Chokta (world)

Chokta/Cemplas (Core 1422)
Classic Era (1116)	C7C2248-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere C Exotic (insidious) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 2 Low (900) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G7 V M1 V M8 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	1

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Chokta is a low population, fluidic hellworld of less than 10,000 sophonts struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• A fluid world has an oceanic geography consisting of heavily contaminated water or a substance such as ammonia, methane, hydrocarbons, or other exotic liquid.
• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Cemplas Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.

Description (Planetology)

This world is part of the Sylean Main.

Stellar Data

Chokta has three stars in the star system.

Chokta
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G7 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.95	5480 - 5550	0.83567
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0086	0.0758	0.88 - 1.56	0.86	8.6
	Orbit #	*	*	3	3	7
	Remarks
Chokta
	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
Chokta
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M8 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.085	2420 - 2570	0.00018
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0011	0.0011	0.01 - 0.03	0.11	1.1
	Orbit #	*	*	*	0	3
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

Prior to the Third Imperium, this world was a member of the Interstellar Confederacy.

World Starport (St)

Chokta 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.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Timeline

Significant events affecting this world and its surrounding region include the following:

• -684: A politician from Sketola, Rom Debeshuut, unites the worlds of the Great Spiral into the Interstellar Confederacy. The primary goal is to restore interstellar trade and preserve the technology of the four or five systems that have achieved TL-12.
• -623: After expanding to 32 star systems, the Interstellar Confederacy abruptly stops accepting new members, believing that doing so will have a deleterious effect on their ability to retain the Tech Levels they have built to.
• -301: The Interstellar Confederacy first encounters scouts from the Sylean Federation.
• -260: The Interstellar Confederacy and the Sylean Federation go to war.
• -239: The Interstellar Confederacy suffers a civil war, as combined forces from multiple worlds attack the Capitol at Sketola. The Confederacy government withdraws to Keplo (Core 1322).
• -237: Loyalists retake Sketola.
• -201: After intense battles, Velpare and Heraldia fall to the expanding Sylean Federation.
• -1: The exhausted forces of the remaining Confederacy worlds surrender to the Sylean Federation.

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's Traveller T4 First Survey