Alverik (world)

Alverik/Moibin (Reft 3136)
Classic Era (1116)	A550698-A Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 6 Moderate (8 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K0 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	0

style="width: 220px; height: 250px;"

Jump map from Travellermap.com

Alverik is a poor, nonindustrial desert world with no free-standing water.

• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• This dangerous world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it dangerous to visitors.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Moibin Subsector of Reft Sector in the Domain of Vland.

Description (Planetology)

A stream of traffic bound for the Rift fringe or heading either Trailing to Gushemege Sector or Rimward into Verge and Ilelish passes through Alverik.

Stellar Data

Alverik has a solitary primary star.

Alverik
	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

Mainworld Data

Mainworld Size (S)

Alverik is a Meso World between 7,200km and 8,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.4G and 0.57G. The horizon will appear about 4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Alverik has a pressure of 0.43 to 0.70 atmospheres. The Thin Atmosphere does not require survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Alverik has no free-standing water or ice on the surface. Wilderness refueling isn't possible on this world. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are classified Desert World or a Hell World depending on their atmosphere.

History & Background (Dossier)

Alverik was settled in the days of the First Imperium. The Long Night was very hard on Alverik -- without offworld trade, even survival was in doubt. The population crashed, and technology was forgotten by the small bands of nomads or mountain villagers who struggled to make a life for themselves.

The Third Imperium annexed Alverik more or less in passing, during the Pacification Campaigns, and was surprised to find people living here.

World Starport

Alverik has a Class A Starport, an excellent 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 other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

The construction of the starport brought new prosperity to Alverik. The Downport is home to a number of starship-related businesses. There are extensive repair and construction yards, specialising in small military and civilian vessels of a utilitarian nature. General Products owns some of the yards, at which it builds an endless stream of Patrol Cruisers and Mercenary Cruisers for the Imperial Navy and private clients.

The Highport is a large installation, but many visitors feel that it lacks character. Everything is middle-of-the-road and inoffensive, mainly a result of endless wrangling between investors over various aspects of the design.

World Population (P)

Alverik has a population of 8,000,000 sophonts (millions).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
• Small numbers of desert and mountain people follow their traditional way of life. Some actually dwell among the ruins of cities built before the Long Night.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
  • Variant dialects are used by the long-established communities predating the Third Imperium. Some of these may be almost unintelligible to mainstream speakers.

World Technology Level (T)

Alverik possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land & Water: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government (G)

Alverik is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Law (L)

Alverik has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All blade weapons and firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, John Harshman. Aslan (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), . (Named but no further data)
• Classic Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron
• MegaTraveller Alien - Solomani & Aslan (dotmap provided)
• MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr (dotmap provided)
• MegaTraveller Rebellion Sourcebook (pg. 26)
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Journal 3 in Article: 'Domain of Deneb: Sector Data'
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 20
• Mongoose Traveller: Reft Sector