Trin (SM 3235) (world)

Milieu 1116 

Trin/Trin's Veil (Spinward Marches 3235) Milieu 1116 A894A96-F Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population A High (10 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level F High Stellar (anagathics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	G0 V
Worlds	8
Gas Giants	1
Planetoid Belts	0
Cultural Details
Government	Impersonal bureaucracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	9F4E
Army Size (BEs)	5000
Economic Details
Technology Level	15
Economic Extension	D9H+4 Resources D Very abundant Labor 9 High (1 billion) Infrastructure H Very comprehensive Efficiency +4 Advanced
Importance Extension	5
Resource Units	7,956
GWP (BCr)	210,000
World Trade Number	6.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	537,494
Starport Details
Classification	Class-A
Port Size	6
Building Capacity (Tons)	11,500,000
Port employees	77,955
Port passengers (annual)	2,011,850

Trin is an industrial world with a tainted atmosphere. The system has a population over one billion. This system serves as the capital for the subsector. It is a member of Third Imperium in the Trin's Veil Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Domain of Deneb. Trin, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight (the Imperial representative to the world) and the fiefdoms of a count and the Subsector duke. All three are members of the Imperial Landed Nobility who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level. The system supports both an Imperial Naval Base and a Scout Base with the additional starship traffic.

Trin System
Trin's Veil/Spinward Marches 3235
Position	Distance	Name	UWP
Primary		Zaiden	G0 V
0	0.2 AU	Karita	Y200000-0
1	0.4 AU	Teermad	Y410000-0
2	0.7 AU	Scorcher	F420668-E
3	1.0 AU	--	"Empty Orbit"
4	1.6 AU	Trin	A894A96-F
1	R= 1	Veil	YR00000-0
5	2.8 AU	LSP Spinward	F738414-E
6	5.2 AU	Featherwind	C859205-F
7	10 AU	Orslei	LGG
1	R= 5	Marianne	Y400000-0
2	R= 7	Desseloss	Y100000-0
3	R= 13	Desparon	G500366-E
4	R= 30	Hendeford	Y4A1000-0
5	R= 45	Lythic	Y606000-0
6	R= 50	Desmond	Y100000-0
8	19.6 AU	Armin	Y400000-0

Trin is a high-population, industrial world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• Its economy is rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to rapidly improve barring outside forces.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Trin's Veil Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.

• This is a temperate world, with a climate of pleasant, average temperatures, considered to be an ideal or near-ideal environment by many different sophont species.
• This is a "high technology" world with technology achievements at, near, or above the standard for Charted Space.
• The world serves as the subsector capital with the significant extra trade and prestige associated with that role.
• This world has an Imperial Naval Base, capable of handling warships.
• It also has an Imperial Scout base, capable of handling IISS starships and personnel.
• The bright supergiant star Deneb is visible in the sky even during daylight hours.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Trin has a solitary primary star named Zaiden.

• It is a yellow main sequence.

Trin has a solitary primary star.

Zaiden
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	G0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.06	5860 - 5930	1.22623
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0102	0.0918	1.04 - 1.83	1.02	10.2
	Orbit #	*	*	4	3	7
	Remarks		None

System Data

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

• Trin, the mainworld. It orbits within Zaiden's habitable zone
• x6 secondary rocky worlds. They are named (in order out from the star):
  • Karita, Teermad, and Scorcher (hot inner system worlds)
  • LSP Spinward, Featherwind, and Armin (cold outer system worlds).
• x1 gas giant, named Orslei, orbiting in the outer system.
  • It has six major moons.

Ling-Standard Products has a major facility within the Trin System, on a cold rockball world called Ling Standard Products Spinward. Originally planned as the regional HQ for LSP, to replace the facilities at Mora, it instead became an R&D and manufacturing site.

There is a mining colony on Scorcher and a prison camp on Desparon, the largest moon of the gas giant Orslei.

There is a Scout Base on Featherwind that serves as an X-boat logistical and service base. Named for the IISS survey vessel which first landed on Trin in 087-67, the base does does little exploratory work.

