Lablon (world)

Lablon/Aramis (Spinward Marches 2701) Milieu 1116 B646589-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 5 Moderate (500 thousand) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M2 III M4 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	676B
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	A46+3 Resources A Abundant Labor 4 Moderate (50 thousand) Infrastructure 6 Limited Efficiency +3 Improved
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	720
GWP (BCr)	1
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,895
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	3,640
Port passengers (annual)	1,000

Lablon is an agricultural world with an ideal environment for producing food from plants, animals, or other lifeforms. The system has a population between 100,000 and 10 million sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Aramis Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Lablon, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdom of a baron. Both are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It is a member of the Towers Cluster

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Lablon is a binary star system.

• The primary is a turbulent red giant.
• The secondary is a red main sequence.

Lablon has two stars in the star system.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 III	Giant		6.74	2400 - 3300	1194
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	1.20034	2.86607	27.47 - 44.78	120.034	1200.34
	Orbit #	3	5	9	11	14
	Remarks		Unstable pulsating star. It produces high levels of EM noise.
Secondary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M4 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.23	3110 - 3210	0.00584
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0025	0.0063	0.08 - 0.16	0.25	2.5
	Orbit #	*	*	0	0	5
	Remarks

The Imperial government has established a minor Trade Station at this world to encourage commerce with the Vargr.

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IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

2701 Lablon (Imperial)

Starport: Class IV.

Diameter: 5,531 miles (8,800 km).
Atmosphere: Thin oxygen-nitrogen, tainted once a year by lablon spruce spores.
Hydrographics: 56%.
Climate: Cool.
Population: 503,000.
Government: Bureaucracy.
Control Level: 6.
Tech Level: 9.
World Trade Number: 4.0.

History & Background (Dossier)

The name of the world is sometimes spelled Labion.

The system's huge primary star causes interference, strange tones and noises, and heavy static on commo and sensors.

Lablon was not settled until nearly 600 and remains lightly populated. The world lies at the very edge of the subsector; its economy is supported mostly by the sale of agricultural produce through a local Trade Station, operated by the Scout Service to promote trade with the neighboring Vargr.

Oberlindes Lines, Akerut, and numerous Vargr trading organizations (most from the Thoengling Empire) all maintain offices on Lablon.

Most of the population lives in small farming towns scattered about the most fertile areas of the four continents. The government is called the Lablon Planetary Cartel; its main duty is insuring that no community exports goods for other than the legally set prices; since the prices are high, there is little resistance.

World Starport (Sp)

Lablon 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 Population (P)

Lablon has a population of 500,000 sophonts (hundreds of thousands).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.

World Government (G)

Lablon is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy, and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. This ruling bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucractic apparatus or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence, like the military.

• This government is the Lablon Planetary Cartel.

World Law Level (L)

Lablon 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 objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (outside private residences or visiting starships).

World Technology Level (TL)

Lablon 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.

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), 28-29.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. The Traveller Adventure (Game Designers Workshop, 1983), 18.
• 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), 39. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 102.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 104. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 46-51. (UWP only)