Tetwumsid (world)

Tetwumsid/Dalesabandagh (Far Frontiers 1816)
Classic Era (1116)	B522774-A Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 7 Moderate (60 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level A Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M0 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Tetwumsid 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 Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Dalesabandagh Subsector of Far Frontiers Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

This world is part of the cluster known as Berebirenol's Bunch.

Stellar Data

Tetwumsid has a solitary primary star.

Tetwumsid
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0055	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.55	5.5
	Orbit #	*	*	2	1	6
	Remarks

History & Background (Dossier)

In -2959, Tetwumsid was under the control of the the Zhupek Shirkaa, which ruled 9 systems in total.

Unlike many Zhupek Shirkaa worlds, it is still heavily populated in 1105. 10% of the population, around 6,000,000 individuals, are Chirpers.

World Starport (Sp)

Tetwumsid has a Class B Starport, a good 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 most kinds of repair, and construction of non-starships. Most ports of this classification have both a Highport and a Downport.

World Population (P)

60,000,000

World Demographics

• Human (largely Vlazhdumecta with Loeskalth influence), 90%
• Chirper, 10%

Linguistic Topography

• Oynprith
• Vlazhdumecta

World Government (G)

Tetwumsid has a Balkanized Government. There is no central world government. The world has several governments competing for control of the world. These may be allies, cooperating, competitors, or at war with each other.

World Technology Level (TL)

Tetwumsid 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.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Kevin Knight. "The Far Frontiers." Traveller Chronicle 05 (1994): 34-38.