Skeen (world)

Skeen/Chant (Core 2226)
Classic Era (1116)	B59199B-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 9 High (4 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law B Extreme Law (control of movement) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K1 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	2

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Skeen is an industrial, high-population hellworld with a billion or more sophonts, who struggle in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often develop intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Chant Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has a colony at Akin Akun.

Description (Astrography and Planetology)

Skeen is a member of the Sylean Main.

Stellar Data

Skeen has a solitary primary star.

Skeen
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.86	5100 - 5170	0.58985
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0074	0.0637	0.76 - 1.36	0.74	7.4
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
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History & Background (Dossier)

This industrial world is one of the oldest civilisations in the Core Sector. It pledged to help revitalise the wider Chant Subsector, which is in economic decline.

World Starport

Skeen 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)

Skeen has a population of 4,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

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

Linguistic Topography

The most commonly heard languages are:

• Anglic, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

Skeen 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 (G)

Skeen 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)

Skeen has an extreme law level which covers every area of interaction. Laws are complex, detailed, and difficult to understand. Every interaction with the government requires an Advocate. Law enforcement is omnipresent and strict. Legal proceeding can take months to years to resolve and may involve dozens of people. A few worlds with this law level may be a Red Zone and others will be an Amber Zone. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (with no exception for private residences; visiting starships are only protected so long as they stay within designated starports and approach corridors). Civilian movement is rigidly controlled. Travel documents are frequently checked, and destinations must often be declared when traveling substantial distances across the world.

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.

• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 10
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey