Wesaswek (world)

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Wesaswek/Lentuli (Empty Quarter 0229)
Milieu 1116
A8868DB-A
StarportA Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere8 Dense
Hydrographics6 Wet World 60%
Population8 Moderate (200 million)
GovernmentD Religious Dictatorship
LawB Extreme Law (control of movement)
Tech LevelA Early Stellar (jump drive)
See also UWP
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Jump map from Travellermap.com [1]
System Details
Primary F5 V
Worlds 10
Gas Giants 5
Planetoid Belts 2
Cultural Details
Government Religious dictatorship
Law Level Extreme
Cultural Extension AB7C
Army Size (BEs) 1500
Economic Details
Technology Level 10
Economic Extension
H7C+5
ResourcesHExtremely abundant
Labor7Moderate (20 million)
InfrastructureC Very extensive
Efficiency+5Very advanced
Importance Extension 3
Resource Units 1,171
GWP (BCr) 7,140
World Trade Number 5
Trade Volume (MCr/year) 12,703
Starport Details
Classification Class-A
Port Size 5
Building Capacity (Tons) 150,000
Port employees 4,535
Port passengers (annual) 99,400

Wesaswek is a garden world with an environment conducive to most sophonts. The system has a population between 100 million and a billion sophonts. This world is designated 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 Third Imperium in the Lentuli Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector and in the Domain of Antares. Wesaswek, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estates of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and a baronet, and the fiefdoms of a baron and a viscount. All four are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. 100% of the world's population is the Minor Race Bwap.

Astrography and Planetology[edit]

This world is part of the Marhaban Cluster.

Stellar Data[edit]

Wesaswek has a solitary primary star.
Wesaswek
Solitary F Type.jpg Type Category Mass (Sol) Temperature (K) Luminosity
F5 V Main Sequence (Dwarf) 1.33 6350 - 6550 2.71319
Unit Diameter Safe Distance Habitable Zone Jump Shadow M-Drive Limit
AU 0.0137 0.1366 1.49 - 2.6 1.37 13.7
Orbit #  * 0 4 4 7
Remarks

System Data[edit]

All the asteroids, comets, and small bodies of the system have been grouped together and organized into mathematically elegant orbital patterns -- justified with 'ease of navigation and exploitation' claims, but really done to soothe the Bwap mind, which simply HATES clutter. It is rather amusing -- and a bit frightening -- to bypass an Organized Asteroid Cluster (OAC), with every rock sorted by size, shape, composition, and albedo, synchronized in a perfectly spherical four-layer pattern -- each with a high-output warning beacon and a hive of automated "worker bees" keeping the rocks in flawless formation.

Mainworld Data[edit]

Wesaswek is a major Bwap world, continually inhabited for a touch less than 4,000 years.

Mainworld Size (S)[edit]

Wesaswek is a Meso World between 12,000km and 13,500km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.8G and 1.1G. The horizon will appear about 5.1km away. Vessels with 1G of thrust should check with local starport authorities before attempting to land using emergency power.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)[edit]

Wesaswek has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. A Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear although it may be hard on sophonts not accustomed to it.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)[edit]

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

Mainworld Topography and Geography[edit]

Native Lifeforms[edit]

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

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History and Background[edit]

While Marhaban (Empty Quarter 0426) is the heart and soul of Bwap civilization, Wesaswek is the financial and political nexus. The environment is tuned to the 98%-100% humidity suitable to Bwap, but that same comfort level for their race makes the world a miserable place to be for humans and Vargr.

Still, if you can stand the bureaucracy, the regimentation, and the endless insistance on the Proper Way of Doing Things, the high tech level does have its rewards.

-- Alvin Plummer. "The Preferred Worlds of the Empty Quarter, 993 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 21 (2013): 62.

World Starport (St)[edit]

Wesaswek 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 Population (P)[edit]

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Wesaswek has a population of 200,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

  • The population consists of Bwap.

Linguistic Topography[edit]

The following languages are among the most commonly used here:

  • Anglic: One of the two official languages of the Imperium.
  • Vilani: One of the two official languages of the Imperium.
  • Wawa-pakekeke-wawa: The common, precise and bureaucratic language of the Bwaps.

Urbanization[edit]

Taeswath is the third-largest city on Wesaswek (population: 8,297,111 Bwap, 20,133 non-Bwap). It is the site of Duchess Yin Imperial Downport.

Econony[edit]

Wesaswek is a powerful and influential world within the Imperial Empty Quarter, and is held in great respect by Bwaps across Imperial Space and beyond - only Marhaban (Empty Quarter 0426) herself has greater prestige. Along with Pamushgar, Lazisar (Empty Quarter 1233), Marhaban, Ka-aswa (Empty Quarter 1230) and Ushmigad (Empty Quarter 0638), Wesaswek is a driving force of the local Imperial economy in the Empty Quarter. Wesaswek's architecture and living standards are a good deal higher than in most of the Empty Quarter, and approach the lifestyles of Core Sector.

A high-tech sanctuary in a low-tech sector, it is more deeply traditional, yet less structured, than the motherworld of Marhaban. Huge weather control stations help to manage the planetary humidity to Bwap levels of comfort.

The environment is quite humid, thanks to extensive terraforming, weather control (“more drizzling and stifling humidity, please ”) and the Mother of All Humidifiers that hovers over the major Bwap cities.

Wesaswek became very wealthy during the False Dawn (200-300 Imperial), due to her progressive high-tech industry.

World Culture[edit]

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Bwaps organise themselves into crèches. The crèche is where Bwaps will select a mate, where the eggs will be guarded and tended to, and where the young will be educated by the Satha-a-atta-wapawab (Elders of the Creche). The crèche is also the center of Bwap spirituality, and the focus point of study of the Wapawab (Tree of Life).

Point of Interest: Pesta-wasakeswasa (Weather Control Installations)[edit]

Most notable of Wesaswek's architectural wonders are the massive floating Pesta-wasakeswasa (Weather Control installations) that help keep humidity at levels comfortable to Bwap residents.

Trivia[edit]

“It's raining on Wesaswek” is the oldest known "Emptyhead" traveller joke, first recorded in 57 Imperial. Used initially as an ironical play on non-starfaring interstellar literature: the “It was raining on Mongo” fallacy. (As a simple scientific fact, it IS always raining on most of Wesaswek, most of the time.) Eventually, additional meanings were added:

  • Stating the blindingly obvious:
    • “We'd better load up on extra ammo.”
    • “And I hear that it's raining on Wesaswek, too ”
  • A catchphrase for Empty-heads to recognize each other
  • A signal to change the subject:
    • "Do you know what Sandy's in for?"
    • "I don’t know, but I hear that it's raining on Wesaswek."
  • A synonym for 'a situation beneficial to Bwaps'.
    • "Did you see the paperwork we need to complete? How can we ever get in on the deal?"
    • "I hear that it's raining on Wesaswek."

UWP Listing[edit]

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

  • T20 - 993 - Wesaswek 0229 A8868DB-D 225 Im
  • CT - 1105 - Wesaswek 0229 A8868DB-D 225 Im
  • MT - 1125 - Wesaswek 0229 C8868DA-C 125 La - League of Antares (Regent Brzk's faction)
  • TNE - 1201 - Wesaswek 0229 X886857-4 Ri B 725 Wi

References and Contributors[edit]

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