Hadraach (world)

Hadraach/Sapphyre (Dagudashaag 2037) Milieu 1116 BAE5353-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere E Exotic (ellipsoid) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 3 Low (3 thousand) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M2 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Feudal technocracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1429
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	12
Economic Extension	A21-2 Resources A Abundant Labor 2 Low (300) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -2 Fair
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	16
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Hadraach supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. This is a high technology world with available technology over the standards for Charted Space. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Sapphyre Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Hadraach, 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. This world contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel. During the Long Night this world was named Shaiim.

Astrography and planetology

Hadraach is a member of the Dagudashaag Main.

Stellar Data

Hadraach has a solitary primary star.

Hadraach
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
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Mainworld Data

A large world with an extremely ellipsoid atmosphere, Hadraach is an extremely unusual planet. Located just within the system's habitable zone, the planet is on a wild unstable orbit and logic dictates that it should be a rogue, yet it has both an atmosphere and a unique biosphere. At the planet's poles the atmosphere is so thin that it is unbreathable without assistance and the ozone layer is non-existent, while at the equator the atmosphere is so thick that it is unbreathable and has created a runaway greenhouse effect in a broad band around the planet. It is only in the temperate zones that Human settlement is possible.

Native Lifeforms

The native flora varies from grey jungles at the equator to silver-leafed bushes that cover the temperate zones. The fauna is mainly insectoid though the shallow seas have a wider variety of invertebrate species including marine coelenterates (jellyfsh) and cephalopod molluscs (pseudo-squids) to crustaceans.

History and Background

The primary settlement at Shame was established to breed a variety of the native sea life. The flesh, although edible after some treatment, is predominantly used for medical purposes.

Perhaps the most unusual of the creatures under cultivation is the FireSpine crustacean; a ten limbed lobster-like creature with a soft back. FireSpines grow to a length of about 55cm and are normally only found in shallow saline pools near lava vents. The fleshy back glows bright red, which radiates out intense infrared allowing the creature to survive quite intense heat. In fact FireSpines require temperatures in excess of 220°C in order to bring on their breeding frenzy. Study of FireSpine biology has resulted in a radical new method of heat exchanger, which is currently being tested.

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.

• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 83.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 142.