Gobi (EQ 1331) (world)

Gobi/Gimushi (Empty Quarter 1331) Milieu 1116 A550643-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 6 Moderate (5 million) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G7 V M6 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	5
Planetoid Belts	3
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	3729
Army Size (BEs)	12
Economic Details
Technology Level	12
Economic Extension	G55-2 Resources G Extremely abundant Labor 5 Moderate (500 thousand) Infrastructure 5 Limited Efficiency -2 Fair
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	14
GWP (BCr)	320
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	6,182
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	4,250
Port employees	600
Port passengers (annual)	35,000

Gobi has both an unbreathable thin atmosphere and a lack of surface water making habitation by sophonts difficult. The system has a population between 10,000 and 10 million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Gimushi Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector and in the Domain of Antares. Gobi, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world.

Astrography and Planetology

Part of the Imperial Empty Quarter Main.

Binary Solar System

Gobi Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Gobi G7 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.95	5480 - 5550	0.83567
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0043	0.0758	0.88 - 1.56	0.43	4.3
	Orbit #	*	*	3	1	6
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Gobi M6 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.102	2740 - 2810	0.00034
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0006	0.0015	0.02 - 0.04	0.06	0.6
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	2

History and Background

Outsiders, who loved the wildness of the sector but disliked the locals, chose to make this world their base of operation around 240 Imperial, during the False Dawn era.

The Silent Ones, Gobi, 980 Imperial. These are the only surviving remains of a Minor Human Race on Gobi: they date to around -15,000 Imperial, 10,000 years before the arrival of the Vilani. Long a complete mystery, it is now felt that Gobi was a colony world of the “Stille”. Extensive ruins of this race were found on Urmair (Empty Quarter 1229) in 958, and are the focus of an Imperial Scout Base there. It is believed that both the Gobi colony and the Urmair homeworld died due to the lack of water, coupled with a failed transition to a space-borne economy.

After the Rim War is over, the IISS plans to comb both systems for relics of this extinct STL-capable species, looking for ancient spacecraft, satellites, and abandoned moon bases.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Gobi (EQ 1331), as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Nobility overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.

World Starport

Gobi (EQ 1331) 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.

UWP Listing

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

• T20 - 993 - Gobi 1331 A550744-C De Po 235 Im
• CT - 1105 - Gobi 1331 A550643-D De Ni Po 535 Im
• MT - 1125 - Gobi 1331 C550643-B De Ni Po 435 Ou - Outlands
• TNE - 1201 - Gobi 1331 D550622-9 De Ni Po B 335 Wi - Wilds

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

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), .
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11,47. - {dot map provided}
• Jason Kemp. "Gamma Quadrant of the Empty Quarter Sector- Gimushi Subsector." Stellar Reaches 01 (2005): 9. -UWP Only
• Jason Kemp. "Sector In Review: Empty Quarter 993." Stellar Reaches 05 (2006): 37. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "Maps and UWP’S for the Empty Quarter: 993, 1105, 1125, and 1201 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 17 (2011): 16. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "A Gazetteer to the Worlds of the Empty Quarter." Stellar Reaches 18 (2012): 5.- Short write-up
• Alvin Plummer. "Data Dump: Updated Maps and UWPs for the Empty Quarter, 993 and 1105 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 19 (2012): 48. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "A Haji for the Fallen." Stellar Reaches 20 (2012): 40.
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