Eddum (world)

Eddum/Bolivar (Dagudashaag 0531) Milieu 1116 D797968-6 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 9 High (1 billion) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M0 V M2 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	9956
Army Size (BEs)	3000
Economic Details
Technology Level	6
Economic Extension	B88+1 Resources B Abundant Labor 8 Moderate (100 million) Infrastructure 8 Generally available Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	704
GWP (BCr)	1,253
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,523
Starport Details
Classification	Class-D
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	1,000,000
Port employees	33,520
Port passengers (annual)	6,600

Eddum is an industrial world with a tainted atmosphere. The system has a population over one billion. This system serves as the capital for the subsector. This world is designated an Amber Zone. Caution is advised since the world has an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that are not well understood and might be a danger to a visitor.  The world has been set aside to preserve indigenous life forms, to delay resource development, or for other reasons. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Bolivar Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Amec Trade Protectorate and the Domain of Vland. Eddum, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdom of a count. Both are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. During the Long Night this world was named Eddum. The Nahuatl name of the world is Epantla.

Astrography and Planetology

Stellar Data

Eddum has two stars in the star system.

Tulatec
	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
Tulatec companion
	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

Mainworld Data

Mainworld Size (S)

Eddum is a Meso World between 10,400km and 12,000km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.7G and 0.9G. The horizon will appear about 4.7km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Eddum has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. While a Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear this atmosphere also contains an unusual taint such as disease, a hazardous gas mix, pollutants, or sulfur compounds which requires the use of a Filter Mask. Some taints may require more protective equipment. TL–3 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Eddum has 65-75% of its surface covered by liquid water. It has significant large liquid bodies. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Mainworld Topography and Geography

Eddum is extremely mountainous, except for the great plain of Huitzilopochtli.

• NahlTeotihuican (capital city)
  • Veil of Tears (waterfall)
• Tetrahuitlcalpu city
• Chicometli city
• Tana eh'timkaht (city, Ba'Menelik colony)

Native Lifeforms

Extensive native and imported life.

Eddum has a significant population of Heartstones.

History and Background

Eddum is the official capital of the Amec Trade Protectorate and home to the court of the Tlatoani and Cihuacoatl. Eddum is classed as a protected conservation area and, since the attempted assassination of the Tlatoani Chumanoatl in 788, Imperial visitors are severely restricted as to where they may go on the planet.

World Starport (Sp)

Eddum 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)

Eddum has a population of 1,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.

World Demographics

• Human (97%)
  • Solomani, 92% (African and South American descent, including Ba'Menelik)
  • Mixed Imperial, 2%
  • Ziadd, 2%
  • Scanian, 1%
• S'mrii, 1%
• Other, 2%

There are two broad categories of citizen within the Amec Trade Protectorate:

• The Sun-born, which consists of the nobility, their families, courtesans, and Cuaupilli (those who have successfully undertaken the adolescent Test of Worth).
• The Amtlan, which includes the Maceualli ("tribute" or protected ones) who toil on behalf of their lord, and the Pochteca or independent merchants.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are among the most commonly used within this astrographic region:

• Galaach: Spoken mainly in the ports
• Karanga: Spoken by certain Solomani ethnic groups of ultimately African descent
• Nahuatl: Official language of the Amec Trade Protectorate
• Sall: A common second language

World Technology Level (T)

Eddum possesses a Technology Level of TL–6.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fission power generation, advanced water and wind generation of electricity.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, early ATV's, and dedicated AFV's.
  • Water: Amphibious vehicles, improved submersibles, and early SCUBA gear.
  • Air: Early jet aircraft and rotorcraft VTOL's.
  • Space: Early unmanned rocket delivery systems and early manned orbital rockets.

World Government (G)

Eddum has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. This is a colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.

• The government of Eddum is the final court of appeal for all planets in the Amec Trade Protectorate.
• Several nations on the planet are essentially independent of the Amec Protectorate, including the Ba'Menelik of the Southern Continent.

World Law

Law is enforced by either Amec Quauchic, Church representatives, or private security. Amec laws are considered just but harsh. The higher the status of the offender, the more severe the penalty.

• Public drunkenness, except on festival days, is punishable by death.

Historical Data

Meteor Strike of 895

Eddum was originally classified with a population of 10 billion, and TL–E, and was populated with hundreds of medium sized cities surrounded by suburbs and chanty towns. In 895 a medium sized meteor struck Exaar (Eddum's only moon). The impact caused a slight fluctuation in Exaar's orbit which in turn caused Eddum to suffer a minor shift in the planetary axis. Although the planet moved less than 1°, it was sufficient to cause a chain of volcanoes to burst into life. The atmosphere was afflicted with the stench of sulfur, entire cities were buried under lava and ash, and the accompanying severe earthquakes killed over 6 billion people in one of the worst catastrophes ever to befall the sector. The Tlatoani was persuaded to move to Syrna (Dagudashaag 0329) while the Protectorate mobilized its forces into a massive rescue operation.

