Bentax (world)

Bentax/Bunkeria (Core 0322)
Classic Era (1116)	B542275-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 2 Low (200) Government 7 Balkanization Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M1 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Bentax is a poor, low-population hellworld with a population less than 10,000 sophonts struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often develop intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Bunkeria Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has an Imperial Way Station.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This world is located on the Sylean Main.

Stellar Data

Bentax has a solitary primary star.

Bentax
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

World Starport (Sp)

Bentax 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.

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 Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M)
• Classic Traveller The Traveller Book
• MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 8
• Marc Miller's Traveller Milieu 0 Campaign
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
• Christopher Griffen. The Third Imperium (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), passim.