Tsouu (world)

Tsouu/Khuzedhoth (Knoellighz 1131)
Classic Era (1116)	D98A463-5 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 9 Large (14,400 km, 1.03g - 1.33g) Atmosphere 8 Dense Hydrographics A Water World 100% Population 4 Moderate (10 thousand) Government 6 Captive Government/Colony Law 3 Low Law (no automatic weapons) Tech Level 5 Industrial (mass production)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K5 V F7 V D
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	2

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Tsouu is a nonindustrial water world, which has 90% or more of its surface covered in an ocean of water.

• The inhabitants of this world live on the roughly 10% of exposed land mass, in underwater colonies, on city ships, or similar arrangements.
• As a nonindustrial world, it requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. The need to import most manufactured and high technology goods drives the price of these goods up in the open market.
• This is a "low technology" world with technology competencies well below standard for Charted Space.
• It is a member of the Infinity League in the Khuzedhoth Subsector of Knoellighz Sector in the Vargr Extents.

• This world has a Vargr Corsair Base.
• Tsouu is a colony of Egang (Knoellighz 1034).
• This world was once known as Naedzaer.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Tsouu has three stars in the star system.

Tsouu
	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
Tsouu
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F7 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.21	6180 - 6280	1.94872
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0123	0.1158	1.29 - 2.24	1.23	12.3
	Orbit #	*	0	4	3	7
	Remarks
Tsouu
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	D	White Dwarf		0.53	6800 - 6800	0
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.00011	0.00168	0 - 0.03	0.011	0.11
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	0
	Remarks		Dwarf

System Data

The system features two Gas Giants, named Cause and Effect. There are no planetoid belts to mine and a majority of the exports come raw and direct from the seafood of Tsouu. Large cargo containers full of ice and seafood are shipped to other worlds of the Infinity League for processing. This pays little to the inhabitants of Tsouu and they must rely on seizures captured by the Privateers that all name Posthumous; for the 'dead' keep their direct pay from the League to themselves. Imports to Tsouu are watched by the stigmatized Privateers, who stand sentinel over the Downport craft.

Mainworld Data

Tsouu is a large water world, completely covered in low-saline oceans and teeming with life at the equatorial tropics. Its Earth-like gravity allows for a wide variety of sea life as does its dense, high pressure atmosphere, which also causes weak but widespread tropical depressions, hurricanes and typhoons. The breathable oxygen is released by the subsurface plant life in great pressure-blows and can sink an unwary boat or small ship. Inhabitants of Tsouu have had to acclimate to eating fish, seaweed, and crustaceans. When weather is calm, thick banks of fog settle in the lowest pressure areas before being blown away by winds.

Home to only 10,000 Vargr and visiting Zhodani from Spinward, the descendants of the original colony have become seafaring fishermen and specialists in sea horticulture.

Native Lifeforms

Abundant native life and transplants, occupying every available ecological niche. Its metabolic functions drive the process of atmospheric renewal.

History & Background (Dossier)

Tsouu is the home base of the Infinity League polity's only Letter of Marque, Privateering Corsair Base. Under the regulations of the Hunters' Bawn of Knoellighz Sector, this band on the growing end of the League has made a fearsome name for itself.

See also: Khuzedhoth Doom Trade Slaving.

World Starport

Tsouu has a Class D Starport, a poor quality installation which has few of the expected amenities. There is unrefined fuel for starships and a limited variety of ship provisions. There is no shipyard of any kind, but there may be parts and technical support for doing minor services and repair. Ports of this classification generally consist of only a downport, unless this is a trade port or system with an hostile environment mainworld.

• The D-rated Downport staff point to the nearby ocean when requests for refueling are made. The entire Downport is a large, waterborne, supercraft floating on the surface of the oceans, generally station-keeping or anchored in the temperate zones out of reach of tropical depressions. The Downport is also adjacent to the Corsair Base where Posthumous makes its home. To become a Privateer for this interstellar band is a one-way door and accepted recruits leave all other Careers, unwelcome to return due to the social stigma of becoming Posthumous.

Linguistic Topography

Gvegh is the Vargr language spoken in the Infinity League, a carryover from settlers originating in Gvurrdon Sector. Many well-educated or corporate Vargr of the League also speak the Zhodani language Zdetl and touch upon Vuakedh when needed.

World Technology Level

Tsouu possesses a Technology Level of TL–5.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Telephone, radio, and television.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Electricity, hydrocarbon internal combustion, and the most fundamental atomic energy.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Ground cars or automobiles and tracked vehicles.
  • Water: Large ships and submersibles with steel hulls.
  • Air: Early aircraft including seaplanes and very early unmanned rockets.

World Government

Tsouu 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.

• There is very little Law here, most weapons that can sink a surface watercraft or ship being banned out of mutual safety.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Culture

Low-end Scuba and underwater sports are mandatory to developing ocean survival skills when swept overboard. Sports revolve around surface and submersible regattas, races around poles or around the equator of the planet. With TL-5 being the average for watercraft, with radio and minimal computing power, the inhabitants have little else to accentuate the horizon of endless oceans.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

Point of Interest: Posthumous Fellowship

Infamous for pirate hunting and harrying Ascendancy Pact starships, the Posthumous are also a strange fellowship. In order to be recruited, one must undergo a dangerous ritual of detaching oneself from 'life'. Nullifying their personal Charisma to near nothingness, these socially-dead Privateers have little to lose and everything to gain, for members have cut their ties to former lives before joining the Posthumous, their crimes forgiven, family ties severed and nowhere to go but up from the 'dead'. They are renowned for their careless and headlong rush into battles, in both space and planetary theatres. Once a recruit crosses the ice-capped gulag of Tsouu's polar region, that Vargr has made the severance from their past life. Frozen bodies of failed attempts dot the arctic landscape there. The Posthumous claim that only those who want such backwards redemption -- who desire it completely -- are accepted, and these people sever all attachments to their previous life. Then, new recruits are inducted, cult-like, into the Posthumous to start new lives as Privateers. Were it not for their adherence to the Hunters' Bawn regulations to receive a Letter of Marque, the Posthumous would be the most feared piracy group in Knoellighz Sector. They do not take prisoners unless the captured enemy wishes to undertake the ritual to become Posthumous themselves. The heraldry of this band shows the three stars of the Tsouu system, a K5 V primary partially eclipsed by an F7 V secondary and dotted by the Dwarf star -- a symbol of the gateway from life to Posthumous. The sight of the three aligned stars banner or hull décor is enough to cause many vessels to rethink their paths in Khuzedhoth, since it is widely known that there are no Naval Bases in that subsector. The Privateers are so bold as to plague Irrarrdhang Subsector navies and Corsairs alike.

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