Shiwonee (world)

Shiwonee/Shiwonee (Massilia 1430)
Milieu 0	BA86A77-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population A High (40 billion) Government 7 Balkanization Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
Classic Era (1116)	AA86A88–C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size A Large (16,000 km, 1.14g - 1.48g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population A High (40 billion) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F7 V M9 V
Planetoid Belts	3
Gas Giants	3

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Shiwonee is a rich, pre-agricultural world with a moderate population of over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts in size.

• The world's agricultural industry is growing and some economists forecast an explosion in this world's agribusiness in the near future as new agro-technology and a more capable labor force are imported.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• This world has high-grade living conditions with a good climate and a non-harmful environment. As such, this world is much sought after with large queues for immigration here.
• This world contains an archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished Ancients precursor race.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• This world has a research station engaged in the scientific pursuit of knowledge.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Shiwonee Subsector of Massilia Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• During the Long Night this world was named Asadug.
• It is the homeworld of the Geonee, a sophontic species and minor race.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Shiwonee is a world of significance, being the subsector capital, homeworld to the Geonee, and the site of major naval facilities.

Stellar Data

Shiwonee has two stars in the star system.

Alliana
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F7 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.21	6180 - 6280	1.94872
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0123	0.1158	1.29 - 2.24	1.23	12.3
	Orbit #	*	0	4	3	7
	Remarks
Alliana Companion
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M9 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0009	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.09	0.9
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	3
	Remarks

System Data

Shiwonee serves as the home port to the Geonee Self Defense Forces. They work as colonial auxiliaries to the Imperial 6th Fleet.

The system is part of the Geonee Cultural Region.

Mainworld Data

Mainworld Size (S)

Shiwonee is a Big World between 15,200km and 16,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 1.1G and 1.5G. The horizon will appear about 5.7km away. Vessels with only 1G of thrust should avoid landing on this world.

• A high gravity acclimatisation course, consisting of a regimen of physical exercise in gradually increased gravity, and lasting some two or three weeks, is recommended before a Traveller operates on Shiwonee. Many starlines operating services to this world offer such courses.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Shiwonee 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)

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

Mainworld Geography & Topography

The semi-nomadic Geonee divide their homeworld into distinct regions that their ancestors wandered. No matter where a modern Geonee lives, the last part of their full name will always trace back to one of these regions of Shiwonee. All Geonee who share this name see each other as very distantly related. Regions include:

• Bartonde
• Brygant
• Geranto
• Lakantee
• Mirtanto
• Natante
• Pangont
• Takaske

Mainworld Map

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

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

Native Sophont (NIL): Geonee

The Geonee are a Minor Human Race, famed for their claim to be the Ancients. While this claim is generally not accepted, they do have one of the oldest human interstellar cultures in Charted Space, behind only the Suerrat and Vilani, and some of the highest technology.

History & Background (Dossier)

Shiwonee is a rich Imperial world located in the eponymous Shiwonee Subsector.

Some of the richest Ancient sites have been discovered near Shiwonee. The system is the site of Research Station Theta (Massilia).

Known as the homeworld of the Geonee, this world is believed to also have a large population of Chirpers.

Imperial High (Landed) Nobility

Shiwonee, 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 estate and fiefdoms of three members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee 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 estate of an Imperial baronet.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial baron.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial viscount.

See: Duchy of Shiwonee.

World Starport

Shiwonee 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.

• There is an associated Naval Base, hosting elements of the Imperial 6th Fleet and serving also as home port to the Geonee Self Defense Forces.

World Population (P)

Shiwonee has a population of 40,000,000,000 sophonts (tens of billions).

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

World Demographics

Geonee, plus a large population of a subspecies of Chirper. These are toward the lower end of the Chirper intelligence spectrum, though they are greatly important to traditional (and private) Geonee family and marriage customs.

World Languages

• Core Anglic: One of the principal dialects of one of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.
• Irkonee: The predominate language of the Geonee.
  • Genosha: A specialised form of Irkonee with many lone words from Oynprith.
• Vilani: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.

