Irash (world)

Irash/Udusis (Empty Quarter 2036) Milieu 1116 C99799B-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 9 Large (14,400 km, 1.03g - 1.33g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 9 High (4 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	F6 V M5 V
Worlds	7
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Impersonal bureaucracy
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	BC7C
Army Size (BEs)	1500
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	F8D+5 Resources F Extremely abundant Labor 8 Moderate (400 million) Infrastructure D Comprehensive Efficiency +5 Very advanced
Importance Extension	3
Resource Units	20,496
GWP (BCr)	7,800
World Trade Number	5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	7,735
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	4,600,000
Port employees	11,910
Port passengers (annual)	48,000

Irash is an industrial world with a tainted atmosphere. The system has a population over one billion. This system serves as the capital for the subsector. This world is designated an Amber Zone. Caution is advised since the world has an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that are not well understood and might be a danger to a visitor.  The world has a colony on Aisha (Empty Quarter 1836). It is a member of Third Imperium in the Udusis Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector and in the Domain of Antares. Irash, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdoms of a count and the Subsector duke. All three are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

Astrography and Planetology

This world is part of the namesake Irash Cluster.

Stellar Data

Irash has two stars in the star system.

Irash
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F6 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.25	6280 - 6350	2.18366
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0126	0.1226	1.36 - 2.36	1.26	12.6
	Orbit #	*	0	4	3	7
	Remarks
Irash
	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

Mainworld Data

Mainworld Size (S)

Irash is a Big World between 13,600km and 15,200km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 1G and 1.3G. The horizon will appear about 5.4km away. Vessels with only 1G of thrust should avoid landing on this world.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Irash has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. While a Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear this atmosphere also contains an unusual taint 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)

Irash has 65-75% of its surface covered by liquid water. It has significant large liquid bodies. Wilderness refueling is possible.

History and Background

Although changed considerably with the passage of time, the rigid hereditary caste system that segregates the population of Irash was born of a fusion of Vilani and Hindu cultures, reflecting the disparate heritages of the first settlers to this large world.

• Caste in Irashi culture follows Vilani practice, not Solomani: so it is chosen by the community when you come of age, and is not inherited.
• Irash boasts some of the most impressive temples still standing in the Empty Quarter sector from the era of the Second Imperium.
• Socially, Irash is an interesting case; not so much for her large (but poor) population, as much as for her devotion to Hinduism -- especially to vegetarianism and to Mother Cow, as devout Hindus demand. Certain influential advisors from the Two Thousand Worlds have heard of this sensible Solomani religion, and K'kree traders bearing gifts eventually arrived in orbit over Irash. The religious and feudal lords of Irash signed a friendship and trade treaty with the distant Two Thousand Worlds, opening the door to a flood of K'kree goods and assistance, at remarkably low prices.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Irash, 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 subsector duke, who also conducts affairs regarding the entire subsector at the Interstellar and Imperial level.

World Starport

Irash 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)

Irash has a population of 4,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.

World Linguistics

• Irashi Hindi. This is the native language of Irash. It is not actually a form of Hindi: the misnomer comes from an ignorant tendency to put every East Indian language into the "Hindi" box. In reality, it is a mix of the Oriya language and Old High Vilani, with a bit of Old Anglic seasoning.
• Iabag: A minor language of Irash, of perhaps 20 million speakers.

World Government (G)

Irash is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Law Level (L)

Irash has an extreme law level which covers every area of interaction. Laws are complex, detailed, and difficult to understand. Every interaction with the government requires an Advocate. Law enforcement is omnipresent and strict. Legal proceeding can take months to years to resolve and may involve dozens of people. A few worlds with this law level may be a Red Zone and others will be an Amber Zone. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (with no exception for private residences; visiting starships are only protected so long as they stay within designated starports and approach corridors). Civilian movement is rigidly controlled. Travel documents are frequently checked, and destinations must often be declared when traveling substantial distances across the world.

World Technology Level (TL)

Irash 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 Timeline

• Irash and Yashodhan (Empty Quarter 2635) establish solid trade links during the pre-Dawn era (-200s Imperial).
• 62: Imperial diplomats contact Irash. Subsequently, Irash joins the Imperium.
• 822: The Psionics Institute on Irash is destroyed. Over 24.2 million die in this part of the Psionics Suppressions alone.
• Roughly 60 million Irashi move to Hebrin (Empty Quarter 1930) near the turn of the 10th Imperial century, with the financial and legal encouragement of the Imperium.
• Although the system is never seriously threatened by Abadani communism, many of the most famous interstellar Abadani intellectuals and activists come from this world.

UWP Listing

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

• T20 - 993 - IRASH 2036 C99799B-A Hi In Bwap0 122 Im
• CT - 1105 - IRASH 2036 C99799B-A Hi In 422 Im
• MT - 1125 - IRASH 2036 C997950-7 Hi In 422 Ou - Outlands
• TNE - 1201 - IRASH 2036 X9979CA-7 Hi In B 422 Wi

References and Contributors

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.

• Jason Kemp. "Delta Quadrant of the Empty Quarter Sector- Udusis Subsector." Stellar Reaches 02 (2005): 8. - Write-up
• Jason Kemp. "Sector In Review: Empty Quarter 993." Stellar Reaches 05 (2006): 37. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "Maps and UWP’S for the Empty Quarter: 993, 1105, 1125, and 1201 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 17 (2011): 16. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "Hegemony, Republic, Duchy: Part VII." Stellar Reaches 17 (2011): 55.
• Alvin Plummer. "Data Dump: Updated Maps and UWPs for the Empty Quarter, 993 and 1105 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 19 (2012): 48. -UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "Languages Within the Empty Quarter." Stellar Reaches 25 (2014): 53.
• World page generated by AB-101
• Data compiled by ’’MIMIC’’ - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication