New Sydney (world)
| New Sydney/Kaheaaihlyal (Iwahfuah 1015) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | D663673-6
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | K4 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Sydney is a rich, nonindustrial world.
- As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
- This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
- It has high-grade living conditions and life on this world is much admired by off-worlders.
- It is a member of the Zodia Colonies, part of the Aslan Hierate, in the Kaheaaihlyal Subsector of Iwahfuah Sector.
- About 60% of the population is composed of humans.
- About 40% of the population is composed of Aslan and other non-human sophonts.
Description (Planetology)[edit]
New Sydney has a solitary primary star. New Sydney 
Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity K4 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.73 4440 - 4600 0.33238 Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0066 0.0478 0.58 - 1.07 0.66 6.6 Orbit # * * 2 2 6 Remarks
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
New Sydney is known in Trokh as Tafeilul. Although within Aslan Hierate space, New Sydney is one of the ten Zodia Colonies and populated by biological humans who are culturally Aslan.
- Control of the world is split between multiple clans.
- New Sydney also has a significant Chirper population, numbering some 3.2 million.
The Tafeilulhoaawli warriors society, which accepts warriors from all Aslan clans, is said to be headquartered in a desert oasis on New Sydney.
World Starport (Sp)[edit]
New Sydney 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 Population (P)[edit]
New Sydney has a population of 8,000,000 sophonts (millions).
- This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
World Demographics[edit]
- Human (Solomani), 60% of the official population
- Aslan, 40% of the official population
- Chirper, 3.2 million not part of the official census.
- Note that all non-Chirper inhabitants are culturally Aslan.
World Languages[edit]
- Anglic
- Japanese
- Trokh
- Minor surgical or genetic modifications are common among upper-class Zodia to enhance proper enunciation of Trokh phrases, notoriously difficult for Humans.
World Government (G)[edit]
New Sydney 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 (L)[edit]
New Sydney has a low law level. 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. Machine guns, other automatic weapons, portable energy weapons, and other military weapons, body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.
Criminal acts are rare but not unheard of in Aslan society. Crimes are different from the insults or slurs that provoke duels, and are classified into three categories: crimes of passion, crimes with victims, and crimes of honour.
- Crimes of passion involve misbehavior prompted by temper, anger, or provocation. The accused is judged by the head of the family, pride, or clan involved.
- Crimes with victims involve taking money or items of value, or violating the person of another for profit (kidnapping, terrorism, piracy). General practice is to have an impartial earleatrais consider the case and present findings.
- Crimes of honour involve failure to observe the rituals established for social behaviour. Judgement is made by the pride or clan head, depending on the severity of the crime. Crimes of honour are the most serious in Aslan society; in practice, most are never tried as a duel to the death occurs first.
World Technology Level (TL)[edit]
New Sydney 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 Culture[edit]
Humans of the Zodia clan place enormous cultural value on their hair. All males grow beards if they can and both genders wear their hair as long as practically possible, baldness being strongly associated with sickness and shame. Realistic wigs and even artificial beards for females are common accessories. Both genders have adopted traditional Aslan clothing, although footwear usually includes subtle lifts to increase height (as Humans are shorter than Aslan).
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com