Luken (world)

Luken/Laraa (Dagudashaag 3037) Milieu 1116 C543589-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 5 Moderate (100 thousand) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K2 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Civil service bureaucracy
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	646A
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	9
Economic Extension	A43+1 Resources A Abundant Labor 4 Moderate (10 thousand) Infrastructure 3 Very limited Efficiency +1 Average
Importance Extension	-1
Resource Units	120
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	612
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	45
Port passengers (annual)	1,100

Luken has both an unbreathably thin atmosphere and a lack of surface water making habitation by sophonts difficult. The system has a population between 10,000 and 10 million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Laraa Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Luken, 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 Shamem Er.

Astrography and Planetology

Luken is a member of the Sylean Main.

Stellar Data

Luken has a solitary primary star.

Luken
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.82	4830 - 5100	0.49928
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0073	0.0586	0.7 - 1.26	0.73	7.3
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks

History and Background

The entire healthy adult population works mining out the various minerals and Sac-quai, an underground edible root that forms the mainstay of the Luken diet. The adults work two weeks at the mine followed by a week of rest (of Festival as the locals refer to it).

The cities are occupied only by the elderly, the infirm, pregnant and nursing mothers, and youths under 16. This last factor has made Luken the juvenile crime capital of the quadrant and adults have been warned to avoid traveling at night beyond the Festival areas as bands of youth prey on lone Oo-di's, as adults are known.

World Starport (Sp)

Luken 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.

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: Laraa." Signal-GK 08 (1994): 47. via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 86.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 227.