Extolay (world)

Extolay/Lanth (Spinward Marches 1711)
Classic Era (1116)	B55589A-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 8 Moderate (100 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V M4 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

style="width: 220px; height: 250px;"

Jump map from Travellermap.com

Extolay is a pre-agricultural world with a moderate population of over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts.

• Its economy and population are growing and living conditions are expected to slowly improve barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Lanth Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector in the Domain of Deneb.
• 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.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• Around 20% of the population consists of Vargr.
• Extolay is a member of the Spinward Main.
• This world was historically known as Llaravi.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Extolay is a binary star system.

• Both are red main sequence stars.

Extolay has two stars in the star system.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks
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

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x6 secondary rocky worlds.
• x1 planetoid belt.

Mainworld Data

Extolay is located on an important trade route linking the Regina and Vilis subsectors.

Mainworld Size (S)

Extolay 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)

Extolay has a pressure of 0.43 to 0.70 atmospheres. The Thin Atmosphere does not require survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Extolay has 45-55% of its surface covered by liquid water. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

In the late 1st Century Imperial, the low-tech indigenous peoples of Llaravi (as Extolay was then known), were contacted by a trade mission aboard a small freighter from the nearby religious colony world of Regina. By the year 98 three Reginan business consortiums joined with a group of Moran businessmen to form the Llaravi Company, LIC and began exporting manufactured goods to Llaravi in return for fine textiles, exotic spices, delicate perfumes, and rare liqueurs, which were in turn sold to Mora in order to purchase high-tech goods and replacement parts for the Reginan business interests. The Llaravi Company set up factors and warehouses in many of the princedoms and a starport with repair facilities and a fuel purification plant in the Kingdom of Ekhsthollae. With the aid of company troops and arms the King of Ekhsthollae began expanding his kingdom, resulting in effective de facto Reginan rulership of Llaravi as a colonial possession. When Regina and the other worlds of the Regina Cluster were offered Imperial membership in 235, as a standard precondition of Imperial membership Regina was required to give up its extraplanetary rulership of Llaravi. When Regina was finally admitted to the Imperium as a full member world in 250, it relinquished control of its colony of Llaravi. By that time Llaravi had already been united under the kings of Ekhstholae, and the world of Llaravi became an Imperial member world in its own right under the name "Extolay".

Today Extolay, lying at the intersection of four subsectors, hosts elements of the 18th Fleet, the 193rd Fleet, the 212th Fleet, and the 213th Fleet.

World Starport (St)

Extolay 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.

• The world is host to an important Imperial Naval Base.

World Population (P)

Extolay has a population of 100,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

• Around 80% of the population (roughly 80 million individuals) are human.
• About 20% of the population (approximately 20 million individuals) consists of Vargr.

Urbanization

In addition to the City of Extolay, other major settlements on the world include Didisha, Khugu, Sha City, and Yeatsburg.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Gvegh, a widely spoken Vargr language. Many dialects exist.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

Extolay 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)

Extolay is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Law (L)

Extolay has an extreme law level which covers every area of interaction. Laws are complex, detailed, and difficult to understand. Every interaction with the government requires an Advocate. Law enforcement is omnipresent and strict. Legal proceeding can take months to years to resolve and may involve dozens of people. A few worlds with this law level may be a Red Zone and others will be an Amber Zone. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (with no exception for private residences; visiting starships are only protected so long as they stay within designated starports and approach corridors).

Imperial Landed Nobility

Extolay, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the estate and fiefdom of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

Trade Data

• Importance: 2 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: B (abundant)
• Labor: 7 (tens of millions)
• Infrastructure: B (very extensive)
• Efficiency: +4 (advanced)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: A (discordant)
• Acceptance: A (very friendly)
• Strangeness: 7 (confusing)
• Symbols: C (very 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.
• 800-820: the Psionics Suppressions.
• 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

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), 22-23.
• 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), 42. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 85.
• Hans Rancke-Madsen. "Worlds Within Jump-6 of Regina", JTAS Online (July 18, 2006)
• 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), 67-72. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. Showing the Sunburst (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 9,23.
• Martin Dougherty. Flashpoints (Mongoose Publishing, 2024), 105.