Mercator (world)

Mercator/Laeth (Gushemege 1233)
Classic Era (1116)	C540431-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major 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 (50 thousand) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G1 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	3

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Mercator System
Laeth/Gushemege 1233
Position	Distance	Name	UWP
Primary		Hymax	G1 V
1	0.2 AU	Hymax 1	YS00000-0
2	0.4 AU	Hymax 2	Y100000-0
3	0.7 AU	Hymax 3	Y470000-0
4	1.0 AU	Mercator	C540431-8
5	1.6 AU	Hymax 5	Y540000-0
6	2.8 AU	Hymax 6	SGG
7	3.3 AU	Hymax 7	Y302000-0
8	5.2 AU	Hymax 8	SGG
9	10 AU	Hymax 9	SGG
10	20 AU	Hymax10	Y978000-0

Mercator is a poor, nonindustrial desert hellworld with a population struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often develop intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• This world has no free-standing water.
• 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.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Laeth Subsector of Gushemege Sector in the Domain of Vland.
• This world has an Imperial Scout base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.
• During the Long Night this world was named Kadkaagi.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This world is part of the Sidurii Cluster.

Stellar Data

Mercator has a solitary primary star.

Hymax
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.03	5770 - 5860	1.109
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0099	0.0873	1 - 1.75	0.99	9.9
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
	Remarks

System Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

No information yet available.

Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

Native life is minimal, consisting of algae and simple worms in damp sub-surface soil pockets.

History & Background (Dossier)

This world was known to the Vilani as Kadkaagi.

During the Long Night, it became a colony of Sidur Ishki. When Gumahl raiders first threatened the colony, the Sidurii naval forces stationed there chased them out of the system. However, an administrative error later halted local funding for the navy.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Mercator, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.

World Starport

Mercator 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.

World Technology Level

Mercator 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

Mercator is governed by Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy. A single family or small group provides the leadership and important positions within the government. These positions are inherited by members of the group or by their relatives. 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.

World Law Level

No information yet available.

World Military

No information yet available.

References

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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Loren Wiseman. "Contact: Ael Yael." Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 15 (1983): 13-20.
• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 13.
• Greg Videll. Arrival Vengeance (Game Designers Workshop, 1992), TBD.
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 73.
• David Burden, Andy Lilly. Long Way Home (Imperium Games, 1997), 54.
• Steve Jackson, Loren Wiseman. Alien Races 4 (Steve Jackson Games, 2001), TBD. (Ael Yael)
• Gareth Hanrahan. Aslan (Mongoose Publishing, 2009), TBD.
• Colin Dunn. Library Data (Mongoose Publishing, 2011), TBD.
• EXTERNAL LINK: Gushemege Worlds ^{dead link}
• Author & Contributor: David Burden of the HIWG