Centrally held map of the system within AAB Library Data records.

(canon map provided by Megatraveller Manhunt adventure module)

Mainworld Data

Trin has a dense, tainted atmosphere and relatively low water coverage. There is no moon, but the reflective ring of debris of the moon that once orbitted Trin, and gives the name to the subsector, still gives an impressive light show at dawn and dusk.

It orbits within its star's habitable zone.

Mainworld Size (S)

Trin 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)

Trin has a pressure of 1.50 to 2.49 atmospheres. While a Dense Atmosphere requires no survival gear this atmosphere also contains an unusual taint such as disease, a hazardous gas mix, pollutants, or sulfur compounds which requires the use of a Filter Mask. Some taints may require more protective equipment. TL–3 or more advanced survival gear is required to settle this world.

• It experiences generally moderate temperatures.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Trin has 35-45% of its surface covered by liquid water. There will be a number of small seas or one larger body of water. Wilderness refueling is possible.

• Coastal regions have lush forests and jungles. The continental interiors are arid.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

»» Mainworld Map

(canon map provided by Megatraveller Manhunt adventure module & Colored)

A centrally held map of the world exists within AAB Library Data records.

Satellites

Trin does not retain any moons. However, it does retain a spectacular ring system that fills its skies and lends its name to the subsector.

History & Background (Dossier)

Colonized not long after Mora, Trin is viewed as the back door to the Marches. Reachable by Jump-2 ships from a rich trade route in the Deneb Sector, from where it is possible to reach coreward and join the Spinward Main or spinward towards Glisten.

Ground vehicles are rare on Trin, other for industrial or agricultural use. Maglev trains and grav buses provide the bulk internal city and inter-city transport, with some grav vehicles for rapid city to city transport.

The education level in Trin is very high, and upward mobility is available through work promotions as normal, but there are also government sponsorships for people working in the arts or sports, or pursuing interesting ideas in technology or business.

There is a robust social safety net for those who find themselves on hard times, and the standard of living for the poor is higher than that found on frontier or most industrial worlds.

The efficient social system, coupled with Trin's high Tech Level, means that Trin is an industrial powerhouse and exporter of goods to a wide range of markets. This is facilitated by its location, with access to the Spinward Main and Deneb Sector.

World Starport (St)

Trin 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.

• The world is host to a Naval Base.
• The world is host to a Scout Base.

Large quantities of goods move through Trin's excellent highport. The Highport is host to many brokerages and commercial dispute resolution firms. While many of the facilities are geared toward larger ships, generally for the larger transshipment/trading corps and megacorporations, the repair and dockyard facilities are available to smaller ships, if they can afford the fees.

The Highport is also Home to the Imperial Trin Institute of Commerce or ITICk, a large facility for training spacer crews, as well other merchant activities such as brokerage and law. It is a common destination for those who seek higher learning in a merchant career, and many of the spacers also join the Naval Reserves, undertaking training at the Imperial Navy base within the system.

The Naval Base in far orbit around Trin serves as HQ for the subsector fleet and as a base for the heavy squadrons of the Sector Fleet. Local ground defenses are controlled groundside on Trin, but many of the System Defense Boats berth at the naval base. It is also associated with an inactive ship facility for decommissioned naval vessels.

• Elements of the 207th Fleet are based at Trin, but like the rest of the fleet it is under-strength and reliant on its reserve enlisted and commissioned officers for any major deployment or action.

World Population (P)

Trin has a population of 10,000,000,000 sophonts (tens of billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.

Urbanization

Many of the tens of billions of people on Trin live in arcologies surrounded by farmland. The intense, well-regulated and high tech farming methods allow Trin to be almost fully self-sufficient, and the standard of living in Trin is well-known and respected throughout much of Charted Space.

Grav technology was available at the founding of Trin, and the arcologies and other architecture tend toward tall, graceful structures surrounded by recreational areas and parkland. Living space is generous for the size of the population, and Trin citizens generally think of their environment in three dimensions, the idea of being confined to ground level being an alien concept.

