Hokchor (world)

Hokchor/Esperance (Solomani Rim 1417)
Classic Era (1116)	C647586-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 5 Moderate (900 thousand) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G0 IV M5 V M1 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Hokchor is an agricultural, nonindustrial world still lacking adequate means to expand its economy.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• Hokchor is an agricultural planet located within the Vegan Autonomous District, which is a Client State of the Third Imperium in the Esperance Subsector and Vega Subsectors of the Solomani Rim Sector in the Domain of Sol. The low gravity and thin atmosphere are sometimes difficult for Humaniti to tolerate, but Vegans prefer these conditions and grow many crops in this type of environment which is similar to their home planet of Muan Gwi.
• Nearly 100% of the population is composed of Vegans.
• Less than 10% of the population is composed of humans and other non-human sophonts.

Description (Planetology)

Stellar Data

Hokchor has three stars in the star system.

Hokchor
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G0 IV	Subgiant		1.75	5400 - 6100	6.5
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.02326	0.21147	2.03 - 3.3	2.326	23.26
	Orbit #	*	0	5	5	8
	Remarks
Hokchor
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.162	2930 - 3060	0.00171
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0018	0.0034	0.04 - 0.09	0.18	1.8
	Orbit #	*	*	*	0	4
	Remarks
Hokchor
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

Native Lifeforms

• Lansidat Tl'ak

History & Background (Dossier)

An agricultural Vegan world located in the Esperance Subsector of the Solomani Rim Sector, part of the Vegan Autonomous District.

On some charts this world is also listed as Larimshar.

World Starport

Hokchor has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)

Hokchor has a population of 900,000 sophonts (hundreds of thousands).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.

World Demographics

The population consists of Vegans.

The Vegan species, named as such by the Solomani for their proximity to the star Vega, are more properly called the Tyui, though they accept the Human label.

World Languages

• Wahuaragz: The primary Vegan language.
  • Many Vegan tuhuir have created artificially constructed languages to better express particular philosophical or aesthetic concepts. Most of these are known only to members of the specific tuhuir and linguistic scholars.

World Technology Level

Hokchor possesses a Technology Level of TL–9.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics and satellite communication and data networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fusion power.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Ultra high-speed trains and early grav vehicles.
  • Water: High efficiency sailcraft, multihulled seacraft, improved artificial gills.
  • Air: Tiltrotorcraft, exotic VTOL's, PARWIG, and rocket-assisted suborbitals.
  • Space: SSTO spacecraft, early military spacecraft (System Craft), and interstellar STL starships
  • FTL: Prototype Jump Drive-1.

World Government

Hokchor is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy, and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. This ruling bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucractic apparatus or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence, like the military.

World Military

The Vegans' homegrown military forces belong to the Muisstagz Zhia, the Guardian tuhuir, which includes both police and some planetary defence assets.

World Culture

The Vegan population belong to multiple tuhuir, equivalent to nations, philosophies, or structured belief systems.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire