Kuai Qing (world)

Kuai Qing/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1040)
Classic Era (1116)	C503758-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 7 Moderate (30 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K3 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	0

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Kuai Qing is a non-agricultural, preindustrial, icy vacuum world, warranting hazardous environment precautions.

• Its surface is ice-capped with little or no atmosphere and nearly all of its water frozen.
• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• It is a world working toward being an industrial powerhouse but lacks an adequate workforce to do so.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the District 268 Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

• This world is quietly controlled by Trexalon.
• The system is also known as Kwai Ching.

Astrography & Planetology

Stellar Data

Kuai Qing has a solitary primary star.

• It is an orange main sequence.

Kuai Qing has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.78	4600 - 4830	0.41911
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.007	0.0537	0.65 - 1.18	0.7	7
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld.
• x4 secondary rocky worlds.
• x2 planetoid belts.

Mainworld Data

Kuai Qing is an ice-capped vacuum world.

Mainworld Size (S)

Kuai Qing 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)

Kuai Qing has a pressure of less than 0.001 atmospheres which requires the use of a Vacc Suit. TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Kuai Qing has 15-25% of its surface covered by ice, either in vast sheets or contained deep within craters or fractures on the surface. Wilderness refueling is possible. Water for the inhabitants can be got by mining and melting ice.

• The surface of the world is composed of a crust of ice many kilometers thick.
• Much of the surface is cratered and covered in thick layers of regolith and dust of meteoric origin, leaving only a part of the icy outer shell exposed.
• Below the outer icy shell there may be a world-ocean of liquid water.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

(Blank map, vacuum world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Kuai Qing, the second of the system’s five equally inhospitable planets, is a cold, barren chunk of rock that has no atmosphere. It was colonized in 789 by the Trexalon Technical Consortium (the TTC) — a corporate trust that monopolizes the mining, industrial, and interstellar trade sectors of the economy on Trexalon. The year before, the TTC had discovered rich and highly diverse mineral deposits on Kuai Qing. These had been missed in earlier surveys because they were buried so deeply within the world's icy crust.

The TTC's mining colony proved to be extremely profitable, and several rival mining firms and hordes of freelance prospectors descended on Kuai Qing to share in the wealth. However, the TTC used tradewar to drive out its corporate rivals, and the freelancers lacked the means to reach the planet’s deeply-buried riches. Without any real competition, the TTC proceeded to purchase or otherwise lay claim to almost the entire planet in less than a decade, but its cutthroat tactics were widely criticized and prompted speculation about intervention by the Imperial authorities.

Therefore, following the example of Trexalon, all of the major population centers and most of the planetary surface were sold to a government formed by the wealthiest local residents -- although the TTC retained control of the mines and was granted exclusive mineral exploitation rights. This allowed the Consortium to disassociate itself from the direct governance of Kuai Qing -- and thus avert Imperial intervention -- while still maintaining its effective monopoly over the economy. Just as on Trexalon itself, the TTC continues to dominate Kuai Qing indirectly by working in close cooperation with a dependent, but legally sovereign local regime. Yet, for sake of appearances, the TTC wields its power more subtly in the Kuai Qing system -- for example, by allowing the locals to take responsibility for their own defense.

The TTC clearly sees Kuai Qing as a model for economic imperialism throughout District 268. By substituting economic dominance for direct rule, the TTC hopes to fulfill its expansionist ambitions without provoking Imperial intervention. After all, how can the Imperial authorities justify taking drastic action against the TTC when it is merely employing the same tactics beyond the Imperium’s borders that megacorporations routinely use within them? Indeed, the TTC can probably rely upon the support of at least several highly influential megacorporations that would view any attempt to rein it in as establishing a dangerous precedent that could be used to justify taking action against them as well.

World Starport (St)

Kuai Qing 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.

World Population (P)

Kuai Qing has a population of 30,000,000 sophonts (tens of millions).

Urbanization

Kuai Qing’s population is concentrated in a handful of major cities that are either buried deep under the surface, or carved into the sides of narrow canyons that have been "roofed over" to create habitable environments. Although the economy remains focused in the mining sector, there is also a considerable amount of industry, with electronics and mining equipment being the chief products. In recent years, there has also been considerable production of weaponry for export to Singer, a balkanized, war-ravaged world lying just one parsec to spinward.

World Technology Level (T)

Kuai Qing possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A 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: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government (G)

Kuai Qing is governed by a Feudal Technocracy. Society divides itself based on the technical requirements of the society. Each of these functions are granted as a fief to an individual or group. Leadership of these fiefs determines the head of the government.

In general, Kuai Qing's institutions are modeled closely on Trexalon's. Namely, a small, technocratic elite that owns all of the land and most of those businesses that are not controlled by the TTC monopolizes political power. In exchange, Kuai Qing's citizens pay minimal taxes while receiving a broad range of services (housing, transportation, health care, utilities, etc.) either free or at highly subsidized prices. The only notable difference between the governments of Trexalon and Kuai Qing is that the latter must enforce a far more repressive law enforcement regime because the numerous descendants of freelance prospectors continue to agitate (sometimes violently) against the TTC-backed techno-aristocracy.

World Law (L)

Kuai Qing has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All blade weapons and firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

Trade Data

• Importance: 1 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: B (moderate)
• Labor: 6 (millions)
• Infrastructure: A (extensive)
• Efficiency: +1 (average)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 7 (discordant)
• Acceptance: 8 (friendly)
• Strangeness: 5 (distinct)
• Symbols: A (abstract)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 48-49. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 74.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 110. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 123-127. (UWP only)
• Contributor: Vendarth