Chyia Nedlkel (world)

Chyia Nedlkel/Issoudun (Vanguard Reaches 0406)
Classic Era (1116)	A301AB9–D Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population A High (10 billion) Government B Non-Charismatic Dictator Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F4 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Chyia Nedlkel is a high-population, non-agricultural, industrial and icy vacuum world, with a billion or more sophonts in population size, warranting hazardous environment precautions.

• The surface of this world is ice-capped with nearly all of its water frozen.
• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• It is a member of the Zhodani Consulate and part of Colonnade Province in the Issoudun Subsector of Vanguard Reaches Sector.

• It is a mainworld which is a satellite of either a gas giant or another world.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This world incorrectly bears the name Issoudun on some older Imperial star charts.
• It was known as Zdodren to the original Vlazhdumecta settlers, then later as Zhdeqr.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Chyia Nedlkel has a solitary primary star.

• It is an orange main sequence.

Chyia Nedlkel has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.82	4830 - 5100	0.49928
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0073	0.0586	0.7 - 1.26	0.73	7.3
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x4 secondary rocky worlds.
• x1 gas giant.

Mainworld Data

Chyia Nedlkel is a moon of a gas giant world known as Adliansh throughout the system's history.

The mainworld and Adliansh orbit towards the outer edge of the star's habitable zone.

• They receive low levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Chyia Nedlkel is a Small World between 4,000km and 5,600km in diameter. The world has low gravity between 0.24G and 0.34G. The horizon will appear about 3km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Chyia Nedlkel has a pressure of less than 0.001 atmospheres which requires the use of a Vacc Suit. TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

• Vacuum worlds have no climate, but experience extreme differences in temperature between direct starlight and shade.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Chyia Nedlkel has 05-15% of its surface covered by ice, either in vast sheets or contained deep within craters or fractures on the surface. Wilderness refueling is possible. Water for the inhabitants can be got by mining and melting ice.

• The surface of the world is composed of a crust of ice many kilometers thick.
• Much of the surface is cratered and covered in thick layers of regolith and dust of meteoric origin, leaving only a small amount of the icy outer shell exposed.
• Below the outer icy shell there may be a world-ocean of liquid water.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

• Locally, detailed maps may be available.

(Blank map, vacuum world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

This world served as the original capital of the Zhodani Client State known as the Driantia Steblenzhtia, or Vanguard Consulate. The world was renamed Chyia Nedlkel after a political radical and exploratory pioneer who advocated the abolition of the nobility in favor of widespread psionic testing of all citizens. The reforms of High Councillor Nedlkel were installed in the Driantia Steblenzhtia in Imperial year 666.

• The Vanguard Consulate was reorganized after the Third Frontier War in 996, at which time its capital was moved from Chyia Nedlkel to the world of Nielkladlief – "Colonnade" – which gave the region its Anglic name, the Colonnade Province.

World Starport (St)

Chyia Nedlkel has a Class A Starport, an excellent 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 other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

• This world is host to a Zhodani Base.

World Population (P)

Chyia Nedlkel has a population of 10,000,000,000 sophonts (tens of billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.
• The population has a complex mixture of Vlazhdumecta and Zhodani heritage.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Zdetl, the language of the Zhodani Consulate.

World Technology Level (T)

Chyia Nedlkel possesses a Technology Level of TL–13 or TL-D in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovideo recorders.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, prototype collectors, advanced fusion plants.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-4.

World Government (G)

Chyia Nedlkel is governed by a Non-charismatic Dictatorship. This is a continuation of the charismatic dictatorship, where the original leadership has died or retired and been replaced by allies or protégés. The justifications for the original change in government remain as well as the assertion of rights to rule.

World Law (L)

Chyia Nedlkel has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (outside private residences or visiting starships).

Trade Data

• Importance: 5 (very important)

World Economy

• Resources: A (abundant)
• Labor: 9 (billions)
• Infrastructure: A (extensive)
• Efficiency: +1 (average)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: D (fragmented)
• Acceptance: F (extremely xenophobic)
• Strangeness: 6 (very distinct)
• Symbols: A (abstract)

World Timeline

• prior to -2950: The gas giant moon Zdodren is settled as a mining and refuelling outpost by the Vlazhdumecta.
• -2900: Loss of contact with Vlazhdumecta civilisation. Easy access to both metals and ice on the moon’s surface enables the small self-sufficient installation of Zdodren to survive.
• 626: Founding of the Driantia Steblenzhtia. By this time, Zdodren – now called Zhdeqr – supports a population in the billions and is the obvious choice as the capital. Its culture mixes Vlazhdumecta and Zhodani customs with a locally evolved tradition of egalitarianism.
• 656: Chyia Nedlkel becomes a High Councillor of Zhdeqr.
• 666: Chyia Nedlkel institutes reforms calling for the psionic training of all of the world’s citizens. This reform is popular on Zhdeqr but not across the region – and certainly not with the Zhodani Consulate leadership.
• 674: Death of Chyia Nedlkel. The new leadership venerates the popular leader by supporting the effort to rename the world in his honour. However, they also take steps to limit the economic and societal disruptions arising from the psionic training of the majority of the population.
• 680: The first attempt to repeal Chyia Nedlkel's reforms brings the world to the brink of civil war.
• 700: Although still named Chyia Nedlkel, the world has abandoned his reforms and returned to the norms of Zhodani society.
• 879: Chyia Nedlkel remains the capital after the Driantia Steblenzhtia merges with the Colonnade Administrative District to become the Zhodani Consulate Colonnade Province.
• 966: The capital is moved to Nielkladlief (the Consulate leadership still not fully trusting Chyia Nedlkel).

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