Linguistic Topography

The following languages are most commonly heard:

• Riftian Galanglic, one of the principal dialects of one of the two official languages of the Imperium.
• Vilani, one of the two official languages of the Imperium.

World Technology Level (T)

Trin possesses a Technology Level of TL–15 or TL-F in Hexadecimal Notation.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Meson Communicators and Pseudo Reality Communications.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, improved collectors, and advanced Fusion+.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land & Water: Advanced gravcraft.
  • Air: Advanced gravcraft and speeders.
  • Space: Advanced gravcraft and G-Carriers.
  • FTL: Jump Drive-6.

World Government (G)

Trin 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 (L)

Trin has a moderate level with laws covering many areas of government and interaction. These laws are simple enough that most people can act as their own advocate, though for serious issues a professional is recommended. Law enforcement officials will be present, but not in great numbers. All firearms except shotguns, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

Imperial Landed Nobility

Trin, as a member world of the Third Imperium, holds the estate of an Imperial knight who acts as an Imperial representative to the world, and the fiefdoms of two members of the Imperial Landed Nobility, who oversee affairs regarding the world at an Interstellar and Imperial level.

• This world is the fiefdom of an Imperial Subsector Duke: His/Her Grace the Duke of Trin, who also conducts affairs regarding the entire subsector at the Interstellar and Imperial level.
• It contains the fiefdom of an Imperial Count: His/Her Lordship the Count of Trin
• It contains the estate of an Imperial Knight: The Honourable Knight of Trin, the Imperial representative to the world.

See: Nobles of Trin

• Trin is the center of the Local Subsector Government.

Trade Data

• Importance: 5 (very important)

World Economy

• Resources: D (very abundant)
• Labor: 9 (billions)
• Infrastructure: H (very comprehensive)
• Efficiency: +4 (advanced)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 9 (discordant)
• Acceptance: F (extremely xenophilic)
• Strangeness: 4 (somewhat distinct)
• Symbols: E (extremely 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.

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Historical-Era: Milieu:1120

Trin in the Continuing Imperium (Click Expand to reveal)

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IISS GURPS Astrographics Survey

3235 Trin (Imperial) - Green Zone

Starport: Class V (Class A) - Naval & Scout bases.

Diameter: 8,000 miles (12,800 km). Gravity: 1.00g.
Atmosphere: Dense oxygen-nitrogen Tainted.
Hydrographics: 40%.
Climate: Normal.
Population: 10s billions sophonts.
Government: Impersonal Bureaucracy.
Control Level: .
Tech Level: 12 (TTL=15).
World Trade Number: 6.5.

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Historical-Era: Regency/Milieu:1200

The Regency: Trin in the New Era (Click Expand to reveal)

Rape of Trin (1139)

In 1139, Trin was attacked by a vampire ship, the former Ziru Sirkaan battleship Kishkii, which destroyed much of the orbital facilities, then bombarded the surface for several hours before crashing itself into the surface. Kishkii was the sole survivor af a vampire fleet of 60 to 80 ships, which seemed to have crossed four sectors with the sole aim of destroying Trin.

Three billion people died in the initial assault, however, 10 million more died from the effects of radiation. With all surface and orbital infrastructure decimated, the world could not maintain its surviving population, and many of its citizens where forced to emigrate.

The subsector was renamed Trin's Shroud as a result of the attack.

History-Era: Regency Era (Milieu:1130)

The naval ship reserve was relatively untouched by the attack of the Kishkii, as was the Naval base, which was based around the orbit on the far side of Trin. The Naval HQ was moved due to the loss of dirtside resources, but the inactive fleet station, NavInacShipFac was quickly repaired.

Trin Lives

That is the first thing that hit's you as you come out of jump, and hear the enormous amount of radio traffic that all busy ports have. Freighters and scouts, yachts and warships, all of the typical retinue of a major port is here.

Only as you near the white orb of Trin - with it's thin, sky blue belt - can you spot the carnage. Several large impact craters which dot the northern hemisphere. Black scar marks, which pepper hundred's of square kilometers of the Von Herrio Glacers. Above all, the orbiting hulk of dead cities, once home to 800 million people, now fly in a twisted, ghastly dance over the fair world of Trin.

