Shishkala (world)

Shishkala/Khukish (Corridor 1607)
Classic Era (1116)	B686654-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 6 Moderate (6 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M2 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	3

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Shishkala is a rich, agricultural, nonindustrial garden world with a near-ideal, utopian environment conducive to most sophonts and high-grade living conditions due to a bustling economy.

• 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.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Its economy and population are rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to quickly rise barring outside forces.
• This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Khukish Subsector of Corridor Sector in the Domain of Vland.
• About 20% of the population is composed of Ursa.
• About 80% of the population is composed of baseline humans and other non-human sophonts.
• During the time of the First Imperium, this world was known as Gaakhi.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This world is part of the Ushamla Main.

Stellar Data

Shishkala has a solitary primary star.

Shishkala
	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

Mainworld Size (S)

Shishkala is a Meso World between 8,800km and 10,400km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.6G and 0.8G. The horizon will appear about 4.4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Shishkala has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Shishkala has 55-65% of its surface covered by liquid water. It has significant large liquid bodies. Wilderness refueling is possible.

World Geography & Topography

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

Abundant native life occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

History & Background (Dossier)

During the time of the late Ziru Sirka, this world was a member of the Karkasha Surake Danim Zirunek.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Shishkala, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdom of a member of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversees affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.

World Starport (Sp)

Shishkala has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)

Shishkala has a population of 6,000,000 sophonts (millions).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.

World Demographics

Approximately 20% of the population are Black Ursa descended from Ursa who escaped the Ursa Genocide as the Rule of Man collapsed. Black Ursa are smaller than their close cousins, the far more common and far better known Brown Ursa.

• Shishkala is the homeworld of Gabrielle Trumpet, a Black Ursa whose scholarship on the effects of Uplift is highly critical of Human attitudes toward Uplifted sophont and near-sophont species.

Linguistic Topography: 1105

The following languages are among the most commonly used here:

• Core Anglic: One of the principal dialects of one of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.
• Ursotic: The primary language of the Ursa uplifts.
  • This is the Kala dialect of Ursotic.
• Vilani: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.

World Technology Level (TL)

Shishkala possesses a Technology Level of TL–11 or TL-B 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 & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
  • Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-2.

World Government (G)

Shishkala is governed by a Feudal Technocracy. Society divides itself based on the technical requirements of the society. Each of these functions are granted as a fief to an individual or group. Leadership of these fiefs determines the head of the government.

World Law (L)

Shishkala 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. Light assault weapons, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Culture

No information yet available.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

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• Classic Traveller Atlas of the Imperium
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Journal 2 in Article: 'Snapshots of the Occupation'
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
• Cirque (Campaign Source) Cirque: The Usual Suspects