Belthan (world)

Belthan/Riramla (Delphi 1036)
Classic Era (1116)	A310877-E Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 8 Moderate (400 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K3 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	3

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Belthan is a non-agricultural, pre-industrial, moderate population world with over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts in population size.

• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• Its economy and population are growing and living conditions are expected to improve in the near future barring outside forces.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Riramla Subsector of Delphi Sector in the Domain of Sylea.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

Belthan has a solitary primary star.

Belthan
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.78	4600 - 4830	0.41911
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.007	0.0537	0.65 - 1.18	0.7	7
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
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History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Belthan, 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.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

Timeline

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

• circa -250,000: The Ancients are active within the region.
• -9235: The Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
• -5400 to -4015: The Vilani Consolidation Wars.
• -4045 to -2204: The Ziru Sirka claims and settles worlds across the region.
• -2404 to -2215: The Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: The Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
• -1776 to 0: The Long Night.
• -530: The Free Human League is founded in the Lashkagur Cluster.
• The Year 0: The Third Imperium is founded.
• 76 to 120: The Third Imperium wages the Pacification Campaigns to unify and assimilate the regions under its control.
• 132: Following the Pacification Campaign, a treaty is signed formalizing an existing agreement which allies the Free Human League with the Third Imperium. The treaty includes a clause naming Vashtii as the initial subsector capital (this will later move to nearby Korbak) and allows the League's government to form the new subsector governments for both Eta-Gu and Riramla.
• 300-420: The Imperial First Survey.
• 604-622: The Civil War.
• 624: The Express Boat Network is established.
• 800-820: The Psionics Suppressions.
• 995-1065: The Imperial Second Survey.
• 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the world becomes widely available.

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.

• Classic Traveller Alien Module 7: Hivers ( named but no further data)
• Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
• MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr {dot map provided}
• MegaTraveller Arrival Vengeance
• MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Challenge Magazine No. 37 — Michael R. Mikesh
• Steve Jackson Games Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (JTAS) Online Forum
• Novel: Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
• External Link: Delphi Project
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science