Colony Six (world)
Colony Six/Goertel (Trojan Reach 1221) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | A68A541-D
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | F4 V M4 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 3 |
Colony Six is a nonindustrial, pre-rich water world, which has 90% or more of its surface covered in an ocean of water.
- As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
- It still lacks adequate population to expand its economy to a rich status.
- Its economy is growing and living conditions are expected to rise in the near future barring outside forces.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Goertel Subsector of Trojan Reach Sector.
Description (Planetology)[edit]
The world is entirely covered in ocean, so the inhabitants are divided into three castes (see below).
Binary Solar System[edit]
Colony Six Binary Star System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Colony Six F4 V
Primary Main Sequence 1.38 6550 - 6670 3.08729 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0071 0.1457 1.58 - 2.75 0.71 7.1 Orbit # * 0 4 2 6 Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Colony Six M4 V
Secondary Main Sequence 0.23 3110 - 3210 0.00584 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0013 0.0063 0.08 - 0.16 0.13 1.3 Orbit # * * 0 0 3
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Colony Six is a non-aligned water world located in the Goertel Subsector of the Trojan Reach.
- This world was originally settled by the inhabitants of the Ark Six, a sublight colony ship dispatched from Terra (Solomani Rim 1827) in -2445.
- Even today, Colony Six has only a handful of jump-capable ships and this, combined with a lack of resources, makes the world vulnerable to attack.
Non-canon UWP[edit]
Colony Six/Goertel (Trojan Reach 1222) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | A68A541-D
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See also | UWP |
Non-canon: Colony Six is a comfortable world with a dense, breathable atmosphere and a population of 300,000. It is a complete water-world , with absolutely no land masses. Its government is a representative democracy, with the populace voting on the members of the thirty-seat government council.
The inhabitants are divided into three distinct castes of sea-riders, wind-riders, and spacers.
- Colony Six has two distinct societies: the sea-riders, who live in huge, floating boat-cities several kilometers across, and the windriders, living in small, non-mobile gravitic cities.
- Two-thirds of the population are sea-riders.
- They are the industrial force of the world, as well as the collectors and growers of food — mostly various types of fish.
- The world's type A starport is built on a sea-rider city.
- On the other hand. the wind-riders run the bureaucracy, universities, and research institutions.
- The two societies coexist in a mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship.
The third caste, the spacers, are the smallest caste, who mine asteroids and defend the system against regular attacks from Aslan or Glorious Empire raiders.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- Periodical: Classic Traveller Third Imperium Fanzine Issue 10
- Mongoose Traveller: Aslan
- Gareth Hanrahan. The Pirates of Drinax: Trojan Reach. (Mongoose Publishing, 2017), 176.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com