Riga (world)

Riga/Beckann (Gateway 1423)
Classic Era (1116)	D675887-6 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 8 Moderate (800 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G7 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	0

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Riga is a pre-agricultural, pre-Industrial world with a moderate population of over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts.

• It requires significant imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
• Its economy and population are growing and living conditions are expected to slowly improve barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Trindel Confederacy in the Beckann Subsector of Gateway Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Riga has a solitary primary star.

Riga
	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

History & Background (Dossier)

World Starport (St)

Riga has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Military

The Trindel Confederacy's navy consists of ships loaned to a central command structure by the three member states, which in turn receive them under loan from individual worlds. Thus a Confederacy vessel might be serving under its world flag, state flag, or the Confederacy flag, and be subject to different priorities at different times.

Historical Data

The storied Galastrian Metals corporation collapsed during a workers' revolt on Tharver in 302, but within three years the League Concord had been signed, establishing the Galian Trade League, a trade corporation which essentially took over most of Galastrian's former holdings under looser reigns of authority and control. By the mid-500s, the League incorporated all of what is today the Galian Federation, the Plavian League, the Trindel Confederacy, and the coreward worlds of the Viyard Concourse.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• Joe Fugate. MegaTraveller Journal 4 (Digest Group Publications, 1993), TBD.
• Martin Dougherty, Hunter Gordon. Gateway to Destiny (QuikLink Interactive, 2004), TBD.