Hofud (world)

Hofud/Sword Worlds (Spinward Marches 1524) Milieu 1116 B666853-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 8 Moderate (600 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G6 V M9 V
Worlds	8
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Feudal technocracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	5C27
Army Size (BEs)	1500
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	B7D+1 Resources B Abundant Labor 7 Moderate (60 million) Infrastructure D Comprehensive Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	4
Resource Units	1,001
GWP (BCr)	3,513
World Trade Number	5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	21,800
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	570,000
Port employees	16,470
Port passengers (annual)	1,337,050

Hofud is a garden world with an environment conducive to most sophonts. The system has a population between 100 million and a billion sophonts. It is a member of Sword Worlds Confederation in the Sword Worlds Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Sword Worlds. This world supports a Sword Worlds Military Base and the system supports a Sword Worlds Naval Base.

Astrography & Planetology

Hofud is a member of the Spinward Main.

Hofud has at least 11 small moons and a dust ring, an unusual number for a world smaller than a gas giant.

Binary Solar System

Hofud Binary Star System

Freyr
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G6 V	Main Sequence		0.97	5550 - 5600	0.89888
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0088	0.0786	0.91 - 1.61	0.88	8.8
	Orbit #	*	*	3	3	7
	Remarks
Skirnir
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M9 V	Main Sequence		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

Mainworld Topography and Geography

Most people on Hofud live on the larger of the two continents, Ofrein. The smaller continent, Baaten, is far less populated, with only 60 million people to Ofrein's 520 million.

History & Background (Dossier)

In the aftermath of the Sacnoth Dominate, Hofud became a local power through the time of the Hofud Alliance.

In 383, Hofud launched a campaign of conquest against Sting, forcing its government to flee into exile on Biter. Attempts to crush continued resistance led to a 20-year guerrilla war on Biter, which became too costly for Hofud to bear. Unable to accept defeat, the Hofud occupying force began rounding up the population of Biter and relocating them to other worlds.

Prior to the Fifth Frontier War Hofud was a member of the Sword Worlds Confederation, but following the war Hofud became part of the Imperial Client state known as the Border Worlds. Hofud has generally hosted a military base.

Trivia

Hǫfuð ("man-head") is the sword of Heimdallr from Norse mythology, who was the guardian of the burning rainbow bridge Bifröst.

Trade Data

• Importance: 4 (important)

World Economy

• Resources: B (abundant)
• Labor: 7 (tens of millions)
• Infrastructure: D (comprehensive)
• Efficiency: +1 (average)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 5 (harmonious)
• Acceptance: C (xenophilic)
• Strangeness: 2 (typical)
• Symbols: 7 (somewhat concrete)

World Timeline

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

• -420: Terran-descended humans flee the Old Earth Union through the Aslan Hierate.
• -399: The fleeing humans found the first settlement within the Sword Worlds region.
• -187: Establishment of the Sacnoth Dominate within the Sword Worlds, after a two-year conflict between Sacnoth and Gram.
• -104: Renewed tensions between Sacnoth and Gram escalate into the War of the First Rebellion.
• -102: The Sacnoth Dominate breaks up into the Gram Confederation, the Sacnoth Confederacy, and the Hofud Alliance.
• -88--11: The Fimbulwinter (Sagamaal: Fimbulvinter); the period between the end of the War of the First Rebellion and the re-establishment of interstellar contact among the Sword Worlds.
• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Imperial Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Imperial Express Boat Network is established.
• 852: the modern Sword Worlds Confederation is formed.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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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.

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• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 44-45. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 72.
• Paul Drye, Hans Rancke-Madsen, Robert Prior. Sword Worlds (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), 60-62.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
• Gregory P. Lee. Cirque (Greylock Publishing, 2014), 141-146.
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 89-92,96-97. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. Sword Worlds (Mongoose Publishing, 2020), .