Sarrad (world)

Sarrad/Drexilthar (Reaver's Deep 2129)
Classic Era (1116)	D88A300-8 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population 3 Low (8 thousand) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K8 V M3 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	3

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Sarrad is a low-population water world, which has 90% or more of its surface covered in an ocean of water and a population of less than 10,000 sophonts.

• The inhabitants of this world live on the roughly 10% of exposed land mass, in underwater colonies, on city ships, or similar arrangements.
• This dangerous world is designated an Amber Zone with an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions make it dangerous to visitors.
• It is a member of the Carrillian Assembly in the Drexilthar Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This system is part of the Grendal Group.

Binary Solar System

Sarrad Binary Star System

Vanadarr
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K8 V	Main Sequence		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
Vanadarr Companion
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M3 V	Main Sequence		0.37	3270 - 3430	0.03081
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0034	0.0146	0.18 - 0.35	0.34	3.4
	Orbit #	*	*	0	1	5
	Remarks

System Data

Five major bodies.

• One inhabited world (Sarrad, the second planet)
• Three gas giants
• One additional planet
• Two planetoid belts in system

Mainworld Data

• Mean orbital radius: 75.0 million kilometers (0.5 AU)
• Period: 131.80 days
• No satellites
• Diameter: 14,003 kilometers
• Density: 0.96.
• Mass: 0.96 standard
• Mean surface gravity: 0.96 G.
• Rotation period: 25 hours, 51 minutes, 13 seconds.
• Axial Inclination: 8°18'6.6"
• Albedo: .45
• Surface atmospheric pressure: 2.2atm; composition, standard oxygen-nitrogen mix, breathable without artificial assistance.
• Hydrographic percentage: 99%; composition, liquid water (ice at poles).
• Mean surface temperature: 40°C.

Point of Interest: Undersea Colony Domes

Up until 1108, the colony here supported a population of over three million in a vast complex of undersea structures grouped around Starport Island, with a scattering of outposts lying farther out to oversee mari-culture and other pelagic exploitation.

History & Background (Dossier)

In a tragic catastrophe, the colony domes inexplicably failed in 1108. Safety interlocks apparently were inadequate, and almost the entire population was wiped out as sea water flooded into the colony domes under great pressure.

A few thousand people survived the horrific deluge, mostly starport workers, outpost personnel, and a few lucky individuals who managed to reach secure parts of the domes which were not flooded out entirely. The magnitude of the disaster was, however, overwhelming.

No-one has any solid evidence as to the cause of the Sarrad disaster. Official stories are citing a failure of computer-monitored fail-safes on the main submarine lock, but this is largely speculation based on survivors' stories and computer simulations aimed at seeing just how so massive a failure could have come about; no hard evidence exists.

More fanciful stories have been circulating as well:

• The colony was destroyed by terrorists in sympathy with the Ildrissaran Resistance. (Unlikely - the Ildrissaran Resistance wasn't particularly well organized at the time).
• The colony was destroyed by a hostile, intelligent, aquatic life form. (Unlikely - no other evidence of such a life form has yet been uncovered on Sarrad).
• The colony was destroyed at the orders of High Justice Eno Daldreem for some obscure purpose of his own. (Probably the result of Ildrissaran propaganda - Daldreem is generally conceded to be a megalomaniac and a tyrant, but no plausible purpose can be offered for such a blatant and apparently senseless order).

After the destruction of the colony, the Assembly moved to resettle Sarrad. The Dakaar Corporation has offered to assist the Assembly in the new construction and colonization effort in exchange for rights to operate a fleet of seagoing mineral extraction and processing vessels out of the rebuilt colony. This offer was accepted, and work has begun on new colony domes.

World Timeline

These are some of the more important historical events that have affected this world's subsector:

• (-1776 to 0): Long Night
• (-1648 to -112): Reaver Period
  • (-1008): Founding of the Iltharan Empire
  • (-371): Principality of Caledon founded
• (-86 to -80): Iltharan War
  • (-84): Confederacy of Duncinae founded
• (0): Third Imperium founded
• (268): Fall of the Iltharan Empire
• (380): Peace of Ftahalr
• (517): Carrillian Assembly founded
• (1080): Languljigee sophonts discovered by Dakaar Corporation

References

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.

• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 27. (dot map)
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11. (dot map)
• Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 11, 50. (dot map)
• Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 30.
• J. Andrew Keith. A Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector (Gamelords, 1984), 56.
• J. Andrew Keith. Escape (Marischal Adventures, 1987), 9. (UWP)