Trexalon (world)

Trexalon/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1339)
Classic Era (1116)	B561851-C Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 6 Standard Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 8 Moderate (900 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K8 V
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	3

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Trexalon is a rich world with a moderate population of over a hundred million, but not yet a billion sophonts in size.

• This world has high-grade living conditions with a good climate and a non-harmful environment. As such, this world is much sought after with large queues for immigration here.
• This world has a prosperous and thriving world economy.
• Most observers think that the planet's economy and population will prosper further in the near future barring outside forces.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the District 268 Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• Trexalon is a member of the Spinward Main.
• It lies on the Collace Arm.

Astrography & Planetology

Stellar Data

Trexalon has a solitary primary star.

• It is an orange main sequence.

Trexalon has a solitary primary star.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K8 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.62	3930 - 3990	0.18766
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0057	0.0359	0.45 - 0.84	0.57	5.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks		None

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x7 secondary rocky worlds.
• x2 planetoid belts.
• x3 gas giants.

Mainworld Data

Trexalon orbits within its star's habitable zone.

• It receives moderate levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Trexalon is a Meso World between 7,200km and 8,800km in diameter. The world has a standard gravity between 0.4G and 0.57G. The horizon will appear about 4km away.

Mainworld Atmosphere (A)

Trexalon has a pressure of 0.71 to 1.49 atmospheres. A Standard Atmosphere does not require survival gear and will likely be easy for most sophonts to breathe.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Trexalon has 05-15% of its surface covered by liquid water or ice. Wilderness refueling will be difficult. Water for the inhabitants needs to be imported and extensively recycled. These worlds are Hell Worlds or Poor Worlds depending on their atmosphere.

Surface water is rare, exists only in a solid state, and can be found in quantity only in several large ice caps near the South Pole. There are, however, large subsurface water deposits, some of which are in a liquid state thanks to the planet's molten core.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

Native Lifeforms

There are no indigenous fauna or flora apart from some extremely hardy bacteria and several lichen-like species that manage to survive on the planet's cold surface.

History & Background (Dossier)

Trexalon is ruled by the Trexalon Technical Cosortium (TTC), a government strongly opposed to Imperial expansion in District 268. Trexalon has long been rumored of providing a safe haven for the Imperium’s enemies, including pirates and privateers. Trexalon is highly influential among the other worlds of the District through friendship, economic ties, and occasional coercion.

Trexalon has been developing long-range economic ties with the Sword Worlds Confederation. Trexalon's biggest rival is the nearby Imperial Client State of Collace (Spinward Marches 1237), and the two worlds are engaged in a cold war. The Trexalonian spy network is notable for its efficiency and the TTC is rumored to be behind a number of insurrections and similar problems on pro–Imperial worlds.

The world was first surveyed by a Sword Worlds naval vessel in 502, and colonized shortly thereafter.

World Starport (St)

Trexalon 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.

McClellan Factors operates an advance administration and starship overhaul facility on Trexalon. This interface shipping and mercantile exploration firm, infamous in some quarters for its cut-throat tactics, maintains a major advance base in the Trexalon system. The company's main regional base is located on nearby Mertactor.

World Population (P)

Trexalon has a population of 900,000,000 sophonts (hundreds of millions).

Urbanization

Trexalon's inhabitants live either underground or in domed cities, and generally only visit the surface in fully-enclosed and artificially-heated extreme cold weather protective gear.

World Technology Level (T)

Trexalon 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 (G)

Trexalon is governed by a Feudal Technocracy. Society divides itself based on the technical requirements of the society. Each of these functions are granted as a fief to an individual or group. Leadership of these fiefs determines the head of the government.

• Trexalon Technical Consortium

World Law (L)

Trexalon has a low law level. There are few laws, covering only important areas. There may be few or no law enforcement officers, the expectation is citizens will bring law breakers to the attention of the Judicial system. Legal proceedings will be fast, with few people involved. For interactions outside of the framework of the laws, cultural norms dominate. Body pistols, explosives, and poison gas are typically regulated or prohibited.

Trade Data

• Importance: 3 (ordinary)

World Economy

• Resources: F (extremely abundant)
• Labor: 7 (tens of millions)
• Infrastructure: D (comprehensive)
• Efficiency: -1 (average)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 4 (harmonious)
• Acceptance: B (extremely friendly)
• Strangeness: 1 (very typical)
• Symbols: 8 (somewhat abstract)

World Timeline

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

• The Year 0: the Third Imperium is founded.
• 300-420: the Imperial First Survey charts the system.
• 589-604: First Frontier War.
• 604-622: the Civil War.
• 615-620: Second Frontier War.
• 624: the Express Boat Network is established.
• 979-986: Third Frontier War.
• 995-1065: the Imperial Second Survey charts the system.
• 1065: the Second Survey is published. Information about the system becomes widely available.
• 1082-1084: Fourth Frontier War, also known as the False War.
• 1107-1110: Fifth Frontier War.

