Tephany (world)

Tephany/Tephany (Lishun 2719)
Milieu 0	B6B1866-9 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere B Exotic (corrosive) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 8 Moderate (900 million) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
Classic Era (1116)	A6B19DF-A Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere B Exotic (corrosive) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 9 High (5 billion) Government D Religious Dictatorship Law F Extreme Law (rigid control) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K0 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Tephany is an industrial, high-population fluidic hellworld, with a billion or more sophonts in size, who are struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• A fluid world has an oceanic geography consisting of heavily contaminated water or a substance such as ammonia, methane, hydrocarbons, or other exotic liquid.
• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes 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.
• This world serves as the sector capital with the considerable extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This is a "Puzzle" world designated as an Amber Zone. Caution is advised since the world has an environment, laws, customs, life forms, or other conditions that are not well understood and might be a danger to a visitor.
• It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Tephany Subsector of Lishun Sector in the Domain of Antares.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• This world has colonies at:
  • Iconshuu (world)
  • Mist (world)
  • Trigon Orbit (world)

Description / Astrography & Planetology

There is an orange star, with two gas giants, and no asteroid belts in this system.

Tephany has a solitary primary star.

Tephany
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.88	5170 - 5270	0.63928
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0076	0.0663	0.78 - 1.4	0.76	7.6
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks

System Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data

Main World Data

Starport A: Excellent Facilities. Starship Shipyards. Refined Fuel. Class V

Diameter 6 Medium (9600km)

Atmosphere B Exotic (Corrosive)

Hydrographics 1 Dry World (10%)

Population 9 5 Billion

Government D Religious Dictatorship

Law Level F Extreme law (all facets of daily life rigidly controlled) GCR 6

Tech Level A Early Stellar (Jump, Circa 2100) GTL 9

Core Type Molten

Density 1.04 Earths

Mass 0.47 Earths

Gravity 0.79 G

Rotation Period 25 hours

Orbital Period 180 days

Axial Tilt 26 degrees

Orbital Eccentricity 0

Satellites 2

Surface Pressure 302.491 atm

Mainworld Geography & Topography

No information yet available.

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background / Dossier

Tephany is the capital of the Tephany Subsector, in the Lishun Sector.

Imperial High & Landed Nobility

Tephany, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial Landed Knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdoms of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• It holds the estate of an Imperial knight, the Imperial representative to the world.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial count.
• It holds the fiefdom of an Imperial subsector duke, who also conducts affairs regarding the entire subsector at the Interstellar and Imperial level.

World Starport

Tephany 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.

World Technology Level

Tephany possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A 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: Grav belts and maturing gravcraft.
  • Air: Greatly improved hybrid grav-aircraft.
  • Space: Improved interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
  • FTL: Jump Drive-1.

World Government

Tephany is governed by a Religious Dictatorship. The leadership of the government is another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy). There is a powerful independent organization, the state religion, which has influence or direct control of the government. Like the bureaucratic governments this may simply be a strong influence with a secular government, be direct influence by virtue of controlling who may be in the leadership, or be a direct theocracy where the church leadership and bureaucracy is the government.

World Law Level

No information yet available.

World Military

It is defended by the 99th Fleet.

• There is an imperial fleet Naval Base.
• It is an amber travel zone with some special restrictions.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Demographics

No information yet available.

World Culture

No information yet available.

Urbanization

No information yet available.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

Trade Data

Trade Information

System Classifications : •High-Population •Fluid-Oceans

World Trade Number (WTN) : 5.5

Per Capita Income (WPCI) : $ 3660

References & Contributors / Sources

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