Ekuu (world)

Ekuu/Old Suns (Dagudashaag 1102) Milieu 1116 D546789-6 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 7 Moderate (40 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M2 V M2 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	8667
Army Size (BEs)	30
Economic Details
Technology Level	6
Economic Extension	966+1 Resources 9 Moderate Labor 6 Moderate (4 million) Infrastructure 6 Limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	324
GWP (BCr)	42
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	535
Starport Details
Classification	Class-D
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	44,000
Port employees	40
Port passengers (annual)	0

Ekuu is an agricultural world with a tainted atmosphere but still a near-ideal environment for producing foodstuffs. The system supports a population of tens of millions of sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Old Suns Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Ekuu, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdoms of a baron and a marquis. All three are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. This world contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel. During the Long Night this world was named Karzi Ash.

Astrography and Planetology

Ekuu is the spinward terminus of the Shegimuud Trace.

Stellar Data

Ekuu orbits a tiny red dwarf companion star in a binary star system; the two stars are approximately 4,150 AU apart.

Ekuu has two stars in the star system.

Ekuu
	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
Ekuu
	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

History and Background

The world is home to an oppressive dictatorship that has strong Vilani roots and models itself on the original Ziru Sirka. Ekuu is the premier agricultural world on the Shegimuud Trace and deals with a large turnaround of ships despite haying some of the most draconian trade laws in the sector. In addition to the many rules and regulations, a merchant needs to have a thorough knowledge of the amount of bribe each official requires. A merchant can expect to pay thousands of credits in kickbacks and sweeteners, depending of course on the nature of the cargo. It should be noted that bribery is completely illegal and carries a stiff sentence it caught. Some offenders are lucky and get hard labour; the truly unfortunate end up in jail.

World Starport (Sp)

Ekuu 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.

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: Old Suns." Signal-GK 04 (1992): 46. - HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 79.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 105.