Kas'Drak (Ghoe 0323) (world)

Kas'Drak/Tunkhika (Ghoekhnael 0323)
Classic Era (1116)	A667A77-G Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population A High (10 billion) Government 7 Balkanization Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level G High Stellar (terraforming)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K5 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	0

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Kas'Drak is a high-population, agricultural garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts and a billion or more sophonts in population size..

• 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.
• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to incrementally rise barring outside forces.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This world is also the overall capital of an interstellar government with the massive extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
• It is a member of the Taakas Yh'Drak in the Tunkhika Subsector of Ghoekhnael Sector.

• This world is also known as Odye, the common Vargr name for the system long before contact with the natives.
• It is the homeworld of the Drakaran, a sophont species and minor race.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Kas'Drak is a monostellar system. The star is named Kastaakas, which translates from N'Toz as "Mother of the Worlds".

Kas'Drak has a solitary primary star.

Kastaakas
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.7	4300 - 4440	0.28697
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0065	0.0444	0.56 - 1.01	0.65	6.5
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
  • Kas'Drak has one moon, Biranon.
• A number of secondary rocky worlds. These include the third planet, N'Varr. Considered the secondary world within the system, N'Varr is forested and supports three billion Drakaran colonists.
• x2 planetoid belts.
  • These support heavy industry and a population of 320,000,000. Many great clans from the belts own trading ships that operate throughout the Taakas Yh'Drak.

Mainworld Data

Kas'Drak has a single large moon, Biranon (the Hunter). It has been settled by the Drakarans.

Mainworld Size (S)

Kas'Drak 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)

Kas'Drak has a pressure of 0.71 to 1.49 atmospheres. A Standard Atmosphere does not require survival gear and will likely be easy for most sophonts to breathe.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

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

Mainworld Geography & Topography

A single supercontinent is surrounded by island chains. The predominant terrain is prairie, steppe and desert, with sparse coastal forest regions. The equatorial region has been partially terraformed to make the climate more suited for herding, using extensive canal networks and weather control satellites.

Native Lifeforms

Drakaran Riding Lizard (with mounted Drakaran soldier)

Abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

Most native lifeforms have a single large eye, Drakarans included.

The Drakaran Riding Lizard is among the more notable animals.

Visitors are also likely to notice scavenger reptilian creatures, analogous to squirrels or rats but often the size of dogs or cats. These scavengers eat garbage in Drakaran cities and provide prey for city dwellers during the primal hunting phase known as the Stalking.

Native Sophont (NIL): Drakaran

More correctly the Drak Ne'Vha, this race is known to most outsiders as Drakaran.

They are bipedal reptilians.

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

World Starport

Kas'Drak 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.

World Population (P)

Kas'Drak has a population of 10,000,000,000 sophonts (tens of billions).

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

World Demographics

The population is 100% Drakaran.

World Languages

The common language is N'Toz.

Urbanization

Traditional family dwellings consist of several rooms spaced around a large open courtyard containing a garden.

• Cities tend to be large and sprawling. The Drakaran dislike underground buildings, and except for storage areas few exist.
• Cities are laid out in geometric patterns, a function of the race's obsession with order and harmony.
• Large ranching regions are always nearby, to provide food animals -- particularly during The Stalking, a Drakaran predatory phase.
• A majority of families (even poor ones) own personal transport. Public transit is rare, but most vehicles have highly efficient reactors, so pollution is kept to a minimum.

World Technology Level

Kas'Drak possesses a Technology Level of TL–16 or TL-G in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Personal holovideo and personal meson communicators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, collectors, and advanced Fusion+.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: G-Carriers & advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-7 and prototype Hop Drive-1.

World Government

Kas'Drak has a Balkanized Government. There is no central world government. The world has several governments competing for control of the world. These may be allies, cooperating, competitors, or at war with each other.

The various clans police their own territory.

World Law Level

No information yet available.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

Drakaran society is essentially an aristocracy in which the wealthiest land-owning families control industry and business. Land, wealth and political power are seen as inseparable.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

• Circa -1500: The matriarchal clan-based Neh'Toz society becomes dominant in the southern latitudes
• Circa -1400: The Limak Neh'Toz religion is founded by the Neh'Toz
• Circa -1050: Neh'Toz create the Great Canal Empire
• -500: Great Canal Empire begins to fragment under the pressure of southern steppe nomads. One remnant, the south-eastern province of Ta'tohk, will retain Imperial culture.
• -400: Inventing the steam engine, Ta'tohk experiences an industrial revolution
• -200: Railway Clans of Ta'tohk dominate the Drakaran supercontinent.
• Circa -150 to -50: Many small wars are fought as greater clans attempt to annex lesser.
• 520: Drakrans colonise the planet N'Varr, also within the Kas'Drak (Odye) system.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

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