Sable des Etoiles (world)

Sable des Etoiles/Menorial (Trojan Reach 0504)
Classic Era (1116)	B000899-D Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 8 Moderate (500 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level D Average Stellar (holo data)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F8 V M4 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	1

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Sable des Etoiles is a ring of many small worldlets (planetoids AKA an "asteroid belt"), not capable of retaining an atmosphere or water, and both non-agricultural and preindustrial in nature.

• These worldlets warrant hazardous environment precautions.
• Life in a vacuum requires great discipline. After all, it only takes one forgotten seal on a vacuum suit to spell death. Those who survive tend to be very methodically-minded and attentive to small detail.
• Despite the challenges of living on asteroid colonies, this settlement is at a moderate population status of over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts in size.
• The worldlets are, for the most part, unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• These worldlets are working towards being an industrial world but lack adequate resources to do so. Local leaders are diligently working towards the expansion of this settlement's industrial manufacturing capability.
• It is a member of the Strend Cluster in the Menorial Subsector of Trojan Reach Sector.

• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Sable des Etoiles is a binary star system.

• The primary is a white main sequence.
• The secondary is a red main sequence.

Sable des Etoiles has two stars in the star system.

Sable des Etoiles
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F8 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.18	6050 - 6180	1.78479
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0114	0.1108	1.24 - 2.17	1.14	11.4
	Orbit #	*	0	4	3	7
	Remarks
Sable des Etoiles
	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

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x12 secondary rocky worlds.
• x2 planetoid belts.
• x1 gas giant.

Mainworld Data

Sable des Etoiles is an asteroid belt mainworld.

It orbits within the primary star's outer system.

• It receives very low levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Sable des Etoiles is an Asterioid Belt or Planetoid Belt consisting of a few very large objects with diameters of hundreds of kilometers, thousands of bodies of a few kilometers in diameter, and millions of smaller objects. Asteroid Belt is used when the belt is the mainworld of a system. Planetoid Belt refers to any non-mainworld belt within a system.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

None of the bodies within the Sable des Etoiles belt retain an atmosphere.

• The belt is in vacuum conditions, requiring the use of a Vacc Suit.
• TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

The Sable des Etoiles belt contains a few icy bodies. A few belt objects have frozen volatiles on their surfaces.

• Wilderness refueling is possible within the belt, provided a suitable icy object can be found.
• Water for the inhabitants is generally imported and is extensively recycled.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

• Locally, detailed maps may be available.

(Placeholder chart, asteroid belt.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Sable des Etoiles is a member of the Strend Cluster, and is used as a prison by its totalitarian government.

• The Strend Navy has a security squadron here.

The prisoners are given special belter vessels with severely limited power and oxygen reserves. If a prisoner fails to bring his weekly quota of ore back to the warden's ship, he will not receive a fresh oxygen ration.

The provenance of the name is uncertain. It most likely means Sand of the Stars in the French language of Terra, but the name may possibly refer to sable in its heraldic sense, meaning Dark. Certainly many of the bodies within the belt have a very dark coloration.

World Starport (St)

Sable des Etoiles 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)

Sable des Etoiles has a population of 500,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

Urbanization

Cities are tunnelled into large rocky planetoids.

• Each has its own starport.
• Smaller facilities exist on other rocky bodies.
• Structures and facilities are sealed.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are most commonly heard:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

Sable des Etoiles possesses a Technology Level of TL–13 or TL-D in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovideo recorders.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, prototype collectors, advanced fusion plants.
• 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-4.

World Government (G)

Sable des Etoiles is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes 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 (L)

Sable des Etoiles has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (outside private residences or visiting starships).

Trade Data

• Importance: 2 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: D (very abundant)
• Labor: 7 (tens of millions)
• Infrastructure: D (comprehensive)
• Efficiency: +3 (improved)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 9 (discordant)
• Acceptance: A (very friendly)
• Strangeness: 6 (very distinct)
• Symbols: E (extremely abstract)

World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within:

• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

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.

• Classic Traveller Leviathan
• Periodical: Classic Traveller Third Imperium Fanzine in Issue 11
• MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr (dotmap provided)
• MegaTraveller Alien - Solomani & Aslan (dotmap provided)
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 20
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Journal 3 in Article: 'Domain of Deneb: Sector Data'
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Journal 4
• Mongoose Traveller: Aslan