Slint (world)

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Slint/Taitin (Crucis Margin 0934)
Classic Era (1116)
C572766-8
StarportC Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g)
Atmosphere7 Standard (tainted)
Hydrographics2 Dry World 20%
Population7 Moderate (80 million)
Government6 Captive Government/Colony
Law6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns)
Tech Level8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary A6 V
Planetoid Belts 0
Gas Giants 1

Slint is a preindustrial hellworld with a population struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

  • Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants.
  • It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
  • It is a member of the Syzlin Republic in the Taitin Subsector of Crucis Margin Sector.
  • This world was colonized by and is controlled from Stefen.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]

This system borders the rift region known as the Pavlet Deep. It is part of the Stefen Cluster.

Stellar Data[edit]

Slint has a solitary primary star.
Slint
Solitary A Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
A6 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 1.83 7760 - 7910 8.29046
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0165 0.2388 2.49 - 4.28 1.65 16.5
Orbit #  * 0 5 4 8
Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

No information yet available.

World Starport (St)[edit]

Slint has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

World Population (P)[edit]

Slint has a population of 80,000,000 sophonts (tens of millions).

World Technology Level (T)[edit]

Slint possesses a Technology Level of TL–8.

  • Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics, improved telephones, and satellite communication and data networks.
  • Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Improved geothermal and improved batteries.
  • Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
    • Land: Advanced automobiles.
    • Water: Triphibians and early artificial gills.
    • Air: Improved helicopters and hypersonic jets.
    • Space: Space shuttles, early space stations, and improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

World Government (G)[edit]

Slint has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. This is a colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.

Governance of this world is from Stefen.

World Military[edit]

The Syzlin Rim Fleet, based on Stefen, defends this and other worlds of the cluster.

All ground forces, system defense vessels, planetary installations and Jump-capable naval vessels in the Syzlin Republic are under the direct control of the Republican President on Syzlin.

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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