Sheffield (world)

Sheffield/Nightrim (Reaver's Deep 2513)
Classic Era (1116)	C667575-8 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 5 Moderate (200 thousand) Government 7 Balkanization Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V M4 V
Planetoid Belts	4
Gas Giants	1

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Sheffield is an agricultural, nonindustrial, pre-rich garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts, but still lacks an adequate population to expand its economy to a rich status.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Nightrim Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector in the Domain of Ilelish.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This system is part of the Gerim Trace.

Binary Solar System

Sheffield Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Sheffield M2 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0021	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.21	2.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	0	4
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Sheffield M4 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.23	3110 - 3210	0.00584
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0013	0.0063	0.08 - 0.16	0.13	1.3
	Orbit #	*	*	0	0	3

History & Background (Dossier)

Sheffield has become an Imperial defence forces retirement world.

• It is a pleasant, tropical island world, with each island governing themselves.
• Each island tends to be specific to one branch of the defence forces and personnel retire from the many military bases in Nightrim and adjacent subsectors.
• Although each island is fiercely protective of their independence of the other islands there is never any conflicts between islands, except every two years when the interforces games occur.
• During this two week long period, bones have been known to be broken.

Ahead of the Solomani Rim War, a small Solomani Confederation task force led by Commodore Fidel Scheinberg slipped into Imperial space at Sheffield. Employing cruisers disguised as Aslan ships, this Task Force Scheinberg launched a series of hit-and-run raids on shipping in Nightrim Subsector and Woomera Subsector, which diverted Imperial resources.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Sheffield, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of three members of the Imperial Nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight.
• It holds the estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.

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 Far Future Enterprises 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), 22.
• Brett Kruger. Into the Deep 1 (BKP, 2010), 29.
• Randy Dorman. The Deep and the Dark (Mongoose Publishing, 2023), .