Loren (RD 2311) (world)
Loren/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 2311) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | C57459C-7
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | M5 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 1 |
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 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 contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.
- The population of this world is nearly 100% Bruhre.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
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.
Monostellar System[edit]
Loren (RD 2311) Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Prometheus M5 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.162 2930 - 3060 0.00171 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0009 0.0034 0.04 - 0.09 0.09 0.9 Orbit # * * * * 3
System Data[edit]
Planetary System: Four major bodies.
- One inhabited world (Loren, I)
- One gas giant in system
- No planetoid belts in system.
Mainworld Data[edit]
- 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[edit]
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)[edit]
Loren is not actually part of the 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.
References[edit]
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- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 27. (dot map)
- James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11. (dot map)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 11,50. (dot map)
- Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 22, 56.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com