Historical Data (Dossier)

Given the harshness of its environment, Trexalon would certainly never have been colonized had it not been for the rich mineral ore and crystal deposits discovered by an IISS survey in 502. Within twenty standard years, half a dozen mining companies had staked claim to virtually the entire surface. Within two centuries, the population had grown to more than 50 Million sophonts, who began to chafe under the rule of the Trexalon Technical Consortium (TTC) -- a corporate trust founded in 585 by pooling the stock of the six mining firms. The TTC wisely decided that it no longer wanted the burden of performing civil government functions, and sold off Trexalon's domed cities (home to most of the population) and huge swaths of surrounding terrain at nominal prices. However, the TTC preserved its virtual monopoly over the mining, industrial, and interstellar trade sectors of Trexalon's economy (it owns all of the system's starports) and retained ownership of nearly a third of the surface -- with exclusive mineral exploitation rights to the rest in perpetuity.

Each of Trexalon's seven major cities (and large surrounding territories) was purchased from the TTC by a syndicate made up of the wealthiest local residents. Since these “proprietors” collectively owned the entire territory of the seven ‘city states’ they saw no need to consult with the rest of the populace when it came to governing their “property”. Over the past four centuries, they have evolved into a hereditary nobility that monopolizes both political power and control of all major businesses (except for those owned by the TTC). Frequent intermarriages have merged the nobility of various cities into a single, cohesive class that spans all of Trexalon and is characterized by a uniformly conservative outlook and commitment to preserving itself in power.

Trexalon's governmental system is not without its benefits, however, for the non-elite, who enjoy free public services and utilities (health, education, transport, power, water, air, etc.) without having to pay any taxes. The city states receive most of their funding through profit-sharing and royalty payments from the TTC. Most average citizens are, therefore, generally content with their government and its cozy, dependent relationship with the TTC. This is helped by the fact that Trexalonian society as a whole is notably conservative and resistant to change.

Trexalon has a booming economy based on mineral extraction and processing, and durable goods manufacturing. Certain high-tech items and most of the system's agricultural products must be imported (the latter from the Ag Worlds Combine), but Trexalon is otherwise self-sufficient. All large-scale mining operations and industrial plants are owned by the TTC, which employs nearly three-quarters of the system’s working population.

Since Trexalon has no true world government, the TTC effectively controls its extrastellar relations. The TTC has also been contracted by Trexalon’s city states to defend them against extrastellar military threats, and has assembled a small but potent fleet of locally-produced system defense boats and warships of up to cruiser size purchased from the Sword Worlds. The TTC's foreign policy is vociferously anti-Imperial, because it views the Imperium's growing influence in District 268 as the principal obstacle to its own expansionist ambitions in the subsector. The TTC has accordingly developed close economic and military relationships with the Sword Worlds, which share its dislike for the Imperium.

As a corollary to this, the TTC is implacably hostile toward pro-Imperial Collace, which is its chief rival for leadership in the subsector. Indeed, the TTC has, on several occasions, darkly threatened unspecified "consequences" if Collace carries through with its plans to seek admission to the Imperium. The TTC and Collace are presently in a state of "cold war," competing for economic and diplomatic advantage throughout District 268 even as they build up their military forces. There are suspicions, but no real proof, that a recent upsurge in corsair raids on trade to and from Collace has been instigated by the TTC.

One of the key points of contention between Collace and Trexalon is Pavabid, which lies directly between them just one parsec away. Ever since iridium was discovered on Pavabid in 1093, the TTC and Collace have been competing for influence with the ruling religious dictatorship in order to secure mineral exploitation rights. To date, however, the xenophobic offshoot of the Church of the Stellar Divinity on Pavabid has rejected both parties’ advances due to fears that allowing large numbers of off-world miners would pollute its pure theocratic society. Collace’s bid to exploit Pavabid’s mineral bounty is supported by the Imperium, which is concerned that most of the iridium would find its way to the Sword Worlds if Trexalon were to win the mining franchise.

It is widely believed that the TTC turns a blind eye to the activities of corsairs that prey on the Imperial shipping which passes through District 268 on its way between the Glisten and Five Sisters subsectors. Rumor has it that few questions are asked by the local authorities when corsairs visit Trexalon to sell their booty, replenish their fuel and supplies, recruit new crew members, or take advantage of the systems high quality ship repair facilities. The Trexalon system also draws corsairs because of its astrographic circumstances, which offer easy J-2 access to no fewer than 20 systems stretching from the Asteltine group rimward through District 268 into the Outrim Void.

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IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

1339 Trexalon (Independent)

Starport: Class IV.

Diameter: 2,902 miles (4,600 km).
Atmosphere: Standard oxygen-nitrogen.
Hydrographics: 6%.
Climate: Tropical.
Population: 902 million.
Government: Technocracy.
Control Level: 1.
Tech Level: 10.
World Trade Number: 5.0.

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