Shankida (world)

Shankida/Remnants (Dagudashaag 1321) Milieu 1116 C552997-A Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 5 Thin Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 9 High (6 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M1 V M2 V
Worlds	13
Gas Giants	2
Planetoid Belts	3
Cultural Details
Government	Impersonal bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	9B5A
Army Size (BEs)	15000
Economic Details
Technology Level	10
Economic Extension	G8C+2 Resources G Extremely abundant Labor 8 Moderate (600 million) Infrastructure C Very extensive Efficiency +2 Good
Importance Extension	2
Resource Units	3,072
GWP (BCr)	17,568
World Trade Number	5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	30,482
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	5
Building Capacity (Tons)	6,899,999
Port employees	2,945
Port passengers (annual)	42,600

Shankida has a scarcity of water and a relatively sparse atmosphere. The system has a population over 1 billion sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Remnants Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Shankida, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdom of a count. Both are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. During the Long Night this world was named Shankida.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Shankida is a member of the Dagudashaag Main.

Stellar Data

Shankida has two stars in the star system.

Shankida
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks
Shankida
	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

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data

Shankida is a small hot ball of a planet, with a thin atmosphere, low hydrographics, and situated in a close orbit of the primary star.

Mainworld Size (S)

Shankida is a Meso World between 7,200km and 8,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.4G and 0.57G. The horizon will appear about 4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Shankida has a pressure of 0.43 to 0.70 atmospheres. The Thin Atmosphere does not require survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Shankida has 15-25% of its surface covered by liquid water or ice. There may be a few small seas. Wilderness refueling is possible. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are Hell Worlds or Poor Worlds depending on their atmosphere.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

The entire population live in deep caves which open on the shores of the two inland seas and lead deep below the sea beds.

• B'rhumn Sea
• K'lachtikin Sea

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

Shankida was settled by the Ziadd early in the eighth century. The society is self-sufficient, and most everyone is single minded and self-opinionated.

World Starport (St)

Shankida 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)

Shankida has a population of 6,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

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

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are among the most commonly used here:

• Anglic: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.
  • Galaach: An Ushran trade language derived from Anglic, widely spoken throughout the Shallows, Zeda and Ushra subsectors.
• Klatha'sh: The common language of the Ziadd.
• Vilani: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.

Urbanization

Ziadd structures tend to be solid and blocky and are usually heavily decorated. Many fly flags and banners declaring allegiance and status.

World Technology Level (T)

Shankida possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A 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: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government (G)

Shankida 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)

Shankida has a moderate law 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, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

World Culture (Cx)

Indenturing is common on Shankida; all children are owned and must work their way to freedom by repaying society for their upbringing and education. Those that do not achieve freedom (about 40%), remain indentured for their entire lives. The penalties for abusing indentured servants are fairly severe, and culturally mistreating servants is viewed as a mental disorder.

Historical Data

Timeline

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

• -2404 to -2215: To trailing and rimward, the Interstellar Wars are waged.
• -2204 to -1776: The Rule of Man administers the worlds of the region.
  • -2176: First contact between Humans originating in the Terran Confederation and the Ziadd.
• -1776 to 0: The Long Night.
• -642: War breaks out between the Ziadd and the Ushran Empire.
  • Outmatched by the Ushran navy, the war goes badly for the Ziadd.
• -639: The Ushran capture Zeda after a long and bloody campaign.
• -600: The Ushran Empire has conquered most of the former Ziadd worlds. Remaining Ziadd forces, now scattered, begin a campaign of corsair activity to support the ongoing rebellions on the Ziadd planets.
• Circa -400: The Zeda Alignment corsairs begin to capture whole worlds, the Ushran Navy no longer able to keep them at bay.
• The Year 0: The Third Imperium is founded.
• 46: A series of uprisings on Zeda, supported by the corsairs, sufficiently weaken military control of the world.
• 65: The Ziadd rebellion, supported by the regular troops of the corsair bands, retake Zeda. For the first time in more than six centuries, the Ziadd homeworld is back under Ziadd control.
• 96: The overwhelming might of the Third Imperium forces the Ziadd to choose another long war or integration. They choose to join the Imperium.
• 300-420: The First Survey charts the system.
• 604 to 622: The Imperial Civil 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.

• Leighton Piper. Signal-GK 13 (Signal-GK, 1997), . via HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 82.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 314.