Roup (world)

Roup/Regina (Spinward Marches 2007) Milieu 1116 C77A9A9-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population 9 High (3 billion) Government A Charismatic Dictator Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	F9 V
Worlds	14
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	2
Cultural Details
Government	Charismatic dictatorship
Law Level	High
Cultural Extension	AA68
Army Size (BEs)	2000
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	B8A+2 Resources B Abundant Labor 8 Moderate (300 million) Infrastructure A Extensive Efficiency +2 Good
Importance Extension	1
Resource Units	1,760
GWP (BCr)	4,804
World Trade Number	4.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	3,797
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	3,600,000
Port employees	24,590
Port passengers (annual)	84,000

Roup is an industrial water world with a tainted atmosphere. The system has a population over one billion. This world is designated 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 Third Imperium in the Regina Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Roup, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdom of a count. Both are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. This world contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Roup has a solitary primary star.

• It is a white main sequence.

Roup has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.13	5990 - 6050	1.53382
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0109	0.1027	1.16 - 2.03	1.09	10.9
	Orbit #	*	0	4	3	7
	Remarks

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x8 secondary rocky worlds.
• x2 planetoid belts.
• x3 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Roup is a water world situated on the express boat route from Regina (Spinward Marches 1910) to Efate (Spinward Marches 1705).

Its population of 3.4 billion is concentrated on the peaks of a few underwater mountains, the only dry land on the world, or on synthetic islands grown from webs of microorganisms and seaweed. These huge rafts support vast cities, factories, farmland, and even the starport.

It orbits within its star's habitable zone.

• It receives moderate levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Roup is a Meso World between 10,400km and 12,000km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.7G and 0.9G. The horizon will appear about 4.7km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Roup has a pressure of 0.71 to 1.49 atmospheres. While a Standard Atmosphere does not require survival gear this atmosphere also contains an unusual taint such as disease, a hazardous gas mix, pollutants, or sulfur compounds which requires the use of a Filter Mask. Some taints may require more protective equipment. TL–3 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Roup has 95-100% of its surface covered by liquid water with only a few islands and archipelagos. Wilderness refueling is possible. Such worlds are Water Worlds or Ocean Worlds.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, predominantly watery world.)

Native Lifeforms

Abundant aquatic native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Tukera family maintains a villa on the island of Lurka, as well as dockside and cargo rights for regular route cargo and liner visits to Roup. Roup's citizens practice aquaculture on a planetary scale, with whole oceans sectioned off using bubblenets to maximize productivity.

Even though a class C starport Roup High does exist, it is a mishmash of a Tech Level 7 space station with no spin and no anti-g so zero-G, with rudimentary facilities acting more as a shuttle dock than anything else. It is sometimes referred to as RVP1, Roup Vanity Project 1.

Real food (as opposed to the local concentrates made from fish) is highly prized by the population.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Roup, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdom of a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversees affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.

See: Nobles of Roup.

Military

The Imperium maintains a small regimental size formation of the 1073rd White Horse armored cavalry. The unit is housed on the Nishkin Atoll which is near the equator but distant from inhabited zones, which allows for uninhibited training and live ordnance usage. The White Horse operates a premier jungle warfare training school and a SERE School which is feared by the air crews and scout crews which are sent here for the dreaded Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape course.

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 20-21.
• Loren Wiseman. "Foodrunner." Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 05 (1980): 13.
• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 38. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 81.
• Hans Rancke-Madsen. "Worlds Within Jump-6 of Regina", JTAS Online (July 18, 2006)
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 103. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 40-45. (UWP only)
• Gareth Hanrahan. Secrets of the Ancients (Mongoose Publishing, 2010), 254.Gareth Hanrahan. Secrets of the Ancients (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 254.