Kiran (world)

Kiran/Ian (Corridor 0112)
Classic Era (1116)	A554856-D Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 8 Moderate (900 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M0 V K5 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Kiran is a pre-agricultural world with a moderate population of over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts.

• Its economy and population are growing and living conditions are expected to slowly improve barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Ian Subsector of Corridor Sector in the Domain of Vland.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• This world has a colony at Muugagen.
• During the Long Night, this world was known as Kilii Ar.

Description (Planetology)

Stellar Data

Kiran has two stars in the star system.

Kiran
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0055	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.55	5.5
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	6
	Remarks
Kiran
	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

Mainworld Data

Mainworld Size (S)

Kiran is a Meso World between 7,200km and 8,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.4G and 0.57G. The horizon will appear about 4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Kiran has a pressure of 0.43 to 0.70 atmospheres. The Thin Atmosphere does not require survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Kiran 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.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Battle of Kilii Ar in 239, fought between Vargr and Imperial forces on the planet using WMD, devastated the world for 200 years.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Kiran, 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 estate and fiefdom 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 estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

World Starport (Sp)

Kiran 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.

• There is an associated Imperial Naval Base.

Historical Data: Later Eras

Rebellion

The Naval Base was taken over by the Dzarrgh Federate in 1117 and became the main forward base for Federate raids into Atsah Subsector. This died down with a cease-fire being agreed, including the "Demilitarisation" of parts of Atsah Subsector -- but pressures from Trailing and the fall of the Irrgh Manifest gave the Dzarrgh Federate little option but to try and flee into Regency Territory. This failed, and so the fleets tried to fight off the inevitable in an heroic last stand -- but this too ultimately failed.

The Nobility of Kiran fled the world in the face of the arriving Vargr horde. Those members of the families that stayed became leaders of the low-level insurgency but the repeated Vargr counter-insurgency sweeps and later waves of Virus destroyed all trace of them on the world. Those that fled into the Regency became just another set of poverty-stricken but proud refugees that found useful roles in the new society or sank into the general masses.

Post Virus

Overrun by an Empire Builder/Puppeteer Virus is late-1138/early-1139 with Vargr troops from Trailing Kiran became the forward base for the (failed) strike at Corfinium in late-1139/1140. Ships "fleeing" the disasters at Kiran and Corfinium became the start of the flood that struck into the Regency for the next 6 decades.

References

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.

• Classic Traveller The Early Adventures in Article 'Visit to Antiquity'
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), .