Sytak (world)

Sytak/Siridor (Mavuzog 1618)
Classic Era (1116)	C466697-6 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 6 Moderate (5 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F1 V M1 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	2

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Sytak is a nonindustrial, rich, agricultural world with improving living conditions due to a bustling agro-economy.

• 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.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain 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 is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Its economy is bustling and an increase in living conditions is expected in the near future.
• It is a subject world of the Korsumug Empire located in the Siridor Subsector of Mavuzog Sector.

• It is a mainworld which is a satellite of either a gas giant or another world.
• This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
• It is considered a part of the Siridor Trace.
• 100% of the population is composed of Jaibok.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Sytak is a binary star system.

• The primary is a white main sequence named Tsarin.
• The secondary is a red main sequence named Kellen.

Sytak has two stars in the star system.

Tsarin
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.5	6820 - 7020	4.13351
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0156	0.1686	1.8 - 3.11	1.56	15.6
	Orbit #	*	0	5	4	8
	Remarks		Powerful EM transmitter
Kellen
	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		Flare Star. Approximately 630 AU from the primary.

System Data

The worlds of the system have been surveyed. They consist of:

• The mainworld. It is the outer moon of the system's outer gas giant.
• x5 secondary rocky worlds.
• x2 planetoid belts, one orbiting the primary star and one orbiting the secondary star.
  • The primary star's belt is very sparse and very wide, and is considered to be the shattered remains of inner system worlds. It contains three very large (Size Code 1) spherical planetoids.
• x2 gas giants, both orbiting the primary star.
  • The system's inner hot gas giant orbits very close to the primary star, with a 36 hour orbital period. The atmosphere is gradually boiling away and material streams off of its surface, carried outwards by the stellar wind.

A diagram indicating the positions of all of the major worlds and satellites in the system. Distances are noted in AU.

Extended system data is available.

Resonant Orbits
The three rocky worlds orbiting the secondary star have an orbital resonance of 5:3:2 with one another. For every two orbits the outermost of the three worlds completes, the middle world completes exactly three orbits, and the inner world completes exactly five orbits.

• The three worlds orbit at distances of 0.17 AU, 0.24 AU, and 0.53 AU respectively, placing the inner two worlds within Orbit 0 and the outermost world just within Orbit 1.
• They have orbital periods of 37.8 standard days, 63 standard days, and 94.5 standard days respectively.
• The innermost two worlds are tidally locked to the star.

Mainworld Data

Sytak is a major moon of a ringed large gas giant.

The mainworld and its gas giant primary world orbit within the prime region of the star's habitable zone.

• They receive moderate levels of stellar energy.
• The gas giant is "puffy", warm and swollen due to the energy it receives from the star.

Mainworld Size (S)

Sytak is a Meso World between 5,600km and 7,200km in diameter. The world has low gravity between 0.32G and 0.46G. The horizon will appear about 3.6km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Sytak has a pressure of 0.71 to 1.49 atmospheres. A Standard Atmosphere does not require survival gear and will likely be easy for most sophonts to breathe.

• It experiences generally moderate temperatures.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

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

Mainworld Geography & Topography

A simple map of Sytak showing the oceans and seas, the major landmasses and islands, the highland regions, and the polar ice caps.

Native Lifeforms

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

• The world is home to many types of megafauna.

History & Background (Dossier)

The system's primary star causes interference, strange tones and noises, and heavy static on commo and sensors.

Sytak is a world that has been entirely taken by the Jaibok.

• The original Human population have been almost entirely displaced.
• It has been under occupation for around four decades.
• It has been incorporated into the Korsumug Empire.

The Korsumug Immortal Legion Fleet patrols the system.

The standard of the Immortal Legion Fleet.

World Starport

Sytak 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.

• The world originally had a Class B Starport. It has gradually degraded since the Jaibok occupation.

