Sashlunsdham (world)

Sashlunsdham/Desta (Ilelish 2027)
Classic Era (1116)	CA8AA96-B Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population A High (70 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M3 V M3 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	2

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Sashlunsdham is a high-population oceanic water world with a billion or more sophonts.

• It is covered with very deep oceans with less than 1% of its land above sea level.
• The inhabitants of this world live on the roughly 1% of exposed land mass, in underwater colonies, on city ships, or similar arrangements.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Desta Subsector of Ilelish Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.
• This world is a "Twilight Zone World", a planet that is tidally-locked to its star. It has a hot side that permanently faces the star, a cold side that permanently faces away, and a narrow twilight zone in-between.
• This is a cold world with an overall climate that is at the lower temperature range of human-congruous sophont endurance.
• 80% of the population consists of Suerrat.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stars

Sashlunsdham is a binary star system.

• The pair are red main sequence stars named Shang and Calor.
• They are close companions.

Sashlunsdham has two stars in the star system.

Shang
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		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
Calor
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M3 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		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		Approximately 0.02 AU from the primary.

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x4 secondary rocky worlds.
• x2 planetoid belts.
• x2 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Sashlunsdham is tidally locked to its two close companion stars.

• It experiences libration - a regular wobble - as it orbits, causing the stars to move in the sky.

It has a circumbinary orbit, circling around both stars and receiving their combined energy output.

It orbits at the outer edge of the two star's combined habitable zone.

Mainworld Size (S)

Sashlunsdham is a Big World between 15,200km and 16,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 1.1G and 1.5G. The horizon will appear about 5.7km away. Vessels with only 1G of thrust should avoid landing on this world.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Sashlunsdham has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

• It experiences low temperatures.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Sashlunsdham 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.

• Only a small region directly facing the two stars is permanently ice-free.
• Most of the world-ocean is covered in an unstable floating crust of fractured ice.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, predominantly watery world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Sashlunsdham is part of the Suerrat Cultural Region.

Llelish Interstellar, the leading media corporation within Ilelish Sector, maintains facilities and offices on the world.

World Starport (St)

Sashlunsdham has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)

Sashlunsdham has a population of 70,000,000,000 sophonts (tens of billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.
• Around 56 billion Suerrat (making up about 80% of the population) reside on the world.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are most typically heard:

• Anglic: One of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Na'ans: The most widely spoken Suerrat language.
• Vilani: One of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Yaudal: A commonly spoken Suerrat language.

Urbanization

Suerrat cities are very crowded. Suerrat populations are at a density where other species find the mental health of the inhabitants deteriorates; by contrast, Suerrat thrive in these conditions.

• Suerrat like natural surroundings and will incorporate vegetation and even small animals into their urban areas, wherever possible.
• Transport is relegated to the lower levels of Suerrat cities. Where gravitics are unavailable, ground vehicles prevail. Roads are built intertwining between trees and below foot traffic.

World Technology Level (T)

Sashlunsdham possesses a Technology Level of TL–11 or TL-B in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Holovision, Personal Global Communications, and advanced Translators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Increasingly advanced fusion plants and advanced fuel cells.
• 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-2.

World Government (G)

Sashlunsdham 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.

Sashlunsdham is also part of the Suerrat Cultural Region. The Suerrat United Worlds Council is funded through payments of all member worlds, calculated based on each world's population and economic wealth; it also receives voluntary donations from large organisations and businesses, both within and without the cultural zone.

Military

For peacekeeping purposes, the Suerrat United Worlds Council can request troops and vessels volunteered from member worlds to be deployed under its purview, but only within the boundaries of the Suerrat Cultural Region.

World Law (L)

Sashlunsdham has a moderate level with laws covering many areas of government and interaction. These laws are simple enough that most people can act as their own advocate, though for serious issues a professional is recommended. Law enforcement officials will be present, but not in great numbers. All firearms except shotguns, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Sashlunsdham, 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.

Trade Data

• Importance: 2 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: G (extremely abundant)
• Labor: 9 (billions)
• Infrastructure: D (comprehensive)
• Efficiency: +1 (average)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 9 (discordant)
• Acceptance: C (xenophilic)
• Strangeness: 4 (somewhat distinct)
• Symbols: A (abstract)

World Timeline

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

• ca -250,000: the Suerrat are transplanted to Ilelish by the Ancients.
• -9235: the Vilani discover jump drive technology. Over many centuries, pioneers and settlers gradually spread out from Vland, their homeworld.
• prior to -8100: a Suerrat pre-Jump multi-world civilization flourishes, centered on Ilelish.
• circa -8100: The Vilani make contact with the Suerrat and sell them jump technology.
• prior to -5400: the Suerrat have established a multi-world polity using jump drives. It would become one of the first targets of the Vilani Consolidation Wars.
• -4045 to -2204: the Ziru Sirka controls the world.
• -2404 to -2215: the Interstellar Wars.
• -2204 to -1776: the Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
• -1776 to 0: the Long Night. There is widespread regression within the sector and some worlds become barren.
• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 76: Ilelish Pacification Campaign.
• 300-420: the First Survey charts the system.
• 418-435: the Ilelish Revolt.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 995-1065: the Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 20.
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11. (Ziru Sirka worlds: dot map provided)
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 34-37, 95-101.
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