In 898 the Tlatoani elected to return the Turquoise Throne to Eddum. He rebuilt the cites along Syrnan lines; garden cities surrounded by floating gardens and estates. He decreed the people would return to a more idyllic lifestyle and banned the majority of shipping from landing on the planet, displacing the major starports to Exaar.

Each city is designed as a mortal paradise. All high technology (outside the work environment) is banned by law. The poor are deported off-planet so as not to be a blemish on the classic beauty of the architecture.

Era: Rebellion

In the immediate polarization of the Imperium after the assassination of Emperor Strephon, the major factions tried immediately to seize and control the high-population worlds of the Imperium. In outlying sectors, other factions took control but at the borders between the factions, the worlds were up for grabs. Eddum was one such world.

In the last days of 1116, both Dulinor and Lucan had stationed battle fleets in the Eddum system. The admirals in charge, however, found that the relative equality of the forces produced a stalemate with little chance for resolution. Further, until one side or the other achieved supremacy in space, they would not be able to begin a campaign to convince the local population of Eddum that it should give its loyalty to one of the factions of the Rebellion.

The governor general proposed that Eddum be allowed to determine for itself, through large-scale general elections, which side it would take in the Rebellion. The besieging fleets would be reduced to the bare minimum required to blockade the planet. A cease-fire between the two fleets would be imposed. The nations of Eddum would be allowed to determine for themselves which faction they would support.

Prohibited from deploying military forces into the enemy's territory, yet allowed by the same proclamation to carry their arguments into those territories, the major nations of Eddum turned to their air forces to convince their neighbors of the rightness of their causes.

Each nation assigned to its air forces the responsibility of carrying radio broadcasts, television broadcasts, and print leaflets into the territory of the enemy in order to convince populations which way they should vote in the upcoming general election.

In turn, each nation found itself forced to defend its skies by driving off or destroying the invading aircraft, justifying such actions on the basis of article three of the governor general's proclamation. Finally, nations defended their unarmed broadcast aircraft (also claiming justification from article three) with armed escort fighters.

The natural result was an intense air war in the skies of Eddum. Air forces campaigned to carry convincing arguments about the Rebellion to the populations of other nations. Dogfights in the skies became routine as fighters were deployed to eliminate intruding aircraft.

Timeline

• Circa 600: The groundwork for the Mexicatl Cultural Revolution is being laid.
• 133-605: Taking advantage of the Civil War, Ixtlilpopoca Sanchez declares independence from the Imperium.
  • Duke Ghani Bolivar sends personal representation to Sanchez begging him to reconsider his actions. Sanchez replies by capturing the messenger ship and refitting it as part of his ever-growing navy.
• 608: Sanchez controls Kinhe, Anshaar, and Mimku in addition to Eddum.
  • Duke Bolivar and his small fleet of privateers, backed up by two war cruisers, back Sanchez into a mutual no-win situation.
• 615: The Treaty of Chicometli. Ixtlilpopoca Sanchez succeeds in getting the Ducal office to recognize the cultural independence of Kinhe, Eddum, and Shumuu. In return the Amec Protectorate remains officially allied with the Imperium.
• 636: On Kinhe, a new government passes a law declaring all religions other than Universalism illegal. The local people rebel, but are swiftly and ruthlessly dealt with by the Amec military.
  • Religious freedom, one of the basic tenets of the fledgling state, is now forgotten.
• 788: An attempted assassination is made on Tlatoani Chumanoatl. Following the incident, Imperial visitors are severely restricted as to where they might go on Protectorate planets.
• 790: An Imperial Enclave is established in orbit round the Gas Giant Tezcatlipoca to fulfil a double mission; to remind the Amec Protectorate that, under the Treaty of Chicometli, space is the province of the Imperium, and to provide a safe harbour through Protectorate space for Imperium shipping.
• 800: The Psionic Suppressions further isolate the psionic-friendly Protectorate in the eyes of the Imperium.
• 855: The Ba'Menelik people are targeted by the Universalist church for a forced conversion.
• 895: On Eddum, the disastrous Time of Cleansing. A medium-sized meteor strikes Exaar (Eddum's only moon). The impact causes a slight fluctuation in orbit which in turn causes Eddum to suffer a minor tilt in its planetary axis. Volcanic upheaval all but destroys the planetary civilization.
  • The Tlatoani is persuaded to move to Syrna while the Protectorate mobilises all of its forces into a massive recovery operation.
  • Given the situation, the Tlatoani also agrees that the Ba'Menelik should have religious freedom, provided that they remain in isolation to prevent their beliefs "contaminating" the faith of the rest of the people.
• 898: The Tlatoani elects to return the Turquoise Throne to Eddum, as cities are rebuilt along Syrnan lines. He decrees that the people will return to a more idyllic lifestyle, deplacing major Starports to Exaar.
• 1019: Tlacahuepan Motecuhzoma is selected as the next Tlatoani over his older brother (Baron Ixtilcatl of Eddum) because of his brilliant tactics in destroying the Ba'Xipe Totec.

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.

• Terrance McInnes. COACC (Game Designers Workshop, 1989), 84-89.
• Jae Campbell. "Port of Call:Eddum." Signal-GK 11 (1995): 33-44. via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 80.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 101.