Varan's Belt (world)

Varan's Belt/Castra (Gateway 2317)
Classic Era (1116)	B000730-B Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 7 Moderate (80 million) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 0 No Law Tech Level B Average Stellar (large starships)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	M0 V M9 V
Planetoid Belts	3
Gas Giants	2

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Varan's Belt (World) Synopsis

Varan's Belt is a ring of many small worldlets (planetoids AKA an "asteroid belt"), not capable of retaining an atmosphere or water, and both non-agricultural and preindustrial in nature.

• These worldlets warrant hazardous environment precautions.
• Life in a vacuum requires great discipline. After all, it only takes one forgotten seal on a vacuum suit to spell death. Those who survive tend to be very methodically-minded and attentive to small detail.
• The worldlets are, for the most part, unable to produce quality foodstuffs and must import them.
• These worldlets are working towards being an industrial world but lack an adequate workforce to do so.
• It is a Non-Aligned world dominated by human sophonts located in the Castra Subsector of Gateway Sector.

Description

One of a cluster of three worlds lying in the Prosaira Deep, Varan’s Belt is difficult to reach by Jump-2 ships, which must make 3 jump-2s from Plavis or four from the Swanfei Free Worlds.

Binary Solar System

Varan's Belt Binary Star System

Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Varan's Belt M0 V	Primary	Main Sequence		0.57	3770 - 3850	0.13982
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0027	0.031	0.39 - 0.74	0.27	2.7
	Orbit #	*	*	2	0	5
Star Name	Hierarchy	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temp (K)	Luminosity (Sol)
Varan's Belt M9 V	Secondary	Main Sequence		0.079	2350 - 2380	0.00014
	Unit	Diameter	Min Distance	Hab Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0005	0.001	0.01 - 0.03	0.05	0.5
	Orbit #	*	*	*	*	1

History & Background (Dossier)

Like much of Gateway Sector, Varan's Belt and its neighboring systems likely saw visits by K'kree explorers during their crusade, and from Humaniti as early as the Rule of Man, but may not have seen serious colonization efforts until the 400s. Little is known of the early history of the sector in general, and Varan's Belt is no different.

No further information yet available.

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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Joe Fugate. MegaTraveller Journal 4 (Digest Group Publications, 1993), TBD.
• Martin Dougherty, Hunter Gordon. Gateway to Destiny (QuikLink Interactive, 2004), 53-54.