Price (world)

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Price/Jungleblut (Far Frontiers 2333)
Classic Era (1116)
C888513-8
StarportC Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere8 Dense
Hydrographics8 Wet World 80%
Population5 Moderate (700 thousand)
Government1 Company/Corporation
Law3 Low Law (no automatic weapons)
Tech Level8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary K8 V
Planetoid Belts 1
Gas Giants 2

Price is an agricultural, nonindustrial, pre-rich world with a growing agro-economy, but still lacks an adequate population to expand its economy to a rich status.

  • As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
  • 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.
  • This world has promising economic future although it needs to recruit a larger labor force in order to achieve the desired prosperity.
  • It is a member of the League of Suns in the Jungleblut Subsector of Far Frontiers Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]

Price has a solitary primary star.

  • It is an orange main sequence.
Price has a solitary primary star.
Price
Solitary K Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
K8 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.62 3930 - 3990 0.18766
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0057 0.0359 0.45 - 0.84 0.57 5.7
Orbit #  *  * 2 2 6
Remarks None

System Data[edit]

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

Mainworld Data[edit]

Mainworld Size (S)[edit]

Price is a Meso World between 12,000km and 13,500km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.8G and 1.1G. The horizon will appear about 5.1km away. Vessels with 1G of thrust should check with local starport authorities before attempting to land using emergency power.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)[edit]

Price has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)[edit]

Price has 75-85% of its surface covered by liquid water with a few large continents and extensive islands. Wilderness refueling is possible.

Mainworld Geography and Topography[edit]

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

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(Blank map, predominantly watery world.)

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

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World Starport (St)[edit]

Price 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]

Price has a population of 700,000 sophonts (hundreds of thousands).

Linguistic Topography[edit]

World Technology Level (T)[edit]

Price 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 (G)[edit]

Price is governed by a Corporate Polity, having a single corporation with a typical corporate structure as a government. Essentially, this is a "company town" (or world). The typical corporate-run world usually has a single purpose. Examples include mining, agriculture, or other kinds of resource extraction. But rather than a simple base of operations, there are facilities for housing workers and their families, including hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure. How, or if, the children of the workers are incorporated into the workforce varies with companies. The corporation running the world may be a subsidiary of a larger interstellar corporation.

World Military[edit]

The recent emergence of the aggressive Descarothe Hegemony to spinward has forced a drastic reassessment of military strategy on the part of the League of Suns. Treaty arrangements have been made with the Third Imperium; these provide for Imperial use of local facilities for ships and squadrons operating in the area, in exchange for support against encroachment by surrounding Zhodani clients.

World Law (L)[edit]

Price 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.

Trade Data[edit]

  • Importance: -1 (unimportant)

World Economy[edit]

  • Resources: A (abundant)
  • Labor: 4 (tens of thousands)
  • Infrastructure: 3 (very limited)
  • Efficiency: -4 (very poor)

World Culture[edit]

The world lies within the Zhodani Shadow, a region strongly influenced by the society and culture of the Zhodani Consulate.

  • Heterogenity: 2 (monolithic)
  • Acceptance: 4 (extremely aloof)
  • Strangeness: 2 (typical)
  • Symbols: 5 (concrete)

World Timeline[edit]

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