Kimalad (world)

Kimalad/Old Suns (Dagudashaag 1506) Milieu 1116 A7859CB-E Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 9 High (6 billion) Government C Charismatic Oligarchy Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K2 V M2 V
Worlds	7
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Charismatic oligarchy
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	BC7G
Army Size (BEs)	7000
Economic Details
Technology Level	14
Economic Extension	E8F+5 Resources E Extremely abundant Labor 8 Moderate (600 million) Infrastructure F Very comprehensive Efficiency +5 Very advanced
Importance Extension	3
Resource Units	8,400
GWP (BCr)	56,250
World Trade Number	5.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	87,455
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	7
Building Capacity (Tons)	7,200,000
Port employees	179,980
Port passengers (annual)	235,000

Kimalad is a garden world with an environment conducive to most sophonts. 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. This is a high technology world with available technology over the standards for Charted Space.  The world is tropical with a hot, though still habitable, climate at the upper limits of human comfort. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Old Suns Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Kimalad, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and a baronet, and the fiefdoms of a count and the Subsector duke. All four are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. During the Long Night this world was named Kimalad.

Astrography and Planetology

Kimalad is a member of the namesake Kimalad Cluster.

Stellar Data

Kimalad has two stars in the star system.

Kimalad
	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
Kimalad
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

Native Lifeforms

The jungle floor is home to the Ishupkura, a large grazing beast prized for its meat. Although Ishupkura can be raised on other worlds, those raised in the natural wilderness of Kimalad have a superior taste and texture.

History and Background

Kimalad is a major centre for trade and commerce within the subsector and it is claimed that its markets can supply anything you have ever dreamt of.

Kimalad was a jungle planet until its colonization in -3205 by the Vilani. It was heavily mined using open cast tech methods. Vast stretches of the planet were ripped open to allow the money-hungry Humans to rape its mineral wealth. Then the Long Night caused Humaniti to withdraw. Slowly the planet recovered and the jungles covered the world once more -- though the deep scars of man's earlier occupation were still unable to support life.

Then in -231 Humaniti returned, not to plunder but to live in harmony. Settlements were built on the immense flat-topped mesas. Multi-tiered buildings of infinite hue covered the mounds as the population increased but the inhabitants refused to allow expansion to extend down to the jungle floor. Instead they built upwards, forming cities of hundreds of levels, lying precariously upon each other. Monorails link the cities together.

Kimalad was the center and power base of the Kimalad Collective, a pocket empire which extended from Nipe (now Shidu (Dagudashaag 1406)) to Armiirk (now Liikirba (Dagudashaag 1705)), also encompassing Uumin Duu (now Bastion (Dagudashaag 1507)), Nuunzaaind (now Aam (Dagudashaag 1604)), and Imar (now Daridura (Dagudashaag 1605)). The emperor, Jyond Quasot, was a master of manipulation. He turned his subjects into rabid psionphobes with his stories of Guukian spies within his empire. He used this fear of psionics in order to consolidate his power and eliminate his enemies. He rode the resulting tidal wave of public psionphobia to war with the neighboring Guukian Federation.

World Starport

Kimalad 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.

Historical Data

World Timeline

Significant events that have affected this world and the surrounding region include the following:

• -3205: Initial colonization of Kimalad by the Vilani.
• -1776: The Long Night begins.
• -231: Kimalad is re-colonized.
• -56: Dafyd Quasot comes to power on Kimalad and within a year has turned the Kimalad-Shidu partnership into an Empire. He proceeds to annex nearby barren worlds.
  • He is later succeeded by his son Jyond Quasot, who makes war on the Guukian Federation.
• 20: The Kimalad Collective is absorbed peacefully into the Third Imperium.
• 22: Kimalad's rival the Guukian Federation is absorbed by the Imperium.
• 75-106: Vilani Pacification Campaign. By its end, the Imperium rules the whole of Dagudashaag.
• 128: Displacement of inhabitants of a number of worlds in Gushemege and Dagudashaag by Makhidkarun colonists creates ill-feeling.

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.

• Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Old Suns." Signal-GK 04 (1992): 46. - HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 79.
• Stuart L. Dollar, Joseph E. Walsh. Psionic Institutes (Imperium Games, 1997), 8.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 200.