Gothe (world)

Gothe/Five Sisters (Spinward Marches 0332)
Classic Era (1116)	E42159B-7 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 5 Moderate (300 thousand) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F5 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

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Gothe is a poor, nonindustrial hellworld with a population struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often develop intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Five Sisters Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector in the Domain of Deneb.
• This is a cold world with an overall climate that is at the lower temperature range of human-congruous sophont endurance.
• This dangerous world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it dangerous to visitors.
• Gothe is a member of the Spinward Main.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Gothe has a solitary primary star.

• It is a white main sequence.

Gothe has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.33	6350 - 6550	2.71319
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0137	0.1366	1.49 - 2.6	1.37	13.7
	Orbit #	*	0	4	4	7
	Remarks

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x7 secondary rocky worlds.
• x1 planetoid belt.

Mainworld Data

Gothe is a very cold world with a very thin atmosphere tainted by fine dust.

Mainworld Size (S)

Gothe is a Meso World between 5,600km and 7,200km in diameter. The world has low gravity between 0.32G and 0.46G. The horizon will appear about 3.6km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Gothe has a pressure of 0.10 to 0.42 atmospheres. The very thin pressures require a respirator or Oxygen Mask. This atmosphere also contains an unusual taint such as disease, a hazardous gas mix, pollutants, or sulfur compounds, which requires the use of a Filter Respirator Combination Mask. Some taints may require more protective equipment. TL–5 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

• It experiences very low temperatures.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Gothe has 05-15% of its surface covered by liquid water or ice. Wilderness refueling will be difficult. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are Hell Worlds or Poor Worlds depending on their atmosphere.

• The lakes and seas are crusted with ice.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Gothe is a Danger World and is designated as an Amber Zone. It presents particular risks and dangers due to the environment or native life forms, laws or customs, or other conditions that are not well understood.

• Visitors are advised to act with caution.

The population has recently been introduced by the Third Imperium, and lives in purpose-built underground complexes while a new city and starport are constructed with the aim of helping develop the subsector. With financing short, the project is many years behind schedule.

World Starport (St)

Gothe has a Class E Starport, a frontier quality installation with few expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of a downport.

World Population (P)

Gothe has a population of 300,000 sophonts (hundreds of thousands).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are most commonly heard:

• Riftian Galanglic, a dialect of one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

Gothe possesses a Technology Level of TL–7.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early video and early satellite communication networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fuel cells, solar energy, and geothermal power sources.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, hovercraft, and bullet trains.
  • Water: Hydrofoils and early triphibians.
  • Air: Hang gliders and supersonic jets.
  • Space: Deep space probes and interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

World Government (G)

Gothe is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Law (L)

Gothe has an extreme law level which covers every area of interaction. Laws are complex, detailed, and difficult to understand. Every interaction with the government requires an Advocate. Law enforcement is omnipresent and strict. Legal proceeding can take months to years to resolve and may involve dozens of people. A few worlds with this law level may be a Red Zone and others will be an Amber Zone. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (with no exception for private residences; visiting starships are only protected so long as they stay within designated starports and approach corridors). Civilian movement is rigidly controlled. Travel documents are frequently checked, and destinations must often be declared when traveling substantial distances across the world.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Gothe, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.

Trade Data

• Importance: -3 (very unimportant)

World Economy

• Resources: 7 (few)
• Labor: 4 (tens of thousands)
• Infrastructure: 1 (extremely limited)
• Efficiency: -1 (average)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 7 (discordant)
• Acceptance: 2 (very xenophobic)
• Strangeness: 7 (confusing)
• Symbols: 9 (somewhat abstract)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

Later Historical Eras

History-Era: Milieu: New Era

Gothe is one of the Sisters' newest colonized worlds. Only settled in the period just prior to the Fifth Frontier War, it seemed that the project was something of a white elephant. The Ministry of Colonization pushed it only as a pawn on the bureaucratic chessboard back at Capital, and as a defiant gesture towards the Third Imperium's enemies. Otherwise the world had few redeeming qualities. Its poverty and confinement to primitive domed cities led to the creation of a restrictive bureaucratic government under the Ministry's supervision, and rather draconian laws reminiscent of Quhaiathat's.

The Quarantine proved to be the world's savior. It became the main J-1 connector from the main port at Mirriam and traffic moving along the main Spin Main trade routes from Raschev and Emape. A massive RQS presence was soon stationed to inspect traffic coming across the border, and had the perverse effect of both strengthening and complicating the world government’s power.

With the demise of the Ministry of Colonization, the government has felt the fiscal sting of going it alone without outside assistance. It plays a double game, supporting the RQS to the hilt, often demanding an expansion of its presence on the world in excess even of the massive bivouac it already maintains, all with the purpose of creating a steady income stream for the world and its inhabitants. But most of the money ends up with the government, who trickles it out to maintain public support. The highest ministers are quite corrupt, and they have a finger in every enterprise that caters to either the RQS or the port. Because of the constant stream of traffic, they can impose higher port fees, and hassle incoming ship crews with unnecessary bureaucratic meddling until a bribe is paid. The paucity with which money is doled out by the local ministries, and the larcenous behavior of high officials, often encourages lower ranking officials and the average gentle-being in the street to emulate their betters and even try to outdo them in graft and gouging. It has been remarked that most local law enforcement is bent towards either of two goals: collecting bribes or suppressing groups that compete with them for bribes.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 10-11.
• 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)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 48. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 52.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 98-102. (UWP only)
• Peter Gray - BARD OPAL 9512