Popok (world)

Popok/Pryden (Lishun 0311)
Classic Era (1116)	A87A79B-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population 7 Moderate (70 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G4 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	4

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Popok is a preindustrial water world.

• Its surface is 90% or more covered in an ocean of water.
• The inhabitants of this world live on the roughly 10% of exposed land mass, in underwater colonies, on city ships, or similar arrangements.
• As a preindustrial world, this planet cannot yet manufacture enough high-technology resources to support a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or over technology standards for Charted Space.
• This is a "Puzzle" world designated as an Amber Zone. Caution is advised since the world has an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that are not well understood and might be a danger to a visitor.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Pryden Subsector of Lishun Sector in the Domain of Antares.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

No information yet available.

Popok has a solitary primary star.

Veelotar
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G4 V	Main Sequence		0.985	5660 - 5680	0.94848
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0092	0.0808	0.93 - 1.65	0.92	9.2
	Orbit #	*	*	3	3	7
	Remarks

System Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data

Although technically Popok is a water world, its extreme axial tilt causes much of the water in one hemisphere to boil off into the atmosphere as clouds of steam once every 11 days, leaving the sea bottom a sun-baked desert. Meanwhile the opposite hemisphere freezes hard.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

No information yet available.

Mainworld Map

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Native Lifeforms

Native life consists of microbes and a few very small multicellular creatures. These go into a dormant state during the cold cycle, but awaken and move aloft into the steamy atmosphere during the scorch cycle.

History & Background / Dossier

This world was named Kiinuu Da during the Long Night.

Popok has a rather high gravitational force. The Kiinuu Danes have stronger muscles and bones than those of people from planets with lesser gravity.

The world's Amber travel rating is due to the unusual and extreme environment.

Imperial High / Landed Nobility

Popok, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of two members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial marquis.

World Starport

Popok has a Class A Starport, an excellent quality installation which includes all the expected amenities including refined fuel for starships, brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing annual maintenance, overhauls and other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

Urbanization

Popok was settled only in the last 400 years as the technology to deal with its violent environment became available. The locals live primarily in the temperate equatorial regions, floating in massive, tethered cities.

Cities include Barger, Danebo, Jeppesen, Kaysi, Laksonen, Roemer and Ronning.

World Technology Level

Popok possesses a Technology Level of TL–12 or TL-C in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land, Water & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-3.

World Government

Popok is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Law Level

No information yet available.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

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Trade Data

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World Demographics

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World Culture

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Historical Data

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World Timeline

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UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors / Sources

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• Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
• Classic Traveller Alien Module 3: Vargr (named but no further data)
• Classic Traveller Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 6 in article: "The Most Valuable Prey"
• Classic Traveller Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 7 in article: "The Dynam System" & "The Masionia Subsector"
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• External Link: Glendale.org.uk by Author & Contributor: Samuel Penn
• External Link: Downport CARI by Author & Contributor: Paul J. Drye
• Compiler: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science