Tolchus (world)

Tolchus/Taltan (Mavuzog 2521)
Classic Era (1116)	A101668-C Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 1 Small (1,600 km, 0.05g - 0.09g) Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 6 Moderate (5 million) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M5 V M7 VI
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Tolchus is an icy, non-agricultural and nonindustrial vacuum world, whose surface is ice-capped and with nearly all of its water frozen and warranting hazardous environment precautions.

• It is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society.
• It is a subject world of the Korsumug Empire located in the Taltan Subsector of Mavuzog Sector.

• This world is a "Twilight Zone World", a planet that is tidally-locked to its star. It has a hot side that permanently faces the star, a cold side that permanently faces away, and a narrow twilight zone in-between.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• This world toils under the control of a military government with conditions reflecting that situation, including curtailed civil rights and limited freedoms.
• This world-system has a Naval Base, usually associated with military starships, which may be located on or off-world.
• Around 70% of the population is made up of humans.
• About 30% of the population consists of Jaibok.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Tolchus is a binary star system.

• The primary is a red main sequence.
• The secondary is a red subdwarf.

Tolchus has two stars in the star system.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.162	2930 - 3060	0.00171
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0018	0.0034	0.04 - 0.09	0.18	1.8
	Orbit #	*	*	*	0	4
	Remarks
Secondary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M7 VI	Main Sequence (Subdwarf)		0.081	1900 - 2700	0.001
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00073	0.00266	0.03 - 0.04	0.073	0.73
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	2
	Remarks

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x4 secondary rocky worlds.
• x2 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Tolchus is tidally locked to the system's primary star.

• The star is always high in the sky on the bright face, it hangs on horizon in the twilight zone, while the cold dark face is in permanent darkness.
• The world experiences libration - a regular wobble - as it orbits, causing the star to move in the sky.

It orbits towards the inner edge of its star's habitable zone.

• It receives relatively high levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Tolchus is a Small World between 900km and 2,400km in diameter. The world has very low gravity between 0.05G and 0.09G. The horizon will appear about 2km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Tolchus 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.

• Vacuum worlds have no climate, but experience extreme differences in temperature between direct starlight and shade.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Tolchus has 05-15% of its surface covered by ice, either in vast sheets or contained deep within craters or fractures on the surface. Wilderness refueling is possible. Water for the inhabitants can be got by mining and melting ice.

• The surface of the world is composed of a crust of ice many kilometers thick.
• Much of the surface is cratered and covered in thick layers of regolith and dust of meteoric origin, leaving only a small amount of the icy outer shell exposed.
• Below the outer icy shell oceans of liquid water are known to exist.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

No centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

• Locally, detailed maps may be available.

(Blank map, vacuum world.)

Native Lifeforms

Extensive sub-ice native life.

• The exact nature of these aquatic lifeforms remains unknown.

History & Background (Dossier)

World Starport

Tolchus 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.

• There is an associated Naval Base.

World Technology Level

Tolchus possesses a Technology Level of TL–12 or TL-C 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-3.

World Government

Tolchus has a Captive Government or Colony. The world is ruled by an external government, there is no self-rule. This is a colony or conquered area. The local government is an oligarchy appointed by, and answerable only to, the external government.

World Military

Part of the Korsumug Empire.

World Economy

• Resources: A (Abundant)
• Labor: 5 (Hundreds of thousands)
• Infrastructure: 3 (Very limited)
• Efficiency: +1 (Above average)

Trade Data

Importance +1 (Important)

World Demographics

Population 5,000,000

World Culture

• Homogeneity: 4 (Harmonious)
• Acceptance: 7 (Aloof)
• Strangeness: 9 (Extremely confusing)
• Symbols: F (Extremely abstract)

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

• ca -300,000 Jaibok transplanted to Vech by the Ancients.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors / Sources

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• Classic Traveller Group One Theta Borealis Sector
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science