Ao-dai (world)

Ao-dai/Jewell (Spinward Marches 1201) Milieu 1116 E410644-7 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 6 Moderate (3 million) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K2 V M3 V
Worlds	10
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	4335
Army Size (BEs)	2
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	851-5 Resources 8 Moderate Labor 5 Moderate (300 thousand) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	20
GWP (BCr)	2
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-E
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	2,550
Port employees	4,275
Port passengers (annual)	0

Ao-dai has an unbreathably thin atmosphere and very little surface water. The system has a population between 1 million and 10 million sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a member of Zhodani Consulate in the Jewell Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Province of Iadr Nsobl. In the Zhodani Consulate this world was named Ainzaia.

Astrography & Planetology

The mainworld is a moon orbiting Ao-dai Prime, a planet reduced to barren rock during the Ancients' war. As a result of the Ancient assault, most of Ao-dai Prime's atmosphere was blown off. A portion of this atmosphere was gathered by its moon, giving it a thin nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere and about 8% coverage of surface ice. The population lives in deep craters created by the asteroid bombardment.

It is located in the Riverland Cluster.

Binary Solar System

Ao-dai Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Ao-dai K2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.82	4830 - 5100	0.49928
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0036	0.0586	0.7 - 1.26	0.36	3.6
	Orbit #	*	*	3	1	5
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Ao-dai M3 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.37	3270 - 3430	0.03081
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0017	0.0146	0.18 - 0.35	0.17	1.7
	Orbit #	*	*	0	0	4

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1201 Ao-dai (Zhodani)

Starport: Class I.

Diameter: 3,729 miles (6,000 km).
Atmosphere: Trace oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: None.
Climate: Frozen.
Population: 3,300,000.
Government: Representative democracy (The World Council).
Control Level: 2.
Tech Level: 6.
World Trade Number: 3.

History & Background (Dossier)

The world received a major influx of Vargr refugees in the aftermath of the Collapse, and relations between the newcomers and the Consulate government have been rocky.

World Government

• Ao-dai World Council

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 (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 12-13.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 37. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 59.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 99. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 32.