Duunkhan (world)

Duunkhan/Kuriishe (Dagudashaag 2518) Milieu 1116 C42356A-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 5 Moderate (500 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G2 V
Worlds	15
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	737A
Army Size (BEs)	1
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	C42+1 Resources C Very abundant Labor 4 Moderate (50 thousand) Infrastructure 2 Extremely limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	-2
Resource Units	96
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Duunkhan has both an unbreathably thin atmosphere and a lack of surface water making habitation by sophonts difficult. The system has a population between 10,000 and 10 million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. Government control of this world is by an external military force. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Kuriishe Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Duunkhan, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world. This world contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel. During the Long Night this world was named Uudnar.

Astrography and Planetology

Duunkhan is a member of the Sylean Main.

Stellar Data

Duunkhan has a solitary primary star.

Duunkhan
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0094	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.94	9.4
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
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Mainworld Data

While Duunkhan lies within the nominal habitable zone of its G-class main sequence star -- prime real estate for most stellar systems -- it is too small to maintain a dense atmosphere. Tectonic activity is virtually nil, and the world is locked into a static, lifeless ice age. Polar caps cover one third of the surface with thin ice sheets, and a thick, sticky, clay-like material that reaches depths of up to a kilometre over the planetary surface, thick fungal growth covers the rest of the surface. The very thin atmosphere has been partly boosted with the application of oxygen-producing algae in a half-hearted attempt at terraforming, but following a partial withdrawal of capital from the project, the atmospheric processors -- brought in at vast expense by the Alberich Mining Corporation (AMC) -- now lie abandoned and useless around the planetary surface.

History and Background

Just over half a million shareholder-prospectors of the Alberich Mining Corporation (AMC) of Eraki (Dagudashaag 2920) inhabit the world of Duunkhan. The planet is officially listed as a colony, as the corporation wholly owns it. This purchase was made from the late Sector Duke in 1081, following the finding of widely scattered, lanthanum-rich mineral nodules lying just under the clay-like surface of the world.

Since this time, the AMC have attempted to turn a profit in the difficult conditions that abound here; although it must be said that the Eraki stock exchange commonly uses the phrase 'as likely as cash from Duunkhan' to mean a long term, slim or hopeless chance.

Mining occurs at over a thousand sites dotted all over Duunkhan, usually in the form of vast open cast trenches and pits, many of which are large enough to be seen from orbit.

World Starport (Sp)

Duunkhan has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features 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.

References and Contributors

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.

• Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Kuriishe." Signal-GK 13 (1997): 8-9. via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 84.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 99.