Kurdeshu (world)

Kurdeshu/Iiradu (Dagudashaag 3006) Milieu 1116 C544265-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 2 Low (800) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V K9 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	5
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	1137
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	9
Economic Extension	A11-3 Resources A Abundant Labor 1 Low (80) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -3 Poor
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	7
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Kurdeshu supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. The governance of this world is from Iiradu (Dagudashaag 3008). There is a habitat or settlement for criminals or exiles from other worlds here. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Iiradu Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Kurdeshu, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world. During the Long Night this world was named Vlir.

Astrography and Planetology

Kurdeshu is located on the Vilani Main.

Stellar Data

Kurdeshu has two stars in the star system.

Kurdeshu
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks
Kurdeshu
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.59	3850 - 3930	0.15775
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0057	0.0329	0.41 - 0.78	0.57	5.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks

History and Background

Kurdeshu is a world owned by the government of Daas (Dagudashaag 3006). The Daas government acquired their first free trader in 984, and began a colonization effort. A charted survey discovered a rich deposit of lanthanum. A mining colony was established to extract and process the ore. Daas technology, while able to process the ore, was unable to do so safely. A number of severe environmental accidents, and general eco-unfriendly processing practices, released a large quantity of photo-reactive chemicals into the thin atmosphere. The thin atmospheric ozone layer degraded to 60% of the previous level. Surface UV exposure is extremely high and dangerous to anyone not wearing appropriate protection.

The lanthanum source was exhausted by 1083 and no other deposits had been discovered. Daas closed the facility, leaving only a skeleton crew to mind their infrastructure. In 1088 Daas decided to reopen the class-C starport and use the facility as a penal colony for political dissidents. Soreal Incorporated were contracted to run the prison; they provide security in the form of three System Defense Boats to watch over the fuel sources and prevent unauthorized landings.

There are currently 327 prisoners, mainly from the radical Maaraagik, held in the colony.

World Starport (St)

Kurdeshu has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

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: Iiradu." Signal-GK 12 (1996): 54. via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 86.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 206.