Colada (world)
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| Primary | K2 V M8 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Worlds | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Government | Civil service bureaucracy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Law Level | Moderate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cultural Extension | 4A39 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Army Size (BEs) | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Technology Level | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Economic Extension | A58+2
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| Importance Extension | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Resource Units | 800 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GWP (BCr) | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Trade Number | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trade Volume (MCr/year) | 2,157 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Classification | Class-B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Port Size | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Building Capacity (Tons) | 2,200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Port employees | 410 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Port passengers (annual) | 99,500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colada is a rich and agricultural production world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system supports a population in the millions of sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a member of Sword Worlds Confederation in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Sword Worlds. This world supports a Sword Worlds Military Base and the system supports a Sword Worlds Naval Base.
- Colada is a member of the Spinward Main.
- It is a member of the Gram Arm.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
Stellar Data[edit]
Colada is a binary star system.
- The primary is an orange main sequence named Rodrigo.
- The secondary is a red main sequence named Bivar.
| Rodrigo | ||||||
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Type | Category | Mass (Sol) | Temperature (K) | Luminosity | |
| K2 V | Main Sequence (Dwarf) | 0.82 | 4830 - 5100 | 0.49928 | ||
| Unit | Diameter | Safe Distance | Habitable Zone | Jump Shadow | M-Drive Limit | |
| AU | 0.0073 | 0.0586 | 0.7 - 1.26 | 0.73 | 7.3 | |
| Orbit # | * | * | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
| Remarks | ||||||
| Bivar | ||||||
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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 | Approximately 0.73 AU from the primary. | |||||
Mainworld Data[edit]
Colada has a single small moon, Minaya. Colada has a normal climate with a standard oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere.
Native Lifeforms[edit]
Fauna includes the Hasumbuk.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Colada contains vast pastures given over to the rearing of beef cattle. The population is thinly spread about the planet.[2]
Colada is a member of the Sword Worlds Confederation and was once one of the most important worlds in the subsector. Colada was part of the Triple Dominion, but a civil war in 212 erupted into a nuclear exchange that devastated both the planet's population as well as its environment, with the effects continuing to linger almost a thousand years later, resulting in its Amber Zone classification.
World Languages[edit]
- Sagamaal: The common tongue of the Sword Worlds Confederation. Its name references the intent that it evoke the language of ancient sagas of northern Terra -- or at least an idealised understanding of those cultures.
Urbanization[edit]
The capital city is Foernyelseborg, located on the eastern coast of the small continent, Hjalmaren. The world's starport is located several kilometers north of Foernyelseborg.
Military[edit]
Colada's most prized export is its elite mercenary force, The Champion's Guard. This force numbers 50,000 and is available in whole or part to anyone willing to pay. Stoedel Base is a large military base just north of Foernyelseborg, used as a training facility for the Champion's Guard.
Trivia[edit]
Colada is the name of one of the swords carried by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, according to the Cantar de Mio Cid.
Trade Data[edit]
- Importance: 4 (important)
World Economy[edit]
- Resources: A (abundant)
- Labor: 5 (hundreds of thousands)
- Infrastructure: 8 (generally available)
- Efficiency: +2 (good)
World Culture[edit]
- Heterogenity: 4 (harmonious)
- Acceptance: A (very friendly)
- Strangeness: 3 (somewhat typical)
- Symbols: 9 (somewhat abstract)
Coladans pay lip service to the Sword World ideal of female conduct, but a planetary truism is that "there are no safe jobs on Colada." With more than 2% of its total population under arms at all times, Colada's home industry is permanently laboring under conditions like those suffered by a nation at war. Consequently, women participate in Coladan industrial and service sectors to a much greater degree than on other Sword Worlds.
World Timeline[edit]
Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:
- -420: Terran-descended humans flee the Old Earth Union through the Aslan Hierate.
- -399: The fleeing humans found the first settlement within the Sword Worlds region.
- The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
- 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
- 589-604: First Frontier War.
- 604-622: the Imperial Civil War.
- 615-620: Second Frontier War.
- 624: the Imperial Express Boat Network is established.
- 852: the modern Sword Worlds Confederation is formed.
- 979-986: Third Frontier War.
- 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
- 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
- 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
- 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.
IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey[edit]
1022 Colada (Sword Worlds) - Amber Zone
Starport: Class IV - Military base.
Diameter: 3,232 miles (5,200 km).
Atmosphere: Standard oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 40%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 2.37 million.
Government: Civil service bureaucracy.
Control Level: 2.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 4.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 16-17.
- 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), 44-45. (UWP only)
- Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 69.
- Paul Drye, Hans Rancke-Madsen, Robert Prior. Sword Worlds (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), 32-34.
- Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
- Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
- Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 89-92,96-97. (UWP only)
- Martin Dougherty. Sword Worlds (Mongoose Publishing, 2020), .
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
- ↑ Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 69.