Larsen (world)

Larsen/Remnants (Dagudashaag 1526) Milieu 1116 C565330-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 3 Low (5 thousand) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 0 No Law Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V M9 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Self-perpetuating oligarchy
Law Level	No law
Cultural Extension	1112
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	521-5 Resources 5 Scarce Labor 2 Low (500) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-2
Resource Units	5
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

Larsen supports a population of fewer than 10,000 sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Remnants Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Larsen, 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 Shiansi.

Astrography and Planetology

This system is part of the Parendis Meridian Cluster.

Stellar Data

Larsen has two stars in the star system.

Larsen
	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
Larsen
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0009	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.09	0.9
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3
	Remarks

Mainworld Data

Larsen, permanently hidden beneath its famous kaleidoscopic, swirling clouds, is a planet best seen from orbit. The multicolored cloud cover is the result of hundreds of varieties of airborne algae thrown high into the atmosphere by the planet's perpetual rains. The planetary surface is covered by a permanent tropical swamp.

Despite the planet's relatively high hydrographics, there are no oceans or large bodies of open water. Instead the ground is completely saturated and permanently covered by a thick mist. The soil is only bound together by the root systems of the millions of different types of plants that have completely strangled the entire planetary surface.

The planet is extremely rich in fossil fuels and has been successfully mined for over a thousand years by local miners who preserved the rest of the planet's resources. In 982 the local miner's guild was forced to sell the rights to Interstellar Petrochemical Processing (IPP). Within two years IPP has set up orbital energy drills to facilitate large scale open pit mining.

Currently over a third of the planet has been decimated by the energy drill open mining process leaving large tracts of sterile land and large gaps in the colorful cloud cover.

History and Background

IPP has now set up its own government to oversee relations with the colonists, and ensure the remaining independent mines only deal with IPP. In 1003, the free market was officially outlawed. This led to an ongoing guerrilla war between the Free Miners and the company which continues to this day.

Visitors to the system are warned that unauthorized landing can be extremely dangerous due to feedback from the orbital energy drills, which can disrupt a ship's systems. To date there have been several fatal accidents caused by ship's attempting to land while an energy drill is in operation. Although in each incident the ships were destroyed, IPP has refused to accept responsibility because the ships had been attempting to land without official company authorization.

In 1102 a semi-political group known as White Fang succeeded in recalibrating one of the energy drills so it struck the planetary offices of IPP. The attack killed more than 30 people and completely destroyed the base. The drill was rigged to explode, but IPP security forces succeeded in dismantling the device.

World Starport (St)

Larsen 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.

Trivia

Several fossils of a creature believed to be the long-extinct sophont known as "Acathii" have been found on Larsen.

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:Remnants." Signal-GK 13 (1997): 10. via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 84.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 214.