Scathe (world)

Scathe/Ziusudra (Alpha Crucis 0231)
Classic Era (1116)	A000A99-E Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population A High (70 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level E High Stellar (anti-grav cities)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V M2 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	1

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Scathe is a high-population ring of many small worldlets (planetoids AKA an "asteroid belt"), not capable of retaining an atmosphere or water, and are both non-agricultural and industrial in nature with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

• 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.
• As a group of industrial worldlets, well-developed manufacturing and processing sectors are major business here. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• The worldlets are, for the most part, unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• It is a member of the Solomani Confederation in the Ziusudra Subsector of Alpha Crucis Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

Scathe has two stars in the star system.

Scathe
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks
Scathe
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

System Data

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Mainworld Data

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Mainworld Size (S)

This world 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)

This world has a pressure of less than 0.001 atmospheres which requires the use of a Vacc Suit. TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

This world has no free-standing water or ice on the surface. Wilderness refueling isn't possible on this world. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are classified Desert World or a Hell World depending on their atmosphere.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

No information yet available.

Mainworld Map

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Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

Scathe is an important high population, industrial asteroid belt located in Ziusudra Subsector of Alpha Crucis Sector.

World Starport (Sp)

This world has a Class A Starport, an excellent 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 other kinds of repair, and construction of both starships and non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)

This world has a population of 10,000,000,000 sophonts (tens of billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.

World Government

This world 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 Level (L)

This world 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).

World Technology Level (TL)

This world possesses a Technology Level of TL–14 or TL-E in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early meson communicators.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, early collectors, and 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-5.

World Military

The Scathe Home Guard is well regarded due to its role in the defense of the sector against the Imperial advances near the end of the war. They were able to turn the system into a hornets nest that caused heavy casualties on any Imperial raiders that dared to jump in despite the Confederation Navy's inability to offer material support. After the end of the Solomani Rim War the Scathe Home Guard remains powerful and the system is a prime recruiting ground for patriots wishing to join the Confederation Forces.

Scathe is openly financially and materially supportive of Solomani guerilla groups such as the Solomani Liberation Front. These groups maintain bases and recruiting stations throughout the system and organize their cross-border incursions from the safety of Solomani space.

World Economy

The system is a major industrial center and dominates the subsector. The Scathe Belt has 23 large asteroid habitats and several hundred outlying mining stations.

The location of Scathe on the border with the Third Imperium makes it an rich trade port as well.

World Demographics

Scathe's population is mostly pure-Solomani today. Any Vilani immigrants from the Imperial period were expelled during the Solomani Rim War.

World Culture

The citizens of Scathe are intensely patriotic and believe fervently in the Solomani cause.

Historical Data

Scathe played a major role during the Rim War. Imperial strike cruisers raided Scathe multiple times and despite thousands of civilian casualties, the system remained in Confederation hands.

After the war Scathe advocates for itself as a border system and finds itself in political conflict with the Balboa system over financial support from the Secretariat.

World Timeline

• -2265 - Alpha Crucis Foundation colonizes worlds in the Ziusudra subsector
• -2204 - Second Imperium founded
• -1776 - Collapse of the Rule of Man
• 740 - Alpha Crucis joins Solomani Autonomous Region
• 871 - Solomani Confederation founded
• 990 - Solomani Rim War begins
• 1002 - Imperial raiders repeatedly attacked Scathe. Solomani Rim War ends with Imperial victory

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Classic Traveller Alien Module 7: Hiver (named but further data)
• Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
• MegaTraveller Alien - Vilani & Vargr (dot map provided)
• MegaTraveller Alien - Solomani & Aslan (dot map provided)
• Mongoose Traveller: Solomani
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science