Asti (world)

Asti/Fisas (Uistilrao 2911)
Classic Era (1116)	B879578-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 9 Wet World 90% Population 5 Moderate (800 thousand) Government 7 Balkanization Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M0 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Asti is a nonindustrial world, that requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.

• In a technological universe, societies without industrial capability generally suffer as nearly all manufactured and high tech goods must be brought in at significant cost.
• As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
• This world is part of the Aslan Hierate, as a world where multiple clans have split control of the planet, in the Fisas Subsector of Uistilrao Sector.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

No information yet available.

Asti has a solitary primary star.

Asti
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0055	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.55	5.5
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	6
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System Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data

Asti's main world (the seventh planet in the system) is a small wet and lightly populated world with an orange atmosphere.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

In fact, one of the most noteworthy features of Asti's main world is the uncanny situation where many clans dwell on large scale water vessels akin to cities sailing the planet. Aslan from Asti are marked by their rather unusual affinity and comfort with water. Asti was the subject of a study conducted by the Imperial College of the Aston sector. In it, a leading Astrobiophysican uses Asti as a prime example of the intimate relationship between planetary mineral composition and the emergence of culture. The central thesis is that Asti's main planet's preponderance of iron oxides and water combined to essentially leave the resident colonizing species with no choice but to create vast large iron barge like cities with platforms supplying grazing ground for species of stock animals that thrived on biomorphic algae that thrive in the tainted atmosphere.

Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

A botanist from the Imperial University of Eifau is currently investigating the properties of this beverage drawn from the pollen of a rare luminescent biomorphic state of an unusually colored sub-species of the Asti'A's algae harvest.

History & Background / Dossier

No information yet available.

World Starport

Asti 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.

• The Skinsbrow Inn and Bar is said to be a good place to secure trade in the starport. There is also rumored to be a drink that can have profound psionic effects on non-Aslan visitors but it does not appear to have that effect on the Aslan themselves.

World Technology Level

Asti possesses a Technology Level of TL–11 or TL-B 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 & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-2.

World Government

Asti has a Balkanized Government. There is no central world government. The world has several governments competing for control of the world. These may be allies, cooperating, competitors, or at war with each other.

World Law Level

Criminal acts are rare but not unheard of in Aslan society. Crimes are different from the insults or slurs that provoke duels, and are classified into three categories: crimes of passion, crimes with victims, and crimes of honour.

• Crimes of passion involve misbehavior prompted by temper, anger, or provocation. The accused is judged by the head of the family, pride, or clan involved.
• Crimes with victims involve taking money or items of value, or violating the person of another for profit (kidnapping, terrorism, piracy). General practice is to have an impartial earleatrais consider the case and present findings.
• Crimes of honour involve failure to observe the rituals established for social behaviour. Judgement is made by the pride or clan head, depending on the severity of the crime. Crimes of honour are the most serious in Aslan society; in practice, most are never tried as a duel to the death occurs first.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

Though low by Imperium standards, the Asti'A, as they call themselves, make the most of their technology.

• A digital intelligence fabric regulates monetary and information exchange in a manner that optimizes the output and well being of the mostly satisfied citizens.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Demographics

The population occupies itself with non-industrial activities associated with planetary rotation cycles or 'rituals' that extend for many concentric cycles; the larger of which extend beyond the life spans of citizens and even the balkanized states that organize the planet.

World Culture

Spending time with their clan and prides, the Aslan are fairly peaceful due to a system interwoven in the ritual dynamics which allocates land in a manner that is both reflective of what is considered a just distribution and a relatively limited land mass on which to live on the surface. The Travellers' Aid Society rates the planet aloof but tolerant to visitors. Travellers' logs advise visitors to the planet to expend extra efforts not to interrupt the dances and ritualistic harmonic creations orchestrated on a daily basis on a massive scale. The sound is said to be 'beautiful' and 'indescribable' or 'like drinking light beams through your ears" in various traveler submissions to the central log.

Urbanization

No information yet available.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors / Sources

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• J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, John Harshman. Aslan (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), . (named but no further data)
• MegaTraveller Alien - Solomani & Aslan (dot map provided)
• Author & Contributor: Joshua Bell (Solomani and Aslan Dotmap Reconstruction)
• Author & Contributor: Aster
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science