Farming World
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A Farming World has climate and conditions, which promote farming and ranching. In addition, it is in the Habitable Zone and not a Mainworld.
- It is a Trade Code for Satellite Worlds (...not mainworlds). As a Satellite World, many of these foodstuffs are then sent back to a mainworld for consumption or other forms of usage and sale.
- They are also often called Agricultural Colonies.
- It is a planet or world type.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
Farming world tend to possess the same life-supporting conditions as their mainworld cousins, the Agricultural World.
Planetary Characteristics[edit]
A Farming World is a world on which foodstuffs (...of many kinds: plant, animal, and otherwise) can be grown and produced. These foodstuffs are suitable for conventional life.
| TC Agricultural World Series (Foodstuffs) (IISS Scout Handbook, pgs. 490-491) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Code | Size | Atm | Hyd | Pop | Gov | Law | Remarks |
| Nonagricultural World | Na | -- | 0123 | 0123 | 56789ABC | -- | -- | Little to no agricultural sector. Perhaps subsistence farming. |
| Farming World | Fa | -- | 456789 | 45678 | 23456 | -- | -- | Non-MW. Feeder planet specializing in foodstuff production. |
| Preagricultural World | Pa | -- | 456789 | 45678 | 48 | -- | -- | Developing agricultural sector. |
| Agricultural World | Ag | -- | 456789 | 45678 | 567 | -- | -- | Significant agricultural sector. |
| Garden World | Ga | 678 | 568 | 567 | Any | -- | -- | Paradise or Gaia world. Superlative agricultural sector. |
| Agropolis | None | 9ABC+ | 568 | 567 | 9ABC+ | -- | -- | Dedicated farm world. Silver world. |
Probably Planetary Orbit & Climate[edit]
| World Placement by Zone (IISS Scout Handbook, pgs. 490-491) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (← starward) Habitable Zone / HZ] (staraway →) | |||||||||
| TC | Inner (-) | HZ-2 | HZ-1 | HZ | HZ+1 | HZ+2 | Outer (+) | Remote & Far Systems | Remarks |
| Fa | -- | Unlikely | Likely | Yes | Likely | Unlikely | - | - | Remarks |
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Particularly successful farm worlds may supplant another mainworld as be re-designated as Agricultural Worlds. Such a re-designation will greatly shake up the local system economy.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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