Dim (world)

Dim/Shinkan (Core 3206)
Classic Era (1116)	C646444-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 4 Moderate (30 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M0 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Dim is a pre-agricultural and nonindustrial world lacking adequate development for its economy to become prosperous.

• 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 is a member of the Third Imperium in the Shinkan Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.

Description (Planetology)

Stellar Data

Dim has a solitary primary star.

Dim
	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		The Primary World and Primary Star share the same name.

System Data

The system's largest gas giant is named Oaf, and is just barely under the threshold of being classified as a brown dwarf. It is not much smaller than the system primary, Dim. The two bodies orbit one another about a close barycentre. The other planets of the system are circumbinary, orbiting the star and gas giant as a pair.

History & Background (Dossier)

Dim Highport's numerous taverns, speakeasies and dive bars are crowded with Travellers who trade information; those returning from Antares or Fornast often seek to spend time here, to refamiliarize themselves with goings-on in Core.

World Starport (St)

Dim 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.

The central pod of Dim Highport is a busy thoroughfare, through which freight and speculative cargo are moved in bulk. Low-tech robots, large and small, roam about transporting cargo modules and the like; visitors learn to walk carefully lest they be run down in the narrow streets.

There is no downport on Dim, just a small spaceport that is fit only to dock small craft.

Economy

The surface of Dim is barely populated. The world's metal and mineral reserves are poor, although a few small operations scratch out a living mining copper, aluminium and tungsten. The main industry is ice cracking.

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.

• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
• Christopher Griffen. The Third Imperium (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 134.