Erdousse (world)

Erdousse/Isi Ahto (Gushemege 2615)
Classic Era (1116)	C7855AC-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 5 Moderate (600 thousand) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law C Extreme Law (no privacy) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	4

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Erdousse is an agricultural, nonindustrial, pre-rich garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts, but still lacks an adequate population to expand its economy to a rich status.

• 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.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Lancian Cultural Region, a sub-polity of the Third Imperium, located in the Isi Ahto Subsector of Gushemege Sector.

• Erdousse is located on the Vilani Main.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Erdousse has a solitary primary star.

• It is a red main sequence.

Erdousse has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	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		None

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x7 secondary rocky worlds.
• x2 planetoid belts.
• x4 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Mainworld Size (S)

Erdousse 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)

Erdousse 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)

Erdousse has 45-55% of its surface covered by liquid water. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Imperial Landed Nobility

Erdousse, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the estate and fiefdom of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.

World Starport

Erdousse 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.

World Population (P)

Erdousse has a population of 600,000 sophonts (hundreds of thousands).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Core Anglic, one of the principal dialects of one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Kehuu, the primary language of the Lancian Cultural Region.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

Trade Data

• Importance: 0 (unimportant)

World Economy

• Resources: D (very abundant)
• Labor: 4 (tens of thousands)
• Infrastructure: 4 (very limited)
• Efficiency: +3 (improved)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 8 (discordant)
• Acceptance: 5 (very aloof)
• Strangeness: 8 (very confusing)
• Symbols: C (very abstract)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• circa -250,000: the Ancients transplant humans onto the world of Kukhun.
• -9235: the Vilani discover jump drive technology, and over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space. The Kukhunen culture acquires jump technology from these wanderers.
• circa -5400: the Vilani Consolidation Wars - the Kukhunen region is eventually conquered.
• -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka claims and settles worlds across the region.
• -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
• -1776 to 0: the Long Night. There is widespread regression within the area and some worlds become barren.
• circa -1700: the reemergent Kukhunen region gradually collapses into civil war.
• -1200: the Lancian movement rises to dominance on Kukhun and within Kukhunen space. Few ships are available throughout the period but limited contact is maintained.
• -143: the Lancians gain modern jump technology from Sylean traders and use it to establish the Lancian Confederation.
• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded. There are frictions with the Lancians.
• 76-84: the Vilani Pacification Campaign results in the absorbtion of the Confederation.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 639: the Lancian Cultural Region is established.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.

References

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.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), page 13. (Chart locating the world but no further data)
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), pages 11, 48, 49. (Historical overview)
• David Burden. "Contact: Lancians" Alien Realms, (1992), Volume 2 Issue 2, pages 8-13 (via HIWG). (The Lancians)
• Leighton Piper. "Contact: Lancians." Signal-GK 04 (1992): pages 4-7. (The Lancians)
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 22. (World details circa the Year 0)
• Martin Dougherty. Bearers of the Flame (Avenger Enterprises, 2006), page 22. (World details circa the year 1248)
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), pages 212-213. (The Lancians)
• Author & Contributor: David Burden of the HIWG. (Extensive development of the sector)