Tsai (world)

Tsai/Tsahrroek (Empty Quarter 0410) Milieu 1116 C686641-4 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 6 Moderate (7 million) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 1 Low Law (no explosives, poison gas) Tech Level 4 Industrial (combustion)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	K5 V
Worlds	11
Gas Giants	3
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Representative democracy
Law Level	Low
Cultural Extension	2611
Army Size (BEs)	100
Economic Details
Technology Level	4
Economic Extension	854-4 Resources 8 Moderate Labor 5 Moderate (700 thousand) Infrastructure 4 Very limited Efficiency -4 Very poor
Importance Extension	0
Resource Units	3
GWP (BCr)	96
World Trade Number	3
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	0
Starport Details
Classification	Class-C
Port Size	0
Building Capacity (Tons)	5,950
Port employees	0
Port passengers (annual)	0

Tsai is an agricultural production world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere and a balance of available surface water. The system has a population between 1 million and 10 million sophonts. It is a member of Julian Protectorate in the Tsahrroek Subsector of Empty Quarter Sector and in the Rukadukaz Republic. Less than 10% of the world's population is the Major Race Vargr.

• This world was once known as Dudikurgemunsu.

Astrography and Planetology

Stellar Data

Tsai has a solitary primary star.

Tsai
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.7	4300 - 4440	0.28697
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0065	0.0444	0.56 - 1.01	0.65	6.5
	Orbit #	*	*	2	2	6
	Remarks

History and Background

The world of Tsai is divided between a handful of relatively 'high-tech' (TL 4-5) Vargr island chains that rule the vast continents dominated by hundreds of millions of 'low-tech' (TL 0-2) Humans. Ever since the end of the Mgoungurov War c. 200 years ago, the Ghlovgegkiza’o Archipelago has held undisputed leadership over the other Vargr nations (effectively turning them into provinces of a one world government) and over all of the Human continents as well.

The Vargr of Tsai follow traditional Vilani culture more closely than the largely Vilani-descended Humans do, and the planetary state -- the Administration of Ungnishunks’ -- is a very bureaucratic and hide-bound government.

World Starport

Tsai has a Class C Starport, an average quality installation which features amenities including unrefined fuel for starships, some brokerage services for passengers and cargo, and a variety of ship provisions. There is a shipyard capable of doing maintenance and other kinds of repair. Ports of this classification generally have only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

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 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

UWP Changes (all dates are Imperial Calendar)

• T20 - 993 - Tsai 0410 C68689A-5 Ri Varg1 213 Jr - Julian Protectorate (Rukadukaz Republic)
• CT - 1105 - Tsai 0410 C686641-4 Ag Ni Ri Varg0 713 Jr - Julian Protectorate (Rukadukaz Republic)
• MT - 1125 - Tsai 0410 C686641-4 Ag Ni Ri 713 Jr - Julian Protectorate (Rukadukaz Republic)
• TNE - 1201 - Tsai 0410 X6866CD-6 Ag Ni Ri 713 Wi

References and Contributors

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.

• Jason Kemp. "Alpha Quadrant of the Empty Quarter Sector- Tsahrroek Subsector." Stellar Reaches 04 (2006): 7. - UWP Only
• Jason Kemp. "Sector In Review: Empty Quarter 993." Stellar Reaches 05 (2006): 37. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "Maps and UWP’S for the Empty Quarter: 993, 1105, 1125, and 1201 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 17 (2011): 16. - UWP Only
• Alvin Plummer. "A Gazetteer to the Worlds of the Empty Quarter." Stellar Reaches 18 (2012): 5. - Short write-up
• Alvin Plummer. "Data Dump: Updated Maps and UWPs for the Empty Quarter, 993 and 1105 Imperial." Stellar Reaches 19 (2012): 48. - UWP Only
• World page generated by AB-101
• Data compiled by ’’MIMIC’’ - Minor Imp of the Ministry of Information and Communication