Serendip Belt (world)
| Serendip Belt/New Islands (Reft 1323) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | A000959-C
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| New Era (1200) | A000959-B
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| Fourth Imperium (1300) | A000959-C
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | G1 V K1 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serendip Belt 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.
- This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
- It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the New Islands Subsector of Reft Sector.
- This world has a Naval Base, usually associated with military starships.
- This world has a Military Base, usually associated with military ground forces.
- This world has a colony at Gloire (Reft 1123).
Astrography and planetology[edit]
The asteroid belt at Serendip is a rich storehouse of mineral wealth.
| Serendip Belt | ||||||
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Type | Category | Mass (Sol) | Temperature (K) | Luminosity | |
| G1 V | Main Sequence (Dwarf) | 1.03 | 5770 - 5860 | 1.109 | ||
| Unit | Diameter | Safe Distance | Habitable Zone | Jump Shadow | M-Drive Limit | |
| AU | 0.0099 | 0.0873 | 1 - 1.75 | 0.99 | 9.9 | |
| Orbit # | * | * | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Remarks | ||||||
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Type | Category | Mass (Sol) | Temperature (K) | Luminosity | |
| K1 V | Main Sequence (Dwarf) | 0.86 | 5100 - 5170 | 0.58985 | ||
| Unit | Diameter | Safe Distance | Habitable Zone | Jump Shadow | M-Drive Limit | |
| AU | 0.0074 | 0.0637 | 0.76 - 1.36 | 0.74 | 7.4 | |
| Orbit # | * | * | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
| Remarks | ||||||
System Data[edit]
Habitats are scattered throughout the main belt as well as the system’s smaller belts. Colonies also exist among asteroid clusters at the Trojan points that lead and trail the system’s gas giants, and on far distant planetoids in the Kupier belt.
History and Background[edit]
C-Jammer eventually found and settled Serendip Belt in 89. [2]
Serendip Belt is an asteroid belt inhabited by independent merchants and miners under a feudal technocracy form of government. The center of government is still the C-Jammer. [2]
During the Third Frontier War, the Clusters were inadvertently contacted by an Imperial strike cruiser El Dorado which had misjumped as a result of battle damage. It sought help at Serendip Belt and succeeded in repairing its jump drives; through the use of auxiliary tanks, it then returned to the Imperium. [3]
In 985, the Serendip Belt starship C-Breaker made its first jump. [4]
With the end of the war (986), the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service followed up on the Navy's report and dispatched a survey team to establish relations. Upon their arrival, they found that the Serendips had already duplicated the jump drives they had seen (and helped repair) and were themselves in the process of establishing control over the entire cluster. The Survey team carefully distributed jump drive technology to seven other systems and helped reestablish a balance of power within the region. [3]
When one planet has grown too powerful, the others have allied to bring pressure to stop it, as happened to Serendip Belt in 1023, when it was forced to give up its control of Topas (Reft 1522), Elysee, and Besancon (Reft 1526).[3]
Serendip controls nearby Gloire (Reft 1123) as an agricultural colony. Serendip Belt took over Gloire by direct military conquest.[3]
World Starport[edit]
Serendip Belt 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.
Technology[edit]
Serendip Belt engineering is technologically advanced but components are almost always overbuilt, with failsafes and backups to prevent catastrophic failure -- a trait important to a civilisation dwelling in space.
See also: Mobile Industry Programme.
World Economy[edit]
GSbAG is particularly friendly with Serendip Belt.
References and contributors[edit]
- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 12. (map only)
- John Harshman, Marc Miller. Trillion Credit Squadron (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 46.
- Gary L. Thomas, Joe Fugate. "Reft Sector." The Travellers' Digest 20 (1990): 26-28.
- Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb System Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 57.
- Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 33,72.
- Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 28,164-167.
- Martin Dougherty. Reft Sector (Mongoose Publishing, 2010), .
- The Trillion Credit Squadron campaign - Serendip Belt by Alex Tingle
- New Islands by Peter Gray
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Harshman, Marc Miller. Trillion Credit Squadron (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 46.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 John Harshman, Marc Miller. Trillion Credit Squadron (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 41.
- ↑ John Harshman, Marc Miller. Trillion Credit Squadron (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 43.