Gushamad (world)

Gushamad/Eta-Gu (Delphi 0438)
Classic Era (1116)	D2009AD-A Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 2 Small (3,200 km, 0.10g - 0.17g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 9 High (4 billion) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law D Extreme Law (paramilitary law) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M3 V M9 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	3

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Gushamad 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 Eta-Gu Subsector of Delphi Sector in the Domain of Sylea.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This world is part of the namesake Gushamad Arm, a named region of the Greater Delphi Cluster.

Stellar Data

Gushamad has two stars in the star system.

Gushamad
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.37	3270 - 3430	0.03081
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0034	0.0146	0.18 - 0.35	0.34	3.4
	Orbit #	*	*	0	1	5
	Remarks
Gushamad
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0009	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.09	0.9
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Gushamad, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdom of a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversees affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.

World Starport (Sp)

Gushamad has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the 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 only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)

Gushamad has a population of 4,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

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

Historical Data

Timeline

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

• circa -250,000: The Ancients are active within the region.
• -9235: The Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
• -5400 to -4015: The Vilani Consolidation Wars.
• -4045 to -2204: The Ziru Sirka claims and settles worlds across the region.
• -2404 to -2215: The Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: The Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
• -1776 to 0: The Long Night.
• -530: The Free Human League is founded in the Lashkagur Cluster.
• The Year 0: The Third Imperium is founded.
• 76 to 120: The Third Imperium wages the Pacification Campaigns to unify and assimilate the regions under its control.
• 132: Following the Pacification Campaign, a treaty is signed formalizing an existing agreement which allies the Free Human League with the Third Imperium. The treaty includes a clause naming Vashtii as the initial subsector capital (this will later move to nearby Korbak) and allows the League's government to form the new subsector governments for both Eta-Gu and Riramla.
• 300-420: The Imperial First Survey.
• 604-622: The Civil War.
• 624: The Express Boat Network is established.
• 800-820: The Psionics Suppressions.
• 995-1065: The Imperial Second Survey.
• 1065: The Second Survey is published. Information about the world becomes widely available.

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.

• Classic Traveller Alien Module 7: Hivers ( named but no further data)
• Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
• MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr {dot map provided}
• MegaTraveller Arrival Vengeance
• MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Challenge Magazine No. 37 — Michael R. Mikesh
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Challenge 45 (Eta-Gu Subsector)
• Steve Jackson Games Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (JTAS) Online Forum
• Novel: Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
• External Link: Delphi Project