Matinger (world)

Matinger/Irinkuka (Fornast 1126)
Classic Era (1116)	B588630-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 6 Moderate (5 million) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 0 No Law Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G9 V M8 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	2

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Matinger is a nonindustrial, rich, agricultural world with improving living conditions due to a bustling agro-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 is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Its economy is bustling and an increase in living conditions is expected in the near future.
• This is a cold world with an overall climate that is at the lower temperature range of human-congruous sophont endurance.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Irinkuka Subsector of Fornast Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• It is the homeworld of the Denaar, a sophont species and minor race.
• This world has also been known as:
  • Denaar
  • Matisse

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This world is part of the Sampson Arc.

Stellar Data

Matinger has two stars in the star system.

Denaar Prime
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.9	5270 - 5380	0.69159
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0079	0.069	0.81 - 1.44	0.79	7.9
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	7
	Remarks
Matinger Secondary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M8 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.085	2420 - 2570	0.00018
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0011	0.0011	0.01 - 0.03	0.11	1.1
	Orbit #	*	*	*	0	3
	Remarks

Mainworld Data

Mainworld Size (S)

Matinger is a Meso World between 7,200km and 8,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.4G and 0.57G. The horizon will appear about 4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Matinger has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Matinger has 75-85% of its surface covered by liquid water with a few large continents and extensive islands. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

There are four continents, but two are polar and discussion tends to refer to the two habitable continents. These are both equatorial.

The central highlands of the eastern continent are home to a Denaar ethnic group noted for being physically stronger and preferring a more traditionalist lifestyle.

Native Lifeforms

Abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

• Buh-chu fungus
• Ret-yu-chi lizard
• Whup-du bat

Native Sophont (NIL): Denaar

A non-humanoid race known for downloading consciousness into new bodies as members age.

History & Background (Dossier)

Matinger is also known as Denaar, as are its native people (see above). In their primary native language the Denaar refer to themselves as ahn-twar, which roughly translates to “being” or, more formally, as chi-nes-twar-kohn, meaning “children of the endless generations.” The sometimes confusing situation with the world name arose from the renowned Vilani respect for tradition. “Denaar” originated as a Vilani label for the system primary, before they achieved spaceflight. Reluctant to discredit the ancestral name despite its unsuitability for the Ziru Sirka, they still applied it liberally in spite of the Modern Vilani designation of Matinger (which the Third Imperium uses).

Imperial High & Landed Nobility

Matinger, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdoms of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial subsector duke, who also conducts affairs regarding the entire subsector at the Interstellar and Imperial level.

World Starport (Sp)

Matinger has a Class B Starport, a good quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)

Matinger has a population of 5,000,000 sophonts (millions).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
• The population consists almost entirely of Denaar.

Languages

• Anglic
• Denaari
• Vilani

Urbanization

In common Denaar architecture, gardens often grow through windows, making it hard sometimes to distinguish where house ends and garden begins. Cities tend to be spacious by Human standards, and have a tendency to "wander" over centuries, the populace abandoning older, still functional structures for more modern ones constructed on new territory.

Cities include Kal-ti-mor.

World Government (G)

Matinger is governed by Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy. A single family or small group provides the leadership and important positions in the government. These positions are inherited by member of the group or their family members. The organization may be a monarchy, with titles passed to family members, or a plutocracy where inheritance of the family fortune includes government position. Alternatively, the organization may be a more typical government apparatus, only with positions of power inherited.

See also: Yet-shir.

World Law Level (L)

Matinger has no law in practice. It is an Anarchy. On many worlds, this by itself justifies an Amber Zone advisory. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate.

World Technology Level (TL)

Matinger possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land & Water: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
• MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr {dot map provided}
• Author & Contributor: Jeff Zeitlin (additional data)
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science