Hkurlei (world)

Hkurlei/Aokiylair (Riftspan Reaches 1517)
First Survey	A3409JB-E Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 9 High (6 billion) Government J Aslan single clan control Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
Classic Era (1115)	A5409DB-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 9 High (4 billion) Government D Religious Dictatorship Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K2 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Hkurlei is a poor, industrial, high-population desert hellworld, with a billion or more sophonts struggling to survive in a inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants.
• This world has no free-standing water.
• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• This world is part of the Aslan Hierate, as a single multiple-world clan dominate, in the Aokiylair Subsector of Riftspan Reaches Sector.

• This world has a colony at Aufusyah (world).

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Hkurlei has always had harsh conditions.

• Temperatures at the equator frequently exceed 40 degrees Celsius, and cloudless skies grant no protection from the blazing orange sun.

History & Background (Dossier)

In 3638 Aslan (1106 Imperial) all surface water was lost. During a period of peak solar activity, a catastrophic fault crippled the planet's weather control system.

• The few shallow lakes which had served as reservoirs began to evaporate.
• Panic might have ensued on a human world. With few exceptions, however, the native Aslan settled themselves to the drastic water rationing imposed by their clan leaders.
• In a few isolated incidents, thefts of water were reported; as a whole, though, the inhabitants refused to insure their individual survival at the expense of their fellows.

The Aslan philosophy of taro - literally, "it comes" - enabled the people of Hkurlei to weather the disaster.

• The planet's hydrosphere never completely recovered, but today the populace has adjusted.
• New safeguards have been implemented to make sure a similar crisis never occurs again.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 19