Docking at New Sorrom Highport, the visitor is accosted with rules and regulations. While necessary in the Quarantine Zone, the rigor and harshness of the Navy seem more apparent here than anywhere else.

The actual starport itself is ample for any need or service. The inhabitants of high ports are famous for living a world apart from the folks dirtside, and the 80 million inhabitants of New Sorrom are no different. The famous Trin friendliness, patriotism and love of travel still flourishes here, but is slowly giving way to the Trin Survival Movements. The local Naval base, home of the 207th fleet, is known as the last one to see a major action against piracy, in 1159.

Non-Trin starships can land only at Sorrom Down. It is a must to apply for a permit before going dirtside, as _any_ unauthorized craft will be blown out of the sky. Without warning. Fortunately, the Authorization procedure is quite simple, merely a battery of tests to insure that your ship and equipment is Virus-free. Moreover, they will install a "Slaver", that will insure that your ship will dock under the control of Sorrow Down, not the pilot.

At Sorrow Down, the local government will board your craft as soon as you dock. Before the HEPlaR is cooled, armed Investigators will be onboard, combing every electronic gadget, computer, wrist comp, and every piece of every lot of cargo onboard.

If any non-Trin ship is caught carrying Infected merchandise, the ship is seized: only Noble influence can return it. If they are caught Smuggling merchandise (Infected or not), the entire crew is shot, on the spot. The penalties are less harsh for Trin citizens: simply a massive fine and "personality reshaping", respectively.

O.K., so you pass inspection. It will still prove impossible to sell electronic merchandise to anyone but another trader. Even harmless goods from anyplace but Trin's neighbor, Hazel (Trin's Veil 3236: C645747-5) will be viewed with suspicion. Three billion died because of a batch of Infected scribble tablets, after all.

About the only thing going for you is that you can defend your cargo and person from any Survivalist attack: There are no weaponry laws. None. You probably won't need to draw your weapon, though: the days of the Night Hits, when Survivalists and the Union of Merchants & Traders would attack each other with fusion rifles have been over for 20 years. Just make a good acquaintance with the Union, and pay your dues, and the Union will look after your ship and cargo.

If you are a member of the Regency Navy or the Quarantine Service, it would be wise to leave your uniforms in your cabins. The Trin blame those groups, especially the Regency Quarantine Service, for the Rape of Trin. While physical violence is not out of the question, the Trin - especially the old-timers - are more likely to spit on your shoes or make obscene remarks.

About the only place where foreigners are welcomed is at Leormen's Point, an undersea settlement of 25 million refugees of the Aslan Incursion. The locals, Akimen and Glistenites, remain favorably disposed to traders since their religion insists on hospitality to strangers from the stars. Even here, though, don't expect anyone to ask to borrow your hand comp.

Trin culture tends to revolve around the themes of Survival and Rebuilding. The young, especially, are considered the responsibility and the future of the entire community. They tend to be spoiled shamelessly, and have a rather high view of themselves. Trin art also emphasizes the theme of rebuilding from the ruins, and many refugees of the Wilds admit to a attraction to the entrancing LightDances and mournful, graceful Thinsong of modern Trin art. Indeed, the upper classes all strive to patronize the best of Trin art, as prestige is measured in the number of notable artistic works you can own.

Although the dominant culture of Trin is generally vehemently anti-foreigner, there is still a soft spot for nobility and a strong sentimental attachment to the Regency government, especially to Norris and his heirs; and unlike many Infected worlds, Trin has retained its technology, using it to create the best anti-Viral programs in the sector rather than retreat into a anti-technological never-neverland.

Still, these are but candles in the dark, and as long as the people and government of Trin focus on nursing their wounds, they cannot truly give local trade and subsector government the leadership needed for the New Era.

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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.

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• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches Campaign (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), 18-19.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 94-100. (UWP only)
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 47-58. (UWP only)
• Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 51.
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 117-123.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 115. (UWP only)
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• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 137-138.
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• Peter Keel - InfoData Library