Chou (world)
| Chou/Clan (Magyar 0210) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | C62187B-9
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | K1 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chou is a poor, moderate population non-agricultural and pre-industrial hellworld with a population, over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion 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.
- This world is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
- It is a world working towards greater industrial capability, but currently lacks an adequate population to expand its industrial sector.
- It is a member of the Wuan Technology Association, part of the Solomani Confederation, located in the Clan Subsector of Magyar Sector.
- This world has also been known as Merak.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
This system is part of the New Libdis-Pindur Main, also known popularly as the Savage Main.
Stellar Data[edit]
Chou has a solitary primary star. Chou 
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity K1 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.86 5100 - 5170 0.58985 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0074 0.0637 0.76 - 1.36 0.74 7.4 Orbit # * * 3 2 6 Remarks
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Chou is a poor, non-agricultural hellworld. It is a member of the Solomani Confederation and is the administrative center for Argent Mining, a prominent member of the Wuan Technology Association.
World Starport[edit]
Chou 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.
Linguistics[edit]
The following languages are used on this world:
- Wuan: A language dialect descended from Chinese (Guanhua), a Sino-Tibetan Dialect.
- Rim Anglic: One of the principal dialects of Anglic, and the official language of the Solomani Confederation. Usually simply called Anglic by the Solomani. It is a second language within the Association.
- Firstspeak: A constructed interlingua based on Anglic, devised by the Solomani Party in order to overcome communication barriers created by the many diverse languages and dialects that have arisen over the centuries within the region since the time of the Terran Confederation. [2]
World Culture[edit]
Wuan culture prioritizes collaboration, cooperation, and efficiency. While the Vilani used social engineering to achieve such goals, the Wuans turned to bioengineering. During the Long Night, the Wuans undertook an ambitious eugenics project, recreating themselves as a distinct Human variant. For each role in Wuan society there is an associated, highly specialized genotype expressly engineered to perform it. While there are dozens of roles and hundreds of variants, the apparent outward conformity of Wuan society can also be unnerving to visitors.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
- ↑ Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 18.