Besancon (world)

Besancon/New Islands (Reft 1526)
Classic Era (1116)	C201341-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 2 Small (3,200 km, 0.10g - 0.17g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 3 Low (5 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
New Era (1200)	D201457-7 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 2 Small (3,200 km, 0.10g - 0.17g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 4 Moderate (90 thousand) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
Fourth Imperium (1300)	D201457-8 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 2 Small (3,200 km, 0.10g - 0.17g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 4 Moderate (90 thousand) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Jump map from Travellermap.com

Besancon is an icy, low-population vacuum world, with a population less than 10,000 sophonts in population size, warranting hazardous environment precautions.

• Its surface is ice-capped with little or no atmosphere and nearly all of its water frozen.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the New Islands Subsector of Reft Sector.

• This world-system hosts a Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces, which may be located on or off-world.

Astrography and planetology

Monostellar System

Besancon Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Besancon M2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0021	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.21	2.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	4

History and background

Colonized from Joyeuse (Reft 1628), then in turn served as the source of colonists for Elysee (Reft 1525) and Gloire (Reft 1123).

After the introduction of the Jump Drive to the Island clusters, Besancon was claimed as a colony of Joyeuse, and then recalaimed its independence in 1023.

During the Regency era, Besancon is claimed by both New Colchis (Reft 1327) and Joyeuse (Reft 1628), with ground troops to enforce their claims.

World Starport

Besancon has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which includes 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.

Population

Besancon's population has always remained very small, only exceeding 10,000 during brief periods when colony missions were being marshalled. The entire world population dwells in a single town, mainly working at the starport or in supporting industries.

Government

A liberal representative democracy has always been found satisfactory. In practice the government does little but oversee public services, and intrudes very little into the daily lives of citizens.

Economy

Deep asteroid mining operations extracting Lanthanum for Jump drives are run not by the local government but by the Islandbridge Trading Corporation.

References and contributors

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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 12. (map only)
• John Harshman, Marc Miller. Trillion Credit Squadron (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 46.
• Gary L. Thomas, Joe Fugate. "Reft Sector." The Travellers' Digest 20 (1990): 26-28.
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb System Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 57.
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 33,72.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 164-167.
• Martin Dougherty. Reft Sector (Mongoose Publishing, 2010), .
• External Link: The Trillion Credit Squadron campaign - Besancon by Alex Tingle
• External Link: New Islands by Peter Gray