Pernikka (world)

Pernikka/Kajaani (Vanguard Reaches 2826)
Classic Era (1116)	C216996-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 2 Small (3,200 km, 0.10g - 0.17g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 6 Wet World 60% Population 9 High ( billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	K0 V K0 V
Planetoid Belts	0
Gas Giants	5

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Pernikka is a high-population, industrial world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.

• As an industrial world, this planet has well-developed manufacturing and processing industries. Manufactured goods are a major export item.
• Its economy is rapidly growing and living conditions are expected to rapidly improve barring outside forces.
• It is a member of the Kajaani Triumvirate in the Kajaani Subsector of Vanguard Reaches Sector.

Description (Astrography & Planetology)

No information yet available.

Pernikka has two stars in the star system.

Pernikka
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.88	5170 - 5270	0.63928
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0076	0.0663	0.78 - 1.4	0.76	7.6
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks
Pernikka
	Type	Category		Mass (Sol)	Temperature (K)	Luminosity
	K0 V	Main Sequence (Dwarf)		0.88	5170 - 5270	0.63928
	Unit	Diameter	Safe Distance	Habitable Zone	Jump Shadow	M-Drive Limit
	AU	0.0076	0.0663	0.78 - 1.4	0.76	7.6
	Orbit #	*	*	3	2	6
	Remarks

Mainworld Topography and Geography

Pernikka is so cold that most of the carbon dioxide in its trace argon atmosphere falls as snow, to grow the polar cap of whichever hemisphere is in winter. Most of the crust is water ice, with some liquid water sandwiched between the ice crust and rock mantle.

Pernikka has rich beds of rubies, sapphires, and diamond, along with smaller concentrations of other minerals, including unique orange pernikka gems.

History & Background (Dossier)

This world is a 'second-tier' member of the Kajaani Triumvirate.

In -215, Dorstyal-based Itahll Industrial Consortium set up mining operations on Pernikka. Rather than import robotic machinery or workers to the edge of settled space, Itahll built clone factories on site to provide the bulk of the labour force. For three centuries, the clones and their descendants worked the mines as essentially slave labour. After an exposé in a Kajaani journal, the workers of Pernikka seized control of their world in 108, expelled most of the managers and technicians, and established the Pernikka Collective.

In 142 the Collective accepted Corellan League membership in return for much-needed machinery and a financial settlement that left the Itahll Industrial Consortium bankrupt. Pernikka hardly prospered but it survived as an independent League world for centuries. In 732, a plebiscite narrowly voted to join the breakaway Kajaani Triumvirate rather than submit to the League's new (and ironically short-lived) Federal Constitution.

In 939, Pernikka seceded from the Triumvirate, an action ostensibly accepted by the other worlds who did nothing militarily. However, they imposed high tariffs on Pernikkan trade, crippling its economy. In 941 Pernikka collapsed into civil war; by 945 the warring parties agreed to a reconciliation and requested to re-join the Triumvirate with their old second-tier status. Although a large portion of Pernikka's population retains antipathy towards the 'Big Three', the world grudgingly accepts its status as the price of economic viability.

World Starport

Pernikka 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 Population (P)

Pernikka has a population of 3,000,000,000 sophonts (billions).

• High Population Worlds like this tend to have huge consumer markets.

World Technology Level (TL)

Pernikka possesses a Technology Level of TL–9.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Fiber optics and satellite communication and data networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fusion power.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Ultra high-speed trains and early grav vehicles.
  • Water: High efficiency sailcraft, multihulled seacraft, improved artificial gills.
  • Air: Tiltrotorcraft, exotic VTOL's, PARWIG, and rocket-assisted suborbitals.
  • Space: SSTO spacecraft, early military spacecraft (System Craft), and interstellar STL starships
  • FTL: Prototype Jump Drive-1.

World Government (G)

Pernikka is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

• The Provision Resource Allocation Council (PRAC) is still the effective government of Pernikka.

World Culture

Most of Pernikka's people would probably emigrate if they could afford to do so, but centuries of living in a 0.18G environment and the initial genetic engineering of the clone template to adapt to low gravity allows few options to those who can afford to leave. Despite their generally grim lives, Pernikkans are mostly friendly to outsiders, even those from the primary Triumvirate worlds. This is partially because Travellers bring in hard cash and also because overt hostility hasn't solved anything.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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