Ilelish (world)

Ilelish/Ilelish (Ilelish 2907)
Classic Era (1116)	E674A83-A Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population A High (20 billion) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M0 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Ilelish is a high-population, industrial world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• Its economy is rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to rapidly improve barring outside forces.
• This world contains an archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished Ancients precursor race.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Ilelish Subsector of Ilelish Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.
• It is the homeworld of the Suerrat.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Ilelish has a solitary primary star.

• It is a red main sequence.

Monostellar System

Ilelish Primary Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Vogut M0 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0027	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.27	2.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	0	5
	Remarks
	Unusually stable star displaying almost no flare activity.

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x5 secondary rocky worlds (Zaklotak, Watok, Patlobat, Nakanto, and Mavoto)
• x4 gas giants (Bakap, Katlek, Maklob, and Navop)

Mainworld Data

Ilelish has a relatively slow rotation period: one local day is equivalent to 36.5 standard hours.

• Geological and geomagnetic evidence suggests that in the ancient past the world rotated far more slowly.

Mainworld Size (S)

Ilelish is a Meso World between 8,800km and 10,400km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.6G and 0.8G. The horizon will appear about 4.4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Ilelish has a pressure of 0.71 to 1.49 atmospheres. While a Standard Atmosphere does not require survival gear this atmosphere also contains an unusual taint such as such as disease, a hazardous gas mix, pollutants, or sulfur compounds which requires the use of a Filter Mask. Some taints may require more protective equipment. TL–3 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Ilelish has 35-45% of its surface covered by liquid water. There will be a number of small seas or one larger body of water. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Satellites

Ilelish has a single moon, named Komboko (diameter 2,293 kilometers).

• Geological and hydrological evidence strongly suggests that the moon was placed in orbit around the world in the ancient past.
• It has an elliptical orbit, swinging out towards the star and then circling back in again.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

• Te'Asaat: Single supercontinent
• Shamkirku Valley
• Sigiim
  • Lisgamag River
• Tete’imaser Temporal Forest
  • Ne’aa’alu: Capital City
• Tiaka'etam Plains
  • Maaa'irani'ar Enisud (singing stones)
• Zuruarl River

Northern Hemisphere:

• Pem Ocean (partially frozen)
• Trare Sea (partially frozen)
  • Raalah River Delta
• Two major mountain ranges

Equatorial Zone:

• Alutirni sea (shallow inland sea)
• Rotukeneu Oi'erasaasur: Plain of Retribution and Despair (Ilelish Revolt punative damage)
  • Province of Kiafess
  • Masakes: Former capital city, evacuated then destroyed

Southern Hemisphere:

• Handuu Sea (small inland sea)
• Nansug Sea (inland sea)
  • Tase'at Island
• Lipansho Sea (small inland sea)
• Sirono Sea
• Tauker Sea (small inland sea)
• Two notable mountain ranges

Native Lifeforms

The world has abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche outside of the equatorial zone.

Flora:

Ilelish plants do not produce flowers or fruit, but rather seedpods or spores. The colouration of foliage ranges from deep greens and blues to purple-black, with darker plant types occurring closer to the poles.

• Giiraste: One of the three staple grains of the Suerrat
• Halsuu: One of the three staple grains of the Suerrat
• Lareri Tree
• Nuslah: One of the three staple grains of the Suerrat
• Rhala Tree

Fauna:

Species are divided into three main groups -- true vertebrates, pseudo-vertebrates and invertebrates. Megafauna is common.

• Aginkam: Highly successful true vertebrate predators
• Gagluki: Sessile tree-like pseudo-vertebrates found in the forested savannahs
• Keshim: Large solo apex predators of the forested savannahs. A true vertebrate, one of the few Ilelish predators which is bipedal
• Migukas: Descendants of the aginkam and the first species domesticated by prehistoric Suerrat
• Nishma: Pseudo-vertebrate megafauna herbivores which dwell on the forested savannahs
• Shudu: A smaller species of nishma, found in semi-tropical rivers and wetlands

History & Background (Dossier)

Ilelish is the homeworld of the Suerrat, a minor human race. The ancestral Suerrat were transported to Ilelish by the Ancients, and were well adapted to their new homeworld’s lush equatorial forests. The world is considered by many to be an Ancients site and many xeno-archaeologists have been busy unearthing remains and artifacts of what some conjecture was a battlefield during the Final War.

• While this theory is popular with many, there is still considerable dissent within the academic community.
• There is evidence of Droyne having once been present on the world.

The world's name comes from the Na'ans language of the Suerrat.

