Lupigaa (world)

Lupigaa/Khandi (Dagudashaag 1711) Milieu 1116 E550421-5 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (40 thousand) Government 2 Participating Democracy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M0 V M3 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Participating democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1111
Army Size (BEs)	2
Economic Details
Technology Level	5
Economic Extension	631-5 Resources 6 Few Labor 3 Low (4 thousand) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	9
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-E
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Lupigaa has both an unbreathable 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. This a low technology world with technology competency below the standard for Charted Space. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Khandi Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Lupigaa, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. During the Long Night this world was named Luurashar.

Astrography and planetology

Lupigaa is a member of the Rusadaa Trace.

This desert world has suffered an ecological disaster that has caused immense pollution and environmental damage. It is barely habitable by most sophonts, who must struggle to exist here.

Binary Solar System

Lupigaa Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Lupigaa M0 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.489	2800 - 3600	0.04
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00511	0.01659	0.16 - 0.26	0.511	5.11
	Orbit #	*	*	0	1	6
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Lupigaa M3 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.3942	2300 - 3100	0.02
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00404	0.01179	0.11 - 0.18	0.404	4.04
	Orbit #	*	*	0	1	6

History and background

This impoverished desert world has almost nothing to offer, but once this was not so.

Historical Event: Freighter Disaster

In the early years of the Third Imperium it was a small, successful, if somewhat fragile, farming colony. the inhabitants cultivated a local moss-like plants for their pharmaceutical value. Power was supplied by a small fusion reactor on the shores of a small sea. In 134 a large freighter mis-jumped into system, collided with one of the many small chunks of rock that orbit the world. As the ship moved into the upper reaches of the atmosphere to attempt landing the drives failed and the ship crashed into the power station. The resulting explosion vaporized most of the small sea and contaminated the land and air around for a thousand kilometers.

The event persuaded most of the inhabitants it was time to leave, and the world has been in a slow decline ever since.

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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Leighton Piper. "Library Data:Khandi." Signal-GK 12 (1996): 64. via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 83.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 228.