Crest (world)

Crest/Crest Minirift (Thaku Fung 0920)
Classic Era (1116)	A381666-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 6 Moderate (5 million) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F5 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	3

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Crest is a rich, nonindustrial world.

• 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.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• It has high-grade living conditions and life on this world is much admired by off-worlders.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Crest Minirift Subsector of Thaku Fung Sector.

• It is a mainworld which is a satellite of either a gas giant or another world.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• This is an occupied world controlled from nearby Smoke (Thaku Fung 0618).

Astrography and planetology

Stellar Data

Crest has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.33	6350 - 6550	2.71319
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0137	0.1366	1.49 - 2.6	1.37	13.7
	Orbit #	*	0	4	4	7
	Remarks		None

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x6 secondary rocky worlds.
• x3 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Crest is a satellite of a large gas giant.

Mainworld Size (S)

Crest is a Small World between 4,000km and 5,600km in diameter. The world has low gravity between 0.24G and 0.34G. The horizon will appear about 3km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Crest has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Crest has 05-15% of its surface covered by liquid water or ice. Wilderness refueling will be difficult. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are Hell Worlds or Poor Worlds depending on their atmosphere.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

• Locally, detailed maps may be available.

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

Native Lifeforms

Abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

History & Background (Dossier)

World Starport (St)

Crest has a Class A Starport, an excellent 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 other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)

Crest has a population of 5,000,000 sophonts (millions).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
• The population entirely consists of humans of Solomani descent.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Anglic.

World Technology Level (T)

Crest possesses a Technology Level of TL–12 or TL-C in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-3.

World Government (G)

Crest has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. This is a colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.

World Law (L)

Crest has a moderate level with laws covering many areas of government and interaction. These laws are simple enough that most people can act as their own advocate, though for serious issues a professional is recommended. Law enforcement officials will be present, but not in great numbers. All firearms except shotguns, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

Trade Data

• Importance: 2 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: E (extremely abundant)
• Labor: 5 (hundreds of thousands)
• Infrastructure: 8 (generally available)
• Efficiency: +1 (average)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 8 (discordant)
• Acceptance: 8 (friendly)
• Strangeness: 3 (somewhat typical)
• Symbols: F (extremely abstract)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• -9235: to rimward the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across the core regions of Charted Space.
• -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka controls vast territories.
• -3810: the Vargr discover jump technology and begin an era of expansion.
• -3700s onwards: waves of Vargr settle worlds across the Extents. Due to its vast distance from the core regions few Vargr ever reached the sector.
• -2431: Terrans discover jump drive technology.
• -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars. The young Terran Confederation battles against and ultimately triumphs over the ancient Vilani Ziru Sirka.
• -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the former Ziru Sirka.
• -1862 to -1110: the Terran Mercantile Community controls the former territory of the Terran Confederation.
• -1776 to 0: the Long Night. There is widespread regression and some worlds become barren.
• circa -1700: Vargr expansion and settlement gradually ceases.
• -1690: Solomani colonists depart Terran space.
• -1685: the Solomani Preserve is founded.
• circa -200: Vargr expansion increases, with a few worlds being settled within the subsectors along the sector's rimward fringe. The Break Worlds region is more stringently enforced.
• The Year 0: far to rimward, the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• circa 1040: the Empress Wave, believed to be a bizarre, massive jumpspace anomaly, enters the coreward edge of the sector.
  It travels at around 1 parsec per year in a rimward direction, leaving a wake of disruption and chaos as it passes.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published.
• circa 1080: the Empress Wave exits the rimward edge of the sector.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, John Harshman. Vargr (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), IBC. (Sector named but no further data)
• J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, John Harshman. Zhodani (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), IFC. (Sector named in Zdetl but no further data)
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), pages 11, 48, 49. (Dot maps and charts showing the locations of the sector's worlds)
• Author & Contributor: Atymes