Umemii (world)

Umemii/The Borderland (Trojan Reach 2921)
Classic Era (1116)	C521877-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 1 Dry World 10% Population 8 Moderate (300 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	F5 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	4

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Umemii is a poor, moderate population non-agricultural and pre-industrial hellworld with a population, over a hundred million, but not yet at a billion sophonts, struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment.

• Hellworlds often offer daily, and sometimes even hourly, life-threatening situations to their inhabitants. Survivors often develop intense survival skills and tend to be grim realists.
• This world is unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• It is a world working towards greater industrial capability, but currently lacks an adequate population to expand its industrial sector.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Borderland Subsector of Trojan Reach Sector.

Description / Astrography & Planetology

This system is part of the Wildeman Cluster.

Stellar Data

Umemii has a solitary primary star.

Casbrey
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	F5 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		1.33	6350 - 6550	2.71319
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0137	0.1366	1.49 - 2.6	1.37	13.7
	Orbit #	*	0	4	4	7
	Remarks

System Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Data

No information yet available.

Mainworld Geography & Topography

Umemii seems to have been heavily volcanic at some time in the distant past. Its characteristic terrain is rocky badlands cut by canyons and deep trenches. Between these lie treacherous dust pools and areas of jumbled boulders. In recent times tectonic and volcanic activity have both reduced greatly.

• Tabik Sea: The world's largest body of water, at the bottom of the Tabik Depression. The Tabik Sea is little more than 50 metres deep in most places.

Native Lifeforms

No information yet available.

History & Background / Dossier

There are numerous nation-states on Umemii, typically calling themselves principalities, duchies and counties. Few have an offworld presence. The exception, and by far the most powerful, is the Grand Duchy of Requille, which fields a powerful system defense flotilla and a modest fleet of gunship carriers.

Umemii was the setting for the episode Rock on the Rift's Edge in a notoriously melodramatic entertainment series. The show portrayed Umemii as a sinisterly flawed pseudo-utopia with a dark secret, which to this day is all most people in the Third Imperium "know" about the world.

World Starport

Umemii 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.

Urbanization

Each city-state and small nation has a spaceport equivalent to Class C or D, and almost all welcome offworld visitors.

World Technology Level

Umemii 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

Umemii has a Balkanized Government. There is no central world government. The world has several governments competing for control of the world. These may be allies, cooperating, competitors, or at war with each other.

Nations include the following:

• Grand Duchy of Requille: More a corporation with its headquarters on Umemii and holdings elsewhere than a true nation; either way, the most powerful political entity on the planet.
• Darix Confederation: An association of several large towns and small cities.
• Essfaiyer: This city state is the largest Vargr territory in the region.
• Silddaine: A nation that consists of two small cities, Over Silddaine and Nether Silddaine. It is the only one of Umemii's larger states not located on the higher continents.
• Umemii Prime: The state that tries hardest to attract ships to its port. It has little to export other than TL-6 small arms, which flood the markets on nearby worlds whenever a ship has passed through.

World Military

No information yet available.

World Economy

No information yet available.

Trade Data

No information yet available.

World Culture

No information yet available.

Urbanization

No information yet available.

Historical Data

No information yet available.

World Timeline

No information yet available.

UWP Listing

No information yet available.

References & Contributors / Sources

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• Bob McWilliams. Leviathan (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), TBD.
• Mike Jackson. Third Imperium 04 (Galaxy Games, 1986), TBD.
• James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 11,47. (dotmap provided)
• Peter G. Celella, James Holden. Solomani & Aslan (Digest Group Publications, 1991), 11,50. (dotmap provided)
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 20
• Rob Caswell. "Domain of Deneb: Sector Data." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): TBD.
• MegaTraveller Rebellion Sourcebook
• Mongoose Traveller: Aslan
• Mongoose Traveller The Pirates of Drinax
• External Link: TNE Yahoo Group by Author & Contributor: Peter Gray
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
• Mongoose 2nd: The Borderland