Congress (world)

Congress/Ushra (Dagudashaag 0920) Milieu 1116 B545348-8 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 3 Low (2 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M0 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	3258
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	A21-1 Resources A Abundant Labor 2 Low (200) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -1 Average
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	18
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	54,270
Port passengers (annual)	0

Congress supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Ushra Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Congress, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world. This world contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel. During the Long Night this world was named Kuush.

Astrography and Planetology

Congress is a member of the Dagudashaag Main.

Stellar Data

Congress has a solitary primary star.

Congress
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0055	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.55	5.5
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	6
	Remarks

History and Background

Congress is a hermitage world which is run both as a religious seminary and a retreat by the Church of the Brethren.

The Tech level is deliberately kept down and large areas of the planet are left as wilderness to allow Church leaders and students to commune with nature. A small team of caretaker monks are the only permanent inhabitants.

The remarkable thing is that Congress had been a major industrial planet until 653 when, its natural resources exhausted, the major stockholder, Interstellar Petrochemical Processing, pulled out. The Church bought the planet for a pittance and proceeded to terraform it into the paradise it is today.

World Starport (St)

Congress has a Class B Starport, a good quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are among the most commonly used on this world:

• Anglic: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.
  • Galaach: An Ushran trade language derived from Anglic, widely spoken throughout the Shallows, Zeda and Ushra subsectors.
• Klatha'sh: The common language of the Ziadd.
• Vilani: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.

World Government (G)

Congress is governed by a Representative Democracy where government leadership is by representatives elected by eligible voters. What determines an eligible voter varies. The representatives determine policy, including selecting members of the bureaucracy. There can be referenda, votes by eligible voters on specific subjects.

References and contributors

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.

• Jae Campbell, Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Ushra." Signal-GK 03 (1989): 50. via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 81.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 72.