Meager (world)
| Meager/Sephi Hydra (Aldebaran 1411) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | C653786-8
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary | K7 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Meager is a poor world.
- It lacks the population and means to expand its economy at this point in time.
- Life here is poor, but most people make by and live as happily as they can.
- It is a member of the Solomani Confederation in the Sephi Hydra Subsector of Aldebaran Sector.
Description / Astrography & Planetology[edit]
No information yet available.
Meager has a solitary primary star. Meager 
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity K7 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.64 3990 - 4100 0.20972 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0059 0.038 0.47 - 0.88 0.59 5.9 Orbit # * * 2 2 6 Remarks
System Data[edit]
2 Gas Giants — 2 Planetoid Belts — 7 Other Worlds
Mainworld Data[edit]
Meager is a small-standard world with a thin atmosphere, but appreciable water seas and lakes.
Mainworld Geography & Topography[edit]
Nominal levels of tectonic activity. Average-size mountain ranges, low frost lines.
Mainworld Map[edit]
No information yet available.
Native Lifeforms[edit]
Vearth: A lanky, slow-moving quadruped carnivore with warm-blood, averaging 1.5m at the shoulder, and 400kg. Capable of 100m sprints. Sight is primarily in infrared.
History & Background / Dossier[edit]
No information yet available.
World Starport[edit]
Meager 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.
Meager has a single highport, operated by Solomani naval personnel. The planetary government has appointed a station council to set policy and settle disputes.
World Technology Level[edit]
Meager possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.
- Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
- Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
- Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
- Land: Advanced automobiles.
- Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
- Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
- Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
World Government[edit]
Meager is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy, and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. This ruling bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucractic apparatus or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence, like the military.
World Law Level[edit]
Meager has a moderate level with laws covering many areas of government and interaction. These laws are simple enough that most people can act as their own advocate, though for serious issues a professional is recommended. Law enforcement officials will be present, but not in great numbers. All firearms except shotguns, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.
World Military[edit]
Planetary army, used primarily as a social construct and to aid in disasters.
World Economy[edit]
Mining, Industrialization, Electronics and Computers.
Trade Data[edit]
Meager industries will purchase almost any more advanced technologies to copy.
World Demographics[edit]
Humaniti 100%
World Culture[edit]
A late-awakening Long Night culture.
Urbanization[edit]
Typical Tech-8/9 urban "skyscrapers".
Historical Data[edit]
No information yet available.
World Timeline[edit]
No information yet available.
UWP Listing[edit]
C 6 5 3 7 8 6 – 8
Trade Data[edit]
- Importance: -1 (unimportant)
World Economy[edit]
- Resources: B (abundant)
- Labor: 6 (millions)
- Infrastructure: 7 (generally available)
- Efficiency: +1 (average)
World Culture[edit]
- Heterogenity: 6 (harmonious)
- Acceptance: 6 (aloof)
- Strangeness: 5 (distinct)
- Symbols: 6 (somewhat concrete)
World Timeline[edit]
Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:
- -9235: far to coreward, the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over the centuries pioneers and settlers gradually spread across Charted Space.
- -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka controls vast territories.
- -2431: Terrans discover jump drive technology.
- -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars. The young Terran Confederation battles against the ancient Vilani Ziru Sirka.
- -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the former Ziru Sirka.
- -1999: the Aslan gain jump drive technology.
- -1862 to -1110: the Terran Mercantile Community is active within the region.
- -1776 to 0: the Long Night.
- -1118 to 380: the Aslan Border Wars.
- -1110 to 588: the Terran Mercantile Community gradually becomes the Old Earth Union, shrinking to control the region around Terra.
- The Year 0: to coreward, the Third Imperium is founded.
- 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
- 380: the Peace of Ftahalr ends the ongoing Aslan Border Wars and establishes understandings regarding human and Aslan influence.
- 588: the Old Earth Union and the former territories of the Terran Mercantile Community are annexed by the Imperium, moving its border adjacent to the Aslan Hierate.
- 604-622: the Imperial Civil War.
- 624: the Imperial Express Boat Network is established.
- 704: the Solomani Autonomous Region is formed.
- 800-820: the Psionics Suppressions.
- 871: the Solomani Confederation is founded.
- 940: the Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
- 990-1002: the Solomani Rim War.
- 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey includes data for the system.
- 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M), (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), various pages. (Library data entries)
- John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Classic Traveller Supplement 11 Library Data (N-Z), (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), various pages. (Library data entries)
- John Harshman, Marc Miller. Solomani (Game Designers Workshop, 1986), IFC, pages 3, 28. (sector named, background for the sector)
- Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), pages 8-11, various others. (dot map locating the worlds of the sector, background for the sector)
- Steven Eric Schwartz. MegaTraveller Periodical Imperiallines 2, 1991, page 5. (Bootean Federation, background for the sector)
- Michael Taylor. Fighting Ships of the Solomani (QuikLink Interactive, 2009), page 5. (background for the sector)
- David L. Pulver. Solomani (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), pages 50, 118, 119, various others. (background for the sector)
- Martin J. Dougherty. The Order of Prometheus (Mongoose Publishing, 2023), various pages. (scenarios and background for the sector)
- Zho Berka's Maps (Classic Era UWP Data for the world)
- External Link: Ocean of Storms site (Rebellion Era UWP Data for the sector)
- Author & Contributor: Garnfellow (development of the sector)
- Author & Contributor: Leroy W.L. Guatney of the Federation Development Agency (FDA) (development of the sector)
- Author & Contributor: Dochsavage
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com