Forine (world)

Forine/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1533) Milieu 1116 D3129B8-A Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 9 High (6 billion) Government B Non-Charismatic Dictator Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G9 V
Worlds	8
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Non-charismatic dictatorship
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	9B5A
Army Size (BEs)	1500
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	C8C+2 Resources C Very abundant Labor 8 Moderate (600 million) Infrastructure C Very extensive Efficiency +2 Good
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	2,304
GWP (BCr)	24,595
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	631
Starport Details
Classification	Class-D
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	6,600,000
Port employees	75
Port passengers (annual)	12,200

Forine is an industrial icy world with a trace atmosphere and a significant quantity of water frozen on the surface. The system has a population over one billion. It is a Human dominated Non-Aligned world in the District 268 Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

Astrography & Planetology

Forine is a member of the Spinward Main.

The Forine system consist of Forine, a plantoid belt called the Dragan Belt, and two planetoid clusters located at Forine's Trojan points.

Forine itself is a small, bitterly cold (average surface temperature is -146 C) planet with a trace atmosphere and no native lifeforms of any kind. Its surface is dotted with huge environmental domes that provide the one thing that's not available in the space habitats elsewhere in the system: space. The domes are so densely and so evenly distributed that the nightside viewed from space gives the illusion that the entire surface is covered by a single structure.

Forine is the primary producer of processed and refined metals and minerals for the subsector.

Monostellar System

Forine Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Forine G9 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.848	4100 - 5100	0.47
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00845	0.05686	0.55 - 0.89	0.845	8.45
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	7

History & Background (Dossier)

Some suspect that there was a population on this world by the 400's, who were belters from elsewhere in the Imperium.

Trade Data

The population of the Forine system totals 5.9 billion and is scattered across the entire system. 1.6 billion lives on and in orbit around Forine; another 3 billion inhabits the Dragan Belt. The rest are fairly evenly divided between the two trojan clusters.

Forine specializes in producing cheap electronic components for the lucrative export market. Yet, profits gained from interstellar trade is only a small slice of the planetary economy. The system-wide economy is in the hands of a small percentage of the population and most Forineans live in relative poverty. The discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots is exacerbated by the fact that the haves import large amounts of natural food, mostly from the Ag Worlds Combine. Natural food is in short supply and many Forineans subsist primarily on unappetizing artificial and reprocessed foods supplied free by the state. Rumors and jokes which suggest that the latter include foods made from processed sophont cadavers are vociferously denounced by Forinean officials and generally dismissed by serious offworld analysts.

Forine's starport would be Class A if it wasn't too small for the traffic it has to handle. As it is, casual visiting ships cannot be sure of getting even elementary service in reasonable time, reducing its official class to D. This state of affairs has been chronic since 1104, when a construction workers' strike resulted in riots and extensive destruction of starport facilities. Every attempt to solve the conflict and remedy them since then has proved a temporary stopgap at best.

Other Data (Non-canon)

• Forine (world)/Version 1
• Forine (world)/Version 2

References & Contributors (Sources)

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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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

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• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
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• Martin Dougherty. Bowman Arm (Avenger Enterprises, 2006), 10.
• Hans Rancke-Madsen, "The Outrim Frontier." JTAS Online (June 19, 2007)
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• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 123-127. (UWP only)
• Peter Gray - BARD OPAL 9533
• Contributor: Hans Rancke-Madsen
• Contributor: Vendarth