Guim (world)

Guim/Bakkula (Ilelish 0903)
Classic Era (1116)	E4009CD-A Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 9 High (6 billion) Government C Charismatic Oligarchy Law D Extreme Law (paramilitary law) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F5 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	0

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Guim is a high-population, non-agricultural and industrial vacuum world, with a billion or more sophonts in population size, warranting hazardous environment precautions.

• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Bakkula Subsector of Ilelish Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.
• It orbits in the outer system.
• 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.
• This world lies on the Nuzuu Main.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Guim has a solitary primary star.

• It is a white main sequence.

Monostellar System

Guim Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Guim F5 V	Primary	Main Sequence		1.33	6350 - 6550	2.71319
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0069	0.1366	1.49 - 2.6	0.69	6.9
	Orbit #	*	0	4	2	6
	Remarks
	None

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x6 secondary rocky worlds. Two of these, a temperate but arid world and a cold water world, orbit at the inner edge and outer edge of the habitable zone respectively.
• x2 planetoid belts.

Mainworld Data

Guim orbits in the outer system, beyond the star's habitable zone.

Mainworld Size (S)

Guim 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)

Guim has a pressure of less than 0.001 atmospheres which requires the use of a Vacc Suit. TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Guim has no free-standing water or ice on the surface. Wilderness refueling isn't possible on this world. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are classified Desert World or a Hell World depending on their atmosphere.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, vacuum world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Guim is a Puzzle World and is designated as an Amber Zone, with its designation primarily relating to foodstuffs.

The current starport facilities are a rebuild. As the growing population has spiraled out of control strict measures have been enforced. The greatest crimes pertain to food and reproduction. Unlicensed reproduction of any kind carries the death penalty. Only armored shuttles armed for crowd suppression are permitted to land after several horrific food riots. The original downport starport facilities were bombed and destroyed during fighting between factions after imports and food aid shipments were seized by non-governmental forces. Rather than allow the people to escape with the food shipments, the government elected to destroy the entire facility with the rebels inside. They decided they had to send a message to the populace. The stricter food codes soon followed. Food hording among the wealthy has resulted in the local currency being converted from the imperial credit to the food exchange credit. All goods are sold based on food credit. Public restaurants and food stores have been forced to close. Looting and raids from the hungry have made the enterprise unsustainable. You have to know someone to get fed here, or so the saying goes.

Food is closely guarded and only shared in private. No one risks eating in public. Food shipments are closely guarded by heavily armed governmental troops from the ministry of nourishment. All major criminal enterprises involve methods for getting more food. Extremely unsavory food coping strategies have emerged among the lowest classes. None of this has helped the local tourist industry. Most off worlders never get past the highport. Local access to the high port is strictly controlled and limited to the party elite. Travellers are still shocked to see normal goods sold for absurd discounts while low quality fast food sells for ten times normal prices. Local engineered microbial food gels are among the most efficient in known space, there are simply not enough to keep pace with ever growing demand.

Children below school age are never allowed out into public. Babies are closely guarded secrets among families here. Even legal births with the approved, and very expensive licenses, are never discussed or celebrated in public. Older children are escorted by trained fighters to and from tightly supervised, high security schools. Only the wealthy with private security would dream of bringing a small child out in public.

The government is only popular/charismatic among the wealthy classes. The powerful are richly rewarded for their loyalty. Lucrative production contracts for high technology manufactured goods are used as incentives for the well behaved. Discussing the troubles, among the elites, is considered very rude and disloyal. If overheard, even rumors can cost you your business access. Many of the factories are highly automated. Those without useful skills to offer are discarded and cast out. As the cost of living rises, the unemployed can not sustain their access to life support. Many question how the local nobility at the subsector level have been bribed/persuaded to overlook the toll of human suffering. The highport is mostly private and exclusive. The shipyards and repair facilities were lost in the fighting. Only bare bones, orbital 'landing strip' services are available to visitors. Local system defense batteries and system defense boats will shoot down unauthorized vessels who attempt to land without permission. The count is the architect of this misery and seems either unable or unwilling to deal with the humanitarian crisis. The loyal knight is used as the enforcer, and is left to ensure the ministries edicts are carried out and that the draconian laws are enforced. Minor criminal infractions can lead to seizure of your food stores. Some local agricultural planets may be helping maintain the status quo, as this ready market reports some of the best profit margins for even substandard food imports, which other planets might turn away.

Ironically, the belter culture here seems to do fine. As long as ore quotas are met, they are allowed to largely self govern. They seem to have there own access to food imports apart from government import contacts bound for the main world. Rumor and legend tells that some of the larger, mined out rocks have been converted to growing facilities. Some speculate that illegal crops are smuggled planet-side with mineral shipments to be sold by street level dealers.

Llelish Interstellar, the leading media corporation within Ilelish Sector, maintains facilities and offices on the world.

World Starport (St)

Guim 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)

Guim has a population of 6,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

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

World Technology Level (T)

Guim 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 Government (G)

Guim is governed by a Charismatic Oligarchy, like a charismatic dictatorship in that a larger group has asserted their right to rule. The group will have better rules of succession and may last longer or may transition to a non-charismatic dictatorship.

World Law (L)

Guim 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 world with this law level may be an Amber Zone or a Red 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. On worlds with this degree of law, it is difficult to distinguish the police from the military. On others, there is no difference.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Guim, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of two members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.

Trade Data

• Importance: 2 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: D (very abundant)
• Labor: 8 (hundreds of millions)
• Infrastructure: C (very extensive)
• Efficiency: +5 (very advanced)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: D (very abundant)
• Acceptance: B (extremely friendly)
• Strangeness: 9 (extremely confusing)
• Symbols: E (extremely abstract)

World Timeline

• 300-420: the First Survey charts the system.
• 995-1065: the Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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