Ucella (world)

Ucella/Five Sisters (Spinward Marches 0532) Milieu 1116 D574654-7 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 7 Standard (tainted) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 6 Moderate (4 million) Government 5 Feudal Technocracy Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
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System Details
Primary	F2 V M2 V
Worlds	8
Gas Giants	0
Planetoid Belts	1
Cultural Details
Government	Feudal technocracy
Law Level	Moderate
Cultural Extension	4435
Army Size (BEs)	2
Economic Details
Technology Level	7
Economic Extension	852-4 Resources 8 Moderate Labor 5 Moderate (400 thousand) Infrastructure 2 Extremely limited Efficiency -4 Very poor
Importance Extension	-2
Resource Units	48
GWP (BCr)	5
World Trade Number	3.5
Trade Volume (MCr/year)	73
Starport Details
Classification	Class-D
Port Size	2
Building Capacity (Tons)	3,800
Port employees	5
Port passengers (annual)	600

Ucella is an agricultural world with an ideal environment for producing food from plants, animals, or other lifeforms. The system has a population between 100,000 and 10 million sophonts. It is a client state of Third Imperium in the Five Sisters Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector. Ucella is an agricultural, nonindustrial world still lacking adequate means to expand its 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.
• It requires extensive imports of outside technology to maintain a modern, star-faring society. Having to import most manufactured and high tech goods drives the price up for these items at this world.
• It is a client state of the Third Imperium in the Five Sisters Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector.
• It is a balmy tropical world, with a climate of high temperatures.
• Ucella is a member of the Spinward Main.
• It is home to a small community of Chirpers.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

Stellar Data

Ucella is a binary star system.

• The primary is a white main sequence.
• The secondary is a red main sequence.

Ucella has two stars in the star system.

Primary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.46	6750 - 6820	3.76041
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0151	0.1608	1.73 - 3	1.51	15.1
	Orbit #	*	0	5	4	8
	Remarks
Secondary
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	M2 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.44	3470 - 3560	0.0565
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0041	0.0197	0.25 - 0.48	0.41	4.1
	Orbit #	*	*	1	1	6
	Remarks

System Data

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

• The mainworld.
• x6 secondary rocky worlds.
• x1 planetoid belt.

Mainworld Data

Ucella orbits within the primary star's habitable zone.

• It receives moderate levels of stellar energy.

Mainworld Size (S)

Ucella 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)

Ucella has a pressure of 0.71 to 1.49 atmospheres. While a Standard Atmosphere does not require 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 moderate to high temperatures.

Mainworld Hydrosphere (H)

Ucella 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.

Mainworld Geography and Topography

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

(Blank map, predominantly dry world.)

History & Background (Dossier)

Ucella is a lush and inviting world, though it experiences high temperatures and some regions have limited water resources. Its coastal soils are rich and fertile and it enjoys a long growing season. It is one of the five worlds named by the merchant captain Ignaz Ruffleran after his daughters in the first century.

The first colonists came here in the late 400s to work the land, mostly as herders, and then as grain farmers. Despite its richness, the loss of Imperial interest in the subsector in the wake of the first couple of Frontier Wars and the Psionic Supressions limited its economic progress. Left outside of Imperial borders, its agricultural products became rather unimportant economically to its neighbors, and the world went into a protracted economic decline in the mid 800s.

Ling-Standard Products approached the planetary government in the early 900s, proposing to build a number of "enriching industrial projects" that would elevate the population from poverty, and put it in the Imperial mainstream once again. Pitching a deal that was too good to be true, Ucella's government essentially capitulated to the company's implicit demands, eliminating oversight for the proposed development, and giving LSP an indefinite lease.

Having "tied the world to a gurney", Ling-Standard Products proceeded to construct several chemical plants. Their pollution immediately tainted the atmosphere, poisoned the local Chirper population, and slowly wrecked the world's ecosystem. Agricultural output fell, further impoverishing the population. And using a loophole in the world's immigration laws, and reneging on their promise to employ the world's population, the company imported tens of thousands of workers from their offworld facilities to run the plant. In addition, tens of thousands of additional support personnel came with them, creating a segregated company town isolated from native Ucellans.

LSP ran the plants in a high-handed and reckless manner, resulting in numerous accidents, and indulging in shady and illegal behavior. Contraband was manufactured alongside propellants, solvents and compounds needed by the Imperial military. The company's private shuttleports became "Tortugas" for smugglers and racketeers. Managers and employees were encouraged by their dominance to flagrantly disregard local laws.

World Starport (St)

Ucella 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.

World Population (P)

Ucella has a population of 4,000,000 sophonts (millions).

• This is a Nonindustrial World, too small to support the complete chain of production of most goods from start to finish.
• A small community of Chirpers reside on the world.

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)

Ucella 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 (G)

Ucella 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.

World Law (L)

Ucella has a moderate law 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. Light assault weapons, and anything more destructive, are typically regulated or prohibited.

Trade Data

• Importance: -2 (very unimportant)

World Economy

• Resources: 8 (moderate)
• Labor: 5 (hundreds of thousands)
• Infrastructure: 2 (extremely limited)
• Efficiency: -4 (very poor)

World Culture

• Heterogenity: 4 (harmonious)
• Acceptance: 4 (extremely aloof)
• Strangeness: 3 (somewhat typical)
• Symbols: 5 (concrete)

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.

Later Historical Eras

Ongoing protests to the Duke of Iderati over LSP's activities on the world went unheeded, and the company imported a large mercenary contingent to Ucella in order to protect its facilities. Matters came to a head after the Collapse, when the Regency government stripped LSP of its business licenses in 1132 as part of a crackdown on corporate chicanery. An MoJ investigation into its local operations led to the plants being seized, and criminal indictments against company managers for conspiracy, racketeering, smuggling and the manufacture of contraband. LSP withdrew completely from the world in lieu of regaining its licenses again, and a slow recovery is still under way. The local Chirper population has begun to recover, and are the focus of the new Droyne uplift program run under RISS supervision.

The massive reduction in population is a reflection of the withdrawal of the sprawling LSP compound and its personnel, rather than any kind of major catastrophe. The environment has undergone enough of natural recycling that agricultural production is beginning to reapproach its old levels. While still poor, and still outside the Regency border, trade coming from the Hinters has created a viable source of secondary income, and the world has had an amicable relationship with the Regency as a client state. RQS teams even volunteer to help the locals in their clean up efforts.

Most of the plants were unsalvageable for recycling or conversion, and it took a concerted fifteen year cleanup by MoI, paid in large part by fines extracted from LSP, to just make the countryside around them livable for the locals. Many plant and dump sites are beyond reclamation. Most have simply been stripped of their contaminated soil and water, and the waste shipped offworld for incineration. Many others still await cleanup, and the Amber Zone reflects the dangerous nature of these sites.

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.

• Marc Miller. The Spinward Marches (Game Designers Workshop, 1979), 10-11.
• 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), 48. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 53.
• Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 109. (UWP only)
• Martin Dougherty. The Spinward Marches (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), .
• Martin Dougherty. Behind the Claw (Mongoose Publishing, 2019), 98-102. (UWP only)
• Peter Gray - BARD OPAL 9510