Cortes (world)

Cortes/Ghost Rift (Beyond 1540)
Classic Era (1116)	C443373-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 3 Low (3 thousand) Government 7 Balkanization Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K6 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	1

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Jump map from Travellermap.com

Cortes is a poor, low-population world with a population of less than 10,000 sophonts.

• This poor world is struggling to establish itself and living conditions in many areas are rudimentary.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by Human sophonts located in the Ghost Rift Subsector of Beyond Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This world is located on the route known as the Broken Chain.

Stellar Data

Cortes has a solitary primary star.

Cortes
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K6 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.69	4100 - 4300	0.27288
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0062	0.0433	0.53 - 0.99	0.62	6.2
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

World Starport

Cortes 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.

World Population (P)

Cortes has a population of 3,000 sophonts (thousands).

• This is a Low Population World and the population would be too low to sustain itself without a little outside assistance. This may represent the home base of a sizable but mostly transient population such as the base of a major starship expedition, the last generation of a dying colony, the first generation of a new colony, or a large outpost that will probably evolve into a colony if not stopped.
• The population is Human.

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.

• Paranoia Press, The Beyond
• Paranoia Press, The Beyond, 1991 online updates by Chuck Kallenbach
• TravellerMap T5SS Data
• Mongoose 2nd: The Spinward Extents