Luupim (world)

Luupim/K'righeek (Numbis 2828)
Classic Era (1116)	X445853-3 Starport X No Starport Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 8 Moderate (600 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 3 Pre-Industrial (basic science)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K9 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Luupim is an agricultural world with the potential to become an industrial power.

• 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.
• As a preindustrial world, this planet cannot yet manufacture enough high-technology resources to support a modern, star-faring society. Having to import many manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• This is a cold world with an overall climate that is at the lower temperature range of human-congruous sophont endurance.
• 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 ideal for Hiver life, and is considered a garden world paradise by their standards.
• This is a "low technology" world with technology competencies well below standard for Charted Space.

• It is a member of the Two Thousand Worlds in the K'righeek Subsector of Numbis Sector.

• It is the homeworld of a sophont species and minor race known as Luupinites.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Luupim has a solitary primary star.

Luupim
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.59	3850 - 3930	0.15775
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0057	0.0329	0.41 - 0.78	0.57	5.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
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World Atmosphere

Luupim has a high rate of volcanism, and the thin atmosphere is tainted with sulfur and sulfur compounds.

• The name Luupim translates from !kee as Evil Winds; the sulfur smell is reminiscent of certain K'kree legends recounting the scent of evil winds which was thought to presage great disasters on Kirur.

Native Sophont (NIL): Luupinites

The world was discovered by K'kree many centuries ago, and studied until it was established that the inhabitants -- thick, furred, bipedal primitives descended from omnivore/hunter stock -- ate both plant and animal foodstuffs, and thus might be persuaded to adopt a civilized vegetarian existence. The planet was interdicted as a result, so as to ensure the safety of K'kree travellers, and, at the same time, keep the natives out of reach of technology until a decision regarding their fate should be reached at Kirur. As is often the case, time, distance and other commitments have conspired to keep the decision from being made. There is no great need for precipitate action, anyway, as the natives are far from achieving any form of unification of technological prowess which could make them a threat to the forces of a Xi Rrikeek Tuughit'ra, should it become necessary to declare one. The interdiction patrol monitors planetary development, and can advise if local changes make an immediate decision mandatory at any time.

History & Background (Dossier)

Luupim is a world not far from the border of the Two Thousand Worlds.

World Starport (St)

Luupim does not have a starport. The Class X Starport is an indication that no starport exists in the system. There are no facilities or services available, and no site marked for landing.

Urbanization

• The natives of Luupim are reasonably intelligent, but technologically unsophisticated. Technology (in a few isolated regions where development has proceeded faster than the planetary norm) has peaked at TL-3. There are no large cities; most of the native population of 600 million live in rural areas or small towns. This is partly due to their love of hunting wild game.

World Government (G)

Luupim is governed by a Feudal Technocracy. Society divides itself based on the technical requirements of the society. Each of these functions are granted as a fief to an individual or group. Leadership of these fiefs determines the head of the government.

Luupim government is chaotic at best, most readily describable as a loose feudalism; there is no unified government structure, and most individual towns or regions fend for themselves, receiving neither help nor hindrance from their neighbors.

• The natives have not evidenced even the slightest degree of hostility or aggression among themselves. Some disputes have occasionally led to small-scale conflicts between towns, but these are very limited in scope and violence. Of course, from a K'kree point of view, the people of the world are dangerous because of their willingness to consume animal flesh. Most alarming to the Steppelords is the fact that the sport of hunting is a particularly popular one, and K'kree scientists assigned to study the world have frequently reported with disgust on the relish and skill with which these predatory locals hunt down and kill animals of all kinds.

World Technology Level (TL)

Luupim possesses a Technology Level of TL–3.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Printing press, the mechanical telegraph, and the first audio recordings.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Coal or other simple hydrocarbon fuels and early steam engines.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Bicycles and early steam coaches with advanced roadways.
  • Water: Advanced sailing and early steam engine ships.
  • Air: The earliest hot air balloons.

World Culture

In local mythology, the sky, from which clouds of sulphurous smoke, rains of hot ash, and other natural disasters come, is the Abode of Evil.

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