Pugaash (world)

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Pugaash/Nulinad (Empty Quarter 0337)
Milieu 1116
B896867-6
StarportB Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere9 Dense (tainted)
Hydrographics6 Wet World 60%
Population8 Moderate (500 million)
Government6 Captive Government/Colony
Law7 Moderate Law (no firearms)
Tech Level6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also UWP
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System Details
Primary G7 V M4 V
Worlds 14
Gas Giants 3
Planetoid Belts 2
Cultural Details
Government Captive government
Law Level Moderate
Cultural Extension 8856
Army Size (BEs) 300
Economic Details
Technology Level 6
Economic Extension
A77+1
ResourcesAAbundant
Labor7Moderate (50 million)
Infrastructure7 Generally available
Efficiency+1Average
Importance Extension 0
Resource Units 447
GWP (BCr) 490
World Trade Number 4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year) 4,195
Starport Details
Classification Class-B
Port Size 4
Building Capacity (Tons) 500,000
Port employees 935
Port passengers (annual) 17,000

Pugaash is a moderate-population world, with too many sophonts to be an agricultural world but not enough to be an industrial world. Government control of this world is by an external military force. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Nulinad Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector and in the Domain of Antares. Pugaash, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and a baronet, and the fiefdoms of a marquis and a viscount. All four are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

Astrography and Planetology[edit]

This world is part of the Zukhisa-Econdora Main.

Stellar Data[edit]

Pugaash has two stars in the star system.
Pugaash
Solitary G Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
G7 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.95 5480 - 5550 0.83567
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0086 0.0758 0.88 - 1.56 0.86 8.6
Orbit #  *  * 3 3 7
Remarks
Pugaash
Solitary M Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
M4 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 0.23 3110 - 3210 0.00584
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0025 0.0063 0.08 - 0.16 0.25 2.5
Orbit #  *  * 0 0 5
Remarks

Mainworld Data[edit]

Environmental advisory: Pugaash's atmosphere is tainted with hallucinogenic micro-organisms. While the mote-sized, plankton-like organisms don't exist in mountainous regions -- where the air is too thin for breathing, regardless -- they are pervasive over most of Pugaash's land masses (a similar micro-organism circulates over the planet's oceans, but is 'harmless' compared to its land-based cousin.)

  • After exposure for several hours, the subject begins to imagine threats that aren't there, and grows increasingly more paranoid, even of trusted friends. Exposure over a longer time period causes permanent brain damage, up to death.
  • All Pugaashi homes (isolated and hivehomes) have airlocks and sealed windows, and both civilians and military forces wear TL 5-6 airfilters.
  • A Traveller needs to be out of the atmosphere for 2+ days before the micro-organisms in his body die out, and the mental damage ceases.

History and Background[edit]

Despite Pugaash's level of population, its inability to support and sustain competitive technology has limited its ability to exert interstellar influence, unlike its neighboring system, Nulinad (Empty Quarter 0338). Originally settled as a religious retreat during the early days of the Rule of Man, divergent belief systems split the original theocracy into several world powers, three of which have survived until today, struggling to become the governing body of the world's population.

Military technology on Pugaash was as high as TL-10 during the early Dawn era. Visiting traders could make profitable export deals, if they could handle the demanding legalism and harsh bargaining tactics of the Pugaashi. As interstellar trade developed, the local hierarchy maintained a covert network of agents and a handful of couriers to gather important secrets, uncover hidden knowledge and reveal long-lost technology. The Shushaginin -- the 'Order of Watchers', Pugaash's intelligence service -- was quite efficient, existing from c. A.D. 4020 to 4719 (c. -500 to 199 Imperial), when a decade-long civil war tore apart the Pugaashi planetary government.

Between 750 and 950, the world went through six worldwide wars (two of them involving a limited nuclear exchange), over 20 regional wars (defined as being of sub-continental scale or larger), and innumerable local wars, skirmishes, raids, and border incidents. Oftentimes, the violence spilled over into the neighboring system of Nulinad, the Sector Capital of the Empty Quarter. The Imperium tried various means to contain the violence, from Red Zoning, to full-on Imperial Army occupations, to relocating the smaller, more vicious nations to systems at least 20 parsecs from Pugaash.

The essential problem involved the entanglements of conflicting land claims, prideful and powerful nobles, the relentless shrinkage of arable land, a fixation on avenging past wrongs, and corporate intrigues to gain effective monopolies in controlling both food imports and the high-tech military infrastructure -- something the locals can't do, being at TL-6. The struggle between the three largest theocratic powers for world domination simply added another overlay of hostilities to the world's many troubles. Fortunately, the Solomani Rim War gave the Subsector Duke the right to draft the most aggressive and violent men -- roughly two million soldiers -- to wage war on behalf of the Imperium hundreds of parsecs away.

This act did several good things for Pugaash: the sharp decrease of militancy permitted a (rather rushed) rezoning to yellow, then green, permitting the Imperial garrison to be redeployed. The local governments no longer feel honor-bound to react to every slight and perceived insult. Moreover, the noble houses began enjoying renewed planetary trade and (relative) prosperity, and there's an informal consensus among the major powers to make the peace permanent. This wave of pacifism is strongly encouraged by the Imperium, both directly and indirectly.

World Starport (Sp)[edit]

Pugaash has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)[edit]

Pugaash has a population of 500,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

World Technology[edit]

The Abbey of Laagship. The technologically knowledgeable monks run the Abbey as a combination factory, fortress, ceremonial center, and technological academy.

  • The technopriests of Pugaash, servants of the then slowly decaying world theocracy, had their own view of trade. Colonized in A.D. 2324 (-2196 Imperial), very early in the Rule of Man, it was a heretical Vilani religious retreat, focused on the contemplation of, development of, and hunger for absolute power, instead of the usual Vilani obsession for absolute stability. Despite their power-lust, Pugaash's leaders never did build the pocket empire of their dreams: but they did adroitly navigate the turbulent times of the Vargr Pillaging, keeping the world's technological infrastructure largely intact.

UWP Listing[edit]

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

  • T20 - 993 - Pugaash 0337 B89687B-6 523 Im
  • CT - 1105 - Pugaash 0337 B896867-6 Mr 523 Im
  • MT - 1125 - Pugaash 0337 X896830-3 423 Ou - Outlands
  • TNE - 1201 - Pugaash 0337 X89689D-2 323 Wi

References and Contributors[edit]

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