Ghaertu (world)

Ghaertu/Aelluekh (Gvurrdon 2821)
Classic Era (1116)	B73A9DD–A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population 9 High (4 billion) Government D Religious Dictatorship Law D Extreme Law (paramilitary law) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F3 V M1 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	1

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Ghaerthu is a high-population water world, which has 90% or more of its surface covered in an ocean of water and a population of a billion or more sophonts.

• The inhabitants of this world live on the roughly 10% of exposed land mass, in underwater colonies, on city ships, or similar arrangements.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This is a "Puzzle" world designated as an Amber Zone. Caution is advised since the world has an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that are not well understood and might be a danger to a visitor.
• It is a member of the Thoengling Empire in the Aelluekh Subsector of Gvurrdon Sector, in the Vargr Extents.

• This world-system has a Naval Base, usually associated with military starships, which may be located on or off-world.
• This world has also been known as Ghaerthu under a different dialect.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Ghaertu has two stars in the star system.

Ghaertu
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.44	6670 - 6750	3.58318
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0147	0.157	1.7 - 2.94	1.47	14.7
	Orbit #	*	0	5	4	7
	Remarks		None
Ghaertu
	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		None

System Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Size (S)

No information yet available.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Ghaertu has a pressure of 0.10 to 0.42 atmospheres. The very thin pressures require a respirator or Oxygen Mask. TL–5 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

No information yet available.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

No information yet available.

Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

World Starport (Sp)

Ghaertu has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

• There is an associated Naval Base.
• Vargr starports reflect the variety of Vargr architecture, with many disparate styles of building, each having their own unique ornamentation and gaudy colour scheme, and all competing for the attention of the onlooker. Emblems for the major shipping lines and port facilities abound.

System Population (P)

Ghaertu has a population of 4,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets..

World Demographics

Vargr, population 100% (mostly Gvegh Vargr)

World Languages

• Aekhu (minority use)
• Gvegh (the primary language family)

Urbanization

Vargr cities are lively and chaotic, full of garish colours and loud noises. Streets are packed and buildings press together. Vehicle traffic is fast and chaotic; the accident rate is low only because of superior Vargr reflexes. Zoning codes are rare, and districts jumble together.

World Government (G)

Ghaertu is governed by a Religious Dictatorship. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy). There is a powerful independent organization, the state religion, which has influence or direct control of the government. Like the bureaucratic governments this may simply be a strong influence with a secular government, be direct influence by virtue of controlling who may be in the leadership, or be a direct theocracy where the church leadership and bureaucracy is the government.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Law Level (L)

Ghaertu has elevated its Law Level to D, its doctrines enforced by paramilitary law enforcement units.

World Technology Level (TL)

Ghaertu possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land & Water: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Economy

• Resources: E - Extremely abundant
• Labor: 8 - Hundreds of millions
• Infrastructure: D - Comprehensive
• Efficiency: +5 - Very advanced

Trade Data

Ghaertu produces 7280 Resource Units or aryu.

World Infrastructure

This world possesses D or Comprehensive infrastructure.

World Culture

• Homogeneity: D - Fragmented along religious doctrine lines and occasional schisms, it is a miracle this world has not become Balkanized.
• Acceptance: C - Xenophilic, Ghaertu welcomes all 'converts' to the belief system(s) of Ghaertu claiming to be devoted to the Thoengling Empire
• Strangeness: 9 - Extremely confusing to Travellers, this world's blend of religious subsects can quickly overwhelm interpreters.
• Symbols E: - Extremely abstract and broken along lines of religious subsects taking pride in their script, vocabulary, slang and figures of speech. Modal Gvegh levels can change based on Vargr Charisma without warning.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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