Kuriishe Eraki

The Kuriishe Eraki (KE) was an interstellar state that dominated parts of the Kuriishe and Gadde subsectors during the Long Night.

Description and specifications

The KE was a pro-science movement that pulled tech levels back up to pre-Long Night levels and was a huge proponent of interstellar colonization. The colonies of the Erakian movement later formed into this interstellar state.

History and background

Eraki (Dagudashaag 2920) flourished under the Ziru Sirka, becoming the regional capital and a major trade hub. Its power dwindled during the Rule of Man but the world retained most of its Vilani traditions, in part contributing to its survival during the Twilight period. It endured, although lost much of its technology. The world's society gradually changed as the Long Night deepened, eventually giving rise to a pro-science movement that pulled tech levels back up to pre-Long Night levels. Unfortunately Jump technology continued to elude them. By around -720 Eraki had been contacted by the Ushran Empire and succeeded in persuading them to supply Eraki with starships and crews to enable them to contact other systems locally. In return, they supplied the Empire with high technology.

Slowly, using Ushran ships, Eraki began to explore and colonise nearby systems and by -600 the small sphere of inhabited systems joined together to form a loose federation, the Kuriishe Eraki. At the height of its power, the state included the Amgagiga, Baladine, Inshaam, Khashpel, Khuulush, Mimsur, Sivvista, Urkesh, and Shenpe (now Depot) systems.

Ushra successfully kept the secret of Jump Technology from the Eraki right up to the year 3 when traders from the Third Imperium contacted the state.

Although the Kuriishe was in contact with the emergent states within Core Sector it maintained much closer links with Dagudashaag nations, mainly the Medurma Pact. As the Pact became embroiled in the Slaver Wars with the Aakhri Empire, it began to rely heavily on minerals and agro-products imported from the Kuriishe. By around -200 the Kuriishe had become the dominant trading power within the trailing edge of the sector.

When the newly founded Third Imperium absorbed all the remaining Long Night states within Core, it set its sights on the rich territories that lay to spinward; the Kuriishe was the perfect vehicle for its entry into Dagudashaag. In a brilliant series of economic and political moves, Cleon I annexed the Kuriishe Eraki, absorbing all member worlds by 15, and thereby gaining virtually complete control of vital resources that the Medurma Pact relied on.

Territorial Holdings

14 of 14 World articles in Kuriishe Eraki

Akhashmaas  •  Amgagiga  •  Baladine  •  Dashgurus  •  Depot (Da 3121)  •  Eraki  •  Inshaam  •  Khashpel  •  Khusgulur  •  Khuulush  •  Mimsur  •  Serusi  •  Sivvista  •  Urkesh  •  

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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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Jae Campbell. "Library Data:Gadde." Signal-GK 06 (1993): 12. via HIWG
• Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Kuriishe." Signal-GK 13 (1997): 15. via HIWG
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 206-207.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science