Kozol (world)

Kozol/Star Bridge (Aldebaran 0418)
Classic Era (1116)	BAA5443–B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere A Exotic Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 4 Moderate (20 thousand) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K3 V M2 V
Planetoid Belts	3
Gas Giants	4

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Kozol is a nonindustrial fluid world.

• A fluid world has an oceanic geography of a liquid other than water such as ammonia, methane, hydrocarbons, or other exotic liquids.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Star Bridge Subsector of Aldebaran Sector.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

Exotic world.

Binary Solar System

Kozol Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Kozol K3 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.78	4600 - 4830	0.41911
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0035	0.0537	0.65 - 1.18	0.35	3.5
	Orbit #	*	*	3	1	5
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Kozol M2 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0021	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.21	2.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	4

System Data

4 Gas Giants — 3 Planetoid Belts — 7 Other Worlds

The Kozol system has 3 distinct planetoid belts, 2 gas giants with 4 large moons between them, 2 ice giants, and 3 hot rocky worlds closer in to the K3 primary. In addition, the M3 companion star orbits at just 400AU.

This arrangement is extremely dynamic. Rogue planetoids of all sizes are often found on unstable paths through the inner system.

Mainworld Data

Kozol is a huge, high gravity world that has been built up by large mass impacts over time.

The most recent impact was with several moon-sized metallic planetoids, made primarily of metallic mercury. There are a cluster of impact craters on one hemisphere.

This system is named for the Aslan Imperial scout that originally discovered this world.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

Kozol has extremely dynamic and unpredictable plate tectonics due to its history of impacts. There are several older mountain ranges in the 4000m range but there are 3 on the impact hemisphere that average over 25000m.

Over half of the current surface is now covered in liquid mercury, and Kozol now has an shallow, but dense atmosphere of mercury-radon vapor.

Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

None.

History & Background

Kozol has been inhabited for approximately 100 years.

World Starport

Kozol has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Technology Level

Kozol possesses a Technology Level of TL–11 or TL-B 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 & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-2.

World Government

Kozol is governed by a Representative Democracy where government leadership is representatives elected by eligible voters. What determines an eligible voter varies. The representatives determine policy, including selecting members of the bureaucracy. There can be referendum, votes by eligible voters on specific subjects.

World Law Level

Kozol has a low law level. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate. Machine guns, other automatic weapons, portable energy weapons, and other military weapons, body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

Mining

Trade Data

Mercury, Bismuth exports.

World Demographics

The world population averages 20,000.

Humaniti 80%

Aslan 10%

Other 10%

World Culture

The culture is a hodgepodge of desperate or motivated peoples from the Euxene French worlds and the Massinan sphere.

As the highly toxic environment required the use of pressurized vacuum suits, all normal activities are inside. The high gravity makes all physical activities more difficult and more dangerous. While long-term inhabitants typically have an extensive musculature, they also typically eventually accrue multiple bone breaks, and spinal compressions. Most sports tend to minimize impacts and falls, and often involve exoskeletons or robotic stand-ins.

That said, anti-gravitics are used where necessary to lessen stress in certain circumstances. They are in constant use in the downport, and in the Kozolus luxury arcology. The other residential zones have it installed, but until the additional power cores can be added and brought online, have access to it at a reduced setting.

Burial customs involve exposure of the deceased on a low concrete altar, either on a nearby plateau or in a series of shallow catacombs that are designed to allow atmospheric flow. The unique atmosphere causes the deceased to be quickly coated in a layer of molten mercury, allowing for preservation of the body and their facial features under a continually renewing thin reflective surface.

Urbanization

The Kozol downport is a solidly built edifice on a high plateau overlooking the mercury ocean. The denizens have constructed a system of redundant roads and 2 heavy rail systems which allow travel down to the various mining locations. There is a recently constructed liquid mercury pipeline with a series of high-power pumps that moves mercury directly to the starport; this advancement allows for rapid and low cost mercury export as frozen ingots in any starship hold capable of transporting materials at or about -40 degrees.

There are residential areas located near any of the mining areas, but none close to the ocean.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

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• Classic Traveller Alien Module 6: Solomani (named but no further data)
• MegaTraveller Solomani & Aslan (dot map provided)
• Periodical: Imperial Lines 2 by Author: Steven Eric Schwartz
• Mongoose Traveller: Solomani
• External Link: CORE Data Site
• External Link: Federation Development Agency
• Author & Contributor: Garnfellow
• Author & Contributor: Dochsavage
• Author & Contributor: Leroy W.L. Guatney of the Federation Development Agency (FDA)