-charismatic dictatorship
Law Level Extreme
Cultural Extension 887C
Army Size (BEs) 15
Economic Details
Technology Level 10
Economic Extension
F56+4
ResourcesFExtremely abundant
Labor5Moderate (200 thousand)
Infrastructure6 Limited
Efficiency+4Advanced
Importance Extension 2
Resource Units 6
GWP (BCr) 1,800
World Trade Number 4
Trade Volume (MCr/year) 2,947
Starport Details
Classification Class-B
Port Size 4
Building Capacity (Tons) 2,200
Port employees 245
Port passengers (annual) 10,000

Ababat is an agricultural and garden world with an ideal environment for producing food from plants, animals, or other lifeforms. It supports a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system hosts a population between 100 thousand and 10 million sophonts. This world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it dangerous to visitors.  This is a temperate world, with a climate of average temperatures. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Lentuli Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector and in the Domain of Antares. Ababat, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdom of a baron. Both are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. This world has a nearby Naval Base, capable of handling warships. Less than 10% of the world's population is the Major Race Vargr.

Astrography and Planetology[edit]

This world is part of the Marhaban Cluster.

Stellar Data[edit]

Ababat has a solitary primary star.
Ababat
Solitary K Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
K0 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.88 5170 - 5270 0.63928
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0076 0.0663 0.78 - 1.4 0.76 7.6
Orbit #  *  * 3 2 6
Remarks

History and Background[edit]

Thanks to a Vilani resupply post in -4914 Imperial (394 B.C.), Ababat has the honor of being the first world in the sector settled by men. Thousands of years later, it still serves the (latest) Imperium, as the home of a naval base. The current population is dominated by retired Imperial servicemen and their descendants.

Ababat has a moderate population supporting a class-B starport and Navy base settled by Bwaps. Ababat builds spaceships in the one-kiloton range and then sends them to Saffron (Empty Quarter 0128) at sublight, taking about five years to make the journey. Once the spaceships reach Saffron, they are refitted with jump-1 drives and become starships.

Ababat is located in the Marhaban Cluster, at the edge of the sector close to several powerful Bwap systems. Ababat is a pleasant world, where the dominant Sunni population has peaceful relations with the Ovaghoun and Irilitok minority.

Muslim Arab worlds in the Empty Quarter have a reputation for violent parochial ignorance, a reputation that is justly earned upon occasion. But not on Ababat: a Muslim world next to the heart of Bwap space, with a large Vargr minority, the Ababatans simply don't meet the profile of the typical Emptyhead. By focusing on trade rather than war, they have managed to build up their world to an impressive level, even becoming the home of an Imperial Naval Base, and hosting a good number of Naval veteran settlers. As they develop, they have not lost touch with their religion, welcoming the Muslim Brotherhood as much as the Imperial Navy -- so long as the credits flow. Finally, education is more highly respected here than elsewhere, with a fair amount of physicians, technicians and engineers graduating from the local colleges and universities: some of whom are good enough to catch the eye of visiting Tech Tyrants.

Ababat has a substantial population of Vargr. Unlike most Moslem worlds, relations between the local Arabs and the Vargr are good, if formal and distant. "We live with us, and they live with them." Joint activity is limited to business and joint military operations against raiders and pirates.

World Starport (Sp)[edit]

Ababat 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.

Linguistic Topography[edit]

The primary languages spoken here are as follows:

UWP Listing[edit]

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

References[edit]

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