Urbanization

Family housing is traditionally designed to be two separate wings, joined by a central courtyard.

• The front part of the house, the "public home", is the abode of a male and any unmarried sons or male relatives. This is where visitors are received and males rest and relax.
• The rear is the "private home", where the females live. The only males permitted in this part of the house are the husband -- as all the women are under his protection -- and immediate male relatives.
• The courtyard is frequented equally by both men and women of the family. A secluded section of the courtyard is kept aside for the home of the selweeda -- the Chirper (cerosee) that serves as a symbol of the legitimacy of the patriarch's marriage.

World Technology Level

Shiwonee possesses a Technology Level of TL–12 or TL-C 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-3.

World Government

Shiwonee is governed by a Civil Service Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy leadership influences policy. The government leadership may select the bureaucracy leadership, but not its membership. Usually the governmental leadership is divided, or incapable of setting policy, and the bureaucracy provides a stabilizing influence. This ruling bureaucracy may be the full government bureaucractic apparatus or a section with limited jurisdiction but considerable influence, like the military.

• The traditional ruling body is the Meeralo Council, which is also the ultimate court of appeal for all worlds in the Geonee Cultural Region.

World Military

Significant assets of the Geonee Self Defense Forces are based here.

World Law (L)

Shiwonee has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All blade weapons and firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited. .

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Culture

Geonee are a patriarchal culture with a belief in their supposed descent from the Ancients (something non-one else accepts as true). They are also noted for a strong desire to know where ownership lies in any given context; to the Geonee, the most crucial function of government is to create a general framework to guarantee property rights.

World Infrastructure

No information yet available.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

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

• -15000: Modern Geonee, Homo sapiens geonensis, emerges.
• -14500: Animal husbandry develops
• -14000: Agriculture develops, primarily as a food source for livestock at first (Geonee being more carnivorous than most Humans).
• -13800: Founding of the earliest known Geonee civilisation, the Pordongee Empire.
• -12750: The Pordongee Empire is conquered by a smaller but more technologically advanced civilisation from the north, the Eowaree Republic.
• -12000: The effort to control the vast territories of the fallen Pordongee leads the Eowaree Republic to collapse.
• -11695: The earliest signs of the Dowaree Republic, a highly successful nation.
• -11000: Geonee at TL-3
• -10800: Geonee at TL-6.
• -10700: Simultaneous eruption of several large volcanoes causes ecological disaster; Dowaree Republic collapses.
• -10500: Effects of the volcanic winter diminish; survivors start to reconstruct their culture. Technicians become some of the most important members of society.
• -9500: Geonee regain TL-5. Nomadic communities form the Meeralo Council.
• -9300: Geonee achieve early TL-9. The Council sponsors a space service.
• -9270: An expedition finds a derelict starship of the Ancients -- whom the Geonee suppose to be their ancestors -- in one of the system's planetoid belts.
• The Year 0: The Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: The Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 604-622: The Imperial Civil War. The Geonee region eventually sides with Arbellatra, and subsequently reaps the rewards when she becomes Empress.
• 729: After the Geonee petition Empress Margaret to re-establish the Geonee Autonomous Region, a fleet of warships is despatched to Shiwonee.
• 736: The massed fleet arrives, bearing the empress's respect for the Geonee people as members of the Imperium along with a gift of the Imperial flag. Once the message and gift are delivered, the fleet jumps out of the system, denying Shiwonee the millions of Credits which would have been spent by spacers granted shore leave.
  • The Geonee understand the thinly veiled threat and retract their petition for an autonomous region.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

Massilia 1430 Shiwonee (Imperial)

Starport: Class V - Naval Base.

Diameter: 10,300 miles (16,500 km). Gravity: 1.3g.
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 61%.
Climate: Warm.
Population: 470 million (95% Geonee).
Government: Oligarchy (The Meeralo Council).
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 13.
World Trade Number: 5.5.

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