Torc (world)

Torc/Naem (Mendan 3039)
Classic Era (1116)	B967797-7 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 9 Large (14,400 km, 1.03g - 1.33g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 7 Wet World 70% Population 7 Moderate (70 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K1 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	4

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Torc is a rich, agricultural world with improving living conditions due to a bustling agro-economy.

• As an agricultural world, this world is a near-ideal environment for producing quality foodstuffs of plant, animal, and other forms. Quality foodstuffs are a major export commodity for this world.
• This is a rich world with a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• This world is rich with high-grade living conditions, a good climate, and a non-harmful environment. Immigration registration for this world is always in high demand.
• This is a "low technology" world with technology competencies well below standard for Charted Space.
• It is a member of the Rukadukaz Republic, a member of the Julian Protectorate, in the Naem Subsector of Mendan Sector, which is located in the Vargr Extents.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

This world is part of the Chicinoe Cluster.

Stellar Data

Torc has a solitary primary star.

Torc
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K1 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.86	5100 - 5170	0.58985
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0074	0.0637	0.76 - 1.36	0.74	7.4
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
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System Data

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Mainworld Data

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Mainworld Geography & Topography

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Mainworld Map

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Native Lifeforms

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History & Background / Dossier

World Starport

Torc 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)

Torc has a population of 70,000,000 sophonts (tens of millions).

World Demographics

• Human, 90% (largely Vilani)
• Vargr, 10% (mostly Ovaghoun Vargr)

World Languages

• Ikonaz Vargr: A form of the dominant Ovaghoun language in the Ikonaz Sphere (and so in the Rukadukaz Republic).
• Ikonaz Vilani: A variant of the above altered to suit Human vocalization.

World Technology Level

Torc possesses a Technology Level of TL–7.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early video and early satellite communication networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fuel cells, solar energy, and geothermal power sources.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, hovercraft, and bullet trains.
  • Water: Hydrofoils and early triphibians.
  • Air: Hang gliders and supersonic jets.
  • Space: Deep space probes and interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

World Government

Torc is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

World Law Level

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World Military

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World Economy

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Trade Data

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World Culture

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Urbanization

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Historical Data

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World Timeline

Major events that have affected this world and the wider region that it lies within include the following:

• -1711: Near the end of the Vargr Pillaging, the proto-Ovaghoun conquer the world of Ikon.
  • Over time, the local Vilani culturally overrun their Vargr overlords, reshaping the Ovaghoun Vargr into a distinct, almost hybridised culture.
• -55: The Mmoannikh Accords between representatives of Logaksu Vargr and Ovaghoun Vargr societies ends a series of conflicts between the two cultures.
  • The Accords are rejected by the central Ikonaz government, leading to a shattering of the unity of the Ovaghoun.
• 175-191: The Julian War, which sees numerous attacks on Ikon, all of which fail in breaking the homeworld of the Ovaghoun.
  • The Ikonaz become a prominent member bloc of the Julian Protectorate.
• Circa 723: The Association of Good Wolves, the current government of Ikon, encourages the emigration of the working (i.e. Irilitok Vargr) classes to other, nearby worlds -- going so far as to subsidise 70% of the cost involved.
• Circa 937-940: The Fellowship of Nobles, the current Ikonaz government, collapses.
  • The Rukadukaz Republic is founded as the government of the Ikonaz Sphere in the aftermath.
• 942: The Julian Protectorate and the Hegemony of Lorean formally sign the Treaty of Var-Inaka (restricting naval basing) and the Julian Concord, incorporating the Hegemony into the Protectorate.
  • The Rukadukaz insist upon a 'buffer zone' of neutral systems between their territory and the Loreans.

UWP Listing

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References & Contributors / Sources

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• J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, John Harshman. Vargr (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), IBC. (named but no further data)
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11,47. (dot map provided)
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Challenge 49 (full data provided)
• Author & Contributor: Angus McDonald AKA Falkayn
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science