Idas (world)

Idas/Dingtra (Core 2624)
Classic Era (1116)	B5929AE-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 9 High (1 billion) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law E Extreme Law (police state) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G2 V M5 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Idas is an industrial, high-population hellworld with a billion or more sophonts, who struggle in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often develop intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Dingtra Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.

Astrography and Planetology

Idas is a member of the Sylean Main.

Stellar Data

Idas has two stars in the star system.

Idas
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1	5720 - 5770	1
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0094	0.0829	0.95 - 1.68	0.94	9.4
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
	Remarks
Idas
	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

History & Background (Dossier)

While the world isn't interdicted, Travellers are advised to restrict themselves to the highport, downport, and rather pedestrian startown. Idas is an authoritarian state unfriendly to most outsiders.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Idas, 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 fiefdoms of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee 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.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial minor duke.

World Starport (St)

Idas has a Class B Starport, a good quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

• There is an associated Imperial Naval Base.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Core Anglic, a dialect of one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

Urbanization

All of the arcologies on Idas are panopticons, circular structures observable by a central listening and viewing post.

Government

Idas is a full-fledged police state. It severely limits all aspects of its citizens’ lives, and indeed Idasians aren't allowed to leave the system, with interstellar travel limited to high-ranking members of the Ruling Council and the Sovereign, and then only with an oversized force of security officers.

The Sovereign of Idas is the executive authority. The Sovereign is allegedly selected under the advisement of the Ruling Council. In fact, the role is appointed by the previous Sovereign -- usually a male blood relative. Upon selection, the Sovereign is ritually blinded and his eyes are replaced with cybernetic ones that supposedly enable him to see into the souls of his subjects.

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 Atlas of the Imperium
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 Milieu 0 Campaign
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
• Novel: Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium