Shikua (world)

Shikua/Lentuli (Empty Quarter 0630) Milieu 1116 C311552-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 5 Moderate (500 thousand) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 2 Low Law (no energy weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K4 III
Worlds	9
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Feudal technocracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	1313
Army Size (BEs)	1
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	742-5 Resources 7 Few Labor 4 Moderate (50 thousand) Infrastructure 2 Extremely limited Efficiency -5 Extremely poor
Importance Extension	-2
Resource Units	0
GWP (BCr)	28
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Shikua has a trace atmosphere and water available in the form of ice. The system has a population between 10,000 and 10 million, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Lentuli Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector and in the Domain of Antares. Shikua, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility who acts as an Imperial representative to the world. This world contains a Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel.

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• This world was once known as:
  • Iisule (world)
  • Nihon Station
  • Shikwa

Description (Astrography and Planetology)

No information yet available.

Shikua has a solitary primary star.

Shikua
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K4 III	Giant		4.8	3400 - 4300	275
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.34242	1.37547	13.18 - 21.49	34.242	342.42
	Orbit #	1	4	8	9	12
	Remarks

History and Background (Dossier)

Shikua has had little impact on the history of the Empty Quarter. Called Iisule by the Vilani, this barren world was briefly settled by an Arab group in the -2005 to -1997 period. The marginal settlement failed, and the world was renamed Shikua by subsector traders and explorers. Shikua is a misspelling of the Solomani (Urdu) word Shikwa, meaning “Complaint”: the name refers to a famous poem by Dr. Allama Iqbal, an Indian Muslim living during the British Empire of Terra, written in -2609 Imperial. True to her name, Shikua has a long history of disappointing hopeful settlers and eager prospectors, up to the present day.

Shikua is home not only to the Imperial Scout base, but also to a small settlement of Iper’mar nomads supporting Meena Halab (a.k.a. Port Halab, “Port of Milk” in Arabic). These technophilic stellar wanderers earn their living by providing technologically advanced services to low-tech cultures, from running starports, to providing medical services, to acting as free traders.

The Iper’mar Coreward Belk Clan persuaded the Imperium to establish a TL C port on Shikua, providing a link between the Bwap worlds of Marhaban (Empty Quarter 0426) and Wesaswek (Empty Quarter 0229) to spinward, and the notable Bwap worlds of Datawo (Empty Quarter 0632), Tapawa (Empty Quarter 0931) and Ka-aswa (Empty Quarter 1230) to trailing. The port has become quite a money-earner for the Clan, who now hope to develop a new revenue stream as a mining colony.

Even though it is technically an independent planetary government, it is closely affiliated with the world of Lazisar (Empty Quarter 1233), which provides some military protection for her mining interests here.

UWP Listing

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

• T20 - 993 – Shikua 0630 C211352-8 S Ic Lo Ni Bwap3 124 Im
• CT - 1105 - Shikua 0630 C211552-7 S Ic Ni 524 Im
• MT - 1125 - Shikua 0630 D211552-7 Ic Ni 524 Ou
• TNE - 1201 - Shikua 0630 X211000-0 Ba Ic 024 --
• GT - 1145 – Shikua 0630 D211547-7 Ic Ni 524 Ty

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.

• Jason Kemp. "Gamma Quadrant of the Empty Quarter Sector; Lentuli Subsector." Stellar Reaches 01 (2005): 7. - UWP Only
• Jason Kemp. "Adventure: Sand Castles." Stellar Reaches 05 (2006): 18.
• Jason Kemp. "Sector In Review: Empty Quarter 993." Stellar Reaches 05 (2006): 37. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "Maps and UWP’S for the Empty Quarter: 993, 1105, 1125, and 1201 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 17 (2011): 16. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "Maps and UWP’S for the Empty Quarter: 1145 Imperial (Alternate)." Stellar Reaches 17 (2011): 87. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "Data Dump: Updated Maps and UWPs for the Empty Quarter, 993 and 1105 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 19 (2012): 48. - UWP Only
• Contributor: MIMIC - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication