Melior (world)

Melior/Glisten (Spinward Marches 1736) Milieu 1116 D540466-7 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 4 Moderate (70 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G3 V
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Captive government
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	3146
Army Size (BEs)	0
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	631-4 Resources 6 Few Labor 3 Low (7 thousand) Infrastructure 1 Extremely limited Efficiency -4 Very poor
Importance Extension	-3
Resource Units	11
GWP (BCr)	0
World Trade Number	2.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-D
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Melior has both a thin tainted atmosphere and no surface water which makes habitation by sophonts difficult. The system has a population between 10,000 and a million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. This world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions make it dangerous to visitors.  The governance of this world is from Glisten (Spinward Marches 2036). It is a member of Third Imperium in the Glisten Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Melior, 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. 50% of the world's population is the Human Chimera Jonkeereen.

Astrography & Planetology

Melior is a member of the Spinward Main. Melior lies on the Glisten Arm.

Monostellar System

Melior Monostellar System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Melior primary G3 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.98	4900 - 5800	0.886
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00891	0.07807	0.75 - 1.22	0.891	8.91
	Orbit #	*	*	3	3	7

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1736 Melior (Imperial) - Amber Zone

Starport: Class II.

Diameter: 1,000 miles (1,600 km).
Atmosphere: Thin oxygen-nitrogen with sulfur compound taint.
Hydrographics: None.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 62,000.
Government: Subjugated.
Control Level: 0.
Tech Level: 7.
World Trade Number: 2.5.

History & Background (Dossier)

The population is split between the Jonkeereen and the Human colonists, each living in their own enclaves. The colony is administered by the Ministry of Colonization.

Melior is a long-term terraforming project, being administered by the MinCol branch office on Egypt. Large quantities of ice asteroids are being diverted and used to bombard the planet. Their impacts have all been precalculated to avoid inhabited areas, but mistakes have occurred and MinCol takes no responsibility for ships landing away from the scientific outpost. There are no exports of any significance. This phase of the terraforming project is scheduled to be completed in 1150, and has been underway since 1090. MinCol will contract for pusher ships on a freelance basis.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 26-27.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 50-51.
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 95.
• Hans Rancke-Madsen. "The Outrim Frontier" JTAS Online (June 19, 2007)
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 114. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Shannon Appelcline, "Aliens of the Marches: The Jonkeereen", Freelance Traveller 023 (November 2011)
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 128-132. (UWP only)
• Rob Dean - The Zhodani Base