Skye (world)

Skye/Caledon (Reaver's Deep 2018)
Classic Era (1116)	E799751-5 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 9 Wet World 90% Population 7 Moderate (30 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K8 V M6 V
Planetoid Belts	1
Gas Giants	2

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Skye is a preindustrial world.

• As a preindustrial world, this planet cannot yet manufacture enough high-technology resources to support 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 world hopes to one day be one of the subsector's industrial powerhouses, but hasn't yet realized that dream. The leaders of this world are regularly embarking on trade missions to attract more investment capital, worker-immigrants, and other necessary stepping stones to achieve this goal.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Caledon Subsector of the Reaver's Deep Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

The two chief exports of Skye are Leviemeat and Matweed, products of the world's mariculture industry.

Matweed is also the source of the dangerous pollen in the atmosphere. Roughly 80% of all humans who breathe matweed pollen are subject to a severe allergic reaction which has been known to cause almost immediate death, and which is at best highly distressing and uncomfortable while it lasts. Filter masks and conditioned residences are essential to avoid exposure to drifting, airborne pollen.

This system is part of Rob Roy's Run.

Skye has two stars in the star system.

Charlie
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K8 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.62	3930 - 3990	0.18766
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0057	0.0359	0.45 - 0.84	0.57	5.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks
Flora
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M6 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.102	2740 - 2810	0.00034
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0013	0.0015	0.02 - 0.04	0.13	1.3
	Orbit #	*	*	*	0	3
	Remarks

System Data

Primary: Close binary system: Charlie and Flora

Planetary System: Five major bodies.

• One inhabited world (Skye, II).
• Two gas giants.
• One planetoid belt

Mainworld Data

• Mean orbital radius: 110.7 million kilometers (.74 AU).
• Period: 204.1 days.
• One satellite.
• Diameter: 12594 kilometers.
• Density: 1.0 standard.
• Mass: 0.67 standard.
• Mean surface gravity: 0.88G.
• Rotation period: 23 hours, 35 minutes, 11 seconds.
• Axial inclination: 25°26'12.1".
• Albedo: 0.52.
• Surface atmospheric pressure: 2.0 atm. Composition, oxygen-nitrogen mix tainted occasionally by airborne pollen. CAUTION: POLLEN MAY CAUSE SEVERE ALLERGIC REACTIONS. FILTER MASKS ADVISED FOR ALL ATMOSPHERIC BREATHING.
• Hydrographic percentage: 94%; composition, water and frozen water-ice.
• Mean surface temperature: 19°C.

History & Background (Dossier)

Skye is best remembered in romantic fiction within the Principality of Caledon as the world where Admiral Earl Maxwell was able to shake government pursuit after his ship crash-landed on the planet during the flight that followed his defeat at the Battle of Dunbarton. With the help of a handful of companions, Maxwell went to ground on Skye for several months, eventually linking up with a frigate from Germaine (Reavers' Deep 2019) which helped him escape from searching Caledonian marines. The story of the Earl's sojourn on Skye is now a popular subject for historical novels, ballads, and other stories.

Skye is actually not as romantic as setting as the stories might lead one to believe. Primarily ocean-covered, only 6% of the surface area is land. The primary industries are all ocean-related, as might be expected.

World Timeline

These are some of the more important historical events that have affected this world's subsector:

• (-1776 to 0): Long Night
• (-1648 to -112): Reaver Period
  • (-1008): Founding of the Iltharan Empire
  • (-371): Principality of Caledon founded
• (-86 to -80): Iltharan War
  • (-84): Confederacy of Duncinae founded
• (0): Third Imperium founded
• (268): Fall of the Iltharan Empire
• (380): Peace of Ftahalr
• (517): Carrillian Assembly founded
• (1024): Caledon Dynastic Crisis

References

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