Esk Qoo (world)

Classic Era (1116)

A575886-C

Starport	A	Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	5	Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g)
Atmosphere	7	Standard (tainted)
Hydrographics	5	Wet World 50%
Population	8	Moderate (500 million)
Government	8	Civil Service Bureaucracy
Law	6	Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns)
Tech Level	C	Average Stellar (robots)

Description (Planetology)[edit]

No information yet available.

Esk Qoo has a solitary primary star.

Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
G2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1	5720 - 5770	1
Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
AU	0.0094	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.94	9.4
Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

The Hivers maintain an Embassy here.

World Starport (Sp)[edit]

Esk Qoo has a Class A Starport, an excellent 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 other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

A small, unobtrusive security force is drawn from the most suitable members of the local militia and stiffened with navy regulars.
The density of ancillary buildings around the downport means that it is not a good place to build Hiver nests; settlement near a Hive Federation port favours a world's non-Hivers. These communities are difficult to build into predictable social models.
Ships are subject to mandatory anti-larval fumigation before leaving, to kill any infant Hivers that might have gotten aboard. Hivers are distressed by the notion that a larva might find itself achieving sapience in an environment absent adult Hivers and suitable nests.

World Population (P)[edit]

Esk Qoo has a population of 500,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

World Demographics[edit]

Hiver, population 95%
Other, population 5%

World Languages[edit]

Hiver Sign Language
Gurvin
- Non-Hiver locals will typically speak Gurvin augmented with a pidgin of local languages and Ithkluri, to provide ambiguity and metaphor lacking from the standard Gurvin vocabulary.

Urbanization[edit]

Hivers are fond of rounded shapes, domes, spheres and non-Euclidian architecture. This is ironic in that many schools of Hiver starship construction are focused around the opposite -- extremely square, boxy ships.

Hivers like small, cramped domiciles with defined spaces and solid walls. Much of a Hiver nest is subterranean.
Pet Snohl may be found in the deeper nests.

World Government (G)[edit]

Esk Qoo is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy, and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. This ruling bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucractic apparatus or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence, like the military.

World Military[edit]

As a member of the Hive Federation, this world can call upon Ithklur warriors as well as its own defence forces.

World Economy[edit]

The Hive Federation currency (or closest equivalent) is the Biyzihn.

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