Loren (RD 2311) (world)

Loren/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 2311)
Classic Era (1116)	C57459C-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 5 Moderate (200 thousand) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law C Extreme Law (no privacy) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M5 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Loren (RD 2311) is an agricultural, nonindustrial world still lacking adequate means to expand its economy.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• This dangerous world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that make it dangerous to visitors.
• This world is a "Twilight Zone World", a planet that is tidally-locked to its star. It has a hot side that permanently faces the star, a cold side that permanently faces away, and a narrow twilight zone in-between.
• It is a client state of the Third Imperium in the Caledon Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector.
• This world has an Imperial Scout base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.
• The population of this world is nearly 100% Bruhre.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Loren is a fascinating world, an example of a highly unusual ecology at work.

• The world has been colonized, albeit lightly, by a nonhuman Imperial race originating in the Daibei sector, the Bruhre.
• Locked with one side constantly towards its star, the world is not the classic twilight zone planet, because even the dayside temperatures under the feeble light of Prometheus are barely over freezing.

Stellar Data

Loren (RD 2311) has a solitary primary star.

Prometheus
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.162	2930 - 3060	0.00171
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0018	0.0034	0.04 - 0.09	0.18	1.8
	Orbit #	*	*	*	0	4
	Remarks

System Data

Planetary System: Four major bodies.

• One inhabited world (Loren, I)
• One gas giant in system
• No planetoid belts in system.

Mainworld Data

• Mean orbital radius: 26.93 million kilometers (.18 AU).
• Period: 39.9 days.
• No satellites.
• Diameter: 8552 Kilometers.
• Density: 1.01.
• Mass: 0.247 standard.
• Mean surface gravity: 0.63 G.
• Rotation period: None (tidal lock with primary).
• Axial inclination: 2°49'20.2".
• Albedo: 0.26.
• Surface atmospheric pressure: 1.1 atm. Composition, oxygen-nitrogen mix with suflur and sulfur compounds taint; filter mask required to breathe atmosphere.
• Hydrographic percentage: 40%; composition, water and frozen water-ice.
• Mean surface temperature: dayside, 5°C; nightside, -124°C.

Native Lifeforms

Twilight zone temperatures are far below the range for human comfort. Nonetheless, this singularly inhospitable world does support life. In the absence of an effective form of photosynthesis, the plant life of Loren relies on a chemosynthetic base; life flourishes even in some portions of the nightside, where volcanoes supply sufficient heat and a source for a variety of chemicals necessary for the world's life-processes. Higher forms of animal life also exist, in a complex food chain not entirely unfamiliar, but with intriguing variations.

History & Background (Dossier)

Loren is not actually part of the Third Imperium, but an IISS base is present, and the Bruhre government of the world is answerable to their own homeworld, which is a member. Imperial membership is likely to be granted within the next fifty years.

The Bruhre can tolerate the planet's atmosphere, and indeed its native lifeforms as part of their diet. Loren serves them as an agricultural colony.

During the Long Night, Loren was rejected as a colony by the Humans of Orpheus Roye's Reaver kingdom, as they, by contrast, couldn't tolerate the exotic environment.

World Starport (Sp)

Loren 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.

World Population (P)

Loren has a population of 200,000 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.
• The population consists of Bruhre.

World Government (G)

Loren 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 Level (L)

Loren 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 world with this law level may be an Amber Zone or a Red 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). Civilian movement is rigidly controlled. Travel documents are frequently checked. There is no legal concept of privacy (save for those who can claim necessity for official government business). The police are free to inspect anyone and anything at any time.

World Technology Level (TL)

Loren possesses a Technology Level of TL–7.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early video and early satellite communication networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fuel cells, solar energy, and geothermal power sources.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, hovercraft, and bullet trains.
  • Water: Hydrofoils and early triphibians.
  • Air: Hang gliders and supersonic jets.
  • Space: Deep space probes and interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

References

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