Armstrong (world)

Armstrong/Shurlarlem (Antares 0713)
Classic Era (1116)	C540888-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 8 Moderate (100 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F9 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	2

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Armstrong is a poor, preindustrial and moderate population desert hellworld with a population of over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts.

• The inhabitants of this world struggle to survive in the life-threatening environment of a desert hellworld.
• This world has no free-standing water.
• The world is a preindustrial one, which cannot produce adequate materials to maintain a modern, star-faring society. These items must be imported at considerable cost.
• This world has few prospects for significant economic development. The inhabitants of this world lead a bleak and constantly challenging existence.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Shurlarlem Subsector of Antares Sector in the Domain of Antares.

Astrography and Planetology

No information yet available.

Armstrong has a solitary primary star.

Armstrong
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.13	5990 - 6050	1.53382
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0109	0.1027	1.16 - 2.03	1.09	10.9
	Orbit #	*	0	4	3	7
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System data

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Mainworld data

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Mainworld geography and topography

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Native lifeforms

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History and background

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Imperial high nobility

Armstrong, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdoms of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial marquis.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

World starport

Armstrong has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World technology level

Armstrong possesses a Technology Level of TL–7.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early video and early satellite communication networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fuel cells, solar energy, and geothermal power sources.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, hovercraft, and bullet trains.
  • Water: Hydrofoils and early triphibians.
  • Air: Hang gliders and supersonic jets.
  • Space: Deep space probes and interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

World government

Armstrong is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy, and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. This ruling bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucractic apparatus or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence, like the military.

World military

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World economy

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Trade data

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World demographics

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World culture

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Historical data

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World timeline

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UWP listing

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References & Contributors / Sources

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• Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
• Classic Traveller Alien Module 3: Vargr (named but no further data)
• Classic Traveller Solomani (Alien Module)
• MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr {dot map provided}
• MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Challenge 69 (Shurlarlem Subsector information)
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 Milieu 0 Campaign
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 T4 First Survey
• Novel: Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science