Sketola (world)

Sketola/Bunkeria (Core 0622)
Classic Era (1116)	A647789-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 7 Moderate (30 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 9 High Law (no weapons out of home) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M1 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Sketola is an agricultural world with the potential to become an industrial power.

• 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.
• As a preindustrial world, this planet cannot yet manufacture enough high-technology resources to support a modern, star-faring society. Having to import many manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Bunkeria Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• It also has an Imperial Scout base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.
• This world has a colony at Randar.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This world is located on the Sylean Main. It is situated at a split in the stellar chain where the Laraa Main sub-region branches off.

Stellar Data

Sketola has a solitary primary star.

Sketola
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.5	3620 - 3660	0.08839
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0047	0.0247	0.31 - 0.59	0.47	4.7
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

System Data

Magnia Sketola: The largest of the system's four gas giants.

History & Background (Dossier)

A lightly industrial, agricultural world, Sketola serves as the Imperial subsector capital.

The capital world of the old Interstellar Confederacy, Sketola was brutally conquered by rebel forces during the Confederacy's civil war (-239 to -237).

Since the time of the Interstellar Confederacy, Sketola has declined in interstellar influence, although its tech level has slowly risen from 12 to 14 in the last thousand years. Sketola has one of the largest colonial Navies in the entire Core Sector.

• The colonial Navy shares the naval facilities with the Imperial Navy, located on the moon Alamar.

World Starport (St)

Sketola 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 Imperial Naval Base on the world's moon, hosting the headquarters for the 217th Fleet.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are among the most commonly used within this astrographic region:

• Core Anglic: One of the principal dialects of one of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.
• Vilani: One of the two official languages of the Third Imperium.

World Economy

The Revived Grand Senate on Sketola snaps up as much of the product of Hellhole as it can, using loans from the Achenaar Antilles Line. Sketola claims that these resources are used to maintain the Colonial Navy.

Historical Data

Internal dissension within the Interstellar Confederacy finally resulted in the outbreak of hostilities late in -239 when combined forces from Protalus (Core 0128), Marsus (Core 0127), Ikarus (Core 0325), Oorpic (Core 0324), and Domitar (Core 0224) attacked the Confederacy Capitol at Sketola.

The rebel forces, commanded by the fanatical Baron Rolf von Toerbach, swept aside the system's defenses, subdued the orbital starport complex, and landed three crack divisions of Marsian troops on the world's surface. Within two months, the entire surface of Sketola was in rebel hands.

The Confederacy government withdrew to Keplo (Core 1322) and rallied their forces. The Confederacy was essentially cut in half, with the rebels controlling most of the Great Spiral systems in the Bunkeria Subsector, while the loyalists controlled those in the Cemplas Subsector.

World Timeline

Significant events affecting this world and its surrounding region include the following:

• -684: A politician from Sketola, Rom Debeshuut, unites the worlds of the Great Spiral into the Interstellar Confederacy. The primary goal is to restore interstellar trade and preserve the technology of the four or five systems that have achieved TL-12.
• -623: After expanding to 32 star systems, the Interstellar Confederacy abruptly stops accepting new members, believing that doing so will have a deleterious effect on their ability to retain the Tech Levels they have built to.
• -301: The Interstellar Confederacy first encounters scouts from the Sylean Federation.
• -260: The Interstellar Confederacy and the Sylean Federation go to war.
• -239: The Interstellar Confederacy suffers a civil war, as combined forces from multiple worlds attack the Capitol at Sketola. The Confederacy government withdraws to Keplo (Core 1322).
• -237: Loyalists retake Sketola.
• -201: After intense battles, Velpare and Heraldia fall to the expanding Sylean Federation.
• -1: The exhausted forces of the remaining Confederacy worlds surrender to the Sylean Federation.

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: Classic Traveller Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 9
• Marc Miller's Traveller T4 First Survey
• Christopher Griffen. The Third Imperium (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), passim.