Lagash (world)
Lagash/Sol (Solomani Rim 2121) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interstellar Wars | C667644-5
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Classic Era (1116) | A667A8B-F
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | G0 V K7 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 4 |
Lagash is a high-population garden world with a billion or more sophonts in population size and a near-ideal utopian environment conducive to most sophonts.
- Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
- This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
- This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Sol Subsector of Solomani Rim Sector in the Domain of Sol.
- This world has a nearby Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
Description / Astrography & Planetology[edit]
It is a garden world with one small moon.
Binary Solar System
IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey[edit]
2121 Lagash (Imperial Subsector Capital)
Starport: Class V - Naval Base.
Diameter: 5,900 miles (9,400 km). Gravity: 0.60g.
Atmosphere: Standard oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 68%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 21 billion.
Government: Meritocracy.
Control Level: 6.
Tech Level: 12.
World Trade Number: 6.5.
System Data[edit]
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World Data[edit]
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Native Lifeforms[edit]
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History & Background / Dossier[edit]
Lagash (world)|Lagash is a high-population garden world with one small moon, located in Sol Subsector of the Solomani Rim.
Imperial High / Landed Nobility[edit]
Lagash, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of two members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.
- It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
- It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.
- The current subsector duke is Mazun Tomas von Ritterburg.
World Starport[edit]
Lagash has a Class A Starport, an excellent 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 other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.
World Technology Level[edit]
Lagash possesses a Technology Level of TL–15 or TL-F in Hexadecimal Notation.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Meson Communicators and Pseudo Reality Communications.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, improved collectors, and advanced Fusion+.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land & Water: Advanced gravcraft.
- Air: Advanced gravcraft and speeders.
- Space: Advanced gravcraft and G-Carriers.
- FTL: Jump Drive-6.
World Government[edit]
Lagash is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government is 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. The bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucracy or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence like the military.
- Lagash is a member of the Imperium, the subsector capital, and contains a Naval Base.
- Non-canon Data: The Lagash system (E66796A-3) currently has an Amber rating. Terran Republic Marine forces are currently engaged in mop up operations on Lagash after successfully conquering those regions of that world not already held by Lagashian Gabreelists. Travel to certain areas of Lagash is still regarded as potentially dangerous due to terrorist activity.
World Military[edit]
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World Economy[edit]
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Trade Data[edit]
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World Demographics[edit]
- With 50 billion inhabitants, it is the most highly populated world in the subsector.
World Culture[edit]
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Historical Data[edit]
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World Timeline[edit]
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UWP Listing[edit]
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Historical Data[edit]
The name of the world Lagash is of ancient Sumerian origin. Lagash was a Sumerian city northwest of the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what would later become the southeastern portion of the Terran pre-starflight nation-state of Iraq.
Lagash was first settled during the Ziru Sirka; the Vilani established a series of smaller outposts on the worlds of the “Lagash Trace” trailing from Nusku (Solomani Rim 1822). Following the Third Interstellar War the Vilani abandoned these worlds which were then claimed by the Terran Confederation. Terran settlement began in earnest following the Eighth Interstellar War.
Toward the end of the Long Night Lagash became an important trade link with the Vegan and Vilani worlds to Coreward. Lagash welcomed the Imperium and soon became a loyal member.
Under the rule of the Solomani Confederation Lagash was considered a hotbed of radical ideology and subject to SolSec purges. As a result, following the Rim War Lagash was rewarded for its moderate views by the Imperium with an early lifting of military rule. In 1032 Lagash was made subsector capital, displacing the traditional role of Terra (Solomani Rim 1827). The current ruling noble family, the von Ritterburgs, were elevated to ducal status in 1033 after the former Duke of Sol died without heir.
The Pan-Galactic Friends of Life, an ecological activist group with chapters throughout the Imperial worlds of the Solomani Rim, was founded on Lagash in 1073.
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