Beater (world)

Beater/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 1424) Milieu 1116 B685686-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 6 Moderate (6 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K4 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	5A49
Army Size (BEs)	15
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	958+3 Resources 9 Moderate Labor 5 Moderate (600 thousand) Infrastructure 8 Generally available Efficiency +3 Improved
Importance Extension	4
Resource Units	1,080
GWP (BCr)	33
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	2,710
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	6,600
Port employees	570
Port passengers (annual)	147,450

Beater is an agricultural production world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system has a population between 1 million and 10 million sophonts. It is a member of Sword Worlds Confederation in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Sword Worlds. This world supports a Sword Worlds Military Base and the system supports a Sword Worlds Naval Base.

• Beater is a member of the Spinward Main.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Beater has a solitary primary star.

• It is an orange main sequence.

Beater has a solitary primary star.

Gawaine
	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
	Remarks

A rich agricultural world located at the intersection of three important trade routes in the Sword Worlds Subsector of the Spinward Marches. Beater has a dense oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere and a tropical climate. This hot and almost soupy atmosphere gave rise to rampant life.

Beater orbits its primary, Gawaine, at a distance of 0.65 AU. Beater has a single moon.

Native Lifeforms

Beater is in a megafaunal stage. Low gravity, high temperatures, lots of oxygen, and no seasons have encouraged the growth of life beyond what is typical. Many planets have periods like this in their histories – Beater just happens to be in one now.

Beater's life forms tend to straddle the line between "plant" and "animal."

• Aksturen: Can store up solar energy for bursts of speed.
• Bullvar: The largest land species on the planet, and one of the largest in the sector. Shaped vaguely like an ankylosaur on thick, 10-metre legs.
• Hjstringstra: Defend themselves with extensible thorns when irritated.
• Skurgar: The “wolves” of Beater. During the day, a pack of 10 to 20 skurgar hunker down and quietly photosynthesize, unless disturbed. At night, they hunt.

Beater is renowned for its safaris.

History & Background (Dossier)

Prior to the Fifth Frontier War, Beater was a member of the Sword Worlds Confederation, but in the aftermath of the war it became part of the Imperial Client state known as the Border Worlds Confederation.

Beater was originally named Galatine.

In 1116 the capital of the Border Worlds was moved from Sting (Spinward Marches 1525) to Beater.

World Starport (St)

Beater 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 highport at Beater is one of the largest and busiest in the Sword Worlds Confederation. It isn't Class-A as there are no starship yards, but in terms of economic throughput and starship tonnage handled it could be considered equal to such. The port is built as a single unit, a thick disc with protrusions on the upper and lower surfaces. Docking bays circle it, many privately owned or leased by a corporation.
• Beater's downport is named Hallenport.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are most commonly heard:

• Sagamaal: The common tongue of the Sword Worlds Confederation. Its name references the intent that it evoke the language of ancient sagas of northern Terra -- or at least an idealised understanding of those cultures.

Urbanization

The planet's capital city, Kersbog, is located on Tyst Island.

Culture

Beater offers what many Sword Worlders consider an ideal lifestyle, working small farms that are both profitable and hazardous.

Trade Data

• Importance: 4 (important)

World Economy

• Resources: 9 (moderate)
• Labor: 5 (hundreds of thousands)
• Infrastructure: 8 (generally available)
• Efficiency: +3 (improved)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 5 (harmonious)
• Acceptance: A (very friendly)
• Strangeness: 4 (somewhat distinct)
• Symbols: 9 (somewhat abstract)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• -420: Terran-descended humans flee the Old Earth Union through the Aslan Hierate.
• -399: The fleeing humans found the first settlement within the Sword Worlds region.
• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Imperial Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Imperial Express Boat Network is established.
• 852: the modern Sword Worlds Confederation is formed.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 16-17.
• 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), 44-45. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 71.
• Paul Drye, Hans Rancke-Madsen, Robert Prior. Sword Worlds (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), 57-58,86.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 89-92,96-97. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. Sword Worlds (Mongoose Publishing, 2020), .