Folly (world)

Folly/Khandi (Dagudashaag 1713) Milieu 1116 C300459-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (60 thousand) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V
Worlds	12
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Feudal technocracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	546B
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	B33+1 Resources B Abundant Labor 3 Low (6 thousand) Infrastructure 3 Very limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	99
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Folly is a vacuum world, with a complete lack of atmosphere. The system has a population between 10,000 and 10 million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. This world contains an archaeological site with artifacts suspected to be from the now-vanished Ancients. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Khandi Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Folly, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world. During the Long Night this world was named Vluumkhaa Sa. This world has also been known as Abram's Folly.

Astrography and Planetology

Folly is a member of the Rusadaa Trace.

Stellar Data

Folly has a solitary primary star.

Folly
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

History and Background

Records from the Second Imperium show that this system hosted a Scout Base.

In 632, Abram Elan set out from Iesha (Dagudashaag 1712) to explore this impoverished world following a vision he claimed to have had, showing him vast deposits of valuable minerals. He sold all his possessions, bought a small ship and survey equipment, and went to find his fortune. News of his plans made his way to the media and Elan's adventures (and the world) nicknamed Abram's Folly.

Despite several previous surveys finding nothing of value on the planet, for three decades Elan scoured the world without a trace of the riches. He died a bitter, broken, defeated, and impoverished man in 667.

The current population is made of independent, itinerant prospectors following in the footsteps of Elan.

World Starport (Sp)

Folly 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.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are among the most commonly used here:

• Anglic: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.
• Vilani: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.

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: Khandi." Signal-GK 12 (1996): 61. via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 83.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 112.