Gurgesgu (world)

Gurgesgu/Old Suns (Dagudashaag 1208) Milieu 1116 B5A4779-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere A Exotic Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 7 Moderate (10 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M7 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Balkanization
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	896C
Army Size (BEs)	12
Economic Details
Technology Level	11
Economic Extension	D6C+3 Resources D Very abundant Labor 6 Moderate (1 million) Infrastructure C Very extensive Efficiency +3 Improved
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	2,808
GWP (BCr)	29
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	6,130
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	10,000
Port employees	3,205
Port passengers (annual)	9,000

Gurgesgu is a fluid world with oceans of a liquid other than water such as ammonia, methane, or hydrocarbons, or other exotic liquids. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Old Suns Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Gurgesgu, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world. During the Long Night this world was named Sirshur.

Astrography and Planetology

Gurgesgu is a member of the Guukian Cluster.

Stellar Data

Gurgesgu has a solitary primary star.

Gurgesgu
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M7 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.09	2630 - 2680	0.00022
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0011	0.0012	0.02 - 0.03	0.11	1.1
	Orbit #	*	*	*	0	3
	Remarks

History and Background

Gurgesgu is noted for its unusual seas composed of complex metallic organofluorides in a benzene-derived liquid. A whole industry has been built up around the extraction of various metals and organics from these seas. Coastal panoramas consist of huge pumping and processing stations piled upon the shore, serving local and subsector industry. Ocean refueling is not available due to the compounds in the sea which despite ship purification are not completely removed. These compounds can cause excessive power systems corrosion and hence failure. The system is well served by the class-B starport, which has the necessary equipment to adequately purify the local sea for starship fuel.

This world was a member of the Guukian Federation, a psioniphilic pocket empire.

World Starport (St)

Gergesgu has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

Historical Data

World Timeline

Significant events that have affected this world and the surrounding region include the following:

• -56: Dafyd Quasot comes to power on Kimalad and within a year has founded an Empire. The Kimalad Collective, fearing psionics, is hostile to the Guukian Federation.
  • Dafyd is later succeeded by his son Jyond Quasot, who makes war on the Guukians.
• 20: The Kimalad Collective is absorbed peacefully into the Third Imperium.
• 22: The Guukian Federation is also absorbed by the Imperium.
• 75-106: Vilani Pacification Campaign. By its end, the Imperium rules the whole of Dagudashaag.

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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Old Suns." Signal-GK 04 (1992): 48. via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 79.
• Stuart L. Dollar, Joseph E. Walsh. Psionic Institutes (Imperium Games, 1997), 8.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 136.