Shidu (world)

Shidu/Old Suns (Dagudashaag 1406) Milieu 1116 C565535-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 5 Moderate (800 thousand) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 5 Moderate Law (no concealable weapons) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	M0 V
Worlds	8
Gas Giants	4
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Self-perpetuating oligarchy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	3537
Army Size (BEs)	1
Economic Details
Technology Level	9
Economic Extension	C44-2 Resources C Very abundant Labor 4 Moderate (80 thousand) Infrastructure 4 Very limited Efficiency -2 Fair
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	154
GWP (BCr)	2
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	1,142
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	4
Building Capacity (Tons)	0
Port employees	85
Port passengers (annual)	0

Shidu is an agricultural world with an ideal environment for producing food from plants, animals, or other lifeforms. The system has a population in the hundreds of thousands of sophonts. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Old Suns Subsector of Dagudashaag Sector and in the Domain of Vland. Shidu, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and a baronet, and the fiefdom of a baron. All three are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. This world contains an Imperial Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel. During the Long Night this world was named Nipe.

Astrography and Planetology

Shidu is a member of the Kimalad Cluster.

Stellar Data

Shidu has a solitary primary star.

Shidu
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0055	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.55	5.5
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	6
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History & Background (Dossier)

Shidu, as well as being one of the major agricultural producers in the region, is considered to be one of the best examples of Lancian culture in the whole subsector and its arts are renowned throughout Dagudashaag for their fresh individualistic approach.

Unfortunately this renaissance has not been without a price -- too many local youth, captivated by the wealth being made by successful artists, are leaving their traditional agricultural lifestyle and flooding the art colleges with their often mediocre talent. Not only has this saturated the market with inferior art but many of the plantations now have too few workers to properly cultivate the land.

During the Long Night, this world -- then named Nipe -- was a member of the Kimalad Empire, a psioniophobic pocket empire centered on Kimalad (Dagudashaag 1506).

World Starport

Shidu 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.

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Kehuu, the primary language of the Lancian Cultural Region.
• Sfuizia, the primary language of the S'mrii, used throughout the S'mrii ConSentiency.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Law

Lancian courts, called Ammeinha, are made up of 13 person "benches", a combined judiciary and jury, similar to Solomani Courts Martial. Each district's Ammeinha reflects the district demographics. The emphasis is very much on trial by one's peers.

World Military

Most Lancians do not like the idea of permanent military forces, and even less the idea of serving in them. As a result most standing forces, the Pulehov, are small and often composed of non-Lancians. In times of war, the combined Lancian community -- the peoples' army, the Silkku -- is the ultimate defense of this and other Lancian worlds.

World Culture

There is a two-tier system of Lancian marriage. At the first level, marriage is seen as an arrangement for procreation and can be expected to be dissolved once any children are weaned. The second tier is a bond for life, and its breaking is a major trauma in Lancian society. Often such "high" marriages grow out of the partners' final "low" marriage.

• Laws of child custody are simple; first-born to same sex parent, then alternate parent.

Historical Data

World Timeline

Significant events that have affected this world and the surrounding region include the following:

• -1776: The Long Night begins.
• -231: Kimalad, a former resource world, is re-colonized.
• -56: Dafyd Quasot comes to power on Kimalad and within a year has founded an Empire from the Kimalad-Shidu partnership. He proceeds to annex nearby barren worlds.
  • He is later succeeded by his son Jyond Quasot, who makes war on the Guukian Federation.
• 20: The Kimalad Collective is absorbed peacefully into the Third Imperium.
• 22: Kimalad's rival the Guukian Federation is absorbed by the Imperium.
• 75-106: Vilani Pacification Campaign. By its end, the Imperium rules the whole of Dagudashaag.
• 128: Displacement of inhabitants of a number of worlds in Gushemege and Dagudashaag by Makhidkarun colonists creates ill-feeling.

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. "Library Data: Old Suns." Signal-GK 04 (1992): 50. Via. HIWG
• Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), 79.
• Stuart L. Dollar, Joseph E. Walsh. Psionic Institutes (Imperium Games, 1997), 8.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 317.