Cipango (system)

The Cipango system is a star system.

• It consists of a central star, its family of worlds, and their various moons.
• The system's mainworld is Cipango.

Cipango System
Cronor/Spinward Marches 0705
Position	Distance	Name	UWP
Primary		'Cipango-Taiyoo'	'G2V'
1	0.5 AU	Zero-Belt	Y000000-0
2	0.7 AU	Himawari	HS00000-0
3	0.9 AU	Kusai	F596267-C
4	1.1 AU	Cipango	A886865-C
1	2	* Yubiwa-Ring'	YR00000-0
2	25	* Tsuki-Shivva'	F646668-C
5	1.5 AU	Yon-Belt	G000268-C
6	2.3 AU	Doitsu	H7A0167-B
1	12	* Bavaria-32'	H100363-B
7	7.1 AU	Fukuzawa	Small GG
1	8	* F-8'	HS00167-B
2	11	* F-11 prim'	HS00000-0
3	11	* F-11 bis'	HS00163-B

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

They Cipango system has a solitary primary star.

• It is a yellow main sequence named Cipango-Taiyoo.

Cipango has a solitary primary star.

Cipango-Taiyoo
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0094	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.94	9.4
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
	Remarks

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x6 secondary rocky worlds. The inner three are a large inner system planetoid named Himawari, tropical Kusai, and tiny Doitsu, lying beyond Cipango's orbit. Three additional unnamed frozen worlds orbit in the far outer system.
• x2 planetoid belts, named the Zero-Belt, orbiting close to the star, and the Yon-Belt, lying between Cipango and Doitsu.
• x1 gas giant, named Fukuzawa. It orbits beyond Doitsu, in the outer system.
  • It retains a family of three moons.

The Cipango system is not very impressive, but it still has three garden worlds: Kusai, Cipango itself, and Tsuki-Shivva, Cipango's moon.

Kusai orbits within the inner part of the habitable zone. Its climate is a little too hot for human comfort, the atmosphere has a foul smell, and there is dangerous local wildlife, so it has not attracted a large population. It orbits within the star's Jump Shadow, so it is rarely visited by interstellar traders.

Cipango itself has a large moon, Tsuki-Shivva, which has been colonized. It is considered a fairly nice place that has a cooler climate than Cipango itself. Most of the new colonists from the Consulate have settled here.

History & Background (Dossier)

Fukuzawa, the system's solitary gas giant, has three moons. These are F-8 (the innermost, orbiting at 8 radii,) and the twin moons of F-11 prim and F-11 bis (both orbiting at 11 radii, but with 60 degrees separation between them). All three are cold, airless chunks of rock.

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. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 4-5.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 36. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 41.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 98. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 26.
• P-O "BeRKA" Bergstedt - Cipango Landgrab & Cipango System