Baax (world)

Baax/Jafr (Langere 1526)
Classic Era (1116)	C669876-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 9 Wet World 90% Population 8 Moderate (800 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K4 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Baax is a rich world with a moderate population of over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts in size.

• This world has high-grade living conditions with a good climate and a non-harmful environment. As such, this world is much sought after with large queues for immigration here.
• This world has a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Most observers think that the planet's economy and population will prosper further in the near future barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Hive Federation in the Jafr Subsector of Langere Sector.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

No information yet available.

Baax has a solitary primary star.

Baax
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K4 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.73	4440 - 4600	0.33238
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0066	0.0478	0.58 - 1.07	0.66	6.6
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
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System Data

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Mainworld Data

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Mainworld Geography & Topography

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Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

Certain carnivorous lifeforms -- and the habitats supporting them -- are protected due to their important role in predation of Hiver larvae. Hiver intelligence is the product of environmental stresses in infancy; avoiding these perils triggers the larva's capacity for consciousness.

History & Background / Dossier

No information yet available.

World Starport

Baax 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.

• A small, unobtrusive security force is drawn from the most suitable members of the local militia and stiffened with navy regulars.
• The density of ancillary buildings around the downport means that it is not a good place to build Hiver nests; settlement near a Hive Federation port favours a world's non-Hivers. These communities are difficult to build into predictable social models.
• Ships are subject to mandatory anti-larval fumigation before leaving, to kill any infant Hivers that might have gotten aboard. Hivers are distressed by the notion that a larva might find itself achieving sapience in an environment absent adult Hivers and suitable nests.

World Population (P)

Baax has a population of 800,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

World Languages

• Hiver Sign Language
• Gurvin
  • Non-Hiver locals will typically speak Gurvin augmented with a pidgin of local languages and Ithkluri, to provide ambiguity and metaphor lacking from the standard Gurvin vocabulary.

Urbanization

Hivers are fond of rounded shapes, domes, spheres and non-Euclidian architecture. This is ironic in that many schools of Hiver starship construction are focused around the opposite -- extremely square, boxy ships.

• Hivers like small, cramped domiciles with defined spaces and solid walls. Much of a Hiver nest is subterranean.
• Pet Snohl may be found in the deeper nests.

World Technology Level

Baax 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

Baax 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

No information yet available.

World Military

As a member of the Hive Federation, Baax can call upon Ithklur warriors as well as its own defence forces.

World Economy

The Hive Federation currency (or closest equivalent) is the Biyzihn.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Culture

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Urbanization

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World Infrastructure

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Historical Data

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World Timeline

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UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors / Sources

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• Classic Traveller Alien Module 6: Solomani - named but no further data
• Classic Traveller Alien Module 7: Hiver - named but further data
• MegaTraveller Alien - Solomani & Aslan - Dot map provided
• Mongoose Traveller: Solomani
• T20 Fighting Ships of the Solomani
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science