Dingir (world)
| Dingir/Dingir (Solomani Rim 1222) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interstellar Wars | AA89959-A
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| Classic Era (1116) | AA89A98-F
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | K3 V K5 V M2 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dingir is a high-population world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.
- This world serves as the sector capital with the considerable extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
- This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Dingir Subsector of Solomani Rim Sector in the Domain of Sol.
- This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
- This world has an Imperial Way Station.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
It is a world with one small moon.
Dingir has three stars in the star system. Gliese 667 A
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity K3 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.78 4600 - 4830 0.41911 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.007 0.0537 0.65 - 1.18 0.7 7 Orbit # * * 3 2 6 Remarks "GJ 667 A" / "142 G. Scorpii A" Gliese 667 B
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity K5 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.7 4300 - 4440 0.28697 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0065 0.0444 0.56 - 1.01 0.65 6.5 Orbit # * * 2 2 6 Remarks "GJ 667 B" / "142 G. Scorpii B" Gliese 667 C
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity M2 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.44 3470 - 3560 0.0565 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0041 0.0197 0.25 - 0.48 0.41 4.1 Orbit # * * 1 1 6 Remarks "GJ 667 C" / "142 G. Scorpii C"
IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey[edit]
1222 Class Dingir (Imperial Sector Capital)
Starport: Class V - Naval Base and Way Station.
Diameter: 10,200 miles (16,300 km). Gravity: 1.42g.
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 89%.
Climate: Warm.
Population: 12 billion.
Government: Bureaucracy.
Control Level: 5.
Tech Level: 12.
World Trade Number: 6.5.
Dingir is the home of the University of Hattar at Dingir[2]
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Dingir is an important, high-population world with one small moon, located in Dingir Subsector of the Solomani Rim.
- The system is a member of the Imperium and contains both a Naval Base and a Way Station.
- Dingir is the sector capital.
- This world contains the remains of a former military depot.
Imperial Landed Nobility (N)[edit]
Dingir, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdoms of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.
- It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
- It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.
- It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial subsector duke, who also conducts affairs regarding the entire subsector at the Interstellar and Imperial level.
- See: Nobles of Dingir
- Dingir is the seat of the Local Subsector Government.
- Dingir is the Capital and seat of the Solomani Rim Sector Government.
World Starport[edit]
Dingir 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.
- There is an associated Naval Base.
World Demographics[edit]
The majority of the population is Human.
A community of Hresh has long been established in a southern region of Dingir.
Other Data[edit]
Dingir holds an important place in human history.
- It has been, in turn, a provincial capital, Aasha Ziru Sirka (Anglic: Aasha Ziru Sirka) base and depot for the Ziru Sirka (Anglic: Ziru Sirka), headquarters for the Terran Confederation Fleet, for a brief time capital of the Rule of Man, capital of the Dingir League, a subsector capital for the Third Imperium, and for the Solomani Confederation, and once again sector capital in the years following the Solomani Rim War.
- Site of the Battle of Dingir.
Additional notes[edit]
The name "Dingir" is Sumerian in origin. The Sumerian word dingir means "god"; its cuneiform sign was used for the word "god" generally, the word for "heaven" (an), the name of the supreme deity identified with the heavens (An), and as a sign (determiner) that the following word was the name of a deity.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- Classic Traveller Alien Module 6: Solomani
- GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars
- GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire
- Mongoose Traveller: Solomani Rim
- Imperium (Board game)
- T4: Aliens Archive
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
- ↑ Loren Wiseman. Nobles (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), 9.
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