Ershur (Ma 0504) (world)

Ershur/Kerr (Massilia 0504)
Milieu 0	C586200-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 2 Low (400) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
Classic Era (1116)	B586521-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 5 Moderate (900 thousand) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
New Era (1200)	B586655-8 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 6 Moderate (1 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K5 V M7 V M9 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	3

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Ershur (Ma 0504) is an agricultural, nonindustrial, pre-rich world with a growing agro-economy, 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.
• This world has promising economic future although it needs to recruit a larger labor force in order to achieve the desired prosperity.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Kerr Subsector of Massilia Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• During the Long Night this world was named Kama.
• Not to be confused with Kaggushus, which during the Rule of Man was named Hub/Ershur.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

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Trinary Solar System

Ershur Trinary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Ershur K5 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.7	4300 - 4440	0.28697
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0033	0.0444	0.56 - 1.01	0.33	3.3
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	5
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Ershur M7 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.09	2630 - 2680	0.00022
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0006	0.0012	0.02 - 0.03	0.06	0.6
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	2
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Ershur M9 V	Tertiary	Main Sequence		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0005	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.05	0.5
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	1

System Data

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Mainworld Data

• Ershur boasts breathtaking local scenery, and is a popular tourist goal. The Vilani ruins are a major attraction.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

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Native Lifeforms

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History & Background (Dossier)

A non-industrial, agricultural world located in the Kerr Subsector of the Massilia Sector.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Ershur, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of three members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.

World Starport

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World Technology Level

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World Government

Ershur is a member of the Imperium.

World Military

The system contains an Imperial Naval Base.

World Economy

• The world also has a large number of financial institutions, including Vilani megacorporation Zirunkariish, and Musizis Pen, LIC, an important investor in the construction of starships.

Trade Data

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World Demographics

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World Culture

Ershur has the oldest human population in the subsector, having been colonized early in the Vilani expansion. The people are proud of their ancient heritage. They also see their world as a bastion of art and culture. Their museums of art are known throughout the Imperium.

Historical Data

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World Timeline

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UWP Listing

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History-Era: New Era

High ranking bureaucrats and nobles on Kaggushus set aside the world for their estates and recreation. Most of the world is covered in steamy rain forests and sweltering deserts, and the low axial tilt prevents much freezing during the winters. Most of the colonists settled in the temperate polar regions, venturing into the lower latitudes only on rare occasions. As a result most of the world is unspoiled wilderness, paradise the locals will tell off-worlders.

• For millenia artists and other bohemian types (at least by Vilani standards) have come to Ershur to create their work in relative peace. Because of the backwater status of the region, most of its original architecture has been spared the wrecking ball of commercially driven renovation. This has prevented the locals from attaining much prosperity, but the slowness of life in its timeless settlements has led to an institutionalized disdain of Solomani commercialism anyway. Few structures of less than at least a few hundred years of age exist, and most newer buildings are found on the grounds of the antebellum and current starports. Vilani nobles invested a large amount of money and treasure on estates here during all three previous Imperiums, and this wealth has carried over into the New Era.
• Ershur is the "Treasurehouse of the Hub." Many Imperial financial houses had major offices here during the antebellum period. In fact it is rumored that an enormous amount of Hortalez et Cie assets were shepherded away here in the last days of the Third Imperium and now make up a major financing source for the current Hub Worlds government, which has split it with several local banks. The largest of these is Musizis Pen LIC, a former Hortalez subsidiary with a seemingly bottomless credit line. It has been one of the major underwriters of new ship construction, but has also been accused of shady dealings within the Hub Worlds government, and with a number of old money families on Ershur.
• The low current tech level has been off major concern to the local leadership, and major improvement projects are under way. A number of companies have been funded by local banks to explore the Wilds and bring back recovered technology for the "greater good." That many of these expeditions are lavish by Hub World standards, and that "greater good" is defined seemingly to mean "The nobility first, Ershur a close second, and everyone else a distant third" has been a major source of friction in both Chambers of the Hub World government, with representatives from Towering and Cronin vociferously attacking this perceived corruption, and Kaggushus and Fournier just as vigorously defending it.

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• Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
• Classic Traveller Library Data (N-Z)
• Classic Traveller Solomani (Alien Module) No.6
• MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr (dot map provided)
• MegaTraveller Knightfall
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 11
• Traveller: The New Era Main Rulebook (pg. 176)
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
• External Link: The Hub Worlds Pt.1 from the TNE-RCES Mailing List
• Author & Contributor: Norma Guye of the TNE-RCES Mailing List
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science