Fouste (world)
| Fouste/Warding Beak (Thaku Fung 1609) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | C655757-9
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary | F6 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fouste is an agricultural garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.
- 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.
- Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to incrementally rise barring outside forces.
- This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
- It is a member of the Solomani Preserve in the Warding Beak Subsector of Thaku Fung Sector.
- This world has an exploration base, which is similar to an Imperial Scout base, capable of handling explorer personnel and exploratory starships.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
No information yet available.
Fouste has a solitary primary star. Fouste 
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity F6 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 1.25 6280 - 6350 2.18366 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0126 0.1226 1.36 - 2.36 1.26 12.6 Orbit # * 0 4 3 7 Remarks None
System Data[edit]
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Mainworld Data[edit]
Colonization is limited to artificial "habitation craters", typically several kilometers across and up to 1 kilometer deep, lined with artificial gravity plates and ringed with atmospheric thickeners, providing 1 G and standard atmosphere within the craters. Prior to the Empress Wave, early settlements usually expanded by creating adjacent craters. After the Empress Wave most of these stand empty, their gravity plating malfunctioning from lack of maintenance, creating dangerous and shifting gravity fields, and the atmospheric thickeners sometimes flooding a valley with pure nitrogen, suffocating all oxygen-breathing life within. Repair crews thus typically wear sealed powered exoskeletons that could be mistaken for primitive battle dress.
Mainworld Size (S)[edit]
Fouste is a Meso World between 8,800km and 10,400km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.6G and 0.8G. The horizon will appear about 4.4km away.
Mainworld Atmosphere (A)[edit]
Fouste has a pressure of 0.43 to 0.70 atmospheres. The Thin Atmosphere does not require survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.
Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)[edit]
Fouste has 45-55% of its surface covered by liquid water. Wilderness refueling is possible.
Mainworld Geography and topography[edit]
No information yet available.
Mainworld Map[edit]
No information yet available.
Native Lifeforms[edit]
No information yet available.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
No information yet available.
World Starport[edit]
Fouste 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.
There is no highport, though most habitation craters have their own downport. The primary one is colocated with the exploration base, the world's only (after post-Empress Wave consolidation) university, and a sizable startown. When large unstreamlined freighters stop by, it is typical for multiple downports to send smallcraft, loading cargo from several small pieces and/or distributing the ship's imported wares across the planet, either way resulting in an impromptu swarm of activity around the visiting ship.
World Technology Level[edit]
Fouste possesses a Technology Level of TL–9.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics and satellite communication and data networks.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fusion power.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Ultra high-speed trains and early grav vehicles.
- Water: High efficiency sailcraft, multihulled seacraft, improved artificial gills.
- Air: Tiltrotorcraft, exotic VTOL's, PARWIG, and rocket-assisted suborbitals.
- Space: SSTO spacecraft, early military spacecraft (System Craft), and interstellar STL starships
- FTL: Prototype Jump Drive-1.
World Government[edit]
Fouste is governed by a Feudal Technocracy. Society divides itself based on the technical requirements of the society. Each of these functions are granted as a fief to an individual or group. Leadership of these fiefs determines the head of the government.
World Law Level[edit]
Fouste has a moderate law level with laws covering many areas of government and interaction. These laws are simple enough that most people can act as their own advocate, though for serious issues a professional is recommended. Law enforcement officials will be present, but not in great numbers. All firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.
To discourage the formation of an unhealthy agricultural labor underclass (and instead promote the use of robots to work under conditions that the available - mainly human - labor pool is ill-adjusted to), it is illegal to routinely employ someone to perform manual labor for over 4 hours a day outside of a habitation crater. (Broken habitation craters are allowed, so as to create no complications for repair crews.) Stereotype representations of this law (see World Culture, below) often inaccurately shorten this to "illegal to employ someone to perform manual labor".
World Military[edit]
No information yet available.
World Economy[edit]
No information yet available.
Trade Data[edit]
Due to the cultural bias (see World Culture, below), art is second only to agricultural goods in annual export value. There are a few video studios that manage to compete with the ones on Havensmith, despite the latter's more convenient access to the vast majority of the Solomani Preserve's population.
World Demographics[edit]
No information yet available.
World Culture[edit]
Life on Fouste is stereotyped as laid back, care free, and easy. Most sophonts on Fouste rarely if ever leave the craters, tending to vast fields of agriculture outside the craters via robots. What few folks have much ambition are rare enough that what government there is has room to employ all of them. The rest just idle along, engaging in idle pleasures and singing their songs.
While the stereotype exaggerates, as stereotypes are wont to do, it also has more than a grain of truth. Recovery from the Empress Wave stalled at the ability to produce and maintain artificial gravity plating and early grav vehicles, rating Fouste at TL-9. There is a cultural bias toward producing the needs of living and spending the rest of one's energies pursuing leisure and cultural pursuits.
Many studies, and even some minor religious movements, have been done on how Fouste feels more like an idyllic utopia than the unarguably higher tech, more productive, more scientifically knowledgeable, and more capable in almost every measurable way Havensmith.
World Languages[edit]
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Urbanization[edit]
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World Infrastructure[edit]
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Historical Data[edit]
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World Timeline[edit]
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UWP Listing[edit]
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References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 50. (dot map provided)
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Atymes
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
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