Gounuerz (world)

Gounuerz/Antra (Deneb 2202) Milieu 1116 B435330-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 3 Low (5 thousand) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 0 No Law Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G9 V
Worlds	7
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Self-perpetuating oligarchy
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	1415
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	621-3 Resources 6 Few Labor 2 Low (500) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -3 Poor
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	8
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	2,865
Port passengers (annual)	0

Gounuerz supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. It is a Vargr dominated Non-Aligned world in the Antra Subsector of Deneb Sector.

• This world hosts a Corsair Base.

Planetology

No information yet available.

History & Background

Another sparse system consisting of two frozen worlds and a stony asteroid belt. Gounuerz was never claimed by the Third Imperium, and few Vargr powers bothered to trifle with such a poor world. The mainworld itself was bitterly cold (around -180° Celsius) and possessed some exploitable diamond deposits found deep in extinct volcanic vents that line the world's middle latitudes. These deposits are small, and can only be extracted with labor intensive operations. The entire 1117 population consisted of such miners, organized into work gangs by the more charismatic Vargr, to extract these sparkling stones under sealed atmospheric domes.

Vargr corsairs would sometimes shake down the miners for protection money, the latter paying in raw diamonds. Many corsairs came to rely upon this hard currency as a means of exchange outside of the unreliable economies of nearby Vargr states, and the world soon accumulated several allied bands willing to defend it against outside aggression. Eventually the locals accumulated enough capital to build a B-class starport, which was regularly patronized by corsairs who needed repairs and maintenance. The local government was an elite plutocratic council consisting of the richest corsair captains and miners, whose numbers were limited by the cost of purchasing a "seat" upon the body. Under their guidance the world remained a lawless and free pirate port that welcomed all kinds of armed bands. Their presence prevented the Assemblage of 1116 from overrunning the system after Strephon's death.

Unfortunately the world's colonists ignored the warning about Virus some 25 years later, and were snuffed out to the last dog. RQS orbital surveys have shown that the B-class starport was heavily damaged in a Vampire attack, but can be made operational again with a few months of repairs. The corsair base and most of the domes appear to be intact, though the last few RQS ground teams that have alighted on the surface near these have reported coming under attack from infected mining machinery and automated defense systems.

References

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.

• Gary L. Thomas, Joe Fugate. "Data/Library: Deneb." The Travellers' Digest 19 (1990): 24-30.
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58.
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 54.
• Peter Gray - TNE Mailing List Phoenix Road: The Worlds Less Travelled ( Antra Subsector) published 24 January 2006
• Robert Eaglestone. Deneb Sector (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), .(UWP only)