Grant (world)

Grant/Jewell (Spinward Marches 1607) Milieu 1116 X664100-3 Starport X No Starport Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 1 Low (20) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 3 Pre-Industrial (basic science)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K6 V
Worlds	13
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	No government
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	1111
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	3
Economic Extension	301-5 Resources 3 Very scarce Labor 0 Barren (2) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	2
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	0
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-X
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Grant supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. This world designated as a Red Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it extremely dangerous to visitors. Everyone is forbidden to travel here.  The world has been set aside to preserve indigenous life forms, to delay resource development, or for other reasons. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Jewell Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb.

Astrography & Planetology

Grant has a solitary primary star.

Grant
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K6 V	Main Sequence		0.69	4100 - 4300	0.27288
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0062	0.0433	0.53 - 0.99	0.62	6.2
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks		None

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1607 Grant (Imperial) - Red Zone

Starport: Class 0.

Diameter: 6,339 miles (10,100 km).
Atmosphere: Standard oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 41%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 20 scouts.
Government: None.
Control Level: None.
Tech Level: None.
World Trade Number: 0.5.

History & Background (Dossier)

Grant is the responsibility of the Count(ess) of Efate. The Imperium has designated Grant a red zone world. A team of scouts in an orbital base monitor the world supported by three system-defense boats that will escort vessels to the gas giant for refueling and then make sure they leave the system. The reason for the red zone is classified. Rumors range from protecting a developing civilization to secret military installations.

History: Era: Milieu 1248

Grant had long been an unpopulated garden planet that was interdicted by the Imperium. When the Domain of Deneb, and later Regency of Deneb, took over, this interdiction was continued. For a long time no one knew the reason for the interdiction, all that had ever been explained was that it was used for Imperial Navy fleet and bombing exercises. The real reason for the interdiction was a highly psionic, non-sentient native life form on the planet that caused severe headaches and eventual incapacitation in any sentient beings that tried to settle on the planet. The Imperium never had the resources to solve the problem (without potentially destroying the planet's ecology), and the Regency never had the chance, even with its acceptance of psionics.

That all changed with the Zhodani Exodus, when several hundred thousand Zhodani refugees violated the interdiction and set up camps on the world. The Zhodani telepaths were able to train the native life forms to leave the human settlers alone, and their camps were able to prosper. It actually became a fairly popular destination when the Zhodani realized they could keep the threat at bay, but the Regents couldn't.

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 12-13.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Loren Wiseman. "No time to Rest." Challenge 50 (1991): 14.
• 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), 37. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 56-60.
• Hans Rancke-Madsen. "Worlds Within Jump-6 of Regina", JTAS Online (July 18, 2006)
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 99,100-101.
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 32,37.