The Suerrat prospered and expanded, eventually developing sub-light drives and colonizing nearby worlds, and had established a small interstellar state by the time they were contacted by the Vilani during the Ziru Sirka period. Ilelish was conquered during the Consolidation Wars and the Suerrat became a grudging subject race to the Vilani. The Suerrat finally revolted in the late Interstellar Wars period, following the Battle of Three Suns (-2224): their uprising is often seen as one of the final blows to the First Imperium.

Following the Long Night Ilelish was swiftly absorbed by the growing Third Imperium and became the sector capital.

• The Ilelish Revolt (418-435) was a popular independence movement that began on Ilelish, but rapidly spread to other high population worlds. The region affected by the Revolt had been going through an economic depression, and it was felt that the Imperium was more interested in conquering new worlds than in supporting the worlds it already had.
• Worlds in Ilelish sector petitioned the Emperor to establish an autonomous district, on the model of the League of Antares, but the Emperor refused. Following this, Ilelish and several other worlds seceded. The Imperium defeated the revolt, essentially by encircling it, containing it, and squeezing. To create an example, the Emperor ordered the Imperial Navy to sterilize a large portion of the world.
• In 435, the Imperium mandated the evacuation of the entire population residing within the lush equatorial zones, then scrubbed the zones of their flora and fauna. It still bears the scars to this day: seven hundred years later, the equatorial zone of llelish remains a sterile desert.

Llelish Interstellar, the leading media corporation within Ilelish Sector, maintains facilities and offices on the world.

World Starport (St)

Ilelish has a Class E Starport, a frontier quality installation with few expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of a downport.

Several large and well-equipped spaceports located in the larger cities make up for the shortfall of a missing starport of any note.

World Population (P)

Ilelish has a population of 20,000,000,000 sophonts (tens of billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.
• The population almost entirely consists of Suerrat.

Ilelish is the homeworld of the Suerrat.

Languages

The following languages are most typically heard:

• Anglic: one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Na'ans: the primary Suerrat language.
• Vilani: one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Yaudal, a commonly spoken Suerrat language.

Urbanization

Suerrat cities are very crowded. Suerrat populations are at a density where other species find the mental health of the inhabitants deteriorates; by contrast, Suerrat thrive in these conditions.

• Suerrat like natural surroundings and will incorporate vegetation and even small animals into their urban areas, wherever possible.

World Technology Level (T)

Ilelish possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land & Water: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government (G)

Ilelish is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government is 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. The bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucracy or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence like the military.

Ilelish is also part of the Suerrat Cultural Region. The Suerrat United Worlds Council is funded through payments of all member worlds, calculated based on each world's population and economic wealth; it also receives voluntary donations from large organisations and businesses, both within and without the cultural zone.

World Law (L)

Ilelish has a low law level. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate. Machine guns, other automatic weapons, portable energy weapons, and other military weapons, body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Ilelish, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of two members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.
• See: Nobles of Ilelish

Military

For peacekeeping purposes, the Suerrat United Worlds Council can request troops and vessels volunteered from member worlds to be deployed under its purview, but only within the boundaries of the Suerrat Cultural Region.

The largest vessel in the Ilelish fleet is Tuli'eii Ilelish, an ancient Inukerku-class light cruiser purchased from the Imperial Navy when it was superseded by more advanced vessels.

Trade Data

• Importance: 2 (ordinary)

Ilelish is the headquarters of the Llelish Interstellar Information Interchange.

World Economy

• Resources: G (extremely abundant)
• Labor: 9 (billions)
• Infrastructure: C (very extensive)
• Efficiency: -1 (average)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 7 (discordant)
• 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:

• ca -250,000: the Suerrat are transplanted to Ilelish by the Ancients.
• -9235: the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over many centuries, pioneers and settlers gradually spread out from Vland, their homeworld.
• prior to -8100: a Suerrat pre-Jump multi-world civilization flourishes, centered on Ilelish.
• circa -8100: The Vilani make contact with the Suerrat and sell them jump technology.
• prior to -5400: the Suerrat have established a multi-world polity using jump drives. It would become one of the first targets of the Vilani Consolidation Wars.
• -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka controls the world.
• -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
• -1776 to 0: the Long Night. There is widespread regression within the sector and some worlds become barren.
• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 76: Ilelish Pacification Campaign.
• 300-420: the First Survey charts the system.
• 418-435: the Ilelish Revolt.
• 435: Ilelish's equatorial zones are scrubbed of flora and fauna.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 995-1065: the Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published.

References

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