Tertha (world)
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| Tertha/Core (Core 2020) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | C200342-B
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | G4 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tertha is a low-population vacuum world, with a population of less than 10,000 sophonts in population size, warranting hazardous environment precautions.
- Life in a vacuum requires great discipline. After all, it only takes one forgotten seal on a vacuum suit to spell death. Those who survive tend to be very methodically-minded and attentive to small detail.
- It is a member of the Third Imperium in the Core Subsector of Core Sector in the Domain of Sylea.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)[edit]
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Monostellar System[edit]
Tertha Monostellar System Star Name Hierarchy Category Mass (Sol) Temp (K) Luminosity (Sol) Tertha G4 V
Primary Main Sequence 0.985 5660 - 5680 0.94848 Unit Diameter Min Distance Hab Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit AU 0.0046 0.0808 0.93 - 1.65 0.46 4.6 Orbit # * * 3 1 6 Remarks None
System Data[edit]
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Mainworld Data[edit]
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Mainworld Atmosphere[edit]
Tertha has a pressure of less than 0.001 atmospheres which requires the use of a Vacc Suit. TL–8 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.
Mainworld Geography & Topography[edit]
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Mainworld Map[edit]
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Native Lifeforms[edit]
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History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
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Imperial Landed Nobility[edit]
TBD, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Nobility overseeing the world.
World Starport[edit]
Tertha has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which includes 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 Technology Level[edit]
Tertha possesses a Technology Level of TL–11 or TL-B 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 & Air: Personal G-Tubes and advanced gravcraft.
- Space: Advanced interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).
- FTL: Jump Drive-2.
World Government[edit]
Tertha is governed by a Representative Democracy where government leadership is representatives elected by eligible voters. What determines an eligible voter varies. The representatives determine policy, including selecting members of the bureaucracy. There can be referendum, votes by eligible voters on specific subjects.
World Law Level[edit]
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World Military[edit]
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World Economy[edit]
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Trade Data[edit]
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World Demographics[edit]
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World Culture[edit]
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World Language/s[edit]
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Urbanization[edit]
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World Infrastructure[edit]
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Historical Data[edit]
Ancients Era (Speculation) There is no surviving indication that the Ancients visited the Tertha system. The system was designated an Ancients site during the First Survey by the Third Imperium, but this designation was later withdrawn. [2]
Early Vilani Age (Speculation) As a world on the Sylean Main, the Tertha system was surveyed cursorily around -8100, when the Vilani were exploring the Main at around the time they discovered Sylea just a few parsecs away. Designated the Kan system at the time, it had little to offer the picky and slow-moving Vilani, and was left untouched aside from a navigation beacon placed on one of the worldlets near the habitable zone. The Vilani then left the system to its own devices. [2]
Not so the Geonee, who were also exploring the Sylean Main around the same time. Deciding that a forward base close to but not on the Vilani route to Sylea was desirable, the Geonee set up a low-key base concealed in the side of a mountain on the same worldlet the Vilani had used for their beacon. Intended as a supply base and hidey hole, the base was kept small and well hidden, but could refuel ships and store curiosities the field explorers found. In this role is was quite successful, and the Vilani never found it. The Geonee operated quietly out the Kan base and others like it for centuries. [2]
Consolidation Wars (Speculation) While the Geonee base was in a prime location to be used during the Vilani wars of oppression, the Geonee declined to use it offensively, choosing instead to keep the base a secret in case they might make use of it in a war they were better prepared for. That day never came. The base lay forgotten for thousands of years. [2]
Third Imperium - Milieu Zero (Speculation) During their wars against the neighboring states, the rising Sylean Federation made careful surveys of the worlds around them, and discovered the old Geonee base. Not recognizing the 8,000 year old Geonee markings, the surveyors speculatively noted the base as an Ancients site and moved on. The wars and subsequent early development of the new Third Imperium did result in the placement of a bare bones fuel depot and cargo transfer port (Class D) on the world, but it remained a backwater and a punishment posting for the early starport authority. [2]
Once the Imperium recontacted the Geonee, the connection was made to the old base. While the Geonee no longer remembered the long abandoned base, they were quick to make a claim on it, and made themselves a nuisance until the Imperium decided to make an economic example of the world. The Imperial starport designation was moved to another tiny world in the system, and a campaign of lucrative research grants and relocation awards was undertaken to ensure the new world, named Tertha, remained the dominant world in the system. The old port at Kan was left to moulder as a challenge and economic shackle for the Geonee to don if they so desired. [2]
The facilities at Kan are technically within the noble fiefs of the Geonee nobility, but as they are well beyond the modern territory of the Geonee, they generally sit unmaintained. [2]
World Timeline[edit]
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UWP Listing[edit]
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References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- Jim Cunningham, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, Gordon Sheridan. Atlas of the Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), TBD.
- Marc Miller. The Traveller Book (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), TBD.
- Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), TBD.
- Marc Miller. Rebellion Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1988), 26.
- Gary L. Thomas. The Travellers' Digest 08 (Digest Group Publications, 1987), TBD. (Core Subsector)
- Gary L. Thomas. The Travellers' Digest 09 (Digest Group Publications, 1987), TBD. (Cemplas, Bunkeria Subsectors)
- Gary L. Thomas. The Travellers' Digest 10 (Digest Group Publications, 1987), TBD. (Cadion, Chant Subsectors)
- Michael Berry, David Burden. Milieu 0 Campaign (Imperium Games, 1996), TBD.
- Marc Miller. First Survey (Imperium Games, 1996), TBD.
- Stuart L. Dollar, Joseph E. Walsh. Psionic Institutes (Imperium Games, 1997), TBD.
- Martin Dougherty, Neil A. Frier, Doug Stewart, Joseph E. Walsh, James M. Ward. Missions of State (Imperium Games, 1997), TBD.
- Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. The Khiidkar Incident (BITS, 1999), TBD.
- Loren Wiseman. Nobles (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), TBD.
- Novel: Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
- Author & Contributor: Jim Kundert
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Information provided to the library by GypsyComet