Earltras (world)
| Earltras/Kimson's Stand (Dark Nebula 2527) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | B6A1965-8
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | M1 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Earltras is an industrial, high-population fluidic hellworld, with a billion or more sophonts in size, who are struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.
- A fluid world has an oceanic geography consisting of heavily contaminated water or a substance such as ammonia, methane, hydrocarbons, or other exotic liquid.
- Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often develop intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
- As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
- This world toils under the control of a military government with conditions reflecting that situation, including curtailed civil rights and limited freedoms.
- It is a member of the Solomani Confederation in the Kimson's Stand Subsector of Dark Nebula Sector.
- This world-system has a Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces, which may be located on or off-world.
Description / Astrography & Planetology[edit]
This world is part of the Mechane Cluster.
Stellar Data[edit]
Earltras has a solitary primary star. Mechane 
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity M1 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.5 3620 - 3660 0.08839 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0047 0.0247 0.31 - 0.59 0.47 4.7 Orbit # * * 1 1 6 Remarks
System Data[edit]
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Mainworld Data[edit]
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Mainworld Geography & Topography[edit]
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Mainworld Map[edit]
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Native Lifeforms[edit]
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History & Background / Dossier[edit]
This system was known originally by the name of its primary, Mechane. Earltras wasn't settled until -700 by Terran refugees from the Mizah Cluster, as the Aslan Border Wars drove Terrans out of worlds deeper in Aslan space. By -500 the Aslan claimed most of the Mechane Cluster.
As the Long Night drew to a close, Earltras welcomed expeditions from both the Old Earth Union and the Third Imperium. It later became an early, enthusiastic supporter of the Solomani Movement. Earltras was captured by worlds from the Solomani Autonomous Region during the War of Kimson's Stand in 832.
World Starport (St)[edit]
Earltras has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.
World Technology Level[edit]
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World Government[edit]
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World Law Level[edit]
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World Military[edit]
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World Economy[edit]
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Trade Data[edit]
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World Demographics[edit]
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World Culture[edit]
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Urbanization[edit]
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Historical Data[edit]
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World Timeline[edit]
Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:
- -9235: Far to coreward, the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
- -4045 to -2204: The Ziru Sirka controls vast territories.
- -2431: Terrans discover jump drive technology.
- -2404 to -2215: The Interstellar Wars.
- -2204 to -1776: The Rule of Man administers the former Ziru Sirka.
- -1999: The Aslan gain jump drive technology.
- -1862 to -1110: The Terran Mercantile Community is active within the region.
- -1776 to 0: The Long Night.
- -1118 to 380: Aslan Border Wars.
- -1110 to 588: The Terran Mercantile Community gradually becomes the Old Earth Union, shrinking to control the region around Terra.
- Circa -700: Mechane colonised by Terran Humans.
- The Year 0: To coreward, the Third Imperium is founded.
- 300-420: The Imperial First Survey charts the system.
- 380: The Peace of Ftahalr ends the ongoing Aslan Border Wars and establishes understandings regarding Human and Aslan influence.
- 588: The Old Earth Union and the former territories of the Terran Mercantile Community are annexed by the Imperium, moving its border adjacent to the Aslan Hierate.
- 604-622: The Imperial Civil War.
- 624: The Imperial Express Boat Network is established.
- 704: The Solomani Autonomous Region is formed.
- 800-820: The Psionics Suppressions.
- 832: War of Kimson's Stand.
- 871: The Solomani Confederation is founded.
- 940: The Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
- 990-1002: The Solomani Rim War.
- 995-1065: The Imperial Second Survey includes data for the system.
- 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
UWP Listing[edit]
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References[edit]
- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 34. (name, location, and basic data)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 104.(UWP only)
- Randy Dorman. The Deep and the Dark (Mongoose Publishing, 2023), 15-16, 247, 254-255, passim.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com