Lau (world)

Lau/Shallows (Dagudashaag 0812) Milieu 1116 C54179A-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 7 Moderate (40 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K3 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Impersonal bureaucracy
Law Level	Extreme
Cultural Extension	967A
Army Size (BEs)	20
Economic Details
Technology Level	8
Economic Extension	F67+1 Resources F Extremely abundant Labor 6 Moderate (4 million) Infrastructure 7 Generally available Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	630
GWP (BCr)	58
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	2,517
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	46,000
Port employees	195
Port passengers (annual)	2,500

Lau system has a population between 10 and 100 million sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Shallows Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Lau, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight and the fiefdom of a marquis. Both are members of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. This world contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel. During the Long Night this world was named Meuun.

Astrography and planetology

Lau is a member of the Andalusia Cluster.

Lau is famous for its spectacular sunrises and sunsets. The combination of a rich orange sun, ammonia-ice crystals in the mid-atmosphere layers and dust clouds that surround the planet make for beautiful, iridescent displays.

Lau has a solitary primary star.

Lau Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K3 V	Main Sequence		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
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History and background

Tourists flock in their tens at thousands to just sit and watch the impressive and memorable events of Lau's spectacular meteorological shows. Otherwise this world would be Just another uninteresting and barren backwater.

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.

• Jae Campbell. "Library Data: Shallows." Signal-GK 09 (1994): 57. via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 80.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 220.