World Population (P)

Sytak has a population of 5,000,000 sophonts (millions).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
• More specifically, the population has been listed as 5,100,000.

World Demographics

• Around 4,900,000 Jaibok, living within and using occupied Human buildings and infrastructure. These have been modified to suit Jaibok needs.
  • The majority are ageing military veterans who have moved away from active duty.
• Approximately 200,000 Humans, largely slaves, low-ranking workers, or skilled captives retained to run the ranches and large estates.

Linguistic Topography

• Galanglic
  • Siri: A dialect local to the region, the most commonly spoken language within the system.
• Kors

World Technology Level

Sytak possesses a Technology Level of TL–6.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fission power generation, advanced water and wind generation of electricity.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, early ATV's, and dedicated AFV's.
  • Water: Amphibious vehicles, improved submersibles, and early SCUBA gear.
  • Air: Early jet aircraft and rotorcraft VTOL's.
  • Space: Early unmanned rocket delivery systems and early manned orbital rockets.

The tech level, originally at a peak of TL–9, has declined steadily since the Jaibok invasion.

World Government

Sytak 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.

• The Jaibok military governor is nominally in charge of the world.

World Law

Sytak has a moderate law level with laws covering many areas of government and interaction. These laws are simple enough that most people can act as their own advocate, though for serious issues a professional is recommended. Law enforcement officials will be present, but not in great numbers. All firearms, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

World Military

A large, disorganized Korsumug military garrison.

• Jaibok military veterans who have achieved a certain status (typically by achieving the impressive feat of surviving) are granted small estates on Sytak.
• Higher-ranking veterans are given ranches and plantations to oversee. They typically use captives as their workforce.

World Economy

• Resources: 9 (Moderate)
• Labor: 5 (Hundreds of thousands)
• Infrastructure: 3 (Very limited)
• Efficiency: +3 (Improved)

Trade Data

Primary exports are animal-derived products such as hides, skins, meat, fluids, horn, and bone.

Manufactured goods of all kinds are in demand.

• Luxuries find a ready market and command premium prices.

World Culture

• Homogeneity: 9 (Discordant)
• Acceptance: 6 (Aloof)
• Strangeness: 8 (Very confusing)
• Symbols: 8 (Somewhat abstract)

Historical Data

The first settlers on the world were hunters and trappers, taking the abundant local lifeforms and processing them (extracting the valuable parts) for trade and sale. The hunters were gradually replaced by ranchers, who were able to selectively breed certain species and take advantage of their instincts and reactions, enabling them to be effectively farmed.

The world prospered. The vast commercial starport handled exports of livestock, meats, and other beast-derived products to markets across the subsector.

The world's wealth drew the attention of the Korsumug Empire, and despite diplomatic efforts and direct threats from the worlds of the Siridor Trace, the Jaibok invaded in 1066. Although the world was subjugated within a few weeks, resistance cells continued to operate, and with the benefit of local knowledge and advanced technology were able to conduct an extremely effective guerrilla campaign, costing the Jaibok tens of thousands of troops and destroying multiple millions of credits worth of equipment.

The Jaibok response was to depopulate the world, executing leaders and public officials and shipping the bulk of the population to occupied Siridor. The vacant plots, properties, and ranches were granted as gifts to Jaibok veterans, along with a few enslaved Humans to act as their servants.

• As properties become vacant (and squabbles among residents frequently result in fatalities) they are granted to new worthy individuals.

World Timeline

• ca 400: First known survey (retrieved from a Talokani data archive).
• ca 550: A small hunting outpost is sited on the world. It primarily exports hides and skins.
• ca 800: The world has developed into a full-scale agricultural world, specializing in products derived from large herd-beasts.
• 1066: The Korsumug Empire occupy the system after a brutal military conquest.
• 1071: The world is formally incorporated into the Korsumug Empire.

UWP Listing

Pre-Jaibok invasion of 1066: B466645-9 Ag Ni Ri (100% humans).

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