Daken (world)

Daken/Drexilthar (Reaver's Deep 1830)
Classic Era (1116)	C630233-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 2 Low (900) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V M5 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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

• 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.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Daken is an extremely hot, arid world, with little free-standing water; temperatures are too high for humans to survive except near the poles. The world would never have been settled, were it not for the presence there of Goldsand, a desert life form similar in evolutionary status to Earth corals.

• This system is part of the Drinsaar Loop.

Binary Solar System

Daken Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Turrel M2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0021	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.21	2.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	4
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Daken M5 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.162	2930 - 3060	0.00171
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0009	0.0034	0.04 - 0.09	0.09	0.9
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3

System Data

Six major bodies.

• One Inhabited world (Daken, IV).
• Two gas giants, one empty orbit (#3) in system.

Mainworld Data

IV Daken:

• Diameter: 10,994 kilometers
• Density: 1.08.
• Mass: 0.456 standard.
• Mean surface gravity: 0.81 G.
• Rotation period: 21 hours, 12 minutes, 19 seconds.
• Axial Inclination: 10°15'4.3"
• Albedo: .20
• Surface atmospheric pressure: 0.33atm; composition, standard oxygen-nitrogen mix, breathable with respirator to compensate for pressure.
• Hydrographic percentage: 2%; composition, liquid water.
• Mean surface temperature: 28°C.

Native Lifeforms

Goldsand is a terrestrial equivalent to Terran corals.

Harvesting Goldsand is a dangerous business. Colonies spring up rapidly, grow with great speed, and are then scattered by the fierce sandstorms which sweep across the ergs. Individual parts of the colony may survive to start up new colonies in new locations. Thus, to harvest Goldsand, crews must reach a colony soon after it forms, and work it quickly before a storm can carry it off.

Goldsand also forms the chief food source for the Sandroller, a small (25kg) animal which poses a danger to Humans because of the highly poisonous spines which cover its spherical body. This makes goldsand harvesting doubly dangerous work, for a Goldsand colony is sure to be infested with the spiny menaces.

History & Background (Dossier)

A colony of no more than 750 people has been settled around the south polar starport for the last 125 years. They have grown accustomed to life at the edge of the world's harsh deserts, and make their primary living harvesting goldsand and selling it to offworld markets. Several companies, including the Imperial megacorporation SuSAG and the Dakaar Corporation, have attempted to cut out the locals and harvest goldsand directly, but planetary conditions are far too harsh and every attempt has ended in disaster.

Recently the Dakaar Corporation attempted to force an exclusive contract on the colony, to tie up the goldsand supply. Since the colony turned down this offer, there have been threats, rumors of sabotage and violence, and other problems around the colony. The Dakaar Corporation, of course, is suspected of being behind the problems, but there is no proof of this and corporate officials have hotly denied any involvement in the wrongdoing.

World Starport (Sp)

Daken has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which includes 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 Timeline

These are some of the more important historical events that have affected this world's subsector:

• (-1776 to 0): Long Night
• (-1648 to -112): Reaver Period
  • (-1008): Founding of the Iltharan Empire
  • (-371): Principality of Caledon founded
• (-86 to -80): Iltharan War
  • (-84): Confederacy of Duncinae founded
• (0): Third Imperium founded
• (268): Fall of the Iltharan Empire
• (380): Peace of Ftahalr
• (517): Carrillian Assembly founded
• (1080): Languljigee sophonts discovered by Dakaar Corporation

References

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