Orchard (world)

Orchard/Nisaga (Empty Quarter 3012) Milieu 1116 B664575-9 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 5 Moderate (600 thousand) Government 7 Balkanization Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G0 V
Worlds	13
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Balkanization
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	3637
Army Size (BEs)	1
Economic Details
Technology Level	9
Economic Extension	C45-1 Resources C Very abundant Labor 4 Moderate (60 thousand) Infrastructure 5 Limited Efficiency -1 Average
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	0
GWP (BCr)	216
World Trade Number	4
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	757
Starport Details
Classification	Class-B
Port Size	3
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	55
Port passengers (annual)	1,000

Orchard is an agricultural world with an ideal environment for producing food from plants, animals, or other forms. The system has a population in the hundreds of thousands of sophonts. It is a Human dominated Non-Aligned world in the Nisaga Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector.

Astrography and Planetology

Part of the Orchard Cluster.

Orchard has a solitary primary star.

Orchard
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G0 V	Main Sequence		1.06	5860 - 5930	1.22623
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0102	0.0918	1.04 - 1.83	1.02	10.2
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
	Remarks

History and Background

The Orchard Commission was the first human interstellar state in the quadrant, established in 452.

The population was largely wiped out during the Era of Horror (869-873 Imperial), with the use of gigaton EMP warheads to destroy all electrical equipment on the world.

• In 871, the Hegemony Pacification Group Quietus detonated 20 gigaton EMP warheads over the world, and retreated. They licked their wounds, and returned two months later to a world where almost all of the population had died along with the electrical grid. When the Hegemony proclaimed their dominion over the system, the response was only silence.

The Regency of Orchard, the scattered remains of the Orchard nation in the wider system, had no choice but to accept trade links and the economic necessity of being part of the Hegemony.

UWP Listing

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

• T20 - 993 - Orchard 3012 B664637-9 Ag Ni 223 Na
• CT - 1105 - Orchard 3012 B664575-9 Ag Ni 623 Na
• MT - 1125 - Orchard 3012 B664575-9 Ag Ni 623 Na
• TNE - 1201 - Orchard 3012 X664654-6 Ag Ni Ri B 223 Wi

References and Contributors

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. "Beta Quadrant of the Empty Quarter Sector, Nisaga Subsector." Stellar Reaches 03 (2005): 14. - UWP Only
• 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. "A Gazetteer to the Worlds of the Empty Quarter." Stellar Reaches 18 (2012): 5. - Short write-up
• Alvin Plummer. "Data Dump: Updated Maps and UWPs for the Empty Quarter, 993 and 1105 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 19 (2012): 48. - UWP Only
• World page generated by AB-101
• Data compiled by ’’MIMIC’’ - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication