Drenalch (world)

Drenalch/Yavakrbi (Vanguard Reaches 0822)
Classic Era (1116)	DA88797-5 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 7 Moderate (90 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K3 III
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	3

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Drenalch is a rich, agricultural world with improving living conditions due to a bustling agro-economy.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• This world is rich with high-grade living conditions, a good climate, and a non-harmful environment. Immigration registration for this world is always in high demand.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Yavakrbi Subsector of Vanguard Reaches Sector.

• It is the homeworld of the Ghenani (a Minor Human Race)

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Drenalch is thought to be a small gas giant core terraformed by the Ancients.

Stellar Data

Drenalch orbits the red giant star, Osto.

Drenalch has a solitary primary star.

Osto
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K3 III	Giant		4.6	3600 - 4500	230
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.29404	1.25791	12.06 - 19.65	29.404	294.04
	Orbit #	0	3	8	8	12
	Remarks

Mainworld Data

Mainworld Size (S)

Drenalch is a Big World between 15,200km and 16,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 1.1G and 1.5G. The horizon will appear about 5.7km away. Vessels with only 1G of thrust should avoid landing on this world.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Drenalch 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)

Drenalch has 75-85% of its surface covered by liquid water with a few large continents and extensive islands. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Mainworld Topography and Geography

Land on Drenalch is concentrated in a globe-spanning equatorial supercontinent. Rugged mountains, interior deserts and devastating storms in coastal regions limit the habitable area to Gureana, a protected semi-circular gulf more than 2,000 kilometres across. Gureana appears to be a basin excavated by an intentional asteroid impact during the Ancients' terraforming effort.

History & Background (Dossier)

Drenalch trades with outsiders when it gets the opportunity. While technological imports aren't desired, cultural artifacts and foodstuffs are acceptable as reciprocal trade items, and the Ghenani welcome any merchant willing to make the difficult journey to their world.

World Starport

Drenalch has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)

Drenalch has a population of 90,000,000 sophonts (tens of millions).

• The population consists of Ghenani.

World Technology Level (T)

Drenalch possesses a Technology Level of TL–5.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Electricity, hydrocarbon internal combustion, and the most fundamental atomic energy.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Ground cars or automobiles and tracked vehicles.
  • Water: Large ships and submersibles with steel hulls.
  • Air: Early aircraft including seaplanes and very early unmanned rockets.

World Government (G)

Drenalch is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Law (L)

Drenalch has a moderate law 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, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

World Timeline

• -300,000: Ghenani transplanted on terraformed Drenalch by the Ancients
  • The Final War of the Ancients sees the Ghenani reduced to stone age conditions
• -5000: Ghenani redevelop agriculture
  • City states and early metalwork follow within the next 2,000 years
• Circa -3000: A starship of either Zhodani or Vlazhdumecta origin crashes on the planet, spurring an age of discovery; an iron age follows within 300 years
• -2300: Discovery of gunpowder, setting off a series of wars between competing city states
• -1100: Renewed contact with Zhodani explorers, which ends poorly when zealots attack and kill a Zhodani anthropological party
• -150: The Ghenani form a unified secular government
• 695: Zhodani scientists again visit the Ghenani, now meeting a united people who apologise for the events of the still-remembered massacre. Relations with the Zhodani quickly improve.

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